The Spore system towards tackling crime is:-
1. Public monitoring system - Spore is small and easily monitored.
As long as enforcement agencies are deemed to be friendly and
people orientated, the public would willingly help by cooperating
with them thru reporting of suspicious activities or even attending
court as witnesses.
2. Education:- rather than to spend vast sums on building prisons
and feeding prisoners for years, such funds were channelled instead
on guiding our young and weaning them off their natuaral basics
instincts.
3. Opportunities:- We are a loser society - one that will hold
itself back so that the weak may catch up instead of being a winner
society where one cares not a hoot about others. We believe a chain
is only as strong as its weakest link, similary, so too our
society, The rich and well off take pains to spread wealth, create
employment for all, white or black, so that there will be no
opportunities for the poor to use the lack of it to rob or
steal.
4. Asians:- We are asians, natuarally docile and not as
confrontational as our western brothers. Thus, if there were softer
options, we would go for it than to wreck lives.
5. Rehabilitation: Our prisons are not cesspits, but have
programmes to reform and rehabilitate the criminal to adjust his
mentality back in tune to our society. These criminals are treated
not as animals, but as human beings and singapore citizens, whose
forefathers had played a role in making our society successful.
Thus, it is not just 'draconian laws' that made Spore having lower
crime rates. It is active citizenry at work, a model the rest of
the world can follow.
However, there still are some draconian laws in place in our
society. There is a critical need for it to prevent massive harm to
society such as drugs.
But do not be proud of such a fact, for as long as such
draconian laws are not repealled, it only mean we had failed as a
society to help and rehabilitate our fellow singaporeans
into being productive citizens and will not harm our
fellow members.
The only difference between a robber and his/her victim is
opportunity in life. The victim probably lived in a safe
environment conducieve for growth but the robber never knew,or had
the mentality to grasp such opportunities.
Education and opportunities, and not draconian laws, are the
long term solutions to create a better world for our children to
inherit.
