Law and order goes haywire
In an impoverished country like Bangladesh our progressive dreams of socio-economic development are the only route to national prosperity. However, vicious social cancers like crime and corruption often prematurely trample our budding dreams and grossly contaminate our perceptual world with their filthy nightmares. It's absolutely undeniable that despite all the seemingly compelling promises of the governmental policy makers, the overall 'law and order situation' has deteriorated significantly over the last few months. The relentlessness and ferocity of crime have made us utterly speechless. We hopelessly witnessed the vivid blossoms of our collective peace and safety being ravaged by the outrageous outburst of violent crimes that literally made us vulnerable in every corner of the country. It appears that we have been hurled back to a medieval age of sheer lawlessness where the value of human life and liberty was absolutely negligible. Murders, muggings, extortions, kidnappings, robberies and rapes have almost become an unannounced norm in Bangladesh in the recent times and it appears that our representatives in the government are either shamelessly incompetent or they really lack any sincere determination to resolutely counteract the monster of crime. It seems that the incumbent government is represented by a bunch of uncreative sycophants as they are recurrently failing to device feasible and effective plans to curb crimes.
I think in our country crime needs to be counteracted at multiple levels. First of all, we must fight crime at the political level. We know that our politics is an apparent source of crime. Many of our leading politicians are veteran criminals; whereas many others are infamous patrons of criminals. We must get rid of this naked 'criminalisation of politics'. Moreover, our law-enforcers themselves are often labelled as the 'bigger criminals' and they must strive not to live up to their forgettable reputation. At the policy level, our 'Judiciary' must act more efficiently and prudently to counteract crime. Additionally, different interest groups, including the media and NGOs, must carry out creative awareness-campaigns to fight the vicious curse of crime at all stages of the society, which will obviously create a mass reaction among people against the uncontrollable eruption of crime. We must make people hate crime and this “mass-hatred” must be able to terrorize the terrorists. We, the people, must be courageous enough to take an intrepid stand against crime. Most importantly, we must fight crime at the 'social level' by taking a 'prevention approach' alongside the 'cure tactics.' To achieve that objective, we must consciously monitor and combat the evident sources of crime like poverty, illiteracy, influence of alien cultures, drug-addiction and unemployment. In addition, we must ensure that our elementary educational institutions can endow our children with realistic ethical trainings at a budding stage. These are just some of the countless initiatives that we can take today and it's apparent that as a nation we will enjoy their fruits in the long run. Today, we are entrenched in the bleak darkness of crime. Let's not be scared to hope for an enlightening tomorrow.
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