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Taiwan

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 an unsafe place  !?

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★ Taipei Times, 2022-9-13 : The results of a survey released yesterday by the Foundation for the People showed  that 73.6 percent are dissatisfied with public safety in Taiwan, while 25.5 percent are satisfied. taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/09/13/2003785231

　

★ United Daily,  editorial, 2022-9-7 :  Taiwan's social security is deteriorating - black gun executions, human trafficking, homicide cases are rampant, even policemen became victims of random killings ...

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★ United Daily,  editorial, 2022-7-24:  "Taiwan's social security is stable" -  government's tricky and empty slogan !  too many guns and illegal drugs, fraud, etc in Taiwan.  udn.com/news/story/7338/6483566?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

　

★ United Daily,  editorial, 2022-8-25: Two years ago Taiwan's government purchased four thousands electric stun guns (拋射式電擊槍) but is not willing to buy training tools for the police to use them.   udn.com/news/story/7338/6562311?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

　

★ China Times,  editorial, 2022-8-23: After DPP took office, police government became a bargaining chip for power, politicians care only elections, policemen are always a pawn.   chinatimes.com/opinion/20220823003944-262101?chdtv

　

★ United Daily,  2022-7-4:  Former National Police Agency (NPA) Director-General Chen Ja-chin (陳家欽) expressed that he stepped down for Minister of Interior getting involved police personnel.  The opposition (KMT黨團總召曾銘宗) criticized this as "a scandal".   udn.com/news/story/122919/6433404?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub122919_pulldownmenu_v2

　

★ United Daily,  2022-7-17: About 100 gun-shooting cases in 2021 hits a 6-years record high.  udn.com/news/story/7338/6466751?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

★ 《 China Times 》opinion, 2022-7-3:  There're not enough high-ranking police positions available, in order to get promoted, police officials try every connections for it  ;  on the surface, conflicts between Police chief (Chen Ja-chin , 陳家欽) and Minister of Interior (Hsu Kuo-yung, 徐國勇) ，under the table, increasing intensive fighting are going on between premier (Soo Tsing-tshiong, 蘇貞昌) and Minister Interior。The most important part, administrative neutrality of the police, has been ignoring during their game.   chinatimes.com/opinion/20220702002577-262101?chdtv

　

★ United Daily, 2022-7-3:  Police Director-General (陳家欽) who was forced to retire without pre-warnings, criticized that Minister of Interior politically got involved police personnel issues, ignoring workplace ethics. Both have different political forces as backup,  the conflicts probably are just a tip of a big iceberg, which is DPP's spoils system ( “to the victor belong the spoils”) .  New Taipei City mayor (侯友宜) says, we need a complete promotion systems for the police.  udn.com/news/story/11091/6430236?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2    udn.com/news/story/122919/6432321?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub122919_pulldownmenu_v2    vip.udn.com/vip/story/122367/6431328?from=udn-category

　

★ 《China Times 中國時報》 , editorial, 2022-1-3:  How much president Tsai I. W. has done for our social security network ? The answer is too shy to speak out.  (總統蔡英文元旦講話再提「鞏固社會安全體系」，與過去2016、2020就職演說所強調補漏社會安全網的內容相比，悄悄刪除了防範兒少安全隨機殺人、思覺失調症傷人者、毒癮、家庭暴力等警政治安問題。梳理蔡總統的社會安全網做了多少？答案竟羞與人提。)  chinatimes.com/opinion/20220102002809-262101?chdtv

　

★  United Daily, editorial (udn.com/news/story/11091/6060260?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2), 2022-1-25 : More people suffered fear from invisible and delicate social control and threats by DPP government' flank and judiciary (prosecutor, police) ... (檢警司法恐嚇，相比蔣家統治的線民監控，更細膩無形)

　

★  United Daily,  Liberty Times, Up Media, 2022-3-30:  Two criminal policemen left without permission during carrying out their duty to have fun with girls in snack bar therefore were infected with CovID-19, furthermore, they tried to hide the facts while facing epidemic contact tracing and then led to a big loophole, till now, 8 criminal policemen, 2 high-ranking policemen, and 2 administration staffs in four police stations were infected.     news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/3877641   udn.com/news/story/120940/6201898  upmedia.mg/news_info.php?Type=24&SerialNo=141169

　

★ 《Yahoo Taiwan》, 2021-11-23:  all opposition parties blast the government not fulfilling its promise to patch the loophole of social security network.  tw.news.yahoo.com/在野齊轟-社會安全破網遲不補-222338789.html 

　

★ 《Next TV news 壹新聞》, 2021-11-23, 12:11: a very big loophole in our social security net.

