The recent news is about 3 teenage girls, who were kidnapped, and were imprisoned over 10 years. The kidnapper has a family, his brothers or sons often visited the same house where the 3 were jailed. Everyone noticed that the guy had locks on several rooms, but no one questioned him why. Oh no no, this is not some regular guy, this is the same guy whose wife seeked divorce from him because he abused her, and imprisoned her. Yet, given his history, not one bothered checking what/ who was behind those padlocks. Neighbours complained about weird things going on, the police just questioned him at the doorstep and never bothered stepping inside the house to check. Only if there was a tiny bit of vigilance from the guy's brothers/ son/ police, the 3 kidnapped women's story would have had a lot less gruesome ending.
But, more often than not, we turn a blind eye. We see our female colleagues sporting bruises that are so obviously not from a bathroom fall. But we never even ask her if anyone has beaten her. In our closely located apartment communities, we do hear screams at night, but we are too scared to check out.
A group of men stab / shoot someone in front of a crowd, yet there are no witnesses.
By keeping mum, we are encouraging and emboldening the wrong-doers. In the age of recording devices on every phone, now you can don a veil of anonymity and still report a crime. There still needs to be a website where you can post the proof anonymously for everyone to see, there still needs to be a judicial system which will agree to treat that as an evidence, there needs to be a software which will erase your personal stamp from the crime-evidence photo that you are posting. But in the process, at least one man has stepped out of his fear zone. A start, no matter how small, might help a tiny bit in changing the face of crime.
But, more often than not, we turn a blind eye. We see our female colleagues sporting bruises that are so obviously not from a bathroom fall. But we never even ask her if anyone has beaten her. In our closely located apartment communities, we do hear screams at night, but we are too scared to check out.
A group of men stab / shoot someone in front of a crowd, yet there are no witnesses.
By keeping mum, we are encouraging and emboldening the wrong-doers. In the age of recording devices on every phone, now you can don a veil of anonymity and still report a crime. There still needs to be a website where you can post the proof anonymously for everyone to see, there still needs to be a judicial system which will agree to treat that as an evidence, there needs to be a software which will erase your personal stamp from the crime-evidence photo that you are posting. But in the process, at least one man has stepped out of his fear zone. A start, no matter how small, might help a tiny bit in changing the face of crime.
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