PHUKET : Local residents don't 'feel safe' in tourist paradise

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Local residents don't 'feel safe' in tourist paradise
Nov 23, 2014

PHUKET,



Yet, serious crimes continue, and police last week quickly arrested a man accused of attempting to rape an Australian tourist on an island off Phuket's east coast earlier this month.

eturbonews.com

[serrollt]

Can't undo well-oiled criminal structures developed over decades within a few months - even if the will was there.

[Meo Maquis]

I find it strange that I often hear farangs going on and on about how they feel safer in Thailand than where they are from at any hour day or not in any area. But the locals know better and are scared.

[Guest]

Can't undo well-oiled criminal structures developed over decades within a few months - even if the will was there.

The petty crime going on isn't "well oiled criminal structure"

Petty crime is a direct and immediate result of shitty local economic situation.

Local mafia aren't purse snatchers and muggers you bonehead.