How do we equate murders with low crime detection? Are we so naive as a people to know that solving murders brings minimum relief to the victims' families?
The answer is not only to increase the detection rate but to eradicate the high number of murders.
Won't we be more comfortable with zero murders 2017 to the alternative of 100 murders...98 solved?
Is it our education policies that are failing us, producing more school drop-outs for the past 40 years. Or, if not drop-outs, those who would have gone through five years of secondary school and yet cannot read, interpret or analyse any task before them.
Or is it a nation of followers, of yes men/women whose answer is "true" to any topic, or shy away with no input from the floor. Or is it those who have been fortunate to enter the buildings of Tertiary Education coming out with certificates having read books but failed to add two lines of their own to modify these said books.
All the above leads to an ignorant society which does not have the skills to settle disputes unless being ordered so to do. So with the lack of analytical skills and the inability to solve disputes they rely on violence with the weapon of choice being the gun.
Athelston Clinton