Crimes in Jakarta

Crimes in Jakarta

It was not so much because she was a wife of a high-ranking government official, but the fact that she was killed in a very tragic and brutal manner. Wisnani Safitri was slashed in the neck to death by a man who robbed her of her bag containing cash after she had just withdrawn it from a bank. The tragic accident took place in front of her residence in Rawamangun, East Jakarta, on Monday.

The man, with an accomplice, managed to escape on a motorcycle despite local residents' efforts to stop them.

Only 24 hours after the robbery, police arrested five people believed to be behind the deadly robbery. One of them was allegedly the man who slashed Wisnani to death.

This brutal crime is just another example of a series of outrages taking place in the capital city everyday. City Police predicted at the beginning of the year that the crime rate would escalate this year, in correlation with all the extra hardships the people have in their daily life.

The gap between the poor and the rich, which has gotten wider and wider, is apparently one of the reasons why the crime rate is escalating.

After announcing their prediction, the police should have anticipated the increasing crime rate by recruiting more personnel or improving their professionalism.

-- Warta Kota, Jakarta