[ad_1]
MANILA – More Filipino families have been victims of common law crimes, showed the results of the September 2018 Social Weather Station (SWS) survey released Thursday.
About 1.4 million families, or 6.1%, reported common crimes such as pickpocketing or robbery, break-ins, carnappings and physical abuse in the last six months.
This figure is higher than the 1.2 million families or 5.3% who reported having been victims of common law crimes in June of this year.
An increasing number of families (1.3 million) also reported being victims of property crime, such as street robberies, burglaries, and carnage during the past six months, a number above 1, 2 million families counted in June.
The majority of victims were victims of a robbery on the streets of 1.1 million families, against 930,000 in June 2018.
SWS added that more than 159,000 families also reported physical abuse in the last six months. This figure is higher than the estimated 50,000 families in June.
Fewer Filipino families fear break-ins
Meanwhile, fewer Filipinos (52%) fear thieves are entering their homes.
This is below the 55% recorded in June 2018 and the lowest since the 49% recorded in December 2011, said SWS.
Fear of burglaries remained highest in Metro Manila (66%), followed by Libra Luzon (53%), Visayas (49%) and Mindanao (44%).
The fear of walking the streets at night and the belief that there are drug addicts in their respective neighborhoods have remained unchanged since June 2018, at 46% and 41% respectively.
Families who fear dangerous streets are also the most numerous in Metro Manila (59%), followed by Visayas (46%), Libra Luzon (45%) and Mindanao (42%).
The same goes for drug addicts in the neighborhood: 63% in Manila, 42% in Visayas, 39% in Libra Luzon and 30% in Mindanao.
The third quarter SWS survey was conducted from September 15 to 23, 2018 through one-on-one interviews with 1,500 adults nationwide and has a margin of error of +/- 3% for national percentages.
Source link
