{"id":2669,"date":"2016-06-20T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2016-06-20T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:06:21","slug":"india-mall-security-usa-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Why is India Obsessed With Frisking at Shopping Malls and Cinema Halls?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n an age when children take their first <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/international-flights-low-costs-travelling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">international flight<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> before they are two, I\u2019d never travelled anywhere <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/outdoors\/indian-tourist-international-travel-abroad-tourism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">outside India<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> until I was 32. Little did I know, when I landed in Dulles Airport for my four-week trip across Washington DC, NY, and Denver, that my worldview would soon turn upside down. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As someone who takes the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/delhi-metro-city-commute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi Metro<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> every day; gets <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/indian-men-sexism-airplanes-groping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">frisked<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by a pair of bare police hands; stands in long, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/indians-personal-space-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pointless queues<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to put his belongings through the scanner, I couldn\u2019t believe that the New York subway stations had no interest whatsoever in my bag and its contents. During a late evening train ride from Manhattan to my Brooklyn Airbnb, I saw people downing tequila from the bottle in public places. It seemed to me like an impossible freedom. Back in India, a policeman did not let me carry a neatly packed chicken dish inside Jama Masjid station. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a land where lawlessness is a joke (there are 106 rapes that occur every day; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/hafiz-junaid-not-in-my-name-lynching-mobs-train-stabbed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">murders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and kidnapping have seen a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/india-news\/crimes-in-india-rise-in-2018-as-compared-to-last-year-murder-rapes-see-a-spike-says-this-report\/1080222\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spike<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), we seem to take security very seriously. Or at least it appears so. We\u2019re asked to furnish IDs, open our bags, empty our wallets not just at airports, but also in malls, hotels, subways, and movie halls by policemen, security personnel, and random watchmen, who are so busy gossiping and digesting their lunch that they would never notice an AK-47 in your racquet bag. (In September last year, a man boarded a flight with a knife and was deplaned only after he told cabin crew about it.) <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, we continue to submit humbly. I have seen kids being denied entry at a massive shopping mall in Mumbai just because they appeared like they were \u201cup to no good\u201d. In America, these kids could have sued the socks off the mall but in India, we bow down to security personnel, who are on a power trip. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you notice, every public place in India has these <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/india-immigration-travel-abroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">officious-looking people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who seem to be on a mission to keep the common man in check. I can\u2019t take my laptop bag inside certain movie theatres in Delhi (in some I can\u2019t even carry a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/mcdonalds-masala-dosa-burger-south-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McDonald\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> burger). Surprisingly, in America, the land of mass shootings \u2013 twelve people died in 2012 in Aurora as a gunman fired during a show of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dark Knight Rises<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in 2015, another man opened fire on a crowded movie hall in Lafayette killing two people and himself \u2013 no one cares a hoot about what\u2019s in your pocket. I couldn\u2019t believe my luck when I carried a can of Coors Light inside a local cinema and wasn\u2019t arrested for it. Especially considering I have been questioned by a thulla for drinking Diet Coke on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/broke-townie-sobo-south-mumbai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marine Drive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019ve set out to achieve with all the over-policing. Do we genuinely face more security threats than the US?<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For all the popular culture notions of America being a surveillance state with drones monitoring everyone, it\u2019s India that seems to suffer from a massive military-industrial complex. It\u2019s here that a single guy, unless accompanied by a girl, cannot enter a pub because he\u2019s a \u201cpotential threat\u201d to the girls inside. I might be the biggest fan of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/nh7-weekender-music-festival-sex-drugs-rock-n-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scandinavian EDM genius<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> slicing and dicing inside, but I can\u2019t dance my ass off unless a girl deigns to be with me. What if I don\u2019t want to be with a girl? What if my partner for the night is a boy? After suffering the wrath of multiple bouncers, I have decided to stop going to Indian clubs altogether. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I asked my girlfriend, an American citizen, why there\u2019s no one to frisk the public at shopping mall entrances. \u201cDespite everything, Americans trust whoever\u2019s in the country,\u201d was her reply. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was an astounding idea. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a shooting at Tacoma Mall in Washington in 2005, industry consultants told the Seattle Times that metal detectors and frisking would \u201crestrict freedom\u201d of the shoppers. They pointed out, an estimated 190 million people pass through 1,200 enclosed malls and 44,000 shopping centres in the United States every month without incident. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015, New York <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/2015\/07\/01\/new-york-abandons-stop-and-frisk-procedure-that-mostly-targeted-black-men.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">abandoned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the controversial stop-and-frisk policy which empowered police officers to stop, question, and search individuals they suspect have committed crimes or are preparing to do so. The practise, which has been criticised for unfairly targeting minorities, has found one supporter \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/donald-trump-kim-jong-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, of course. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While most Americans (leave aside its Bigot-in-Chief) vouch for their fellow countrymen (and this is despite the shooting menace), I am made to feel like a rank outsider in my own country. Of course, USA has mega problems of its own, be it indiscriminate gun violence or right-wing lunatics finding their indomitable spirit under the new regime, but its citizens have inalienable rights that can never be snatched. You can basically walk around Times Square all night and the NYPD wouldn\u2019t even raise an eyebrow. But try hanging around on Marine Drive or Hauz Khas post midnight. The police will have a danda waiting for you. And forget public places, our police have been known to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/articles\/mumbai-couples-picked-up-from-hotel-rooms-charged-with-public-indecency\/16437186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raid hotels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and round up couples who\u2019ve checked in consensually. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019ve set out to achieve with all the over-policing. Do we genuinely face more security threats than the US? Or does it all boil down to empirical evidence that we Indians are uncouth, and wouldn\u2019t know how to behave in public unless someone keeps telling us how to?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t want to Make India Great Again, but I want to Make it Free. I don\u2019t want to walk around with a gun like an American, but I\u2019d like to go watch a film without being frisked. I don\u2019t want to down shots of tequila at the railway station, but I want to carry my packed chicken dish with me without being questioned.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t want to walk around with a gun like an American, but I\u2019d like to go watch a film without being frisked. 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