Ok I have the right to talk on this issue because I am a
Malaysian and my hometown is in KL.
People who say that Malaysia is not dangerous, especially
Malaysians who say so, are ill-informed. Just because you have not
yet encountered a case, doesn't mean it won't happen. It's a matter
of possibilities. The possibilities that you will be a victim of a
crime in Malaysia is 100 times that of in Singapore.
If you are a Malaysian, don't you ever read our newspapers (Nanyang
Siangpao, The Star, New Straits Times, Sinchew Jit Poh)? How can
you deny that Malaysia is fast becoming a very unsafe place? Unless
you don't read news.
In Singapore, you or even your daughter can walk on the street at
12 o'clock midnight alone and no one will bother you. You go and do
that in Malaysia and chances are good that you will be somebody
else's target.
In Singapore, home burglaries mean cases where one thief steal
something from a house while the tenants are asleep. In Malaysia,
that's not home burglary. Home burglary in Malaysia is where a gang
of 4 robbers pry open your back door, use the gas tank in your
kitchen to knock down your master bedroom door, slashes you with
the knife first and then put the knife on your neck and demand that
you hand over all your money/jewellery hidden anywhere in your
house. If you have a daughter or a young wife, it gets worse. Even
if you install the most solid door to your house, they will still
enter your house from the roof (2 or even 3 stories high terrace
house). If your neighbour happens to be alert and calls the police
for you, most probably the police will arrive after the robbers are
gone and all harm have been done.
If you don't believe, try this next time you go into Malaysia. Look
at all the houses (most are terrace houses). Look at the windows
and doors. What is the main difference with windows and doors of
Singapore houses? It's the iron grill. 99.9% of houses in Malaysia
have iron grills installed for all windows and doors. And we are
not talking about decorative pvssy grills, we are talking about
grills that resemble a jail. Hopefully to protect the people
inside.
In KL when a minor car accident happens, especially if your car is
knocked by another car , don't simply get out of your vehicle
immediately. Look at the other car. If you see only males in that
car, chances are they purposely created the accident. They do so
because of several reasons: 1)best reason for you is that they like
your car and just want to hijack you car. 2)worst reason for you is
that you are a female and they want to hijack you together with
your car.
In KL if you have a factory and is being robbed in the night, it
means a gang of 10-20 robbers will arrive with their large lorries
and lifting-equipments and start unloading your factory. If you
call the police, the police will give all sorts of reasons to delay
you ("not my jurisdiction", "call another police station", "are you
sure?", "ok we will check when we have time", etc) and then you can
bet that the police will arrive about 30 minutes after the robbers
are gone. Why? Because they are all together in this. That's your
police in Malaysia.
And it is because that the police is so undependable for protecting
and saving you, that makes the situation much worse. In Singapore,
if you get into trouble, you can summon the police and they will
arrive in 5-10 minutes. That is what I call added security in life.
In Malaysia, please fend for yourself. No police is going to help
you when something happens. Police will only clean up the mess
later and show up in droves for the reporters to take photographs
the next morning. If the case is quite severe (more than 1 death
and very dramatic), maybe a high ranking officer will show up for
the purpose of being interviewed by reporters.
Malaysian, please don't feel offended or ashamed when these things
are discussed. It's the truth, no point hiding it or trying to make
it look less severe. At the end of the day, we have to live there
and bear with it. So please face the facts and take precautions to
protect ourselves instead of trying to ignore it. Well of course if
you stay in remote small towns the situation is much better. But
try to avoid big towns like KL, JB, Penang, Ipoh, etc.
