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she had just withdrawn it from a bank.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