数日前に
横浜で女性が刺殺されたニュースが新聞に載っていました。
残念ながら殺人事件は多いので
対して気にも留めずに読んでいましたが
犯人の住所を見て驚きましたね。
当社のすぐ近くです
そこで慌てて管理物件の入居者を調べましたが
どうやら当社の顧客では無いようで安心しました。
記事を詳しく読むと
この犯人は昨年も一緒に暮らしてる母親に対する殺人未遂容疑で逮捕されています。
法律上は未遂も既遂も同じ法定刑ですが
どう言う事なんでしょうね？
まぁ私には良く分かりませんが
重い犯罪を犯しても
すぐに社会に戻って来る
こんな事も多いって事なんでしょうね。
私はこんな事件を目にする度に
ぞっとしますね。
社員は日々色んな入居者と接していますが
一定割合で精神的に病んでる
そんな人がいます。
また
今回の犯人が住んでる場所は
私の孫たちの住まいと学校のすぐ近くです
去年母親を殺そうとした男が
そこに住んでた訳ですから
大変危険な状態だった訳ですよね。
私たちは仕事で
火災保険や地震保険を扱いますが
実際にはそれで亡くなる人はほとんど居ません
東日本大震災の時でも
私達の市では亡くなった人は一人です。
後にも先にも地震で亡くなった人はいませんが
万一を考えて保険に入る訳です。
交通事故も昨年で言えば亡くなった方は二人だけです。
でも皆さん保険に入る訳ですが
この事自体は当然だとは思いますが
ただ実際には
それ以上に危険なのが野放し
これが今回の事件でも見て取れるのです
この事件の記事と一緒に
保護司を殺害した事件も載っていましたが
この犯人も有罪判決を受けて
保護観察付きで社会に戻って来ています。
だから私は背筋が寒くなるのです。
まぁどうしようもありませんが
都会で住む以上は
この事はしっかり頭に入れた方が良いですね。
罰は犯罪の抑止力になる
そう思いがちですが
実際には本当に抑止しなければいけない人たちは
ほとんど野放し
これが日本です。
また翌日の新聞に
札幌で首を切断した事件の裁判の報道がありましたが
犯人の女性は
恐らく無罪でしょうね。
なんせ明らかに精神的に病んでた訳ですからね
この女性がその後どうなるか分かりませんが
そんな人でも社会に戻って
アナタのアパートの隣人になる可能性もあるんだ
って事です。
普通の人はあまり気にする事が無いのかも知れませんが
私達の仕事をしてると
危険な人がたくさんいる
これも良く分かりますので
たまには警鐘の意味でこんな話を書いてるのです。
A few days ago, the news of a woman being stabbed to death in Yokohama was in the newspaper.
Unfortunately, there are many murders, so I didn't pay much attention to it when I read it, but I was surprised when I saw the address of the perpetrator.
It's very close to our company.
So I quickly checked the tenants of the managed property,
and I was relieved to find that he is not our customers.
Reading the article in detail,
I found that the perpetrator was arrested last year on suspicion of attempted murder of his mother, with whom he lived.
Legally, attempted and completed crimes have the same statutory penalties,
so I wonder what that means?
Well, I don't really understand, but I guess it means that even if someone commits a serious crime, they soon return to society.
Every time I see a case like this,
I get chills.
Our employees deal with many different tenants every day,
and a certain percentage of them are mentally ill.
Also, the place where the perpetrator lives is very close to my grandchildren's home and school.
The man who tried to kill his mother last year lived there,
so it was a very dangerous situation.
We deal with fire and earthquake insurance in our work,
but in reality, very few people die from it
Even at the Great East Japan Earthquake, only one person died in our city.
No one has died from an earthquake before or since then
but people take out insurance just in case.
As for traffic accidents, only two people died last year.
But everyone takes out insurance,
Eve that act should not be denied
it's actually even more dangerous people go unchecked,
as we can see from this incident.
Along with the article about this incident,
there was also an article about the murder of a probation officer,
and the perpetrator was found guilty and returned to society on probation.
That's why it sends chills down my spine.
Well, there's nothing we can do about it, but if you live in a city, it's better to keep this in mind.
We tend to think that punishment is a deterrent to crime,
but in reality, most of the people who should be deterred are left unchecked.
This is Japan.
The next day in the newspaper, there was a report on the trial of a decapitation case in Sapporo,
and the female perpetrator will be probably innocent.
After all, she was clearly mentally ill.
I don't know what will happen to this woman after this,
but even someone like that could return to society and become your neighbor in an apartment building.
Normal people probably don't worry too much about this,
but in our line of work,
we know very well that there are a lot of dangerous people out there, so I'm writing this story as a warning every once in a while.
