Worsening Crime

I have not been blogging about crime since July 18. But crime will not go away just because I stopped writing about it. If you have read the Sunday Star (August 05, 2012, p 14), you will be informed of more crimes happening in our capital city and in Selangor.

Muck Wai Chong was robbed at Jalan Puncak Kiara Utama, Sri Hartamas at 2:13 PM on July 27. It was then reported that a factory manager’s house was broken into on the same day too but no other details were furnished.

On August 02, a family was robbed and even attacked in their home at Taman Lestari Putra, Bandar Putra Permai in Seri Kembangan at 3:00 AM. May Heng was more fortunate – on that day, she was ambushed in her car, just 400 meters from her home in Section 4, Petaling Jaya but she managed to safely escape.

Photo of May Heng's car window on Facebook

Also two snatch thieves, who were preying on a woman near Bandar Tun Hussein Onn, had their criminal act stopped when they were rammed by an alert motorist. One of them was apprehended while his accomplice hightailed (The Star Online, August 04, 2012).

I was reading The Sun yesterday where residents of SS1, Kampung Tunku in Petaling Jaya are absolutely fed up because over the past year, at least 40 locals in the area have fallen victim to burglars and thieves. The latest caper was on Wednesday when robbers broke into a house and fled with jewelry and cash after holding a 75-year-old woman and daughter at knife-point. And you know, crime has gotten worse when the same news account had quoted Petaling Jaya police chief ACP Arjunaidi Mohammed as saying that the crime rates in SS1 are lower than other areas in the district! (p 08).

And yesterday at about 1:40 AM, there was an attempted car hijack at USJ 2/4B, Subang Jaya, according to Crime Watch Malaysia. Anna Chew also shared her personal experience of an attempted felony on August 04 when she was driving along the main SS2 road which led from SS1 to SS2 in Petaling Jaya at around 10:00 PM.

Kindly note that the above is only a sample of crimes that I managed to uncover that have been reported. Still, The Star newspaper must be accepting the reality that crime is flourishing, hence it featured a report (Sunday Star, July 29, 2012, p 06) that highlighted the fact that more homeowners are investing in security equipment due to concerns over break-ins. In this said article, Centrix Security Sdn Bhd had even made the claim that the company has seen a 40 % jump in sales of its equipment, particularly CCTV cameras in the last 3 months. And the scoop had called attention to market estimates that Malaysians were spending over RM5 million per month buying CCTV units.

Malaysians must be asking when can we expect the country to be safe again? For a start, we should sack Hishammuddin Hussein for sheer incompetency!