A snatch thief robbed a girl friend of mine few days ago. He grabbed Pinky's bag from behind and ran away as fast as he could with his motorbike. She was injured in the incident. Sustained some minor injuries.

According to her too, the police officers gave her a hard time when she tried to report the case.



This series of events is not strange to us, isn't it? It merely serves as a number in the police statistics, nothing more.

Until unless death occurs.

Then there will be wide publicity about the case.

Then the ministers and police departments will give their speech and spell out the measures to counter rising crimes.

Then after few weeks, the hype dies down.

And the case will be forgotten. Just like many many unsolved cases.


(http://www.aliran.com/oldsite/monthly/2004a/6e.html):
Citing police statistics, Lim Kit Siang, MP for Ipoh Timur, revealed in Parliament that there had been an increase in the number of reported snatch thefts these past years: from 14,368 reported cases in 2001, to 14,640 cases in 2002, to 15,798 cases in 2003. (The Star, 6 July 2004)



I've compiled some worth-to-take-note statistics from the Royal Bolehland Police Force website (http://www.rmp.gov.my/):

Rape
Year2000 --> 1,210 (300 solved)
Year2001 --> 1,354 (358 solved)
Year2002 --> 1,418 (333 solved)
Year2003 --> 1,471 (347 solved)
Year2004 --> 1,718 (383 solved)
Year2005 --> 1887 (1769 solved)
Year2006 --> 2435 (2238 solved)
Year2007 --> 3177 (2938 solved)


Snatch Thefts
Year2000 --> 15082 ( 166 solved)
Year2001 --> 14368 ( 7142 solved)
Year2002 --> 14640 ( 7886 solved)
Year2003 --> 15798 ( 8859 solved)
Year2004 --> 11536 ( 6197 solved)
Year2005 --> 9617 (5325 solved)
Year2006 --> 9551 (4264 solved)
Year2007 --> 11127 (4339 solved)


***Before I decided to post these stuffs, I wondered whether the figures reported in the official website are the truth or not.

Suffice to say it's my lack of confidence in the police force.


Admit it. It's not just me.***