There is a great advertising campaign extolling the virtues of being vigilant even in such a low crime environment.
And one might think complacency is a foolish by-product of such a safe living space - but it's incredible to think that personal safety and that of ones chattels is really not at risk (oh, yes not forgetting my credit card theft from my dining room table last year ;-).
But honestly, the risk of being a victim of crime is incredibly low here in Singapore.
Just the other day I saw this wonderful example.
There you have hundreds of books in a public mall covered only by a loose sheet to protect from theft ALL NIGHT LONG. Imagine that in Oxford Circus or Time Square?!?!?
Oh, I do love living here.
It is most probably because there are CCTV cameras everywhere in Singapore that no one dare go near these books. In a country where an elderly, absent-minded lawyer can walk out of Tang's Department store with a cheese slicer and be sentenced to two weeks jail - just imagine what would happen to a bibliophile pilferer! Scarey scarey place.
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