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August 04, 2004

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Xinhua reports that crime is down in Macau. The only areas where it went up were in "false money and drug trafficking". The patriots at Xinhua finish with this:

The crime rate in Macao has sustained a downturn since it returned to the motherland in 1999. Prior to that, gangland violence used to infringe the city's gaming industry, which blackened Macao's international image in the 1990s. Crimes involving in the use of gang violence has basically eradicated here in recent years with the strong support of the Chinese central government.
China cracking down on organised crime: now there's a novel idea. The biggest crime remains the obscene amounts Macau's gambling industry makes. But that's a crime where the victims choose themselves, so it is impossible to have any sympathy for them.

 posted by Simon on 08.04.04 at 05:17 PM in the




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Taking money not to see gang crime doesn't count as reducing it.

The level of crime still the same, blindness among police has gone up.

 posted by: Angry Chinese Blogger on 08.05.04 at 09:54 AM [permalink]




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