When I was writing my Ph.D. thesis, I came across James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling's Broken Windows Theory which was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1982 and since my research focused on youth crime, this topic was included in my literature review. I find this theory very important because it clearly portrays the relationship between disorder / incivility and serious criminal offences within a community. The title of Wilson and Kelling's article, Broken Windows, is derived from the following example in the article itself:
A piece of property is abandoned, weeds grow up, a window is smashed. Adults stop scolding rowdy children; the children emboldened, become more rowdy. Families move out, unattached adults move in. Teenagers gather in front of the corner store. The merchant asks them to move, they refuse. Fights occur. Litter accumulates. People start drinking in front of the grocery; in time, an inebriate slumps to the sidewalk, and is allowed to sleep it off. Pedestrians are approached by panhandlers.
What is Wilson and Kelling's message? A properly maintained property sends the signal that it is monitored and would not tolerate criminal behavior. If one of its windows is smashed and the property is not maintained, criminal behavior sets in because the perpetrators know that it is not monitored. This is the basis of Wilson and Kelling's Broken Windows Theory which explains the situation in Europe's crime-stricken no-go zones very precisely. Let me explain it more clearly:
Boats packed with illegal immigrants arrive at the port every day. They are given a warm welcome by their host country and put up in 4-star hotels and later granted asylum status. With this VIP status, they are given free housing, welfare payments and lots of generous benefits. These freeloaders do not have to work because the taxpayers are supporting them. They spend their time loitering aimlessly in the neighborhood with other asylum seekers and illegals. Some of them gather in front of the train station, drag their victims to the wooded area nearby, and rape them repeatedly. The locals ask them to move, they refuse. Some of them would go on a stabbing spree whenever they feel like it. There is an average of 120 knife attacks per day. They become increasingly involved in pick pocketing, burglaries, violent robberies, open drug sale and gun toting. Gang fights occur. Murder, shootings, stabbings and rape become every day occurrences. The locals fear for their lives; the migrants emboldened. Families move out only to be replaced by more asylum seekers and illegals. Migrant gangs take over the role of the police. Buses are diverted from the crime-stricken migrant zone over violent threats after being repeatedly pelted with stones. The police and firemen refrain from entering this so called no-go zone.
It is an obvious fact that signs of social disorder (drug trafficking, unemployment, loitering, intoxication, violence, rape and murder) and physical disorder (broken windows, uncollected garbage, graffiti and abandoned houses) can undermine social control and attract more serious disorders and criminal activities. When lawlessness is rampant within a community, law-abiding citizens who cannot accept crime and deviance as the normal way of life would move out only to be replaced by more antisocial and uncivilized people. Once the law-abiding citizens have been replaced by uncivilized people, the community concerned would turn into a den of vice, and, if left unchecked, would cause a lot of damage to society. Therefore, the best solution is to get rid of the den of vice when the uncivilized people in it can still be controlled. Once they have have taken control of the crime dens and cannot be evicted, it would be too late. What would happen to countries with lots of no-go zones? Would these countries turn into third world crime dens one day?
Migrant crime zones are rampant in Europe as a result of the European migrant crisis in 2015 followed by the mass exodus of millions of migrants to the region every year, and, if unchecked, would turn into no-go zones, areas where no rules apply. In Paris ghettos, the young migrants are increasingly involved in pick pocketing, burglaries, violent robberies and knife attacks. Between 2015 and 2017, there was an average of 120 knife attacks per day. Hungary claims London is overrun by migrants and a 'no-go zone'. In the no-go zones dominated by migrants, it is nothing surprising if non-residents, police, and even firemen are barred from entry. In Sweden, migrant gangs are taking over the role of the police in Gothenburg. According to the Swedish daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, "Murders, shootings and knife attacks are every day occurrences in Gothenburg for the past two years." In the southern Swedish city of Malmo, firefighters were forced to let a building burn to the ground after glass bottles were thrown at them and the police. In the capital of Sweden, criminal gangs in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta had imposed 'curfew' on inhabitants of Swedish No-Go Zone and threatened them with weapons to force them to stay indoor after 6 pm. There are also increasing numbers of rapes in the district. Out of its 19,000 inhabitants, 88% of them have a foreign background. Open drug sale and gun toting are not uncommon among migrant youth gangs in Swedish no-go zones. As migrant mafia gangs are terrorising Sweden, they are turning the country into a 'gangster's paradise'. It seems that Belgium is not any better than Sweden. In the Molenbeek district of Belgium, buses are diverted from Brussels migrant quarter over violence threat because they have been repeatedly pelted with stones. Molenbeek is known for its large concentration of migrants. The question is - How can Europe get rid of these crime zones? Perhaps, this is something that Europe has to learn from Malaysia.
