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MASS KILLINGS IN SOCIETY MUST END

Jan 13, 2017 Editorial, Features / Columnists

It is heart breaking listening to the news and reading the newspapers daily to see how the criminal element in the country continues to wreak havoc and pandemonium in our once paradise. The low detection rate for murders has empowered the criminals to reign supreme.
Many citizens are helpless and have become hopeless. As the blood-bath continues, it has become very painful and unbearable for many to cope. Their grief has now been converted to outrage.
With each passing day, a daughter or a son, a brother or a sister, a mother or a father becomes our latest crime statistic. The silent but yet deafening screams of the citizens are yet to be heard by the authority, in particular the Ministry of Public Security and the police which have tried many crime fighting strategies but all have failed.
It seems that politics has overshadowed any effort at a collaborative approach between the government and the opposition to find solutions to the issue of crime which is spiraling out of control. Indeed, the stalemate among parliamentarians from both sides of the political divide is crippling the country not only on the crime issue, but also on many others, including the economy, the creation of jobs, improving the welfare of the people and to move the country forward.
These are desperate times which call for desperate measures from the government. It is very troubling that there are over 100 murders in a country with less than 750,000 people. With no plan from the government to end the senseless murders, the tidal wave of blood and terror may soon drown out all of the screams for help from the public.
Contrary to the police statistics that serious crime has reduced in the past year, there is a sickening suffocation of the people’s senses by rampant criminality, and lawlessness. And while some believe that 2017 will be a much better year, others are of the view that there are even darker days ahead; days of more murders, violence, fear and chaos.
To say that there is a callous disregard for human life by the criminals is to state it very mildly. Most criminals have zero respect for life. The collective wrath of the people should not only be directed at the criminal thugs, but also at the government which so far has failed to provide adequate protection to them.
In almost every region of the country, there has been an explosion of violence, armed robberies and murders. Studies have shown that the data linking gun violence to deaths in society is actually greater than that linking cancer to death by cigarettes. By now, the people had expected that those in authority should have created an environment which would ensure public safety and security and make a dent on crime. But the government has not delivered on its promise to the citizenry to eradicate and alleviate organized criminal activity.
Crime seems to be a difficult challenge for the government of Guyana to solve or for that matter any government. However, the government and by extension the Ministry of Public Security and the police must develop a holistic plan to tackle all aspects and areas of criminality in the country.
The plan must deal with the overburdened legal system, corruption in the police force, bureaucratic resistance to change, high levels of unemployment throughout the country, especially the marginal constituencies and the disenfranchised, unskilled and hopeless youth. The plan must also address the easy accessibility to weapons, the negative effect of gangs on youth, their organized criminal activities, the lack of faith and trust in the police which in many instances have been abusive to the public. There should not be any further delay in the reduction or eradication of crime because it is affecting all law-abiding citizens in the country.
The mass killings in society must end.

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