Another 70 arrested for gang activities

Tues Nov 23 2010, My paper

From the article, it had shown that through the incident that took place in Downtown East and Bukit Panjang, it had alarmed the police and government. Police started to take aggressive actions towards gang activities and arresting these people that involves in gang-related activities and more. From a phrase in the article, “The latest clampdown brings the total number of people arrested for gang-related activities to 144.” As I read this sentence, I felt shock. What had Singapore turn to? Has Singapore turned into a country that has gangsters everywhere?

I thought some of the reasons might be because of stress, family or psychological problems. Singapore is a fast-paced country which there is always stress being placed on the children that they would do well in their studies for a better future. Pressure was nearly like everywhere for the younger generation. Teenagers might just be too tired and shut themselves off from the world, that it had made them gangsters today.

It had not only endangered the safety of people in Singapore. However, seeing youngsters turning bad nowadays as the numbers are rising, it worries me. Has the younger generation turned that rebellious, what would the future look like when the younger generations are the ones that uphold the future? I would like to just end here by saying, it is you who hold on to your future, you who decide how it will be, would you want to crush it by your own hands? Maybe teenagers nowadays would like to this about this question.

Felicia Tan
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