I do not know whether the immigration officers in Malaysia have read about Wilson and Kelling's Broken Windows Theory but the way they are dealing with the Rohingya refugees clearly shows that they are really smart people. Or perhaps it isn't necessary for them to have knowledge of this theory at all since it is pure common sense that if the Rohingya refugees were allowed to dominate Selayang wholesale market and its surrounding areas unchecked, sooner or later, they would take control of this town if we give in to their wishes and treat them like VIPs. For years, the Rohingya refugees have taken over the stalls in the Selayang wholesale market thanks to the irresponsible local traders who rented / sold their stalls to them. Given the heavy population of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, especially in Selayang, they started to demand for their rights last year. They also asked the Malaysian Government to give them Selayang (a town in Gombak district, Selangor).Well, that was really too much. But, unlike Sweden and Belgium, Malaysia would not allow refugees or illegals to take control of any part of the country. The good news is - the Rohingya refugees have been banned from entering Selayang market and therefore cannot continue with their business. Since Selayang market is their stronghold, it seems that they have lost their main source of income. Refugees are illegal immigrants in this country and are not allowed to start a business. If they want to work, they must have a work permit. To date, they are not only barred from Selayang market but also from Pudu market as well as Seri Kembangan market, thus stopping them from doing the kind of business that they can do really well. Since the immigration officers, police and armed forces are busy rounding up the illegals day and night and detaining those without documents, many Rohingyas are in hot soup. Unlike Europe, we don't send the illegals to 4-star hotels and give them welfare benefits and citizenship irrespective of the number of years they have been residing in the country. Refugees are refugees and neither they nor their children born in this country can become our citizens. The same applies to illegals from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines. They are sent to immigration detention centers where there is no VIP treatment and will be deported to their countires of origin whether they like it or not. This clearly explains why there isn't any no-go zones in Malaysia. No-Go zones are dangerous to the country because, who knows, the asylum seekers and illegals may be training their own army in these forbidden areas. Have you heard of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)? On 25 August 2017, the ARSA attacked 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine state, triggering a military counter-attack which resulted in more than a million Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh. Thus even the most persecuted minority in the world have their own army. In actual fact, the Rohingyas are not as innocent as the media portrays them. Do you know how they gang raped and murdered a Rakhine woman? Do you know that they have burned down a monastery, a school and 37 houses in Nantthataung village? Do you know that they have killed 99 Hindus near a remote village named Kha Maung Seik? The moral of the Rohingya story is - never let the illegals take control of any part of the country because their motive is unknown. Weaken their fortress, don't treat them like VIPs and never give in to their wishes so that they remember who they are. Most of all, there is no need to give them free housing, welfare benefits and other generous benefits. There's no such thing as a free lunch (Milton Friedman). They should work hard and take responsibility for their lives.
Well, I really hope that Europe would learn something from the Rohingya story above. Perhaps its time for Sweden to do something to stop migrants from murdering, shooting, stabbing and raping its own citizens. Why allow migrant gangs to take over the role of the police in Gothenburg? Why allow them to harass and threaten its own citizens? Similarly, Belgium should crack down on migrant crime gangs and regain control of the no-go zones instead of avoiding these areas. Why are buses diverted from Brussels migrant quarter over violent threat? Why are the police, firemen and members of the public keeping away from these places? If the police and firemen are not allowed to enter the no-go zones, then there must be something terribly wrong going on inside these zones. What the European countries ought to be worrying about is, as what Donald Trump says:
You look at the migration, it's young, strong men. There are so few women and there are so few children. We're taking in people we have no idea who they are. They have no identification. They have no papers. They're making up papers. This could be the great Trojan horse of all time.
