The  ONLY  reason  why  US Police Chiefs  are  less  corrupt  than ones in India

I would start this manifesto with a focus on our second most important point – recall or replacement procedures. As an example, I shall post the news from a US newspaper, Palo Alto Daily of 4-May-2007

(Reference : http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2007-5-4-05-04-07-smc-sheriff-recall )

Recall effort against Sheriff Munks begins

A San Carlos resident is organizing an effort to recall San Mateo County's top law enforcement officer. Michael Stogner said Thursday he plans to file a notice of intent by Monday to recall Sheriff Greg Munks, who was caught ... [in an alleged wrongful act] .. in Las Vegas on April 19. Munks said in a statement April 24 he thought he was visiting a legitimate business and didn't break any laws, but he has declined to answer any questions  ...  Though Stogner believes there is wide public support for ousting the sheriff, recalling any San Mateo County official is a tall order. Elections office spokesman David Tom said 10 percent of registered voters in the county must sign a petition to get a recall effort on the ballot. That works out to about 35,000 people. ....

Sheriff means District Police Chief in US. Not all, but some 70% to 80% of the district police chiefs in US are elected directly by commons. And commons in US have procedures to recall these police chiefs. Commons in many districts also have procedures to recall Mayors, Governors, Govt Lawyers etc. This has been there since 1800 AD, when literacy was low (so argument that “recall is not good for India as most Indians are illiterate” is wrong).In the above example, the news was about citizens filing recall petition to expel an elected police chief because he was caught in a wrongful act, details of which are not of our interest. What is important for us is to note that when such actions were found --- many times citizens invoked procedure to expel officers. In past 5 years in US, only some 50-60 police chiefs, Mayors, public prosecutors have faced recall, which is very small % of total number of people in these posts. And of these 50-60 recall cases, only some 3-4 have been successful. The example I sited above, recall of Sheriff of San Mateo County of California of US was unsuccessful as not many citizens considered his alleged wrongful action as a criminal. There has been several successful recalls as well. Some of the successful cases of recall are  recall of one Mayor in Idaho in 1916, recall of a Governor in North Dakota in 1921, recall of a California State Assemblyman in 1995, recall of the California State Assembly Speaker in 1995, recall of Governor in California 2003 and recall of a mayor in Washington State in 2005

The commons of US have been having powers to recall police chiefs, Mayors, Public Prosecutors and even Governors since early 1800s. And this threat of recall is the ONLY reason, I repeat --- one and ONLY  reason – why district police chiefs and other officials in US are far less corrupt. And the recall threat is so effective that citizens have to use it hardly once in 10-15 years on 1 out of 20-30 positions with recallable officers. The procedure of recall has ensured that officers seldom go even 1% as corrupt as officers in India and work with expected efficiency. And so the procedure of recall has been used to sparingly.

The citizens of US have been having this procedure since 1800s, but our eminent intellectuals insist that citizens of India MUST not have these procedures even in 2008 as Indians are inferior to Americans !! Well, our response to these intellectuals is – hell with those intellectuals, their 4-digit IQ and their gyaan. We believe that recall is MUST and is ONLY way to reduce corruption and nepotism in Indian judocracy, polity, administration and so we want citizens of India to have procedures to replace PM, Supreme Court judges, CMs, High Court judges, Ministers, District Police chiefs, RBI Governor and about 60 such positions. Every single existing MP of every party and every “eminent” intellectual has opposed our recall related demands. And that has only encouraged us further.

In addition to recall procedures over 60 positions, we want to create laws that would give about 200 enumerated powers to citizens, and some of them have far more weight than recall. But procedure to recall PM, CMs, Supreme Court judges, High Court judges, RBI Governor, District Police Chief are some of our demands, promised to start with.
But question is – how can we citizens enact recall laws? And how will recall solve the two most important problem – poverty and weak Military? So recall laws are our 5th demand, not first. The first three demands deal with ways and means to improve law-making so that we commons can enact recall laws and the 4th demand deals with solutions to two problems far more important the corruption --- poverty and weakening of Indian Military.
 

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