Blame India’s Bad Samaritans?

India has fewer police per 100,000 people than almost any country in the world, and the cops the country does have are badly paid and poorly trained. So why's Delhi's chief minister blaming the city's apathetic residents for the murder of a college student by an alleged stalker this week? 

"Not one person raised a voice or came out to help her or took her to the hospital. Only when the police van came, it took her to the hospital where she was declared dead as she was shot from a point where she could not have survived even a second," the Hindustan Times quotes Dikshit as saying during a function in New Delhi.

Yesterday, thousands of college students gathered to protest the decay of law and order in the city… apparently not so apathetic after all. And even if it is not too much to ask that bystanders shout for help or call for an ambulance if they don't actually take a victim to the hospital, the idea that regular folks are to blame for a daylight gun murder is a bit strong….