NPA wants police to nab gropers rather than relying on civilians

Tuesday 06th October, 07:00 AM JST

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ashika1009 at 01:39 PM JST - 6th October

**I just make sure I keep my on the straps or something in my hands when I am on a crowded train. Window shopping is okay but not shoplifting, as Johnny Cash once sang. I am not interested in groping, but I can say there must be many men on the borderline out there . . . and some of the women are wearing hot pants shorter than some t-shirts (The straw that broke the camel`s back.) Like it says in the museum no photographs and no touching. Looking is fine, though.
ashika1009 at 01:40 PM JST - 6th October

I just make sure I keep my hands, that is . . . .
LoveUSA at 01:43 PM JST - 6th October

Looking is fine, though.

Some men should be arrested for looking too.
sakurasuki at 02:01 PM JST - 6th October

Many times in recent news the police ARE the gropers

That's the reason, they will send another officer to catch the bad one.
ashika1009 at 02:13 PM JST - 6th October

LoveUSA at 01:43 PM JST - 6th October

Looking is fine, though.

Some men should be arrested for looking too.

[Not enough cops or jails to accomodate them, I am afraid.] [How about arresting men and women for lusting in their heart? Or how about something along the lines of the film Minority Report pre-crime division?]

It`s hard to debate the real deal, is it not? Hard to win the debate when Party A delivers output with insufficient input and Party B delivers effective output using only a fraction of the input.
ashika1009 at 02:15 PM JST - 6th October

Why so serious? As the Joker would say. No one should grope anyone with without consent to grope. Most certainly not.
radegastt at 03:03 PM JST - 6th October

Once, in a tightly packed train, I got stuck behind a pretty girl. She, while trying to get better position, rubbed her butt against my groin....... even I certainly didn't want I was getting harder! For a while I couldn't move or turn or do anything else. Even I managed to slightly turn later, she might felt it... :-( If she has accused me of dropping her, am I (slightly) guilty?
dolphingirl at 03:19 PM JST - 6th October

Police want to nap gropers--great! Isn't that their job anyway? However, I think the focus should be on STOPPING groping from happening rather than on how to catch them. As this article says, it usually comes down to the victim's word versus the accused. Add to that, all the paperwork and it's no doubt that the victim is going to think mendoukusai.

Of course groping is wrong but I think gropers are harmless cowards for the most part. Couldn't police resources be used in a better way? How about sending police officers to Junior High schools to talk about this issue as well as others? Or what about an ethics class? Educate people. This seems to me to be a better long term solution.
Yelnats at 04:09 PM JST - 6th October

If trains were limited to the actual capacity they are suppose to carry, rather than pack them in like cattle, then it would not happen. What are the jollies of groping? I do not get it.
Sammi33 at 04:45 PM JST - 6th October

I think the prevalence of groping shows that there is a general lack of imagination, lack of self-control, and view of women as objects for men's pleasure in Japan.
gogogo at 05:48 PM JST - 6th October

radegastt: seriously you needed to write that? Sounds like a letter to playboy.
ca1ic0cat at 09:01 PM JST - 6th October

It's about time they got proactive.
hellhound at 06:32 AM JST - 7th October

They should concentrate on real crime
PepinGalarga at 10:09 PM JST - 7th October

radegastt just keep your hands up you will be okay hahaaaaa.
mnemosyne23 at 11:57 PM JST - 7th October

I'm sorry, they had FIVE cops accompany the girl in the example? Wouldn't one have been enough? I'm all for giving gropers the public shaming they deserve, but overkill is overkill.

And may I ask why it took at least ten gropings before anything was done about this man?