Some people feel unsafe when they are in public and at home. What are the possible causes of this and what are some possible solutions?

 Some people feel unsafe when they are in public and at home. What are the possible causes of this and what are some possible solutions?

Possible causes of people feeling unsafe when in public and home 

• Outdoors 

• accidents on roads,

• Crime 

• Natural disasters like cyclones which affect people when they are out on streets 

• Weather related issues 

•  Indoors 

• Fear of robberies, especially for those in their  twilight years and living alone 

• Natural calamities like earthquakes 

• Accidents like fire which affect people indoors 

• Heightened stress about paranormal activity due to increased viewing of such media 

• Forms of Entertainment, like

• Solutions 

• Deployment of appropriate law enforcement  personnel to render safety 

• Raising awareness and training about the ways to save oneself while facing a extreme natural condition 

• Making media more responsible in its reporting 

Of late, a bizarre trend has been surfacing across the world where many have started fearing for their safety, regardless of their physical location. This can be  attributed to several causes, but this phenomenon can be addressed by adopting certain prudent measures.

To start with, there are umpteen reasons contributing to apprehensions about security. The most prominent of them is unrestricted and surfeit reporting of fateful events resulting from natural calamities such as earthquakes and hurricanes, and man made disasters like fires, has made people feel insecure both when indoors and outdoors. To corroborate, a survey carried out at the global level revealed startling information, wherein most respondents admitted that it was the overzealous and detailed graphical representation of devastation and casualties caused by these disasters, by television and print media, that heightened  anxiety and fueled a sense of unease.

Similarly, another conspicuous source of this nervousness is undeniably the  rising crime that has made roads and alleys, and even homes  vulnerable to unlawful activities like mugging, robberies, rapes and murders, to name a few. These factors have really worried people and have made them overcautious about their safety  and wellbeing. 

Nevertheless, there are certain judicious steps  that can be taken to counter/surmount/overcome this challenge and ease panic. The media houses should be  reigned in and obligated to act responsibly and choose social welfare over commercial benefits. It should be made to act prudently and avoid spreading alarm. Moreover, the strength and powers of security agencies should be incremented so that they can act proactively and swiftly and quell criminal activities before they occur. 

Overall, the genesis of this awful situation lies in hasty and unwise reporting and dearth of sufficient strength of police officers, nonetheless responsible reportage and deployment  of adequate police force  can pervade positive sentiments.