Dear Editor,

Minister of Homeland Security, Roger Alexander informed comments will prove an elixir or panacea in reducing (not solving) crime. The populace’s concoction of reactions will be ranging on a continuum from derision to acceptance.

It is affirmed by nations who adopted such draconian legislations, where results have been varying yet still to a level effective. Our dual islands are already on an impending path (at time of writing) to austerity evident by the looming national budget. Therefore, solutions of low to no government fiscal expenditure are acceptable.

We are faced with a growing social crisis of “force ripe adults.” Notwithstanding causes in the social environment, society due to sheer majority numbers must be catered to due to destructive, costly power of juvenile miscreants.

Legally, mentally and physically (some of their brolic physiques) they are children. It is the indisputable transgressions of laws that warrant drastic changes. Recidivism in the underage still has a sore dearth in research as proclivities are to apply adult legislations and precedents to legal minors.

A format of incarceration is extremely dubious as a solution. Isolation from those of their age ilk will stunt their mental growth. A state of arrested (no pun intended) development will enlarge the existing numbers of those already in such category or adults.

Other causes of abhorrent indoctrination to delinquency are exposure to unmonitored social media. Another is overexposure to the undesirable elements of the neighbourhood vicinity.

Genetics is the sole barometer of future progeny. To posit the only solution that will derive results is hysterectomy and vasectomy on those within our country’s denizens whose behaviours are illicit. The inability to produce offspring will be beneficial to all.

An illustration that is all too common but secretive is a corrupt serviceman (this instance police) who has a pre-adolescent son. Not only via DNA but witnessing misconduct of the patriarch means the son will engage likewise. The strengthening of improper rearing of the young by martial arts lessons as a means of being a superior bully to incumbent victims.

Another illustration is that of a high ranking policeman whose footballer son attends a prestige boys’ school. Under the father’s tutelage, his son has underwhelming athletic ability that seems above average due to weak competition, an atrocious character and abysmal academic record. All of just aforementioned hat-trick ejects any potential eligibility for a full-ride athletic scholarship.

Che Stephen Amoroso
St James