So, while all you were busy preparing to go about your Heroes Day celebrations on the wee hours of Monday, my friend and I were pleading with a gang of robbers to take everything we had but spare our lives. Yes, we got mugged. You too can. If we ever want opportunistic crime to end, we should look at ourselves first. Simply amplifying police presence will not solve the issue. Police protect us by keeping those “bad people” out of our neighbourhood, and I’m grateful for it. And yet, I realize it’s self-serving and doesn’t actually fix anything.