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Editor,\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In the last three decades, different types of cases have been reported in the media, which indicates the criminalisation of the Indian police. These are found in three forms: (1) Policemen committing crimes themselves; (2) Policemen helping criminals in committing crimes and getting a share out of it; and (3) Policemen resigning from the department and joining militant groups engaged in killing, looting and abduction.<\/p>\n In these three types, we have not included police corruption, which by itself is a serious crime.<\/p>\n Robberies, extortion, kidnapping for ransom and rape of innocent women are some of the crimes allegedly committed by the men in khaki.<\/p>\n Most of the traffic policemen in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country too keep fining people for no fault of theirs just to achieve their target.<\/p>\n When this writer complained about the harassment motorists face at the hands of our traffic policemen, the traffic department did nothing to help me out. Instead, I was abused in filthy Marathi language. One traffic policeman even snatched away my mobile phone while I was recording the abusive language he gave to a motorist and didn’t give it back to me.<\/p>\n Even during the lockdown period, the police in India harassed citizens a lot when they stepped out of the house to buy vegetables, milk and foodgrains. They even beat the common man with batons and made them do sit-ups.<\/p>\n Jubel D’Cruz,<\/strong><\/p>\n Mumbai<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Editor,\u00a0\u00a0 In the last three decades, different types of cases have been reported in the media, which indicates the criminalisation of the Indian police. These are found in three forms: (1) Policemen committing crimes themselves; (2) Policemen helping criminals in committing crimes and getting a share out of it; and (3) Policemen resigning from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}