We Are All Living In Fear...

The NST report is HERE.

This is all so sad that it is the same old story over and over again... and this kind of crime has happened in many locations around the Klang Valley, notably near or at junctions with traffic lights.

In this incident, Capt Gurcharan Singh Sidhu, 63, and his wife Datin Arunee Dee, 38, were in their car at a traffic- light junction in Jalan P. Ramlee on Sunday evening when they were attacked and robbed by two men on a motorcycle.

 According to the report, the pillion rider smashed the front passenger window with a metal object and tried to grab Arunee's handbag. She put up a fight, but was knocked unconscious by a punch to her face. The pillion rider then grabbed the bag and the two escaped in heavy traffic.
Gurcharan said he was too stunned to react.
"My wife was unconscious. She was bleeding from her arms and legs after the window's shattered glass cut her," he told the New Straits Times yesterday.
"Motorists behind us kept honking thinking I was purposely holding up traffic.
"No one came to our aid. They were probably afraid for their own safety."

You can read the rest of the story on the link I have made above.

Here's the thing -- you and I know that this is not the first such horrific incident. You and I know someone who has been robbed viciously like this.

I know of two people -- my youngest sister, Nina and her daughter, Sara. Worse, it happened right in front of the gate of their house.

Why is this still happening?

Why are these criminals still going about their merry way robbing and hurting people at traffic lights, at their homes and everywhere?

Why are they still so bold?

Let me tell you why -- because THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH  IT and NOBODY IS STOPPING THEM OR CAN STOP THEM ..or WANT TO STOP THEM.

I'll be honest -- I am living in fear. My family is living in fear.  And we are not the only ones.

Not only residents of housing estates fear of being attacked anytime, anyday.

People...people driving in their cars..people walking...

You fear when you arrive at the gate of your home -- if anyone has been following you or lying in wait.

You are just so fearful.

In Section 16, PJ where my sister and her family live, occupants of nearly every household along the surrounding roads, have been attacked in one form or another.

Police reports have been made..and yet...the attacks went on unabated.

I'd like to ask the police this -- what are our men in blue doing to prevent/deter these criminals from their vicious spree?

I mean, really really seriously deterring them.....

Yes yes yes...they've bought more motorcycles for policemen to patrol the streets...Visibility does help to reduce crime.

But...then, these vicious attacks have continued and they happen when the policemen are not around.

Let me ask -- how many of these criminals have been nabbed?

You feel the threat of attack near or at your home, you feel unsafe outside your home. You feel unsafe anywhere. No place is safe ...

Just going out in your car is no longer safe. You worry when you arrive at traffic lights. You worry when you cross the road..

Although I did understand why residents felt the need to block the exits and entrances of their neighbourhood roads, I had thought that there were other security options and felt that the police should not happily approve of this kind of measure.

After my sister and my niece were viciously attacked right in front of their home, I threw all my scepticisms aside ...

Still...I feel that the police could do better and more. think outside adn beyond the box.

For instance, in Section 16, PJ..alarm bells should have rung strong and hard given the regularity of attacks and robbery -- some in broad daylight..

Yet..yet..

I despair looking at out neighbourhoods all guarded.

This is not normal at all. 

This sense of fear is not normal.

These are critical times. Dangerous times.