How many million strong, young men from third world countries have entered Europe illegally and vanished into thin air? Where are they now? How many million rejected asylum seekers are there and where are they now? Since they are not deported, they can be anywhere. According to V4 Report, 75% of missing illegals in Northern Italy are under 18. Irrespective of whether they are real minors or fake minors, these are military age men who can pose a real threat to the European countries. What is going on in the no-go zones? Are these military age men hiding there? What is their motive? Planning an attack? Whatever the situation may be, it is dangerous not to know what is going in the migrant dominated no-go zones and the best solution is to get rid of these forbidden areas.
Applying The Broken Windows Theory, the migrant crime problems should be addressed when they are small. It is time for Europe to fix its broken windows and stop vandalism before it's too late. How can Europe solve its migrant crisis and get rid of its migrant crime zones?
- Step up pushbacks. Turn migrant boats away. Don't take them in just because they purposely damage their boats. Repair the boats and send them away. If they damage the boats beyond repair, give them another boat and say goodbye. Tighten border controls. If they try to sneak across the land borders, the border police should teach them a good lesson so that they dare not go that way again. In the past few months, migrants outside the EU border in Bosnia have invented a new game, namely the "stay game" to cross into the European Union. How is this game played? In the first part of this game, the wives and children cross into Croatia without the fathers. After the women and children have been given refugee status, the men sneak into Croatia and purposely let the police find them so that they can join their families in the Zagreb camp. This is the second part of the game. The Croatian police should therefore come up with a new "pushback game" denying refugee status to all those in the Zagreb migrant camp who enter the country illegally and push them back to Bosnia. Just try it out for a month or two and the migrants in Bosnia would disappear.
- Punish all those who try to help migrants and sneak them across the borders irrespective of whether they are people smugglers or NGOs because it is a crime to sneak illegals into any country. In Malaysia, people smugglers and local traitors (such as taxi drivers and bus drivers) who bring the illegals into the country and drive them to their destinations are fined and jailed. In countries like India and North Korea, the illegals would be shot.
- There is no need to treat migrants like VIPs. Sending the illegals to 4-star hotels at the expense of the taxpayers is a silly joke because they should be deported immediately. Make them work and pay for their upkeep. Don't give them free lunch. Napier barracks is too good for them. They should live in canvas tents. In Malaysia, illegals are sent to immigration detention centers when they are caught, not 4-star hotels. There is no wifi in the detention centers and whether they like the food or not, they dare not stab anyone. However, at the 4-stars hotels in the UK, migrants would go on a stabbing spree if they are unhappy with the "limited wifi" and "the quality of food".
- Europe may have a generous welfare system but this should not apply to migrants. According to Erik Nord, Gothenburg's chief of police, half of the disability benefit is fraudulently taken by migrant gangs. Migrants are really smart nowadays or is it because their host countries are not smart enough? It is indeed a stupid joke to play on their host countries when they purposely divorce their wives so that the Government will give them another flat and then reconcile with their ex-wives and rent out the flat. But why waste money on migrants knowing that they are busy scamming the welfare system? This clearly shows how gullible Europe is! Better follow Malaysia's example i.e. don't give them a single cent.
- Do not employ illegal foreign workers. The exodus will continue as long as the illegals can easily find employment in Europe. Employers hiring illegals ought to be punished. In Malaysia and Singapore, employers harboring illegal workers would be fined, imprisoned and whipped. The more illegal workers they are harboring, the more serious the offence.
