<p><pre><code>    &gt; How do you explain how Asia has even more &quot;draconian&quot;
    &gt; drug laws than the USA and yet crime is a fraction of
    &gt; ours?
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Comments like this are why people should travel.<p>In most of asia (by population or by state), low crime rates can be easily attributed to being able to settle the matter privately with the policeman for a small amount of money.<p>That&#x27;s not true in Japan, where organized crime registers with the police, or Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan which are hugely wealthy microstates.