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Friday, November 10, 2006
OUR DOOM LOOMS ...?
According to a local daily, our national crime rate has risen exponentially over the past year. This year's January to September period recorded a total of 170,481 cases, compared to 151,444 cases the whole of last year.
Year-on-year, the crime index rose 12.6%, and if you break this down, you'll see that violent crimes went up by 18.01%, property crimes 13.87%, commercial crimes 17.98%, while narcotic crimes went down by 8.07%.
The article says rape cases went up to 1,833 in the nine-month period this year, compared to 1,384 cases in the same period last year. Armed robbery: 13,537 cases against 9,548 cases; gang armed robbery: 54 cases against 27 cases; and murder cases rose to 473 cases compared to 475 cases last year.
And the crime rate has been on the uptrend the third year running. Who to blame? I don't know.
The article also says with the crime rate on the rise, so is the number of cases or incidents where peole/civilians take matters into their own hands -- and violently too -- when they encounter crime perpetrators.
A case in point: a foreign woman who was caught stealing was pounced upon and hit by a group of men, who then stripped her naked, all the while while cheering and jeering, for about 20 minutes before the police arrives.
What does this all say about us as a nation, as a people? I don't know.
What I know is that things are not looking good. The whole country is in a big freaking mess, and no one seems to be in charge.
Makes me wish that I could just go hibernate and wake up when some semblance of order has been restored...
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