Improved law and order!

It seems that either the standing committee is working on a quite different set of information or its perspicacity of the truth is based on standards too sophisticated for us to fathom. Or else, their threshold of pain is so high and their ability to withstand the abysmal situation so great that render the figure of more than eleven unnatural deaths and three hundred and fifty crimes of various definitions every day on the average, a satisfactory situation.

Even to the most unsophisticated a comparison of the number of people killed in 2003 and 2004 indicates roughly an increase of almost twenty percent. Jan to June crime figures of the current year show an average daily homicide figure of more than eleven per day. Human rights group suggest that the figures are much higher than what the government statistics suggest.

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Leaving aside the statistics of crime, the other determinants of a good law and order do not provide anything for the lawmakers or the people to feel ecstatic about.

We also find the committee chairman's euphoria on the state of crime in relation to the population rather extraordinary. We wonder whether they had taken the trouble of stepping out of the comfort of the parliamentary office and bothered to carry out a sample opinion survey on the current law and order before coming out with the self satisfying statement they did.

It would make sense to accept the reality and work to better the situation, rather than live in-a-make-believe world in regard to something so critically important and palpable as law and order.