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Why are policemen in India more nexused/corrupt/inefficient compared West?

    Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. Cuases why India's policemen are more corrupt/nexused
  3. cause #1 : Lack of Jury and Grand Jury Systems in India
  4. cause #2 : Many police chiefs in US are elected, and NOT appointed
  5. cause #3 : When appointed, procedure to appoint police chief is broad based in US
  6. cause #4 : Lack of procedures to recall
  7. cause #5 : Crime records in India are NOT indexed
  8. cause #6 : Lack of randomized transfers
  9. cause #7 : Low salaries
  10. cause #8 : Police dept is under staffed and poorly equipped
  11. cause #9 : Laws criminalizing vices has made policemen corrupt as well as over-burdened
  12. Summary
  13. How can citizens of India reduce corruption/nexuses and inefficiency in India's policemen?

Introduction

The purpose of this article is to enumerate and discuss ONLY
  1. factors which increase corruption/nexuses in policemen in India, and are absent in West.
  2. factors which will decrease corruption/nexuses in policemen in US/West, and are present in India.
The purpose of this article is NOT to enumerate factors that are present/absent in BOTH countries. Hence a large number of factors, such as moral values, greed etc will get dismissed as non-issues. Why? Becuase greed is present in US/West as well as India. And moral values are at same level in India as well as West.


Key reasons why policemen in India are more nexused etc than in US

Following are the key reasons why prosecution in India is more nexused,more corrupt and less efficienct that those in US :
  1. Lack of the Jury and Grand Jury Systems :
    The policemen in US are supervised by senior police officers, elected persons like Governors/MLAs, govt lawyers, judges, and Jurors and Grand Jurors. Whereas in India, there is supervision ONLY by senior officers, Ministers/MLAs and judges, and there is NO supervision by Jurors and Grand Jurors. Now policemen in US as well as India, can manage to cultivate nexuses with senior policemen, MLAs, Ministers, govt lawyers and judges. But policemen in US cant manage to cultivate nexuses with Jurors and Grand Jurors. Hence in US, there is one nexusless channel of checks/balance, and so it is effective. While in India, ALL channels of checks/balances are nexusprone, nexused, and so ineffective.

  2. Lack of election of district police chiefs :
    Many police chiefs in US are DIRECTLY elected by citizens. Whereas ALL district police chiefs and other senior police officers are appointed by CM or Home Ministers. This makes police chiefs of India far more nexused than police chiefs of US.

  3. Appointment procedures in India are NOT broad based :
    In many districts in US, police chiefs are appointed and NOT elected. But when appointed, they are NOT appointed by state's CM, but they appointed by District Mayor, after approval of Councilors. This makes the appointment less nexused.

  4. No procedure to recall district police chief in India :
    The citizens of India, in ALL districts, DO NOT have any procedure to expel the district police chief. In India, the citizens need to approach CM and Home Minister in State's capital to get a police chief expelled. While in US, some districts have a formal procedure by which citizens of a district can expel a police chief without approaching ANYONE, while in other districts, the citizens can get the district police chief expelled by approaching district mayor. This makes it easier for citizens to expel the district police chief if and when the need be, and so district police chief tend to be less corrupt, less atrocious and restrain themselves from forming nexuses with criminals.

  5. Lack of indexes in crime data : India's MPs/MLAs/Ministers and senior officers have NOT drafted laws which enable junior officers to index and cross-index the crime records. While crime records in US are extensively indexed. Lack of indexing in crime records has drastically reduced efficiency of policemen in India.


Why policemen in India are more defunct/corrupt compared to US ---
cause#1 : Lack of The Jury and Grand Jury Systems

The policemen in US/West are supervisied by following persons
  1. Senior policemen
  2. Elected reps like MLAs/Governors
  3. Govt lawyers
  4. judges
  5. Grand Jurors
  6. Jurors
In India, they are supevised ONLY by first 4 agencies, as judges/MPs in India, in collusion with intellectuals etc, killed the Jury Systems in India.

In US as well as India, there is NO effective supervision from senior policemen, elected reps, govt lawyers and judges. Why? These individuals have long careers, are well known and so it is trivially easy for policemen to form nexuses with them, directly or indirectly. eg in India as well as US, the senior policemen always have close contacts with elected reps and with govt lawyers etc. And in US as well as India, the junior policemen overtime cultivate nexuses with senior policemen. So if a junior policemen needs any favor from govt lawyer or elected rep, he will can always get it via senior policemen.

But in US, the policemen, be junior or senior, have NO nexuses with Grand Jurors and especially with Jurors, as Jurors are chosen from a population of lakhs AFTER the prima-facie guilt is established. Hence is SOME nexusless supervision over policemen in US exists. Whereas ALL channels of supervision on policemen in India are nexused. This is the MOST important reason why policemen in India are completely out of control.

