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People don’t call the police in India. The police showing up well after everything has gone down is a well worn cliche that is parodied in nearly every movie t
by rhaway84773 4y ago
People don’t call the police in India.
The police showing up well after everything has gone down is a well worn cliche that is parodied in nearly every movie that comes out of the country.
The only problem with the cliche is that it understated how terrible it is to call the police.
The police will first harass the victim engaging them in hours of bureaucracy and paperwork even as they may be bleeding to death. If they don’t give them the answers they want (in some cases the cops may not want the case because it will hurt their numbers, since they don’t actually solve any cases), they will then take the next step of harassing the witnesses and good samaritans they may have called. And then, the final step is to simply pin the blame on the good samaritans themselves.
Just dropping in a “Call the police” button in India and pretending that’s a solution of any sort is the biggest indication that they don’t care about their workers on whose backs they’re making their profits at all.
- jiggywiggy 4y agoWhat do you expect from Uber? How can Uber deal with that level of unsafety? Should they then leave and leave another company do the same or even less?
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> how can Uber deal with that level of unsafety Ban racist customers. Ensure benefits get to the victim’s bank account.
- jiggywiggy 4y agoThey have a rating system for their customers and will go after users with low ratings. No normal taxi company does that.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> have a rating system for their customers and will go after users with low ratings Low ratings and racism or violence are categorically different. A single substantiated allegation (e.g. backed up with video) should result in a ban. It does in America. Also, the article claims they do not go after users with low ratings.
- foverzar 4y ago> Ban racist customers Well that sounds simple! How do you test against racism at scale, make people pass some kind of a test? What does this even have to do with racism? Feels like some kind of projection, tbh
- beebmam 4y agoSo it sounds to me like this isn't Uber's fault and there's probably nothing they can realistically do to solve this problem.
- SuoDuanDao 4y agothey could develop an 'uber for security services'. small monthly fee, paid out to whoever responds if you press a panic button. It would probably be a lot better than the current policing system. Though the actual police might have more avenues to show their displeasure than taxi unions.
- ticviking 4y agoThat is possible, but directly challenges the states monopoly on violence in an organized way AND means we have to admit that society has become a cyberpunk dystopia that is way less cool than any of the fiction I read.
- SuoDuanDao 4y agomodern problems, right? Accepting the truth is step one.