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Rise of Crime Rate
This is a common headline in local newspapers in Metro Manila
everyday. Either someone was killed or perhaps robbed. Nowadays,
there isn’t a single day when crime hasn’t occurred. Most
of them vary from petty snatching to the serious incidents like
kidnapping and murder. Despite their gravity and offense,
they’re crimes nonetheless.
It’s a sad note played for third world countries where the
bulk of their crime rates are plagued with small-time thievery.
Incidents like these perhaps come from desperate people – poor
desperate people: poor people, who try to make the best out of
their lives, but only wallow deeper in the  slums of poverty. For them,
seeking an honest living is an exhausted reason for
self-sustenance. They’re forced into a crooked life to make
ends meet and have food on their plates, even for just a day or
two.
Most of them aren’t really corrupt in nature. As a matter
of fact, almost all want to live normally, find decent jobs and
earn money honestly. Unfortunately, they are forced to rob because
of financial circumstances and marginalized opportunities. As much
as it is not in their nature to steal, it’s a different story
altogether when the pain of hunger or the vulnerability of
homelessness plagues one’s life. Morals are then ignored to
make survival possible. The poor resort to uncanny means of making
a living.
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