UP is like the Wild Wild West. If 80% of Indian IAS, IPS are corrupt, UP position is 99%. There is an incredible nexus between politicians, bureaucrats, and criminals. Nepal being next door, criminals routinely slip in and out of the country. Police could not even think about carrying out operations in Muslim majority areas. Every religion and caste had sypathies with criminals from that group, because policing was so ineffective even in small personal conflicts (like between neighbours, or if boys from one community teased a girl from another) not the police, but your religion/caste's criminals stepped in to "resolve" the conflict. Ordinary businessmen (like kirana, mobile shop, dvd/music seller) needed protection. Big businessmen were always in danger or kidnapping-for-ransom, and had to pay protection to all political parties. And even then they could be targets of extortion murders. I could keep going with different types of crimes in UP that are unthinkable in other states. You remember the fiery speeches that Yogi gets calumniated for? The ones in which he says "you kill/rape one of ours, we will kill/rape 10 of yours"? There was a long backstory to them. Under SP, given the above circumstances, members of the minority community had committed a series of violent rapes in which some Hindu girls had even died. But FIRs were not registered for any of them and criminals were walking free, some bullying family of their victim to not raise the matter officially. Fed up, these families and communities reached out to Yogi. Though Yogi was not from their district, and he had no official power, he went to those areas to give personal assurance and protection of his vigilante groups to affected families. Here I am not justifying Yogi (I'll do that elsewhere). Here I am only showing you how things worked in UP. That the fundamental protection of police, the fundamental purpose of Law and Order apparatus, was absent in UP. That you need brawn on your side to not get brutalized. It's up to you whether you turn to a religious gang, a caste gang, or simply a paid gang. But if you need protection for being father of a pretty daughter, owner of a business, having property (wealth or land), or need any official work done, the police is not there for you, gangs or vigilante groups are your only choice. Source: From some online forum

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