Crime fighting strategies for 2020

THE EDITOR, Madam:

THE NEW Year is approaching and going forward we can fight crime in a realistic way.

HERE ARE A FEW POINTS TO PONDER:

1 . Crime must be viewed as a dangerous pandemic. Thus, in freezing below zero temperature, wear thermal garb.

2 . The only real solution is to prevent fatalities. Ending international gun trade is one step in the right direction.

3 . Criminals are not reasonable and become cold in taking lives. Thus, nip the criminal career in the bud in the very young.

4 . Criminals will allow their ‘loved ones’ to be sacrificed in a bid to extend their power, enhance their terrorism and fear in communities.

5 . The provision of secure housing is a vital responsibility of parents in order to protect their children from the dangerous environment.

6 . Silence has become deafening because people know there is nothing they can do to raise their loved ones from the dead.

7 . It is not easy to know how the crimes are committed and often the secret remains in order not to implicate innocent family members.

8 . The criminal invests in a support network of legal personnel, security and other ‘hench persons’ to protect their operations.

9 . The criminal does not always act immediately but threatens, shames witnesses by destroying their property, including cars, computers, personal effects as a means of disorienting and subduing the victim reporting mechanisms.

10 . Unfortunately, in some instances, the criminal is even supported by religious entities and consolidated white-collar crime such as corrupt practices of changing wills. The suit dealers are clearing land taxes and paying utility bills. They misappropriate property of beneficiaries overcome with grief and who miss the fine print.

Rome was not built in a day, but if we keep marching around the walls of crime in Jamaica, one day it must be eradicated!