　

★ 《Yahoo Taiwan》, 2021-11-22: A series of social security events in entire Taiwan occurred tw.news.yahoo.com/全台治安連環爆-總統發布3重點打擊犯罪-141200795.html

　

★ 《United Daily 》, editorial opinion, 2021-11-23: Can the government see those random violence in our daily life?   After the government became addicted to propaganda,  the online army and propaganda have been used to brainwash the people, which is the main reason the society gradually became irrational.  udn.com/news/story/7338/5909805?from=udn_ch2_menu_v2_main_cate

　

★  《China Times 中國時報》 , 2021-11-24:  People seem to living in a pressure cooker, there is no way out of pain and depression, social violence is increasing day by day,  the increasing suicide rate reflects people's desperation or hopelessness in life.  Senior officials don't even try to solve these issues.    chinatimes.com/opinion/20211123004533-262101?chdtv

★  《China Times Databse 》 , 2021-11-24: Recently, Taiwan's society is filled with disorder and violent killing, social security is bad...  (近來社會充滿失序與暴力殺戮，治安敗壞) chinatimes.com/opinion/20211123004792-262104?chdtv

　

★ 《United Daily 》, editorial opinion, 2021-6-1: Some high-ranking police officers abused their power to get CovID-19 vaccinated and ignored internal discipline and a long waiting line behind.  udn.com/news/story/11091/5501984?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

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★  The China Times, Next TV news,  2021-6-14  
National Police Agency (police headquarter) and Taiwan central government abuse power to cover Taiwan Police College students jumping the long queue to have vaccination.   TaiNan city mayor explained they just follow "central gov. " to do this, so did KaoHsiung city government.   chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20210613004215-260402?chdtv 

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★ 《United Daily 》, editorial opinion, 2021-4-24: The police got innocent good citizens caught, but scare demon citizens, such as a group of people wearing black clothes broke in police station SongSan branch (松山分局) and damaged some computers, but the police let them go freely.  This is a sign of  public power's decay, the prelude to degradation of police discipline... because the top-position officials are busy in power struggle.  udn.com/news/story/7338/5410015?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

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pic. : The websites-group was ranked No.1 by "comment Taiwan police" on Yandex of Russia, 2022-9-6, 2022-7-3, 2022-6-16, 2022-4-1, 1-26-2020

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pic. : The websites-group was ranked No.1 by "comment Taiwan police" on Yahoo Japan (No.1 search engine in Japan), 2022-9-6,
2022-4-1,  2022-1-27, 2021-11-23, 2021-8-8, 2021-6-14, 2021-5-2, 2021-4-18, 1-25-2021, 12-2-2020, 11-9-2020; No.2 at 2022-6-16

　

　

         

　

　


 pic. : The websites-group was ranked No.1 by "comment Taiwan police" on US Google, 2022-6-16, 2022-4-1, 2022-1-28, 2021-11-23, 2021-8-8, 2021-6-14, 2021-5-2, 2021-4-24, 2021-4-18, 3-24-2021, 2-22-2021, 1-25-2021, 1-8-2021, 11-11-2020, 11-9-2020, 9-13-2020; 

　

pic. left : The websites-group was ranked No.1 by "comment Taiwan police" on Microsoft Bing, 2022-4-1, 2022-1-28, 2021-11-23, 2021-8-8, 2021-6-14, 2021-5-2, 2021-4-18, 3-24-2021, 2-22-2021, 1-24-2021, 1-8-2021, 12-2-2020, 11-11-2020, 11-9-2020, 9-5-2020;No.2 at 2022-6-16

　

　

★ 《Apple Daily》, 2021-5-2 , editorial:  the relationship between politicians, police and gangsters is "buddy buddy (「你『膿』我『膿』」)！ The elites in the system choose political side instead of the value right or wrong, which leads to a huge-size crime structure.  tw.appledaily.com/headline/20210502/CCEYKR4SKNBTTC2ZVOINUGIWGQ/
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★ 《Apple Daily》, 2021-4-26, editorial: The police from top to low-ranking need and is urgent to take law and human rights educations ... recently there's a music course lady teacher 詹 was blocked and checked up by a policeman with the reason "I have never seen you before" and " look nervous " (神色緊張)， the lady refused to answer question and intended to leave,  then she was thrown to the floor and suppressed on the ground by police's judo which caused lots of 'injuries' ... the lady blurted out "silly", hence was handcuffed and arrested as an active criminal/offender back to police station and was locked in prisoner's Detention Room.
 ... tw.appledaily.com/headline/20210426/KYKVZPXDI5G7VON622J3OYYR64/
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　 According to the law, 4 conditions for detention  (得為管束) : police.taichung.gov.tw/precinct5/home.jsp?id=61&parentpath=0,5&mcustomize=faq_view.jsp&dataserno=201712050063&t=FAQ&mserno=201712050003
Apple daily : To block and check up fellow citizens on particular sites must meet the condition of prevention of crimes, or dealing with major public security or social order issues, and should be in a necessary situation;  and the police should put to the proof that a possible danger to harm the above or the suspect already harmed the above.

