If Delhi Police went beyond sharing quotes on social media, it will be easier for them to solve crimes with a social tech angle to them. 1/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014Find it shocking that the IO of the case had to download Uber/Paytm to figure out how to use the app. Shouldn't they already know? 2/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014In a city like Delhi, shouldn't cops be adopting tech at the same pace as it's citizens? Or will they always be playing to be catch up? 3/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014And if bans solved anything, why weren't buses banned post the brutal Dec 16 incident? Or iron rods? 4/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014Policing needs to evolve at the same pace as crime. Crime won't always happen in a conventional investigation comfort zone. 5/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014If anything social tech gives cops more data points more techint, adding more muscle to humint, provided u are at home with the tech. 6/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014If a car service executes 1000s of rides everyday in a city, a crime in one of these cabs is a matter of statistical probability. 7/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014For every ride gone wrong, there are 100s that go right. Instead of banning them, figure how to make these services safer? 8/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014Implement rigours BG checks, make car services accountable for each ride serviced, instead of going into a knee jerk spiral of bans. 9/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 20146 yrs ago my colleague Soumya was shot in the same area as she drove home from work late at night, then the Dec 16 incident & now this. 10/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014Clearly there is a policing gap of more street lights, more beat cops, smarter emergency alert systems? But let's ban a cab service. 11/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014Shouldn't the Delhi Police develop a 1 touch activation app that, when used, sends an actionable user/geo data rich distress signal? 12/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014Reverse engineer the same tech that cab services use to develop their apps, work with them! Instead of post crime app downloads. 13/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014And where is the search enabled data pool for convicted sexual offenders? Isn't that the absolute low hanging fruit? 14/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014By exploiting a conveniently set aside loop hole, that takes 1000s of cabs off the roads, the cause of women's safety is undermined. 15/n— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014It is sad, not funny that an IPS officer didn't know how an app worked, wasting precious time to figure it out. I expect more. 16/16.— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) December 9, 2014
