There are 2 crimes which continue to happen all over the world. Some countries which want to solve them have grappled with it well, many countries have not.

Let us look at them – Drugs, and Prostitution.

Let us look at how the drugs problem is handled by Singapore. If a person is found with drugs, he is given a death sentence. No point in saying “it was for personal use” or “i did not know it was in my bag”. Both Israel and Singapore do the same thing, and both have handled the situation pretty well.

However India and USA have done a pretty bad job of handling drugs. Frankly Namo or Yogi or Fadnavis – none of them seem to care about police reforms or the drug problem. If a big film star or celebrity is caught with drugs there is a front page news, but nothing really happens. People connected with the film industry can give you a full list of drug users – and you might be stunned at the list. No don’t expect me to give you that list, I am just saying that we do not deal with them strictly. Imagine hanging a couple of filmstars or cricketers for using drugs. It will send shivers down the spine of users and dealers. Typically how we deal with drugs is that we catch the dealer – a low end flunkie whose family is keen to get rid of him. So the druglords can bribe their family and keep him in jail for a few years. Frankly nobody cares about him. Neither the boss nor the family.

Now let’s turn to the other problem – Prostitution. It is sad to know that like drugs prostitution too is only partly forced. A small (perhaps insignificant) portion is voluntary. How do we treat this? Our police raids a house/ brothel / hotel and ARRESTS the girl / her pimp / hotel owner. The client – the guy for whom all this paraphernia is created just goes scott free. Let us say that we amend the law and make hiring illegal. Or keep the punishment same for the guy. Keep him in jail for a couple of days. Get his mother/ wife / daughter to post bail for that. Even worse put his photograph on a big bill board. Call it “offenders of the week”….or “offenders for the month” – and make sure it is put in 3-4Km of his house AND 3-4 km of his office. Do you think prostitution, soliciting, and the actual act will all vanish? No. A lot of it will go underground…but still a truck driver or an auto driver will have no clue how to beat the system. So a sophisticated system will be put in place (app!! ) – and tracking will become very simple. His wife/ child could pick up the trail and realize what is happening. It is not like Uber or Ola…

Will we see the end of drugs and prostitution? No. Of course not. Will we see a reduction in the number of girls being kidnapped to beccome a prostitute? Yes. We also need a separate Ministry for “avoidance of traficcking of children” . Should use technology to track kidnapped children…and the kidnappers should be HANGED.

Implement all this (along with police reforms)….and you would have got rid of drugs and prostitution…