Now that Dwayne Gibbs and Jack Ewats­ki have been hound­ed out of of­fice by the PP's wannabe politi­cians shame­less­ly ex­ploit­ing the wide­spread in­vert­ed prej­u­dice against whites and the at­tach­ment to tra­di­tion­al prac­tices, it is em­bar­rass­ing to read views by Po­lice Chief Bill Blair of Toron­to's Po­lice Force that echo those of our de­part­ing com­mis­sion­er and his deputy in the Au­gust 1 Globe and Mail, a ma­jor Cana­di­an news­pa­per:

"Po­lice alone can't stop gangs...The long-term so­lu­tion in­volves pre­vent­ing these most­ly young men from so-called pri­or­i­ty neigh­bour­hoods (eg Laven­tille, Diego Mar­tin) from go­ing down this road by in­ter­ven­ing in their lives when they are much younger.

That in­volves pro­vid­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties, in­clud­ing em­ploy­ment, but first re­quires learn­ing more about these kids and find­ing out where we lost them..." (eg ex­am­in­ing the sub­cul­tures of de­viance in which they are forced to live; the dropout rate; parental at­ti­tudes to ed­u­ca­tion; per­son­al ex­pe­ri­ences of bru­tal­i­ty at the hands of cops or bul­lies; the size, com­po­si­tion and val­ues of the peer group/s).

"...In or­der to reach kids ear­li­er, Toron­to will be pi­lot­ing a pro­gramme cre­at­ed in Prince Al­bert, Sask. The pro­gramme tries to bet­ter co-or­di­nate polic­ing and so­cial ser­vices to in­ter­vene ear­ly on when risk fac­tors-in­clud­ing do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, al­co­holism and abuse-are iden­ti­fied in a child's life..." (the par­ent­ing styles in low-in­come neigh­bour­hoods, the pres­ence of a fa­ther, the lev­el of fam­i­ly in­come, at­tach­ment to re­li­gious val­ues etc).

"...en­cour­ag­ing peo­ple to come for­ward with tips...and he hopes to beef up the po­lice pres­ence to make (peo­ple) feel safe." Sounds like Gibbs speak­ing. The dimwits in this wob­bly gov­ern­ment led by a weak Prime Min­is­ter are giv­ing a new neg­a­tive mean­ing to in­de­pen­dence. We are be­com­ing a re­al pap­pyshow in the eyes of oth­ers. Drain the swamp if you want to get rid of the mos­qui­toes, Min­is­ter Warn­er.

Ken­neth As­see

Port-of-Spain