IT speaks volumes about the moral fabric of a society when human life can be taken with such impunity and when certain members of this society do so with minimal remorse.
It speaks even louder when those in charge of maintaining law and order can shrug off spiking murder rates with an astounding nonchalance.
When Acting Commissioner of Police McDonald Jacob casually stated we should not be too worried that our tiny nations murder toll had hit 249 as of Monday morning, I was dumbfounded.
His reasoning as to why we shouldn’t see this number as a sign that murders were out of control, despite it being a 45.6 per cent increase in murders from the same period in 2021, was that last year we were in a pandemic so people just decided not to murder as much because being the law abiding citizens that murders are, they were complying with the Government mandated “no large gatherings and stay home as much as possible” orders.
Breds, make it make sense.
He continued making himself look stunningly silly by saying that the current murder rate is back on par with pre-pandemic life. So have no fear peasants, there is no new normal here, we are back to the perfection that was our lives before Covid came around.
Someone, please check on that man. That thick wool uniform aka the police sauna suit has obviously given him heat stroke and his cognitive abilities have been severely affected.
Behind all his bravado and fancy spreadsheet statistics, what he was really saying was this level of societal violence, is normal. It’s acceptable to him and all our leaders, so we should stop groaning, stay out of sketchy areas, lock our doors and be happy.
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One murder a year should not be acceptable, an average of over 400/500 murders a year in a population of just over 1.3 million should be viewed as unfathomable.
It has become obvious that neither Jacob nor our Ministry of National Security has any plans or solutions to curb crime. It is also clear that doing so does not seem to be a matter of urgency.
This is terrifying, especially now that we are facing ridiculous food prices and rocketing costs of living. People are going to get hungry, when people are hungry, they get desperate. When people get desperate, they find themselves doing things they would not regularly do in order to survive.
We are sitting on the cusp of a societal collapse, and no one seems to care or has any plans to mitigate the crises we are facing.
For example, Minister of Trade and Industry, Paula Gopee-Scoon admitted our Consumer Affairs Divisions really cannot do anything about certain retailers’ price gouging or instantly raising their prices on flour and flour-based products. In other words, the Government has not given the Division the authority or the tools to penalise or punish offenders (you know sort of like our police force. Go fight crime but do it without the necessary tools you may need).
Her solution… she’s threatened to name and shame the offenders. Ooooooo quaking in my boots.
Deep breathes and muttered obscenities.
No plans, our Government has no plans, our Opposition is busy fighting down the attorney general instead of paying attention to the people and providing solutions.
So we carry on, like headless chickens that didn’t pass the grade to be dumped into a vat of 11 herbs and spices.
What I did gather from Jacob is the Covid-19 virus was perhaps the best crime-fighting tool ever utilised by the TTPS.
So let me suggest this, maybe the Ministry of National Security can cook up some super contagious hybrid Monkeypox Covid Swine Flu virus and release it into society. Because by their logic if you keep the entire population locked up and distracted by their need for survival, the people won’t have time to murder or rob. Viola! Low murder statistics the men in suits can clink their glasses too.
Murder Everywhere, No Plan Anywhere
IT speaks volumes about the moral fabric of a society when human life can be taken with such impunity and when certain members of this society do so with minimal remorse.
It speaks even louder when those in charge of maintaining law and order can shrug off spiking murder rates with an astounding nonchalance.
When Acting Commissioner of Police McDonald Jacob casually stated we should not be too worried that our tiny nations murder toll had hit 249 as of Monday morning, I was dumbfounded.
His reasoning as to why we shouldn’t see this number as a sign that murders were out of control, despite it being a 45.6 per cent increase in murders from the same period in 2021, was that last year we were in a pandemic so people just decided not to murder as much because being the law abiding citizens that murders are, they were complying with the Government mandated “no large gatherings and stay home as much as possible” orders.
Breds, make it make sense.
He continued making himself look stunningly silly by saying that the current murder rate is back on par with pre-pandemic life. So have no fear peasants, there is no new normal here, we are back to the perfection that was our lives before Covid came around.
Someone, please check on that man. That thick wool uniform aka the police sauna suit has obviously given him heat stroke and his cognitive abilities have been severely affected.
Behind all his bravado and fancy spreadsheet statistics, what he was really saying was this level of societal violence, is normal. It’s acceptable to him and all our leaders, so we should stop groaning, stay out of sketchy areas, lock our doors and be happy.
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One murder a year should not be acceptable, an average of over 400/500 murders a year in a population of just over 1.3 million should be viewed as unfathomable.
It has become obvious that neither Jacob nor our Ministry of National Security has any plans or solutions to curb crime. It is also clear that doing so does not seem to be a matter of urgency.
This is terrifying, especially now that we are facing ridiculous food prices and rocketing costs of living. People are going to get hungry, when people are hungry, they get desperate. When people get desperate, they find themselves doing things they would not regularly do in order to survive.
We are sitting on the cusp of a societal collapse, and no one seems to care or has any plans to mitigate the crises we are facing.
For example, Minister of Trade and Industry, Paula Gopee-Scoon admitted our Consumer Affairs Divisions really cannot do anything about certain retailers’ price gouging or instantly raising their prices on flour and flour-based products. In other words, the Government has not given the Division the authority or the tools to penalise or punish offenders (you know sort of like our police force. Go fight crime but do it without the necessary tools you may need).
Her solution… she’s threatened to name and shame the offenders. Ooooooo quaking in my boots.
Deep breathes and muttered obscenities.
No plans, our Government has no plans, our Opposition is busy fighting down the attorney general instead of paying attention to the people and providing solutions.
So we carry on, like headless chickens that didn’t pass the grade to be dumped into a vat of 11 herbs and spices.
What I did gather from Jacob is the Covid-19 virus was perhaps the best crime-fighting tool ever utilised by the TTPS.
So let me suggest this, maybe the Ministry of National Security can cook up some super contagious hybrid Monkeypox Covid Swine Flu virus and release it into society. Because by their logic if you keep the entire population locked up and distracted by their need for survival, the people won’t have time to murder or rob. Viola! Low murder statistics the men in suits can clink their glasses too.