The fact that Irtzaintza was the first police force to announce the nationality of criminals indicates, apart from other analyses, the lack of transparency with which citizens are denied access to this type of information. … Information is an unfortunate reserve in a mature society. However, detailed analysis of data is preceded by evasive maneuvers by those in power to deny public opinion information of such importance, which is crucial as an element of governance in political administration.
The latest Social Security enrollment data by nationality has just been released, information that is published monthly on an absolute regular basis while the nationality of perpetrators is deliberately concealed, which is clearly in the public interest. Like other data that society cannot access due to arbitrary and unjustified decisions, this decline in transparency is intolerable. We should not impose restrictions on access to certain information, especially under the pretext of not creating social alarm, which implies that citizens are not responsible enough to take responsibility for the reality in which they live. The state cannot understand and decide what we can and cannot know in a typical practice of other times. The facts are increasingly obscured as the deficit in state transparency becomes more serious. Citizens cannot and should not be treated as if they were minors, regardless of whether one or another reading of the statistics is subsequently made or where the social debate generated by these data circulates.
Nothing justifies this alleged overprotection, which is in fact motivated by the electoral interest of the government implementing it and which claims that what makes its “story” uncomfortable does not exist, by extending the cloak of invisibility over certain issues – in this case the relationship between crime and immigration. In fact, the effect may be the exact opposite of responsibility. Concealing the origin of criminals, in this case, leads to selfish naivety, to a blindness that leads to paralysis in the management of challenges, or worse, to the consequent adoption of harmful policies that exacerbate the problems in our environment. In the opposite sense, this silence also contributes to the self-interests of bloated ghosts serving other political interests. Reasonableness and accuracy—two virtues of public policy that seem to be forgotten in favor of government survival in the partisan battle—require detailed management, study, and dissemination of records. Quite the contrary, the truth is hidden to allow the creation of agencies in the service of power, in this case the good that is automatically assumed for immigrants, a concept as far from concrete as the prior belief that these citizens are controlled by evil simply because they were born in another country.
Spanish society is a mature and adult society that can and must be aware of the situation, reality and environment in which it develops its life. Your opinion, your position and even your vote cannot depend on the executive, like Sanchez or others, who hides the essential variables for the fundamental analysis of what is happening around him.
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