Zero Crime Growth or Zero Intelligence Growth?

Truly a difficult time, and in this economic recession, our great Minister of the Interior has come up with another bizarre trick for crime prevention. Since the issuance of his sudden "Zero Crime Growth" security project order, newspapers have reported strange phenomena such as "turning major cases into minor ones and being afraid to solve existing cases." We cannot help but ask how such zero crime growth is to be implemented, within what timeframe it can be achieved, and most importantly, whether the protagonists of crime are willing to cooperate during this period! Generally speaking, after setting project objectives, steps and methods for completion should be proposed simultaneously, and only through a well-conceived and complete plan does the possibility of achieving the goal increase. However, did this ministerial order consider how the police can control the possibility of crime occurrence? If the police's ability in this regard is affirmed, does that mean the police's past performance was entirely derelict in their duties? If denied, the Minister is making unreasonable demands and doing the impossible knowing it cannot be done. Could the meaning behind this be to embarrass the police!

From the perspective of a lawyer, the patterns and causes of crimes vary, but they ultimately stem from money, grievances, or accidents—which belong respectively to the dimensions of economic development, social structure, and personal cultivation and attentiveness. Therefore, to suppress the occurrence of crime, we should understand or improve upon the aforementioned areas. What capability does the police force, tasked with maintaining public order, possess to control economic conditions, social changes, and personal restraint? We truly wish to pose this major doubt to the Ministry of the Interior!

In the past, a Minister of the Interior wanted to make the "window-bar industry slump," and now someone wants to order "zero crime growth." It really is... beyond words!

※ Published in: Liberty Times