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...With seven officers dismissed over the case in recent days for dereliction of duty, the Noida scandal has reignited a national debate on police reform. Indians typically regard the police as corrupt and inefficient, and this case lends credence to the widespread perception that they focus primarily on assisting the rich and powerful. When the 3-year-old son of a wealthy resident of Noida was kidnapped in November, police launched a massive manhunt and recovered the boy within days. Indian media were quick to compare the two cases. "In a suburb in which the police swung into action...
...kidnapping is against the penal code." Holding a CEO's son for ransom is a criminal act that the police must pursue. There is no motivation to investigate a case of missing children. This is just one of the issues Singh hopes will change when a sweeping police-reform proposal he pushed through India's Supreme Court last September takes root...
...about political change in China--that as China gets richer, its population will press for more democratic freedoms and its ruling élite, mindful of the need for change, will grant them. Could be. But China is becoming richer now, and if there is any sign of substantial political reform--or any sign that the absence of such reform is hurting China's economic growth--it is, to put it mildly, hard to find...
...course, people should not meet without reason. But for the Faculty to announce that there is "insufficient business" after years of inaction on overdue reforms suggests a disturbing laziness in identifying "business" that needs to be tended to. The list of topics that the Faculty could have discussed in yesterday’s scheduled 90 minute meeting is plenty long: mandatory course evaluations of professors, calendar reform, pedagogy, or even as the final report of general education is written, a discussion on the implementation of general education, a topic which has been overlooked amid squabbling over particular requirements...
...course part of the reason these people all want to be President is that, for all the attention they bring to their positions, they're not going to get what they want done as Senators. The World's Greatest Deliberative Body is likely to pass an ethics reform bill that tightens the use of corporate jets, bans gifts from lobbyists, and increases disclosure requirements, but both Democrats and Republicans have opposed the independent ethics office McCain and Obama have called for. Other Senators have argued the current ethics committee, where Senators sit in judgment of one another, works just fine...