The system therefore needs drastic restructuring, beyond cosmetics, in order to make policing more professional and more acceptable to the common man. In their view, a controlled experiment will throw up any number of facts that could help sharpen police professionalism. The former task requires an analysis of events which are either crimes by themselves or border on crimes defined by law. Fixing a street light that is not burning for several days, for instance, is an action that could contain crime. To dismiss it as pure academic hogwash would be irrational and blind to a fast deteriorating scene marked by high crime.

Source: The Hindu July 16, 2017 18:45 UTC