Safety in the City - Week 10 Entry 2


As a Singaporean, I’ve grown up in a relatively safe country. From a young age, worry about safety for staying out late has never been an issue. There were also no neighborhoods that were known as unsafe and worrying about being a victim of crime was unlikely.
 Sydney’s city has relatively achieved a great deal with safety. The past half a year residing here I have yet to experience any crime within the main CBD. I was told by some friends about certain neighborhoods to avoid but ultimately, safety in Sydney was not a huge issue.
Looking at countries like Brazil, Mexico, and even certain parts of the United States, many people do not have the privilege as many of us here in Sydney, or Singapore. With high homicide rates, theft, violent crimes, rape, and many other criminal activities happening within the cities. This is extremely unfortunate and detriments the social development of the city.
I believe such issues requires more than a government police that is predominant in the area, the underlying root to such problems are much deeper. Issues such as underdeveloped areas, which allows for higher crime rate, lack of education, of jobs and many more that allows a city area to develop to such state. Though many of these cities might not have the resources to help develop and resolve those underlying issues. I believe a collective effort of other nations can help bring about a slow but inevitable change. With proper city planning, and providing the citizens with required needs, the city will gradually become safer.
In conclusion, social development is a collective effort, we as people should disregard the barrier of race, citizenship, and religion. To help one another push our social development standards higher.

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