Has crime really gone down?
My heart bleeds every time I pick up The Daily Star and read news on rape, murder, muggings, torture, maiming, acid-throwing and an endless list of other crimes. Nowhere in Bangladesh is safe, though the Home Minister and police top brass claim. The Home Minister even has the audacity to tell us that crime has decreased since Awami League assumed power. Isn't this claim making us completely fools? Bangladesh's well-wisher Sir Frank Peters demonstrated inarguable logic when he questioned on our behalf how authorities could claim crime had decreased when the majority of crimes were not even being recorded as the police demand baksheesh.
People felt safer during the interim government while the army patroled on the streets. If such crimes go on in the name of democracy, what can we expect from an elected government?
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