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Making a mockery of 'zero tolerance'
Thursday, January 24th 2008
WITH a week to go before the end of this first month in the year, the country's murder toll stood at a depressing 33 up to yesterday. aAnd with expectations about the crime debate in Parliament having fizzled into nothingness, the country is being told now once again about a "zero tolerance" campaign by the police over the current Carnival season.
Thousands of citizens who make a decision to participate in the celebrations for Carnival have been doing so in recent times with justifiable nervousness about the security of both their person and property.
Visitors who continue to come to these shores to enjoy our music, theatre and hospitality continue to do so knowing full well that they have to be alert to their own safety whatever the general camaraderie that is clearly on display.
It is not just the homicides but the armed robberies and rapes many of which go unreported because too many citizens do not have confidence in the police as it relates to swift and decisive action. The result is that even the official statistics, alarming as they are, do not give the full picture.
But even the official figures continue to give the lie to the Government's pronouncements that suggest that this administration is even close to reining in the criminals in our midst -- gangs, unbelievably, thinking nothing of waging wars within eyesight and earshot of police posts and stations, as if they want to headline their disrespect of the forces of law and order.
To be fair though, there has been a marked drop in the number of kidnappings but the underside to this is the perception that, with their backs to the wall, more and more businessmen are victims of shake-downs from thugs intent on getting money from the law-abiding without having to go through the trouble of actually having to snatch and hide a son or a daughter, a husband or a wife.
What is being bred by all this are rising levels of cynicism and resignation and perhaps, most disturbingly, hostility towards even the best and brightest of our officers even as malcontents in the service who think nothing of dishonouring their uniform, not only engage in illegal practices in full view of the public but turn on those members of the public who either raise their voices in protest or who find themselves, through no fault of their own, at the receiving end of loose cannons bent on showing off the worse that police can do.
RASC wrote:Once innocent ppl are not killed
Last person to be murdered's alias was "MONSTER" ...I'm sure it was of the friendly variety
What is being bred by all this are rising levels of cynicism and resignation and perhaps, most disturbingly, hostility towards even the best and brightest of our officers
AllTrac wrote:RASC wrote:Last person to be murdered's alias was "MONSTER" ...I'm sure it was of the friendly variety
Williams, also known as "Monster", died on the spot after he was shot three times, to the head and body. A nickname family members said he may have received because of his towering height.
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