Friday, February 15, 2013

Santonio Thompson Crime in Sri Lanka


Crime in Sri Lanka

Why is crime so bad in Sri Lanka?  For Sri Lanka most of its violent crimes actually
happen’s within the local communities so much crime that in the article I read online “Sri Lanka Country Information “ which is actually  from a state travel website gives specific tips on what not to do to avoid being a statistic of crimes. Such as “women travelers should travel with other whenever possible, be vigilant when traveling in areas not visited by many tourists, walking alone in isolated areas anytime of day should be avoided.” How does a place like Sri Lanka become so violent in the first place.  Much of this is lingering over from the war against the LTTE a terrorist organization. Since this organization was the defeated the crime rates improved but there is still criminal activities in the country. Such as “kidnapping and murders and most of this happens in their local communities.” I think one of the reasons why these violent crimes continue to happen is because of the availability of police.  If you called the police in the U.S you will always get crime fastest response but in Sri Lanka sometimes there can be up to a couples hours before you get a policeman to come out to the scene of the crimes. How far could the criminals get in a few hours time compared to a few minutes of police respondance. More physical evidence is lost and more detective work will have to be implicated. I believe one of the best solutions to trying to bring down the crime rates there is to simple get someone out to the crime scenes faster.

2/15/2013 3:47 pm    Soc 202-02



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