The Jury System creates a "fear from citizenry" inside policemen. Such fear exists in policemen of US/West, and stops them from establishing dense nexuses with criminals, indulging into rampant and open bribery and also from indulging into atrocities (in most cases, atrocities are done to extract more bribes, or to favor some third party).


Why policemen in India are more defunct/corrupt compared to US ---
cause#2 : Lack of Election of District Police Chiefs

In India, ALL district police chief are appointed by the state's Home Minister and Chief Minister. In short, the HM/CM appoint only those as district police chiefs, with whom they have nexuses. To make matter worse, the CM in India's states has administrative powers to appoint 100s of district top-officers in various dept. So 1000s and 1000s of individuals inside govt and outside govt queue up to form nexuses with CM. As a result, CM in India are highly nexused individuals. Likeiwse, the Home Minister in a state has partial power to decide appointments of 100s and 100s of govt lawyers. So a large number of lawyers, criminals etc also queue up to form nexuses with Home Minister. And so persons CM/HM choose to appoint district police chiefs are strongly based on the nexuses CM/HM have. This increases the defunctness of police chiefs.

When a senior police chief manages to become district police chief (or a or more senior position) using his nexuses with CM/HM, or using nexuses with wealthy individuals, mega-criminals etc, he in tur has little option but to accept CM/HM's requests/orders to transfer junior policemen like Inspectors, Sub-inspectors etc. As a result, the entire police becomes defunct.

Whereas in US, the district police chiefs in many districts are elected. As a result, they are independent from Governors and even MLAs. And their nexuses with Governors, MLAs and other officers are weaker. This has been one reason why police force in US/West is less nexused than that in India.


Why policemen in India are more nexused etc compared to those of US --- cause#3 : The procedure to police chiefs in US are more broad based.

In India, ALL district police chiefs are appointed by the state's Home Minister who is appointed by the state's Chief Minister. In short, the Home Minister appoints only those as police chiefs with whom CM/HM has dense direct/indirect nexuses.

The CM in India's states has administrative powers to appoint 100s of district level top-officers in various dept. Same way, HM is also empowered to appoint/transfer 100s of officers. So 1000s and 1000s of individuals inside govt and outside govt queue up to form nexuses with CM and HM. As a result, CM/HM are in India are highly nexused individuals. And decisions they take are almost always product of their nexuses.

Whereas district police chiefs in many districts in US are DIRECTLY elected. And when appointed, they are appointed NOT by governors but by the district mayor after approval of councilors. So one Mayor has power to appoint ONLY 1 district police chief, unlike a CM of India who has power to appoint 1 district chief per district i.e. some 20-30-more district chiefs.

Such deccetralization reduces the role nexuses play in the appointment of district police chiefs.


Why are policemen in India more defunct compared to those of US ---
cause#4 : Lack of procedure of recall

Not all, but several districts in US, citizens have procedures by which they can recall/expel the district police chief, without lobbying before top level authorities like Governors. This puts a powerful check over govt lawyers. No such recall procedures exist in India. In other districts in US, recalling the district police chief would only need citizens to canvas before City Councilors, NOT Governor/CM. This decentralization makes it easier for citizens to expel the district police chief. While citizens in India would need hectic canvasing/appealing before CM, which due to logistic reason is nearly impossible.

IOW, there is a realistic threat on district police chiefs in US, that chronic corruption, inefficiency and atrocity in his office, or even by his juniors, may result into an expulsion. While such threat does NOT exist in the minds of India's district police chiefs. So the district police chiefs in US take extra care to weed out corruption etc in their juniors. While district police chiefs in India, in general, need NOT bother themselves.

In short, lack of effective recall procedure for district police chiefs has worsened the intigrity of policemen in India.


Why policemen in India are less efficient compared to those of US ---
cause#5 : Lack of indexes in crime data

The MLAs/MPs in India have NOT made any laws in India which would require and enable the junior govt officers to index all the crime data with indexes of the accused, suspects, convicts etc. To begin with, MLAs/MPs have NOT made procedures that would provide each citizen of India a nationa-ID that can be used as index on crime data.

So the policemen in India have no way to obtain historical data about suspects, accused, witnesses etc. In absence of information, the efficiency of even committed policemen detoriates.

Solution? The citizens of India should force MPs to enact LM.03 procedure and using this LM.03 procedure, the citizens should pass laws to enact ID.01 procedure. This will enable the junior officers of India to index the crime data.


