Carper Diem

Safety

Posted by grumbler on July 27th, 2007 — Posted in Government Issues, S Review

Considering all I have been through within the last few years, I have lost a whole load of naivity and faith in society in general. I have been attacked by “customers”, robbed by them and by staff too, I have even had my house robbed and ransacked. My husband kept worrying more and more because he knew that if I was confronted I would attack back. He was afraid that one day someone would pull a knife or gun out on me. This got even worse when I fell pregnant. It meant that I had to close up my business and relocate to a different area. A safer one. In fact we practically moved country.

Crime prevention? is pretty much non existant. Police never took action and that is when they did decide to turn up. And some even questioned my like I planned out the robbery on our house. I was livid. Just imagine. I was 7 months pregnant, turned up home after a week away to find our house ransacked. Called the police early afternoon and were told not to enter the house and leave the crime scene as is. Hours later we called the police and they said we can go in but not to touch anything! Police turned up at 2 in the morning because I insisted they came. The finger print specialist took 2 days to turn up and then had the cheek to say that dna exposed to air for a period of time rendered the dna useless. He came up with nothing.

Needless to say, I felt that I had no personal security? at all. Now if I had a taser? or some other decent weapon, I might feel safer. At least until punishment becomes harsher, crime will keep increasing.

So sadly I believe in harsh prison sentences with prisoners made to work to fund their stay in prison. After all it is not fair that the victim has to pay for their attackers stay in prison!? ?

2 Comments »