"When some Hong Kong police officers rang the doorbell of an apartment in Kowloon, the door flew open and the gangsters opened fire with AK-47s and other automatic weapons..." prompting one to remark, "'a shooting like this can happen in any big city'" (Murphy 1). Humans have been committing crimes since the beginning of civilization, and as cities have grown, so has crime. However, the problem is that cities in poor developing countries will have populations and crime rates that will grow exponentially. According to India's National Crime Records Bureau, "Rape cases recorded in India have increased by nearly 900% in the last 40 years... while murder cases have increased by... 250% in 60 years" (Burke) . Even as population and crime have ballooned, little has been done to improve education systems or protective services in developing cities. At the current rate at which cities are expected to urbanize, rapidly developing countries' only solution is to implement stronger protective services and improve public education systems in order to effectively slow crime and create safer cities. Urbanization has grown very steadily in the past, but it is expected to start growing rampantly, which will cause extreme pressure on all city systems. Urbanization occurs when people move from rural areas to concentrated, small areas, which create or expand cities. When more than half the population moves to or lives in these small concentrated areas, the country is classified as urbanized (“Urbanization” 1). In the 19th and 20th centuries, European countries slowly urbanized, so the government had time to plan and implement projects and plans (“Urbanization” 1). More recently, rapid urbanization has begun to occur in other parts of the globe....... middle of paper...... in essence, the snowball effect is to improve education while keeping as many children as possible in school and away from the streets and implement a severe criminal system with more law enforcement officers and create a pragmatic policy. The reason this was not implemented sooner is due to the greed of the rich and the inability of the poor to support the cause. Rich people in third world countries are afraid of losing their fantastic economic status because they don't stand for what is right. While the poor do not have the opportunity to defend themselves because they do not have the means, be it time, money or level of education. The poor of these nations are silenced, and their daily struggle to be good people, avoid danger, and their desperation for basic needs can only be illuminated by benevolent international programs that have the means to lobby on their behalf...