A bigger police force will be able to keep a given
society safer.
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Do you
agree or disagree with this?
It takes much more than policing
let it be bigger policing, to keep a society safer. Therefore, I find it really
hard to endorse the view in question. Here I am going to record what makes me
think so.
By definition, a safer society
is one in which people of all walks of life happen to experience a holistic feeling
that they are safe in more ways than what is called ‘being free from crimes”. The
police force as such is one of the parts of a safer society where there are
countless other factors that go into the making of what we called “safer”. For example,
a society may go unsafe when there is gender inequality, poor socio-economic
status, corruption, unemployment, violence against the weak and this list may
go on depending on the size and status of the society in question.
In such a context, there are
innumerable things a bigger police force cannot imagine of doing. Is it
possible to assume that a stronger police will be able to pin down crimes on
domestic violence unless they are reported? Will it be possible for a police
force to mend the ways of children from disturbed families who constitute a
sizeable number of crimes in any society? The answer is an emphatic ‘no’. Because,
being safer is something more internalized and experienced than executed or implemented.
What a police force can do is the latter, not the former.
My conclusion is that a
bigger police force may be able to contribute a little to keep the crime
records of a society under certain controls, but to keep a society ‘safer’ in
the real sense of the term involves much greater things than just policing, of greater
policing for that matter.
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Ajaypeesdoc. 28.10.13
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