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In the recent
report released by independent pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) on
Thursday, showed common crimes have hit a record low of an average 5.6 percent
last in 2017.
Based on its survey
conducted between December 8-16 poll last year, the SWS found that 7.1 percent
of families have experienced common crime, like losing property due to street
robbery, burglars, and carnapers witin the past six months.
Given that,
due to the new record-low property crime rate of 3.1 percent in June 2017, the
resulting annual average for last year was reduced to 5.6 percent.
The said
average is 2 points below the 7.6 percent annual average in 2016 and 0.6 point
the previous record-low annual average of 6.2 percent in the year 2015.
Meanwhile,
those victimized by physical violence, had an average of 0.7 percent in 2017,
which is lower than 0.8 percent annual average in 2016.
Furthermore,
the latest SWS survey showed that 7.6 percent of the Philippines population or
almost 1.7 million Filipino families reported of being victimized by any of the
common crimes in the last quarter of 2017. But its annual average showed that a
new low record is set at 6.1 percent, which is even lower than the 8.2 annual averages
of 2016.
Also, complaints
from the families victimized by street robbers ended with a new record-low
annual average of 4.2 percent, with only 2.3 percent rate difference in June
2017.
The latest
poll of the SWS showed lower 2017 average street robbery incidents and
break-ins despite the increase in the two previous quarters.
It also
registered lower average for the people’s fear of burglary and presence of drug
addicts in their respective areas.
The said
survey had a total of 1.200 respondents, 300 each from Metro Manila, also in
other areas in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
Source: PNA
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