Metro crime rate up due to food, oil crises - NCRPO

**Monseratto** · July 23rd, 2008 08:28 AM

Bad times are here...lalo na palapit ang 'ber months. Everyone be xtra careful and stay safe.

MANILA, Philippines - The crime rate in Metro Manila has gone up due to the increase in the prices of commodities, police authorities said.

Citing data from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), GMA News' Marisol Abdurahman reported on QTV’s Balitanghali that more than 250 incidences of crime against property in Metro Manila have been recorded for the first half of July 2008 alone, with snatching as one of the most rampant.

On the other hand, bank robberies in Metro Manila for January to July rose by 20 percent from last year’s 34 to this year’s 41, the report said.

Carnapping incidents for the first quarter, meanwhile, rose by five percent from last year’s 375 to this year’s 392.

NCRPO chief Director Geary Barias attributed the increase in crimes to the hike in prices of basic commodities, particularly fuel.

"We’re already worried about (the) increase of incidence of crime against property," Barias said.

Manila Police District (MPD) Station 8 commander Superintendent Jimmy Tiu echoed the statement.

"Pag talagang mayron tayong mga increases in price o sa gasoline, sa presyo ng isda, e automatic nagincrease talaga yung panghoholdap saka snatching (If there are increases in prices, in gasoline, in fish prices, incidences of holdup and snatching automatically go up)," Tiu said.

MPD Station 8 has the second-highest crime rate record among Manila police districts, with snatching and holdup as the top incidences.

Sociologist and professor Clifford Sorita said crime rates naturally tend to rise in times of crisis.

"Kung minsan para makakuha ng resources talagang they would have to fight for resources. So eventually ang problema, crime rates go up (Sometimes to acquire resources they would have to fight for resources. So eventually the problem is crime rates go up)," Sorita said.

The television report further said that the National Statistics Office pegged the number of jobless Filipinos from January to March alone at three million.

On Friday, Malacañang also blamed the food and fuel crisis for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s -38 net approval rating, her personal low and the lowest for a chief executive since 1986. - GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/108469/M...crises---NCRPO

**uls** · July 23rd, 2008 10:36 AM

that's expected.

If it wasnt for the govt subsidies, mas malala pa siguro

**XTO** · July 23rd, 2008 11:39 AM

totoo yan, kung nakaka-raos ang ilan mas marami ang hindi. triple ingat na lang lalo na pagpalo ng 3rd quarter.

**XTO** · July 23rd, 2008 12:51 PM

totoo yan, kung nakaka-raos ang ilan mas marami ang hindi. triple ingat na lang lalo na pagpalo ng 3rd quarter.

**CVT** · July 23rd, 2008 09:27 PM

That is to be expected, unfortunately....

Trabaho ang dapat na ibigay ng gobyerno sa tao,- hindi sustento... Ang problema, hindi maka-attract ng mga investors ang gobyerno dahil ang perang dapat sana ay ilagay sa mga infrastructures,- kung saan-saan pumupuntang bulsa... Kasama na rin dito ang taas ng singil ng kuryente, na dapat ay matagal ng sinawata ng gobyerno dahil alam na alam nila ito sa dami ng reklamo ng mga namumuno sa industriya... Isa pa, hindi pa nagsisimula ang negosyo rito,- puro pangungurakot at pagpapahirap na ang ginagawa ng gobyerno, sa halip na magbigay ng madaling paraan para magsimula at magbigay ng tamang insentibo.... Magtataka ka dahil sa ibang bansa,- na mas mahal ang antas ng kabuhayan (at mas mahal ang sweldo ng mga tao kaysa sa atin).... maraming pumupuntang investors...

O, sasabihin ng iba na naman diyan,- gobyerno na naman ang sinisisi,- e talaga namang sila ang dahilan ng kawalan ng trabaho rito sa atin... Ano ba ang ginagawa nilang sustento sa mga kababayan nating mahihirap,- di ba't pang-uut* at panloloko lamang ito?

6505:Bath:

**CVT** · July 23rd, 2008 09:27 PM

Naku,- pasensiya na,- sa sobrang intense ng sinulat ko,- dinale na naman ako ng aking katotong double-post....

6505:Bath:

**washburn** · July 24th, 2008 05:33 PM

tama! di dapat binibigyan ng sustento ang mamayan kundi trabaho, magiging parang pusa yan sa bahay na magaabang nalang na bigyan sila ng pagkain pero habang wala pang pagkain matutulog muna sila, wrong strategy tsk tsk, dadami tamad sa Pilipinas niyan, si Juan Delacruz ay magiging Juan Tamad talaga

**pitbullz** · July 24th, 2008 08:07 PM

kailangan natin si batman!

**Monseratto** · July 24th, 2008 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by pitbullz

kailangan natin si batman!

Naku madaming "magic pencil" kailangan dito...

**bender** · July 25th, 2008 04:22 PM

yeah, i found the conflicting agendas scenario in the Dark Knight to be quite reflective of the situation here in the Philippines. You don't really know who to trust because they are compromised in one way or the other.