Really wonder what is happening in this country.
We have lawyers having a hard time scheduling criminal cases which probably resulting as much from a lack of lawyers (lack? really? or just lack of lawyers willing to take on criminal cases?) as from the amount of crimes being committed as seen here:
* Magistrate’s house broken into
* Cop found with throat slit
* Foreman accidentally shot by cop while catching thief
And as if it wasn't enough we have KL cabbies declare turf war
However, there is a counter-balance coming by the way of Policemen and their ‘best friends’ to patrol nine crime-prone areas.
25 men and 14 dogs for nine areas. May have made sense if each "area" is small enough (perhaps 6 streets or so?). But no, something the size of PJ is an "area". Here are the other 8 areas (districts) Dang Wangi, Brickfields, Sentul, Ampang, Subang Jaya, Cheras, Gombak and Kajang.
Amazing, isn't it? How someone somewhere think that 14 dogs and 25 men can reduce crime in these areas. I doubt if it could significantly reduce street crime if all 14 dogs and 25 men were focussed on 1 district.
According to wikipedia, PJ is roughly 97 square kilometres. If 2 dogs and 4 men are assigned to PJ, it will give each dog and 2 men an estimated 48 square kilometres or if in the form of a rectangle roughly 6km by 8km. For each dog to patrol.
And the TheStar expects this new addition to "add more bite to crime prevention in the Klang Valley". If it does add significant "bite", then we were probably way under in the first place. If we were not way under, then how can it add any significance?
I honestly doubt if a tiger can patrol and control crime in an area that size, and we expect a dog to do it.
I wonder.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
I give up
I started this with the intention of highlighting dumb stuff that happens in the country.
Evidently, I cant do it anymore. The news are so full of it that I cant decide which case is worst. And it is so incredible and absurd that I have a hard time trying to be sarcastic about it.
Maybe one day, I'll say something here again.
Good Luck.
Evidently, I cant do it anymore. The news are so full of it that I cant decide which case is worst. And it is so incredible and absurd that I have a hard time trying to be sarcastic about it.
Maybe one day, I'll say something here again.
Good Luck.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Roads to be 3% safer for only RM50 million
Another brilliant attempt to make our roads safer for all motorists and passengers -Super safe roads for everyone.
Seems that 8% of the road accidents are caused by the roads and related stuff (such as lighting, U-turns, potholes, etc). And we are going to spend some RM50 million to improve these roads with the objective of reducing this cause to less than 5% of the accidents. (Just to digress, we can also increase numbers for the other causes and thereby reduce this cause as a percentage! hah!)
Not that this is bad at all. It is just that we should also look at the other 92%!!
From where I come from, if you intend to spend even RM50 (see, no M) to act on cause A(which accounts for some 8% of a problem), you may also want to consider how to address the other 92%. After all, if you can reduce 10% of the other 92% (some 9%), its effect is more than eliminating the entire cause A.
Maybe it is not in my department (or my interest) to reduce the other causes? But someone jolly well should consider spending some decent money on the other causes (42 % due to driver attitude and 48% due to mechanical failure).
Imagine if we can improve driver attitude? Based on the same maths, if we can spend some 50M to improve something worth 8%, we should also consider (and easily justify) spending RM250M to improve the 42% (driver attitude) and another RM250M to reduce mechanical faults.
Not that we do not value lives. Just that we should also allocate a reasonable amount to the other causes.
Which comes back to what I have in mind.
I'm going to get a concession to start a franchise called DAIS. It stands for Driver Attitude Improvement Schools. Then seek government funding to the tune of RM250M (plus/minus a few million). Get all drivers to come in for attitude test every 5 years (for a RM100 fee), and more frequently for those involved in accidents. (Maybe we'll even give a frequent offender discount?)
Erm.. maybe I should also start some kind of education program (grant of 250M?) to teach people how to prevent about mechanical failures? It's called PMS (yes, periodic too) Preventive Maintenance School.
Someone said "A quarter billion here, a quarter billion there. Soon we will be talking serious money."
I wonder if anyone is going to steal my idea?
Seems that 8% of the road accidents are caused by the roads and related stuff (such as lighting, U-turns, potholes, etc). And we are going to spend some RM50 million to improve these roads with the objective of reducing this cause to less than 5% of the accidents. (Just to digress, we can also increase numbers for the other causes and thereby reduce this cause as a percentage! hah!)
Not that this is bad at all. It is just that we should also look at the other 92%!!
From where I come from, if you intend to spend even RM50 (see, no M) to act on cause A(which accounts for some 8% of a problem), you may also want to consider how to address the other 92%. After all, if you can reduce 10% of the other 92% (some 9%), its effect is more than eliminating the entire cause A.
Maybe it is not in my department (or my interest) to reduce the other causes? But someone jolly well should consider spending some decent money on the other causes (42 % due to driver attitude and 48% due to mechanical failure).
Imagine if we can improve driver attitude? Based on the same maths, if we can spend some 50M to improve something worth 8%, we should also consider (and easily justify) spending RM250M to improve the 42% (driver attitude) and another RM250M to reduce mechanical faults.
Not that we do not value lives. Just that we should also allocate a reasonable amount to the other causes.
Which comes back to what I have in mind.
I'm going to get a concession to start a franchise called DAIS. It stands for Driver Attitude Improvement Schools. Then seek government funding to the tune of RM250M (plus/minus a few million). Get all drivers to come in for attitude test every 5 years (for a RM100 fee), and more frequently for those involved in accidents. (Maybe we'll even give a frequent offender discount?)
Erm.. maybe I should also start some kind of education program (grant of 250M?) to teach people how to prevent about mechanical failures? It's called PMS (yes, periodic too) Preventive Maintenance School.
Someone said "A quarter billion here, a quarter billion there. Soon we will be talking serious money."
I wonder if anyone is going to steal my idea?
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