“Were you violating that young girl?” Officer Slater demands in Superbad. “Were you violating her with your penis?”
An important question, and one which –given the prevalence of custodial rape as a form of punishment in police lockups round the world — a substantial number of police should be asking themselves. Half the planet away, but in the same spirit, Shuddhabrata Sengupta at Kafila offers a modest proposal for protecting the members of India’s constabulary from themselves.