There's been a tendency over the last few years for local Pakistani TV news programs to concentrate on crimes, rapes and kidnappings. Crime rate is connected considerably to the declining income of the large majority of the population, and a decline as well in the opportunity for constructive work.
Over the past thirty and forty years, inequality has accelerated, more resources are directed towards the wealthy and the privileged sectors and away from the general population. The result is an increasing crime rate, as well as other signs of social disintegration. Most of the crime is poor people attacking each other, which spills over to upper class neighbourhoods. The rich become apprehensive as their streets become more dangerous.
A constructive approach to the problem would require dealing with the causes of inequality, but that's off government agenda, as it is focused on maximizing profits for the corporations and business class. Therefore the only response the government can afford is pandering to the fear of crime with increasing harshness, attacking civil liberties and attempting to control the poor by force. The government is aimed at wealth production and since the basic ideology is that a person's human rights depend on how much money they can make for themselves in the market system, the poor have no value. They have no form of organization and no viable, constructive way of reacting, so they pursue the only available option: committing crimes to survive.
Source: Noam Chomsky, How The World Works
Over the past thirty and forty years, inequality has accelerated, more resources are directed towards the wealthy and the privileged sectors and away from the general population. The result is an increasing crime rate, as well as other signs of social disintegration. Most of the crime is poor people attacking each other, which spills over to upper class neighbourhoods. The rich become apprehensive as their streets become more dangerous.
A constructive approach to the problem would require dealing with the causes of inequality, but that's off government agenda, as it is focused on maximizing profits for the corporations and business class. Therefore the only response the government can afford is pandering to the fear of crime with increasing harshness, attacking civil liberties and attempting to control the poor by force. The government is aimed at wealth production and since the basic ideology is that a person's human rights depend on how much money they can make for themselves in the market system, the poor have no value. They have no form of organization and no viable, constructive way of reacting, so they pursue the only available option: committing crimes to survive.
Source: Noam Chomsky, How The World Works
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