Recently, a Thomson Reuters Foundation report declared India as the most dangerous country in the world for women.
Obviously, Indians were upset and lapsed into denial, fairly soon as always.
The arguments ranged from religious to international conspiracy, and from political interests to questioning the credibility of the research methodology.
The survey is based on expert opinions. The Thomson Reuters Foundation said, “We contacted 548 experts focused on women’s issues including aid and development professionals, academics, health workers, policymakers, non-government organisation workers, journalists, and social commentators.”
However, most people, including our delusionary government, have been arguing that the survey is incorrect because it is based on the opinions and not numbers or statistics. After all,data is worth worshipping and of course, expert opinions, especially those of women have no place in our hardcore data believing society, right?
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The ‘success’ of a police department in India is measured by the number of crimes happening in their region. (As you denial army argues, you need data.)
In order to look good, the police staff does NOT record F.I.Rs! And if they do, they try to keep it to a minimum so that they don’t look bad and it gives the impression that crimes in their area are few or zero. Crimes in Kerala have been statistically the highest since almost 2011 only because the Kerala Police is honest and is recording complaints, diligently.
Other states, not so much.
Am I wrong?
Annually, the government of India publishes a report called ‘Crimes In India’.
These contain the statistics of the crimes that happened throughout the year.
In 2011, the first statistic recorded was that of the number of people that came to the police station to register a complaint.
The stats from Kerala was 1 lakh something.
Uttar Pradesh, that has a population of 20 crores, had a total record of complaints of under 1092.
And Haryana? zilch, zero.
This is the whole reason why Indian statistics are totally unreliable.
Apparently, Haryana is the SAFEST state in the country then.
Police did deal with these cases but not officially, without recording them. Simply because they don’t want to look bad.
The next question on that report is the number of people that dialed the number 100 in the last 12 months.
Kerala stood proudly at 30,000.
Uttar Pradesh was 119 (in the population of 20 crores).
And Haryana once again had ZERO!
And to clarify the authenticity of these numbers; they come directly from the mouth of Jacob Punnoose, IPS who is the ex-DGP and also the State Police Chief. (Director General of Police) of Kerala.
Thomas, the fearless Director General of Police (DGP) rank officer was best known for his anti-corruption crusades and narrated the above numbers LIVE on Satyamev Jayate hosted by Amir Khan.
Hence, not only the Indian statistics are totally unreliable, there is immense pressure on women to not register complaints at all. This comes from the culprits and most times from their own families. The complaints that ever reach the official places are a very tiny part of the larger picture.
So, fellow Indians, the true statistics that you are in search of are rarer to spot than the Lochness monster.
Now it comes down to only the experts who have participated.
You can choose not to believe in it but sooner or later you will get to witness or live through this horrific reality because it is a pandemic and it will reach you soon if it hasn’t already.
That’s what happens when people don’t reprimand a problem but find excuses to go easy on the criminals.