It's just amazing the crime rates keep going up and up in other parts of the world.
Just recently I went on my holidays in London and Paris. In London I heard the crime rates are high, that I was so aware of my own surroundings when it was supposed to be carefree and relaxed. I made sure that no one around me looked suspicious and when there was I would try to walk away. We walked around in big groups, I was with my cousins and so it was a family of eight. My sisters are young and they don't know these kind of stuff, so I always do my best to make sure they move quicker and stay closer, if not things might just get out of hand.
In Paris my dad lost his passport. I'm actually not sure whether he lost it or it was stolen, but when he was going to the tax refund area then he noticed that it was gone. Immediately the next day we went to the Singapore Embassy to cancel that and ensure that he made a new one. In Paris, there are a lot of teenagers smoking, fighting and hanging out without a particular aim, so sometimes it gets quite unsafe especially during the night.
Yes Joey I think that the biggest influence is drugs. Drugs take away families, they break societies. Drugs may make people want to steal, to kill just to support their addiction.
I'm just glad to see in Singapore the crime rates are very low, almost next to zero. I can go out alone, as and when I like it, without the fear of getting kicked the sh*t out of. The law enforced here is very strict. For example, if you have a couple of grams of drugs with you the next thing you find yourself in is getting capital punishment.
No one dares to have drugs here. Stealing is also uncommon. The moment you steal you get a few years behind bars, it's that serious how the government treats crimes here.
In other countries it is much bigger, much more tough to govern and the laws are probably less strict. Committing crimes in other countries you can get away with it much easier, but in Singapore if you commit a crime you make headlines in the newspapers. If you kill someone you get capital punishment straight away.
For me I think that is the difference why my country is so safe as compared to other countries.
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