Saturday, March 10, 2012

A safe country

Singapore is not as safe as we were led to believe
http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/03/10/malaysia-beats-singapore-being-the-safest-country-in-se-asia/

Our standard of safety must have deteriorated in recent years, and this is not generally known.

3 comments:

yujuan said...

The survey is well behind times.
We dun feel safe here anymore since 2006, and the situation zooms down fast since the casinos start business.
Now we look over the shoulders in dim areas outside, and ensure our homes are properly locked up before leaving. Our men in blue also quietly admit security is not the same anymore. Look around the landed properties, you'll see the Police putting up notice boards, warning of spate of housebreaking in recent years.
With the influx of unsavoury foreigners invited onshore, it's become a social problem, sometimes manifesting into violet crimes like murders, with the police unable to cope due to the population increase.
The ability of Terrorist, Mas Selamat's escape from tight security played a big part in the down grading too.

Xianlong said...

Actually it is seen & known. I'm a peasant living in the heartland. Posters of Citizen Patrol Volunteers are smacked at lift lobbies.

Asking for volunteers to do free patrol while ministers in their ivory towers are paid millions.

Now today is reported Home Affairs ministry is throwing $$ to solve the problem by up up salaries & recruit more officers.

MHA to recruit over 2,100 officers


Country is rotting. Few days earlier Defense ministry up allowance of recruits by 14%. Low morale is eating away despite high tech weaponry. In the end is the person behind the weapon that counts as is evidence in Vietnam War & American Revolutionary War where the high tech enemy is defeated by the underdog.

Chen JY said...

I've read the methodology used for the report and it is far from impressive or convincing as basis to claim that one country is safer than another.

The final scoring comes from three broad categories:
• Ongoing domestic and international conflict;
• Safety and security in society;
• Militarisation

As both M'sia and S'pore are not involved in wars, the first category doesn't matter too much in comparing between the two.

The second category depends on factors such as:
• Number of jailed population per 100,000 people
• Number of internal security offi cers and police
per 100,000 people

These favours a country that is less able to apprehend and convict criminals, or has to employ higher percentgage of law enforcement personnels.

The third category depends on a country's military spending as well as how many percent of its citizens are involved in national defence, which incidentally got absolutely nothing how safe the country is from crimes.

The think-tank that produced this report has to keep updating their methodology, but they cannot produce a common standard for all countries that is relevant to reflect how safe the country is when compared to another.

Even the Economist, which is part of the group that publishes the report, admitted to shortcomings of its methods.

http://www.economist.com/node/9266967?story_id=9266967

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