KUALA LUMPUR: Gang robberies in Malaysia appear to have jumped drastically this year compared with the previous year, but police say the public should not worry too muc

Pay kopi money, no worries.

'crime rate in Malaysia is lower than Japan and Hong Kong.' ..that's true, so is Michael Jackson is white and elephant can fly.

local language....more crimes meaning more lobang for the police force lah heehee

I have been to HK and Japan. I can walk the streets without fear of being robbed or attacked.

In JB, I have been told by the locals the robbers are geting bolder now. Beware of motocycles with two adults on it. You can see for yourselves who these people are (I do not have to elaborate!).They will follow you until......even on bright daylight.....nobody will dare to come forward to help you.

The Malaysian police will never admit the sitution is getting worse.
Statistics is useless...they never tell the true stories.

With a new leader coming into power next year - they are all desperately trying to white-wash the dirty picture - "Our crime rates are lower than Hong Kong!" "Our economy is stronger than everyone else!" "Our people are happy!"
I live in KL - please DON'T insult our intelligence! We worry about our safety when we go out at night. We arm our women with pepper sprays and alarms. We worry about our cars being stolen even when we park in a secured carpark. Drug addiction is on the rise. All these are hard facts that we have to live with every single day. If things are so great, I would dare Najib to walk along Jalan Chow Kit after 10pm without his body guards. Even the dumbest of the policemen would not dare to venture into that area after dark. The lower crime index only means that more and more crimes are not reported to the police. All that money going into "beefing" up the police force, expect 80% of that going into someone's retirement funds.

A friend wanted to report snatch handbag incident in police station, they asked for kopi... since my friend didnt lose any personal docs, she gave up... thats how u keep yr statistic down...

One can make all the comparisons. But reality speaks.

sgreans simply don't bother to learn their mistakes despite report. serves them right for kena robbed.

Is this for real? Crime rate in Malaysia lower than Hong Kong or Japan. What Singaporeans experience in Johor seems to speak otherwise. I suggest that the Malaysian police check the statistician who gave such data. For all you know, that statistician could have taken bribes from higher officials or coerced into falsifying the misleading stats.

I hear that a little bribing of Malaysian officials can miraculously go a long way in giving the stats a cosmetic surgery.