Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Yesterday, one Subra (SUHAKAM’s Sivasubramaniam) said got 40,000 Indian youths in detention camps and jail. Today, we read another Subra (Human Resource Minister Dr S Subramaniam of MIC) saying the government has information that over 100,000 Indian youths are involved in crime, including theft, robbery, distributing drugs, gangsterism and murder.
Questions arise. How long has these information been in government’s hand? What are the actions taken to alleviate this problem? Who collected the information? Any verification done on the data?
If its accurate, that’s 5.55% of our community population. Which translates to every 5 Indian out of 100 you know. Now, if the 40,000 is part of the 100,000 , its relatively good news. If its not? We have 140,000 youths involved in crime! Meaning up to 8 out of 100 Indians you know are involved in crime. Does this sound like license to kill, perhaps to justify Kugan’s death?
Looking at the brevity of the situation, I think its time to create some sort of database on Indians so that the crooks can be easily identified. I doubt the statistics will reduce any time soon and the police may simply use racial profiling to target the community youths. Soon, due to lack of proper effort to eradicate root cause of criminal behaviour, I think 1 in 10 Indians will be involved in crime. If the one that dies is that particular 1, not much of a problem. But if its one of the other nine?
