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.
