Crime is a result of poverty.

In the Philippines, the crime rate need not to be tabulated but rather observed. Watching the news you will see how Filipinos crime rate is increasing. News with police reports is airing more time now than it was before. Due to increase in robbery, petty theft, riots, murders, homicides and crime lists goes on.

But what I wanted to point out is this, crime as a result of poverty. It boils down to the question, why are these Filipinos doing such a lowly act? Why are they comprising their life outside the prison bars? 

The answer is they have no other choice. 

Take this for instance, if your family is well provided, your children all going to a quality school, you and your wife working in a stable job, you have the basic necessities and some sort of luxury, what is it that would make you kill a man for his wallet? None right? You need not to fight your conscience in robbing a man and getting him killed because he fought back because in the first place you need not to.

But, in the case of a father, who needs to pay the bill of his wife whom had just given birth to their ninth child and need to provide for his eight other offspring food on their table, have no other choice because he had no other job after his contract ended from a construction firm for being a contractual contractor. His only other option he can think of with his empty stomach is to rob that naive looking young professional.

You see the difference between the two? Crime is a result of poverty. And I don't attribute the blame of the increase in crime rate on Filipinos; rather I pity them because they are victims of their own government. Their own government watching their constituents either die with empty stomachs or die behind bars with empty pockets.