Safety These Days - During This Ramadhan / Pre Election Period

Every Ramadhan every year, you could bet your ass that you would have to watch out for road blocks and daylight robbery literally.

This year, things somehow have become from bad to worse. Its like if you were to combine all the stories you have heard about robbery for the past 3 years, all occur in a span of 5 weeks or less. And its only halfway through Ramadhan now.

In our shitty country we call Malaysia, our Prime Minister announced that Malaysia's crime rate had dropped from snatches to general robbery related matters to a low 13 percent. Cops apparently have been deployed with extra force to combat crime rates.

Upon announcement on this news which made headlines in the front page of the Star News Paper, the very next day, the Prime Ministers Department in Putrajaya saw a couple who had taken hostage of a policeman with a samurai sword, causing injury to some and breaking car windows. The man was shot dead later.

Looks like our Prime Minister himself isnt so safe. And WTF policeman, how did you become a hostage yourself ? Since then, crime has been up, all in a span of 5 weeks or less. Every Malaysian knows of someone who got robbed, house broken into, kena pau, snatch cases, cases of insult and injury, and slashings. Every week, I hear 2 more new stories. And if the robbers dont rob you, the cops will. Duit raya time.

Things have become really bad. No one is ever safe these days. Where you could sit down in your garden or porch, thieves will now climb over your walls and rob you. You are not even safe at home. And what are our Royal Malaysian Police doing about this ? Nothing. Its a pity, if things get from bad to worse, you will see even more firearms being used and the general safety of our civilians are jeopardized. It sucks cause even going out on weekends seems to be tough.

Being at home will give you a lower rate of being robbed for sure, even when you're in the location of a guarded community, but everyone is on the take these days so you are just not safe. Is it because of Ramadhan people who are poor rob the better off to help feed their family ? Are they foreigners ? I doubt. Could it be PKR self mutilating its own state ? Could it be BN making PKR look bad ? Or could it be partially to car tinting security companies who want more income ? The answer lies with those who rob you.

Whatever it may be, its just not safe. Tinting your car window will only save you so much. Where the average Malaysian doesn even get 3,000 a month, you can be sure hardly any one of them can fork out 1500 to get their car tinted. Its miserable, and its a chain reaction. Things are not just bad for income where investments can be made for security but even the general security of any Malaysian now is open to harm.

Well, all that anyone can do is just stay home, and hope that you dont get robbed