The fact that Elzainza is the first police force to publish the nationality of criminals, apart from other analyses, shows the lack of transparency with which the public is denied access to this type of information. … Disappointing information in a mature society. However, a detailed analysis of the data shows that it is preceded by workarounds carried out by those in power to deny such important public opinion information, which is critical as a deciding factor in political management.
The latest social security coverage data by nationality has just been released, and while this information is published monthly, quite normally, the nationality of the perpetrators of the crime has been deliberately hidden, clearly of interest to the public. Like other data that is inaccessible to society due to unjustified arbitrary decisions, this reduction in transparency is unacceptable. Access to certain information should not be restricted and should not be restricted on the pretext of not causing social unrest. This implies that the people do not take sufficient responsibility for the reality in which they live. In an exercise common in other eras, states cannot understand and decide what we can and cannot know. The reality is always shrouded in a growing lack of state transparency. Regardless of subsequent or different readings of the statistics, or where the social debates generated by these data circulate, citizens cannot and should not be treated as if they are minors.
There is nothing to justify this purported overprotection claim, but it is actually motivated by the electoral interests of the governments implementing it, arguing that there is nothing that makes their “narrative” uncomfortable by stretching the cloak of invisibility around a particular issue, in this case the relationship between crime and immigration. In fact, the result can be the exact opposite of responsibility. In this case, the concealment of the criminal’s origins leads to selfish naivety, blindness that leads to paralysis in addressing the challenges, or worse, the consequent adoption of harmful policies that exacerbate our environmental problems. In a converse sense, this silence also contributes to the selfish activation of outsized ghosts that serve other political interests. Rationality and accuracy, two virtues of public policy that seem to be forgotten in order for governments to survive in partisan battles, require record-keeping, detailed research, and dissemination. On the contrary, the truth is hidden to enable the creation of an entelechy in the service of power, in this case the goodness automatically assumed in immigrants, a concept as far from concrete as the a priori belief that these citizens are dominated by evil due to the mere fact that they were born in another country.
Spanish society is a society of mature adults who can and must be aware of the situations, realities and environments in which their lives unfold. Your opinion, your position, even your vote cannot be relied upon by executives such as Sanchez, hiding variables essential to the most basic analysis of what is happening around you.
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