Having become totally fed up of what passes for governance in this country I had refrained from making statements, but the response to the latest crime wave has awoken me from my slumber (of sorts).Once again we are faced with a rampant crime monster, and once again the powers that be are attempting to address the issue in the same manner that has failed us, from Anaconda to the robbery of your rights called the State of Emergency.
This counter-intuitive approach baffles the mind. Trying to overwhelm a shifting enemy with "dumb, brute force" does not work. Patrols are not effective as criminals shift their areas of operations.Roadblocks, in this age of instant messaging to hundreds of people, are a waste of time.What do you achieve, charging a few people for non-standard tint (when we don't even have a measurable standard to begin with).
What amazes me most is how willing many of us go along with the nonsense. How easily we want to hand over our rights to a directorate that has proven to be less than trustworthy. What we need is smart, even policing, not a raft of new laws, precepting of soldiers and "bulk" policing. They love to talk about the crackdown in New York and how crime plummeted.
They don't tell you that a holistic approach was applied, one that targeted not just their version of "little black boys", but also corrupt politicians, bosses of the Italian, Irish, Chinese and Jamaican gangs, thieving bankers and stock traders, businessmen involved in fraud etc.They don't tell you how important involving the community was in shifting the allegiance from the gangsters to the elected authorities.
What is required here is a similar approach, but then again, how much intelligence–(in more ways than one) driven policing we can have when a gang of 75 allegedly operates without the knowledge of anyone in the national security hierarchy?
Michael Walcott
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