Dear Editor,
Street crime is a loose term for criminal offences taking place at public places. Nowadays street crimes are commonplace in city. Usually this occurs in busy areas, which include pick pocketing, mobile snatching, wallet snatching, purse snatching, etc.
Street crimes affect our neighborhood and our society. These crimes are contributing to the destruction of society, our city and our streets. Nowadays, every individual has its own story of mobile and wallet snatching and it has become a spreading menace for the citizens.
The major causes behind these crimes are unemployment, illiteracy and poverty, but there are some other factors like lawlessness, fundamentalism, backwardness and double standards prevailing in the society.
Government should take serious steps to control these street crimes. Sincere steps must be taken to solve the problem of unemployment, provide education to poor and most important police authorities need to be more alert in safeguarding citizen’s life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
D.P Singh (Raju),
Jammu
