Baguio is Unsafe! But so is Everywhere Else.
Danger is everywhere. You’d think that you like your normal life in Marikina right now because you’ve never experienced or seen a crime and get this notion that, somewhere else, like Baguio with its stereotype of always having fratwars, or Mindanao where the news only ever mentions of rebel forces, there is a grainy Pinor version of Sin City that always looks like it’s where the next Bourne is going to be filmed.
Again, danger is everywhere. Regardless of how safe or crime-slathered your area is, something fishy is happening in one of its dimly lit corner. And that’s the point—you are only ever as safe as you prepare yourself to be whether you are in a cozy highly urbanized house in Makati or in a Baguio Condo. Safety and it’s darker counterpart Criminality are always constants in any community but are mostly blown out of proportion because the media can’t get their act together and think that report worthy = “Oh! Blood!”
Let’s take Baguio and its reputation for turning the streets into a Fury Road for fraternities at night:
The last reported case of a big street fight that happened to take the lives of two students in the city was in 2001, and even then, the report only sees fraternity wars as an angle. So no, getting a Baguio Condo will not put you in a constant risk of getting pillboxed on your way to work.
Actually, the crimes that are rampant in the city affect the common do-good civilian less because it’s the common do-less-good civilians that fuel the machinery of felony. Imagine that!
In the 5 year period between 2007 until 2012, Jueteng and various other form of illegal gambling are what made up the biggest bulk of police problems in the city. Why a lot of these cannot be purged by the police force is because they are mostly disguised as little “socials” to raise funds for “barangay improvement projects” and authorities almost always can never tell which ones are legitimately fueled by a cause and which ones are crimes in sheep’s wool.
Actually, crime rate has steadily decreased since the years 2015 and it’s continually dropping thus far in the year; more wanted persons have been arrested in this year alone. We can’t overlook the fact that most of the crimes are index crimes, ie crimes against persons (majority of the rate being physical injury and theft) but we might be overlooking how these theoretically tie back to the rampant gambling.
A good 20% of reported felonies are non-index and that’s to be expected, what with you needing to impulsively jaywalk all the time! That’s right, you could be contributing to the increase in crime rates with crimes that “don’t hurt anybody” but since it’s still going to count as a crime, it’s still going to increase the overall rate, and it will eventually bury a city’s reputation by sheer statistics alone.
Maybe some perspective is always good when looking at how we brand cities. I mean, even the safest place on earth has its own crime problems. So go on ahead and buy that Baguio condo and stop trying to cross the road where it’s unwarranted, you jaywalking felon!
Again, danger is everywhere. Regardless of how safe or crime-slathered your area is, something fishy is happening in one of its dimly lit corner. And that’s the point—you are only ever as safe as you prepare yourself to be whether you are in a cozy highly urbanized house in Makati or in a Baguio Condo. Safety and it’s darker counterpart Criminality are always constants in any community but are mostly blown out of proportion because the media can’t get their act together and think that report worthy = “Oh! Blood!”
Let’s take Baguio and its reputation for turning the streets into a Fury Road for fraternities at night:
The last reported case of a big street fight that happened to take the lives of two students in the city was in 2001, and even then, the report only sees fraternity wars as an angle. So no, getting a Baguio Condo will not put you in a constant risk of getting pillboxed on your way to work.
Actually, the crimes that are rampant in the city affect the common do-good civilian less because it’s the common do-less-good civilians that fuel the machinery of felony. Imagine that!
In the 5 year period between 2007 until 2012, Jueteng and various other form of illegal gambling are what made up the biggest bulk of police problems in the city. Why a lot of these cannot be purged by the police force is because they are mostly disguised as little “socials” to raise funds for “barangay improvement projects” and authorities almost always can never tell which ones are legitimately fueled by a cause and which ones are crimes in sheep’s wool.
Actually, crime rate has steadily decreased since the years 2015 and it’s continually dropping thus far in the year; more wanted persons have been arrested in this year alone. We can’t overlook the fact that most of the crimes are index crimes, ie crimes against persons (majority of the rate being physical injury and theft) but we might be overlooking how these theoretically tie back to the rampant gambling.
A good 20% of reported felonies are non-index and that’s to be expected, what with you needing to impulsively jaywalk all the time! That’s right, you could be contributing to the increase in crime rates with crimes that “don’t hurt anybody” but since it’s still going to count as a crime, it’s still going to increase the overall rate, and it will eventually bury a city’s reputation by sheer statistics alone.
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