[baronaaba]

I wonder how much violent crime is there in Bangkok?....While I was there for 3 weeks, I noticed only one murder on Bkk.`s tv-news. Since I don`t understand Thai nor can read the newspapers there could have been lot more crime I did not see. So how much crime is there in big city like Bkk.?....here in Chicago, rarely a night passes by without a murder, on some nights 2, 3, even 5-6 murders on bad nights. (and I don`t mean to be washing our dirty laundry in public, but these are the facts-police stats.). And those are just murders, then there are robberies, rapes, burglaries,...the "Excitement" never ends ...And Chicago is only 2.8 millions while Bkk. is about 6 millions, so how do the 2 cities compare crime wise?

[durootrium]

I wonder how much violent crime is there in Bangkok?....While I was there for 3 weeks, I noticed only one murder on Bkk.`s tv-news. Since I don`t understand Thai nor can read the newspapers there could have been lot more crime I did not see. So how much crime is there in big city like Bkk.?....here in Chicago, rarely a night passes by without a murder, on some nights 2, 3, even 5-6 murders on bad nights. (and I don`t mean to be washing our dirty laundry in public, but these are the facts-police stats.). And those are just murders, then there are robberies, rapes, burglaries,...the "Excitement" never ends ...And Chicago is only 2.8 millions while Bkk. is about 6 millions, so how do the 2 cities compare crime wise?

There is violent crime in Bangkok just like in every city in the world. In the last 24 hours if you read the papers there have been two policemen shot dead in Bang Khen, another 4 people were shot dead at a market at Pathum Thani recently, a few days ago a German man was shot in Pattaya, and yesterday the Thai wife of a German businessman was shot on Samui island

[baronaaba]

Hmmmm.... 6 murders in 24 hours,...that sounds like a drunken holiday weekend in Chicago. It`s surprising about the 2 COPS/policemen, getting murdered. Here punishment for policemen murderers can be much stiffer than for other murders. how tdoes legal system treat police murderers in thailand, especialy if Bkk. cops don`t wear guns?...as someone told me that they don`t...and I looked but could not see any guns on them...or if i remember correctly..some did wear guns and some did not...