Gallup, a global performance-management consulting company, published this week its “2021 Global Law and Order” report in which it assesses people’s perception of personal security and their private experiences with crime and law enforcement. More specifically, the index results measure people’s responses to four questions and are based on more than 120,000 interviews with individuals in 115 nations in the year 2020. The report mentioned that according to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, the world is still “a long way” from attaining the goal of peaceful, just and inclusive societies. The global law and order report concluded that answers on the four security metrics that Gallup inquired about have barely changed between the years 2019 and 2020, leaving in this regard much room for growth. The report concluded that the majority of the world population has confidence in the police and accordingly feel safe. In details and according to the survey, 71% of the world population trusts local police forces, and 72% feels secure walking alone at night times. In the same context, only 13% of the interviewed individuals reported having possessions stolen from them last year and 6% claimed having been attacked or robbed. The global scores stretched from a high of 94 in Norway to a low of 53 in Afghanistan. Norway came in first on the list with a Law & Order index score of 94, followed by U.A.E. (93), China (93), Switzerland (93) and Finland (92), only to name a few. On the regional front, the U.A.E. ranked 2nd globally and first in the MENA region, followed by Jordan (16th globally with a score of 89), Saudi Arabia (25th globally with a score of 86), Egypt (35th globally with a score of 85) and Iran (49th globally with a score of 82) among others. On a local basis, Lebanon ranked 85th in the world and 9th in the MENA region in the law and order index with a score of 74, down from a score of 78 in the previous year, outperforming solely Tunisia (global rank: 94, score: 68).