Mohammad Hayef and the Ministry of Interior

You might have noticed the news reporting of increased raids on parties and drinking in Kuwait, on the hands of Al-Maba7eth and the M.O.Interior. The latest happened just this night, when a huge corporate party held in Olympia was busted.

Twitter and news agencies made it sound like it was a lurid party, where all kinds of satanic actions and frolicking is happening; not that it really was just a private corporate party. I would say logic prevents organizers from supporting illegal stuff like that, let alone to do it in public.

It’s great that the police are cracking crime like they’re doing these days, there’s definitely nothing wrong about that. In fact, it should be the case all year round: to crack crime and bust criminals.

But when the process becomes highly selective, concentrating police efforts on a very few (usually drinking, gambling, and sex)  crimes, then the process becomes a little questionable. We have other more serious crimes out there.

Al-Qabas newspaper mentioned, back in Jan 2010, that more than 80 thousand court verdicts were still outstanding, that the offenders are still free at large. Do you know how much 80 thousand people is? Do you think that all of them have secret hideouts where they can escape the eyes of the police? Don’t you think having more than 80 thousand verdicts and rulings outstanding and not fulfilled diminishes people’s sense of justice and righteousness?

So instead of listening to the threats of the likes of Hayef and his pals, shouldn’t the M.O.Interior focus on other more serious kinds of crime and prevention? Like better monitoring of traffic, patrolling neighborhoods, putting more police at malls and other crowded places? Catching those 80 thousand runaways?