Why policemen India are more defunct compared to those of US ---
cause#6 : Lack of randomized transfers

The policemen in India are transferred every 2-3-4 years. But the transfers are at the discretion of CM, Home Minister, senior IPS/IAS officers etc. This has resulted into a huge oppurtunity for MLAs, Ministers etc to generate bribes from senior/junior policemen in exchange for the transfers at the positions the policemen want. This bribery has made rank and file of Police Dept corrupt.

Solution? The solution is to have randomized transfers in policemen instead of present day discretionary transfers.


Why policemen in India are more defunct/corrupt compared to those of US ---
cause#7 : Low salaries

The salaries of junior policemen is very low. In addition, a large number of constables etc are required to live in barracks or in police stations, where the living conditions are unhygenic and appalling. Many officers who are transferred outisde do not get good housing from the department. A large number of houses are in pathetic conditions.

Suffices to say, that unless salaries increases, it would be impossible to obtain good performace from policemen.

Why are policemen in India are more defunct compared to those of US ---
cause#8 : Police depts are understaffed and under-equipped

The MLAs/MPs, Ministers and officers in India prefer to blwo away money on highways, skyways, fly-overs, ports, IIMs, JNU, UGC etc and NOT spend in police. As a result, the police depts are hopelessly understaffed and policemen are extremely overloaded with work. Typical constable works 12 to 16 hour a day 6 days a week. Such overloading kills their efficiency.

Also, the CM/MLAs etc allocate little budget for equiment. Till recently, policemen used to use hopelessly outdated 303 guns. Very few policemen in India have access to computers. The forensic labs, which are officially not part of police dept but essential tool for policemen, are hopelessly understaffed and under-equipped. All this reduces the efficiency of the policemen in India.


Why are policemen in India are more defunct compared to those of US ---
cause#9 : Bad laws, which crimialize the vices

India has too many laws, that make an ordinary vice a crime. eg vices like gambling, liquor, prostitution etc are crime which policemen are required/empowered to reduce. This increases burden on policemen, and also gives bad policemen a wide oppurtunity to collect bribes. This bribery wastes their precious time and resources which otherwise could have been allocated to track the violent criminals, theives, cheats etc.

The defunct intellectuals in India, in a class of their own, believe that by making laws against vices like drugs, liquor, gambling and prostitution, and by empowering policemen to arrest drug/liquor additcts/suppliers, gamblers, prostitutes, clients etc can reduce these crimes.

Summary

The policeman in India have much more nexuses and denser nexuses with lawyers, MLAs/Ministers, criminals, elitemen etc compared to policemen of US. This makes them far more corrupt and less efficient. This creates too many difficulties in the lives of us commons.

The policemen in US are less nexused becuase
  1. US has Jurors and Grand Jurors to supervise policemen. Since courts are defunct in India, govt lawyers in India are less afraid of forming nexuses with criminals and passing them unethical favors.

  2. Many district police chiefs are DIRECTLY elected by citizens, and rest are appointed by Distruct Mayors after approval of Councilors. In India, ALL district policemen are appointed by CM/HM.

  3. There is NO easy procedure for citizens in India to expel a district police chief.

  4. Salaries of junior policemen is very low.
  5. a large number of laws, that make vices like gambling, prostitution, liquor etc as crimes, widen the oppurtunities to collect bribes.
In addition following factors reduce their efficiency
  1. understaffed, under-equipped
  2. a large number of laws, that make vices like gambling, prostitution, liquor etc as crimes, and increase burden on police.
  3. lack of indexing in crime data

Solution : what can citizens do to improve India's police dept?

  1. Steps 1-3 : The citizens of India should force Panchayat Members, MLAs and MPs to following laws : LM.01 , LM.02 , LM.03. These laws would enable citizens to take subsquent steps.

  2. Step 4 : The citizens should pass laws to enact procedure CT.02. This law will create a Jury System in every district over policemen, which will create a nexusless way of supervising junior policemen, and thus create a check on policemen. In addition, this procedure ensures that policemen are transferred strictly by a random mechanism, and NOT by discretion of some small group of individuals.

  3. Step 5 : The citizens should pass laws to enact procedure CT.12. This procedure will enable the citizens to elect/recall district police chief.

  4. Step 6 : The citizens, using LM.01 and LM.02, should raise the salaries of policemen, and provide more funds to district police chiefs to buy better/more equipment.

  5. Step 7 : The citizens of India should pass laws to enact ID.01 procedure. This will enable the junior officers of India to index the crime data, and improve policemen's efficiency.

  6. Step 8 : The citizens, using LM.01-03 should pass laws to decriminalize vics like drugs, liquor, gambling and prostitution. This will reduce oppurtunities for policemen to collect bribes, and would give them more time and resources to chase real criminals like murderers, theives etc

These TRIVIAL steps will make India's policemen far less corrupt/nexused and more efficienct than policemen of US/West.


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