- Never give asylum seekers citizenship. Do you know that Rohingya refugees are not given Saudi citizenship after they have lived in Saudi Arabia for more than 40 years? Even Rohingya children born in Saudi Arabia who can speak fluent Arabic are not given Saudi citizenship. Similarly, in Malaysia, we don't give them and their children citizenship no matter how long they have been living here.
- Deport them forcefully. When it comes to deportation, they have no right to refuse to take a Covid test to avoid being deported. The asylum seeker who gang raped girl, 14, and refused to take a Covid test so that he could not be deported from Sweden is indeed one of the greatest jokes of the century. Malaysia has deported thousands of illegal immigrants since last year and none of them has ever dared to refuse to take a Covid test.
- Send the police or army to the no-go zones, evict the migrants, reconstruct and restructure these areas to destroy their fortress. In the Rohingya story above, chasing the Rohingyas out of wholesale markets had successfully stopped them from claiming their rights and presence in the country. Knowing that they are not welcome here, they dare not make any more claims.
- What about migrants who are already in Europe? Is it really that difficult to get rid of them? Just do what Malaysia is doing - round them up and deport them immediately. If they are living on the streets, there is no need to give them free food, free housing, pocket money and legal aid. Treating them like VIPs would only encourage more illegals to cross the borders. Just send them to the immigration detention centers to wait for deportation. No need to persuade them to leave and offer them money. Remember, they shouldn't be there.
- What about minors? It doesn't matter whether they are real minors or fake minors. Detain them and deport them together with the other illegals. If a country makes it illegal to deport minors, then it is in hot soup. Sooner or later, it would be overwhelmed by real and fake minors because they know that they cannot be deported. Bringing up children is the responsibility of their countries of origin and not Europe's responsibility. If my neighbors dump their delinquent children into my house, I would chase them out. I would not bring them up to rape me and stab me. Kindness has a limit. Overdoing it is st*pid*ty. So, there is no need for Spain to seek help to relocate children from Ceuta migrant crisis. Just dump them back to Morocco in the same way that Morocco has dumped them on Spain and that's the end of the story. If Morocco has no respect for Spain, Spain does not have to tolerate Morocco's border blackmail.
- Close all the migrant camps in Europe and stop giving asylum status to anyone. Europe is overwhelmed by migrants already. Once they know that they have no place to go and can no longer take advantage of the asylum seeker status, the migrant exodus would stop.
- Transfer all the asylum seekers as well as those who have been given asylum status outside Europe, preferably Africa. The thought of having to live in Africa is enough to drive them away. Paying Africa to take in migrants is certainly a better investment than wasting money in relocating migrants across Europe especially when they are doing so much harm to the European citizens.
- Stop wasting money on legal aid for migrants. They are not European citizens and have no right to waste taxpayers' hard earned money. It does sound ridiculous that migrants are given legal aid to challenge over their 'squalid' accommodation inside the Napier Barracks just because they are used to living free in 4-star hotels and have set fire to the barracks. If the British army can live in the barracks, why can't they? Are migrants more precious than the British army? What waste millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to pay for their legal aid? That's why the illegals in Europe have turned into spoilt brats. Illegals in Malaysia dare not even show their faces for fear of being arrested and deported and they have never complained about the apartments they share with other migrants even though 30 of them are living in cramped conditions in a small apartment. Yes, 30 people sharing one small apartment would mean that they can save a lot of money on rent and they are happy with it!
Europe does not have the obligation to take in migrants. Since migrants are the roots of so many problems and crimes in Europe, stop welcoming them and showering them with generous benefits and the tendency is that migrants are less likely to commit more crimes and cause further damage to the European countries. By removing unwanted people from the streets of Europe, the European citizens will feel safer and have better lives. Most of all, they don't have to worry about being stabbed or raped. Living in fear of being attacked any time can be really stressful. However, if Europe continues to ignore the damage that migrants have done to the region and continues to welcome and support them, this is a clear sign that it has accepted their 'rape & stab' culture, thus sending the message that it is defenseless and vulnerable. This would be followed by even more serious vandalism of the region.
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