Yup.Hanno wrote:Not victim blaming, common sense.
Well put.
Post by Chuangt2u » Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:06 pm
Agreed with LL.Lucky Lucan wrote:It's not victim-blaming. It's called taking effective measures to reduce the possibility of getting robbed. Obviously there are times when it is necessary to carry a bag. It helps not to put all your valuables, cards, cash, documents in any single place, and carrying it discretely can help too. I'm one of those rare people who have never had anything snatched.Miguelito wrote:
As has been said many times on this forum, telling people to simply not carry a bag is the type of victim blaming that perpetuates the problem. If there is a problem with shop owners being shaken down from the mafia, should they just not open stores? A wife being beat by her husband is also probably to be blamed for opening her mouth.
Post by Just Robbed » Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:02 pm
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Post by SCC » Sat Feb 21, 2015 8:21 am
Yeah, one might as well say the police should shoot anyone who displays their bag or phone in public. You will always get a lot of bag snatching in very unfair economies where the is high unemployment and where the differences between the rich and poor are nothing more than utterly criminally disgusting. Add to this the rather recent must have consumer crap and it's a recipe for disaster.LTO wrote:Aren't thieves that are caught here already beaten to death with some regularity? The threat of a painful public death doesn't seem to have done anything to slow bag snatching.
As for making death an official punishment for theft, in so far as the threat of punishment has any effect on the reasoning of somebody planning a criminal act, when the punishment for theft is the same as the punishment for murder, there is no reason for the thief to limit his crime to mere theft, but might as well employ murder as well.
Nicolas Baudouin, first secretary at the French embassy, revealed statistics to show the rise in street crime. “The figures show an increase from 139 passports stolen in 2011, to 190 in 2012 and to 332 in 2013,” he wrote. “Over the first three months of this year, 46 French nationals reported a lost passport due to a robbery [because of] bag snatching.”
The increase in bag theft has seen an increase in the number of victims who have suffered serious injuries. A tourist police official said there were 705 crime and motor accidents involving tourists last year, compared with 570 in 2012.
“The majority of the crimes committed are for financial gain and opportunistic,” states a 2013 US government report on Cambodia by the Overseas Security Advisory Council. “While the chances of being a victim increase dramatically at night, daytime robberies are very common: pickpocketing and purse- or bag-snatching is rampant, especially while riding in tuk-tuks.
“Transportation centres, market areas, special events, the riverfront area and crowded buses travelling to the provinces are prime areas.
“Youth gangs continue to operate unimpeded throughout Phnom Penh. These gangs can be violent and occasionally innocent civilians have been injured or killed. The perceived ineffectiveness within the Cambodian National Police often leads to vigilante-style justice. There was an increase in the past year of the number of reports received from embassy personnel, NGOs [non-government organisations] and expatriates of ‘snatch-and-grab’ thefts while riding in tuk-tuks and of residential break-ins.”
Again, the report offers few figures but voices concern over the general trend – petty crime and violent crime are increasing.
Post by SCC » Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:03 am
No way. More likely looking for something to buy to show off with. And don't forget the KTV's. Of course if your equating drugs to must have consumer items and pussy, I would have to agree.Hanno wrote:I would contest that most of the Jao are financing their drug habits and not buying rive and veggies.HsRob wrote:or move back to the country where the majority of the population isn't starving and police are properly trained to do their job
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Post by marc45 » Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:28 am
I was thinking this is exactly what they should do. Great to hear that this has actually been done before.Miguelito wrote:With all of the recent talk of bag snatching victims in PP, I perked up when I was just talking to an old sailor that was stationed in Olongapo City in the Philippines in the early 80s, and he said that the bag/necklace/etc snatchings were getting so bad that the government decided to put a stop to it. They put out a decree that the next 10 people caught committing a snatching would be immediately executed. They were hauled off down in front of the police station and then shot.
They only made it to 8 before that crime stopped.