The rape mentioned is terrible and I agree the "penalty" given is ridiculous.
I do however feel much more relaxed leaving my wife alone at home here in Dubai while I am on a nightshift, than I ever did leaving her at home alone in South Africa. She didn't sleep at all and sat with my pistol in her lap and the armed reaction panic alarm next to her till I got home. Many of my friends have been hi-jacked at gun point and attacked in there own homes. My wife and I too were victims of crime, as I am sure, were many others out here. These things here are at least in the news (censored, I agree). A policeman being killed back home might make it to page six, if that!
Mix up different nationalities anywhere, and crime will poke it's ugly head out some time. Would you like to cross paths with the cops out here? I wouldn't.
Yes there is crime here and I agree the justice is not fair at all. But when you look at it in relation to many other places, it could be far worse.