Talk, marches not the crime answer

You keep lamenting about the escalating crime situation with the hope that some miracle will take place overnight and the police will stop the bandits.

This has been your reaction to the continuous killings since you were elected.

By now you should know that the conservative crime plan is not working. By now you should know that no amount of talk, peaceful marches and prayers are going to have a dent on crime.

What’s your next move? You have to declare a state of emergency and let the police and the army get the criminals off the streets.

To put a stop to the everyday killings, the criminals must be stopped in their tracks. You need to put them behind bars.

You need to detain them indefinitely.

You need to mash up their criminal plans. You need to search without warrant and find their many guns.

Raffique Shah was on target when he wrote about the recent killings in front of the Maracas/ St Joseph Police Station, “This society has drifted to the edge of anarchy.”

Ronald John Diego Martin