On TV6 news last night, in reacting to the pyrotechnics and gunplay at Beverly Hills,
East Dry River, Port of Spain, on Wednesday night, Opposition Leader,
Dr. Keith Rowley, flatly stated that, to prevent violent criminal acts
from ever happening, the government must ensure round-the-clock police
presence in such areas.
Mind you, this is the same man who had previously insisted there is
no need for a State of Emergency, nor for "stigmatising" "such areas" by
designating them as "crime hotspots".
Great is the bewilderment generated by the flip-flop! That's why flippers-floppers must never be allowed to prevail!
Monday, 19 December 2011
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On 18 December 2011 21:41, Rennie wrote:
ReplyDeleteKid
Wouldn't you say there is a clear difference between increased police patrols (crime fighting) and sweeps, detention without evidence,stifling of free speech and freedom of movement (fascism)?
Rennie
Rennie! In the context as you described them,"sweeps" and "detention without evidence" belong in the realm of crime fighting: such things are done based on intelligence gathered by the police and civic-minded persons.
ReplyDeleteYou see, through observation, intelligence is gathered on an ongoing basis hence occurs not only before suspicion is aroused, i.e., when or every civic-minded person and the police, whose job it is to keep the peace, are keenly alert, but also after suspicion is aroused: through surveillance.
Surveillance is what the police or any civic-minded person discreetly proceeds to do after their suspicion is aroused through keen observation and or reports made by whomever.
Acting on intelligence therefore, police and civic-minded persons do two things:
*do what is lawfully-permissible to prevent crime from being committed;
*do what is lawfully-permissible to turn intelligence into evidence (in the event the first recourse fails).
Since childhood I've known that the first recourse is preferable, because it's less traumatic to society as a whole: prevention is always better than the cure and, charity begins at home. In the context, "charity begins at home" inextricably intertwined with "The mind is like concrete: you shape it when it's wet, not set!".
Parting shot:
*the police get paid to keep the peace;
*if the peace is not kept, civic-minded civilians pay the price;
*the duty of peacekeeping thus belongs to both the police and the civic-minded civilian population;
therefore, if there is to be peace for the civic-minded, only from the realms of the civic-minded ought the police to be recruited.
Peace out!