Malaysia's population has increased
tremendously over the past four decades. Tripling in number over that period of
time. The majority of the population comes from Kuala Lumpar, the largest city
in Malaysia. Kuala Lumpar was once sparsely populated and flourished with
greenery and flowers, but has transitioned into a metropolitan area with
the help of modernity and urbanization. Urbanization and modernity brought
about shopping centers and many suburbs but it also brought about an increase
in crime.
Kuala Lumpar was once one of Asia's
safest cities but is now a place where crime is frequent. At an attempt to
combat the rise of criminal activity the Malaysian government has added
security cameras and police officers to the streets. However, it has not been
enough to slow the crime rate down. An official responsible for compiling crime
data at the United Nations office of Drugs and Crime has stated that the
Malaysian government has stopped providing crime statistics to the United Nations.
However, the Malaysian police responded to The New York Times with
crime statistics. The statistics showed that robberies with firearms and gang robbery
decreased in occurrence. Yet, the number of rape victims doubled from the year
2000 to 2009. Many suspects that the statistics are inaccurate.
The suspicion that the statistics
are inaccurate leads to the fact that there is indeed a dark figure, where the
crime occurrence is greater than the crime reported. The New York Times
continues to report that the reasons for lack of crime reporting is the
lack of belief that the police authority will handle the matter. A professor at
the National Defense University of Malaysia stated that poverty is the root of
the high crime rate. Linking this to sociology, urbanization creates an
array of increase in social problems, in Malaysia's case it led to
overcrowding, which possibly led to unemployment leading eventually to poverty
and with poverty it comes an increase in crime.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/world/asia/soaring-crime-rate-takes-a-growing-malaysia-by-surprise.html?_r=0
10/25/2013
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