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★ 《 China Times 》, 2021-4-28, editorial: The police were reduced to ruler's tool, abuse power and violate the law， all these were harbored by the government ―  degradation of democracy and judiciary
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★ 《United Daily 》2021-4-28, editorial : Taiwanese police repeatedly over-police and over-arrest citizens, such as, a citizen on the street waving national flag to Taiwan's president fleet was charged Offenses Against Public Safety by the police； another one was lodged a false accusation in the name of  "interfere with public affairs" for a police's tricky and fake "falling down".   The police were aiming at personal performance appraisal score and convenience therefore their enforcement standard is from bad to worse.   udn.com/news/story/7338/5415649

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★ 《Apple Daily》, 2021-4-29, editorial:  Taipei police station has already been tarnished by lousy image of harboring & setting free suspects、 burying a crime & erasing evidences,  lying etc， the government should investigate the case sooner.   tw.appledaily.com/headline/20210429/FYTLUHQN3NB2PHYDVI3H6XAFH4/

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 ★ 《 China Times 》, 2021-4-26:  The number of cases that the police transferred suspects towards judiciary in the name of spreading rumors in 2018 is only 21，in 2019 increased to 151，in 2020 totally 233; ... The police violated the laws to arrest a citizen lifting a board on the street to express opinions, as an active offender/criminal without informing the offenses charged, on the purpose of catering to the direction by the high officials, the policeman selected a "older" innocent woman as target ?  ( 「選一個老一點的」無辜婦人就抓了？)   chinatimes.com/opinion/20210425003310-262110?chdtv 王子文
　

★ 《 China Times 》, 2021-5-1 editorial:  "The gangsters rule the country":  Just spent USD 330 on sending a "the help" gangster to make trouble in police station, which results in a police chief to step down... a political party should never go this way - clean syndicate (politicians) scare the gangsters, the gangsters scare the police, the police scares politicians. ( 一個政黨絕不能「白道怕黑道，黑道怕警察，警察怕白道」。chinatimes.com/opinion/20210430002881-262101?chdtv


★ 《United Daily 》, 《Apple Daily》, 2021-3-23: Taipei police station has taken bribery to harbor night club running sex business, in total about NTD 5 millions in recent 5 years; policeman of 南港分局 committed the crime of forcing obscene and insulting a woman asking help...  (udn.com/news/story/7321/5336562,  tw.news.yahoo.com/知法犯法-南港分局警察藉職位之便-對求助者伸鹹豬手-051342241.html)

★ 《 China Times 》, 11-11-2020 , editorial:  Malaysian newspaper thinks Taiwan apparently an extremely unsafe place because two Malaysian ladies were murdered (another one was cut-to-pieces) in Taiwan within one year.   A poll by KMT shows 48.9% Taiwanese thinks social security is worse than before.

★ 《 United Daily  》, 2021-4-18: heavy-handed policing was heard from time to time, the number of cases violating Social Order Maintenance Act (社維法) has been increased a lot since 2 years ago, because the ruler asked the society be silent.  The police in 彰化 and 嘉義 not only used criminal law to deal with some citizens but also put labels on and applied fabrication on nationals.   brief from udn.com/news/story/7338/5395815?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
 ★ 《 Liberty Times 》, 11-12-2020:  Crimes of violence kept worsening  ―  in recent 5 years, the number of four major crimes（恐嚇取財、傷害、妨害自由、刀械槍枝）gradually increases from 20732 in 2015 to 24638 in 2019 in all six major cities, according to statistics.
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 ★   《Economist》UK , EIU 「The Safe Cities Index 2019  」https://safecities.economist.com/safe-cities-index-2019/  Taiwan's "personal security" dropped 14 places compared with previous yrs. report,  Taiwan is worse than neighbors Singapore, Japan, China, Korea... 
   ● personal security :  1 Singapore  3 HK  4 Tokyo  5 Wellington  7 Osaka  10 Sydney  12 Dubai  15 Seoul  16 Melbourne 20 Taipei 
   ● Infrastructure security : 1 Singapore 2 Osaka 4 Tokyo  7 Sydney  7 Melbourne  9 Wellington 14 Seoul  18 HK  24 Taipei
    ● Digital security: 1 Tokyo  2 Singapore 11 Osaka 11 Sydney  11 Melbourne 17  Seoul  22 HK  23 Taipei
    ● Health security: 1 Osaka  2 Tokyo  3 Seoul 8  Singapore  10 Taipei 
   personal security inputs are Level of police engagement, Community-based patrolling, Available street-level crime data, Private security measures, Effectiveness of the criminal justice system, Hazard monitoring, etc.

