Crimes

by: Vera Dorothy Yvonne Escosio

According to the dictionary, “crime is an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law.” Crime is a major problem that our community or country has. On top of that are illegal drug trade, human trafficking, murder and domestic violence. But why do you think people commit crime? Is this their choice or not? Can we prevent it?

As of year 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte, the current Leader in the Philippines, Proposed the War on drugs. But what does the war on drugs have to do with crime? Well, because the leading types of criminals are under the usage of drugs. The roots of all the crimes are connected to drug related incident, for example, those users will do anything for them to have the medicine, they will steal, rob banks, to have sufficient moneys to buy stuffs, and some, to hide and cover up their crimes, they have to kill, and commit crime.

It is not only because of the influence of drugs, people have many reasons on why they commit crime; one of these is because of money. Some may really need it and do not have a choice but just to take the risk. Some are being commanded by people with higher authority in exchange of money. And others are just too greedy to have lots of money.

Apparently people may avoid crimes, it’s just because of the people with higher positions, or with higher authority committing crime such as corruption, if only they can stop that, then our country will not suffer from poverty, then people won’t do crime.

We can prevent this kind of situation if we learn how to contain ourselves, we must not be greedy and we must not plant grudges in our hearts. If we want to have a better community, a better country, and a better future, let us stop the crimes from emerging, let us prevent it so that our life will be better, our lives will be safe even if we roam around the streets all night.

It only takes a leader and unity to solve this kind of problem.