Violent crimes up in early 2006: Malaysia

Malaysian Deputy Internal Security Minister Fu Ah Kiow said that the number of violent crimes — especially robbery, bag snatching and rape — had increased in the first five months of this year.

The authorities, according to him, were hard-pressed to find out the reason for the increase, but attributed the incidents of bag snatches to drug addicts and immigrants.

In my opinion, that is only one source of the problem. The other is "poor economy" or the result of it. Most opt for the easy way out, which is to commit crime knowing they have a good chance of escaping despite Mr Fu's claims that Malaysia has had a high rate of success in solving violent crimes.

However, one way of self-improvement is to accept there is a problem in the first place and in this matter, the Malaysian government has only one way to go - up.