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Learn about the misdemeanor crimes, including the types and examples, and understand their legal consequences in this informative overview b

What qualifies as a list of petty crimes? This list breaks down common offenses like shoplifting, loitering, and disorderly conduct. Gain a clear overview of these minor crimes, understand their legal implications, and learn how they differ from more serious offenses in terms of penalties and consequences.

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What bothers me?

By: Thea Espidol

In an ideal society, one ought to think of at least one bothersome issue that nags them to their very core. Unfortunately, I had not experienced such a privilege.

The Philippines – well, the nation, its people, and most especially, its government – makes it hard to enjoy the privilege of merely thinking of just one issue to tackle or a sole advocacy to forward; since the problems truly are endless in the country.

And in thinking of focusing on one problem that bothers me (for the purpose of cohesively writing this) and throughout the tedious self-reflection and internal debate that continuously makes me second-guess myself, I realized that the problem lies right in front of my face and in our daily lives— committing petty crimes or (seemingly) minor violations of the law.

It may be smoking in an area near or in the vicinity of a “No Smoking” sign; it may be violating the number coding with the justification that one would arrive before 7AM, the start of its implementation, and just leaving at 8PM, where the coding ends; and it may also be entertaining and using fixers to handle one’s transactions with various government agencies. 

Since there are a myriad of petty crimes that almost all Filipinos commit on a daily basis and listing them all down would deem senseless at this point, justifying the act of doing these so-called petty crimes or the mere enabling of committing these violations are what bothers me. 

While it is understandable that people do it since the Philippines has a long-standing history of corruption, nepotism, and the like. What I don’t understand saying that it’s okay to do it just because “Wala naman nakakita” or “No one would know” Doing so, to me, is unjust, unfair, and unreasonable because at the end of the day, we have to keep our integrities intact somehow, right?

On the other hand, it truly is hard to act with grit, with honor, and with integrity in this society, where the legislators, the executors of the law, and the interpreters of the law are the proliferators of crime, fascism, and acting like royalties that are above the laws of the land instead of public servants. 

We all have to remember that we are all citizens of the Philippines, deemed equal under the Constitution and the laws that we’re supposed to abide by. 

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Petty crimes/ Foto by Romina Achatz, Chiba, 2010

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