Sir: Street crime is a loose term for criminal offences taking place in public places. Nowadays street crimes are commonplace in Pakistan. Usually this occurs in busy business areas and highways and includes cases of pick pocketing, mobile snatching, cars and auto snatching on gun points, target killing, purse snatching and many others.
Street crimes affect our neighbourhood and our society. These crimes are contributing to the destruction of our society, our cities and our streets. Nowadays every individual has their own story of mobile and wallet snatching, and you can find a large number of people who have had an experience with street crime in the past. But police take no action against these crimes and it has become a menace for citizens.
The major causes behind the rise in such crimes are unemployment, illiteracy, poverty as well as some other factors like lawlessness, fundamentalism, backwardness and double standard prevailing in the society. The Government should take serious steps to control these street crimes. These steps may involve trying to find solutions for unemployment, improving standard of education especially for the poor communities in the country, and better security for common citizens, along with protection from such ills. That is the only way to ensure that Pakistan’s achieves peace.
HASEEB UMER
Karachi
Published in Daily Times, September 21st 2018.
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