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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