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 ★ World Economic Forum (WEF)  <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> released at 9-4-2019 shows Taiwan's "safety & security" got an Eastern Asia-pacific average score 6.0, and is worse than world No.5 Hong Kong, No. 6 Singapore , No. 7 UAE,  No. 10 New Zealand,  11 Qatar,  13 Japan, 19 Australia,   23 Saudi Arabia. 

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★  People's Daily, 10-15-2020, commentary: Taiwan strictly monitors its own people, which is called "Green Terror". http://js.people.com.cn/BIG5/n2/2020/1015/c359574-34350271.html

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★ 《 United Daily》, 11-1-2020 , editorial: "Is Taiwan still safe？"  A Malaysian girl student in 長榮 university was strangled to death and abandoned her corpse by a Taiwanese young man,  this criminal case showed the loophole of social security and campus safety network.  The ignorance of city administration, police, and university leads to public doubts concerning our government's determination to protect safety of all the people in Taiwan.

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★ 《 United Daily 》, 11-14-2020 , editorial: Taiwan's Executive Yuan (prime ministry) is disable on issues e.g., social security, food safety ......  udn.com/news/story/7338/5014020?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

★ 《 Apple Daily》, 11-2-2020, editorial: This sort of S.O.P. can not improve Taiwan's social security。 social security certainly is national security, in addition to the system, we need to rely more on the excellent execution, which is the key to safety of all of us.  (tw.appledaily.com/headline/20201102/HBOAZYRFNFBXHORRYQYY2XQL4Y/)
　

★ 《 Apple Daily 》, 11-15-2020 editorial:  in the same crime (Malaysian student killed) location, less than a month ago, another student in the same university encountered "attempt kidnap" ，'they' said the police are suspected to   bury a crime (「吃案」之嫌  i.e. conceal the existence of a criminal case in order to improve crime-solving statistics or in return for a bribe etc ) , the authority's reaction was astonishingly slow, the mayor insisted only two road lamps were not working； as for so-called "bury a crime" ，the minister of Internal Affairs said it's just a Procedural Defect...  and who should be responsible for these mess, "we talk this later" (再說)   brief https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/20201115/QWMWPXNP7NHPNMR5Y7WUYB2ZOI/

★ 鏡周刊 (Mirror Media), 11-24-2020: Taipei social security alarm is sounding !  gangsters murdered citizen in public, it's rarely seen Taipei police station has not distributed the news about solving the case and pretended nothing was happened.  Taipei mayor kept reminding police of holding press conference for any major criminal cases. 

　

★ United Daily , 11-26-2020, editorial: Many many times, the police tried to decline with all kinds of excuses reporting a case by Taiwanese .  But before the annual "Autumn Struggle" protest march, some policemen went to pig farmers' house for "DUI checkpoint" , some other policemen  made phone-call to ask who join the protest and which route they were going... It's so scary !  It's "Green Terror" ! https://udn.com/news/story/7338/5044337?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
　

★ 《 China Times》11-11-2020:  To improve life safety, Taiwan government needs to ： (1) adjust the method and measure to evaluate police performance，(2) Taiwan's prime minister should interfere police promotion systems....
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★ The China Times, 7-14-2020: Taiwan police were forced to select the right political side and follow the right boss to get promotion (ability is not the most important thing).  (政治上「擇木而棲」)

　

★《 United Daily 聯合報》, 3-27-2020:  Taiwan police field has complained since long time ago that there's no basic rule for promotion, it became worse and weird in recent years, the "backers" instead of the system decided every position goes to ...

　

★ 《 Liberty Times 》, 9-13-2020, opinion : The police high ranking always has a phrase ( the reason has nothing to do with police govt. ) for rank-and-file policeman's no matter breaking laws and violating discipline, or even karoshi (sudden death from overwork)...  some leader was slammed for their bureaucracy and exploiting subordinates.  https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1399346

　

★ 《 United Daily 》, 3-28-2020, opinion :  The head of Taiwanese police is not the leader of police headquarter but Taiwan president, P.M., and minister of interior／高源流 

 

★  The China Times, 2-25-2020 editorial: Due to bad Income distribution, Taiwan's social security (offender rate) kept worsening from 2001 till 2018. (bit better in 2019)

　

★ 《 Apple Daily 》,  11-21-2020 : Many random killings were happened on the street since last April， those cases were ignored by the public after 2~3 days' media reports， the principle of secret investigation is hard to review the current circumstances for  these kinds of cases. The principle of presumption of innocence (ei incumbit probatio qui dicit) makes enforcement officers to try all efforts on not holding suspect in custody, eventually no one knows how many "most-wanted" were caught by police's DUI checkpoint...   https://tw.appledaily.com/forum/20201121/BAJHO7T4HNGGVK3CYXT3RNRLCI/（鄭善印）