Saturday, January 5, 2013

HOMICIDE REPORT

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know how we can even begin to call this impressive. Crime started rising under the SLP. They ended up in 2006 with 43 murders, they resume in their first year back in office with 44 murders. Can someone tell me what is it I am missing here?

January 5, 2013 at 10:34 AM
Anonymous said...

I think the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force is doing a wonderful job within their capacity. The criminal is always a step ahead of the police and often the coppers can only react to what's happening or luckily, what is about to happen.
The owness is on the government, parents, leaders, NGOs and basically everyone in society who can help the Social-cause, the problem is social and it will not go away if we don't treat it.

Furthermore, we need more surveillance to keep those stupid-arse guns from our shores.

January 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Anonymous said...

This looks like a rag tag force in Africa.

January 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...

What you plan to do? give sweetie to criminals to make them leave crime?

Handling criminals is a heavey duty task. You have to think like them. This is the only way to route out this problem.

January 5, 2013 at 11:54 AM
Anonymous said...

The police needs more intelligence on the streets to decipher the locations of cocaine and guns. Valuable information can be extracted from individuals on the streets for as cheap as a shot of rum or a small piece of crack cocaine. I wonder how long it takes a police force to analyse 44 homicides in other to distinguish between gang and nongang violence? The police force needs to step up a nodge.
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January 5, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Anonymous said...

How about moving undercover cops within the OECS to infiltrate those gangs?

January 5, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Anonymous said...

...and what happens when these criminals are caught? Surely cases are not "solved" until they are closed, ie gone to court, sentences passed etc? This is a HUGE area of need for improved facilities and processing. People need resolution of cases.

January 6, 2013 at 6:33 AM
Anonymous said...

It would be useful to see a map of where these homicides are committed. Additionally, a more nuanced categorization of the homicide would help with understanding the nature of violence in St. Lucia. Gun vs. non-gun or police initiated vs other killers is insufficient to understand what's going on. Perhaps someone with more knowledge of the available statistics can shed light on this. There may be a presumption that the crimes are gang and drug related, but until one sees the data and can assess what's going on based on the data, it's counter productive to talk about causes and possible solutions. I can assure you that the one factor that cuts across all this violence is poverty. However, there are many poor communities across the globe where the level of killing does not come close to what we see in St. Lucia and other Caribbean states.

January 6, 2013 at 9:24 AM
Anonymous said...

I hope the Phillip La Corbiniere is not interfering with the operations of the Force to the detriment of St. Lucia.

He has a tendency of being arrogant.

January 7, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Anonymous said...

Whilst these are helpful comments it has to be remembered that politicians are not the murderers; its about peoples behaviour! Until the onus is on taking responsibility for what we all do as individuals we have no where to go with this. The police need to weed out corruption in the force which supports criminal activity, they should spend more time time on drink guns and cocaine related offences and stop worrying about weed, which is better for you than alcohol, they should legalise marijuana, who ever heard of someone smoking a joint then going out to mug someone, may do if they drink rum with it. Parents need to step up to the plate and educate their children in taking responsibility for what they do from being very young . Stop this blame culture, and parents believing and teaching their children that getting caught is worse than the deed. What is the most surprising is that everyone claims to be a Chrisitian but don't behave like one. The majority of the population commit crime every time they overcharge someone whether its a vendor, tradesman or thief. They commit crime when they give goods for sexual favours, its called prostitution. There is a huge amount of attitudes and poor mentality to sort out, unless people have the willingness to change, and change they must this country will end up as the laughing stock of the world.

January 9, 2013 at 2:33 AM

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