Murder Toll Tops 1000

[Diplomat]

Re: Murder Toll Tops 1000

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
The overall figure shows that as of Friday morning 1,200 persons had been murdered in Jamaica since January. </div></div>

Sheesh... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70361-embarassed.gif[/img] What's the general consensus - the police cannot manage, get international help/expertise, time for some specialized 'DELTA' force? </div></div>
To do what? </div></div>

That sounds like Peter Phillips` policy of extreme and resolute measures to fight crime.

Combative measures wont work.

We need to understand what it is that makes crime such a `crowd puller`. Why does one go into a life of crime?
Why so many?
Lots of people seem to be benefitting.

Next step is we need to cease denying that things are bad as many would like to pretend.

Then rather than find the guns, we need to find why it is that there is this great need for guns.

Once we can stem the need for guns and stifle the need for crime, we can do so by offering better opportunities to the large magnitude of youngsters who are first embroiled in crime.

If there are no better opportunities for potential criminals to gravitate to than towards crime, then why would they want to live decent honest lives? </div></div>
Is all of that realistic? Really; while all the studies are going on to find out why all this is taking place, J'cans just sit idly by while almost 100 people per month lose their lives? There certainly has to be some short-term solution(s) while trying to figure out long-term ones.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Murder Toll Tops 1000

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is all of that realistic? Really; while all the studies are going on to find out why all this is taking place, J'cans just sit idly by while almost 100 people per month lose their lives? </div></div>

If this Board is anything to go by yes!

[Wahalla]

Re: Murder Toll Tops 1000

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is all of that realistic? Really; while all the studies are going on to find out why all this is taking place, J'cans just sit idly by while almost 100 people per month lose their lives? </div></div>

If this Board is anything to go by yes! </div></div>

Well we could do what one yankee suggests.. become like Cuba...

I see a connection between the article on the child being hung, the homophobic rants of so many and the murder rate... If we cannot respect our own flesh and blood, we cannot tolerate differences we become more intolerant.... While that may seem some waht out of character for me.. I beleive there is a need for a holistic aproach...The usual call for education and jobs will not fill the void.. that leads to murder...

One notes when ever murder rate is discussed it is characterised as the result of the neferiosu them.. This granting of the otherness ot the perpretratoes.. It is never us.. Who knows shottas, rankins, juglers on here.. .I know I do.. They are no different from me.. They are me..

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Murder Toll Tops 1000

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is all of that realistic? Really; while all the studies are going on to find out why all this is taking place, J'cans just sit idly by while almost 100 people per month lose their lives? </div></div>

If this Board is anything to go by yes! </div></div>

Well we could do what one yankee suggests.. become like Cuba...

I see a connection between the article on the child being hung, the homophobic rants of so many and the murder rate... If we cannot respect our own flesh and blood, we cannot tolerate differences we become more intolerant.... While that may seem some waht out of character for me.. I beleive there is a need for a holistic aproach...The usual call for education and jobs will not fill the void.. that leads to murder...

One notes when ever murder rate is discussed it is characterised as the result of the neferiosu them.. This granting of the otherness ot the perpretratoes.. It is never us.. Who knows shottas, rankins, juglers on here.. .I know I do.. They are no different from me.. They are me.. </div></div>

Education and Jobs will help more than a lot!

I know if we on this board had taken the former Government to task we would have been well down the road to stopping the slide.
Now a Government has come to power so weak and so clueless that I fear we will have this problem forever.

Mr. Golding made a huge mistake when he allowed Derrick Smith to assume the post of National Security Minister.
It will possibly take the citizens of Jamaica to come out into the streets for him to see the error of his ways.
I think the Diaspora should launch a letter writing campaign to have Mr. Smith removed, because clearly like the former In-Security Minister he is out of his depths and does not have the political will to do the job.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Murder Toll Tops 1000

Unsolved murders
<span style="color: #CC0000">• 66 per cent of this year’s homicides remain unsolved</span>

By Mark Thompson
Staff Reporter

Up to last month 810 or 66 per cent of the 1,228 murders committed in Jamaica remain unsolved.

Of the 1,228 cases of murder which were recorded across the island from the start of the year to October 28, the police cleared up 418 or 34 per cent. The less than flattering statistics represented a decline in the success rate for cracking murder cases when compared with the corresponding period last year, when the police were able to solve 506 or 47 per cent of the 1,069 homicides.

A quick look at the figures revealed that the divisions of Kingston Eastern, St. Thomas and Kingston Western boast the worst clear-up rates of 17, 17 and 18 per cent respectively. Of the 58 persons violently killed in Kingston Eastern, only 10 cases have been solved. In St. Thomas, the police still have the files open on 19 of the 23 murders, while in the volatile Kingston Western Division, the police were still musing over 89 of the 109 homicides.

The latter division has witnessed an alarming 85 per cent increase in the number of murders in the period under review, with the figure jumping from 59 to 109.

In St. Andrew Central, where the clear-up rate is only 20 per cent, the police are having a hard time trying to find answers for 87 of the 109 murder cases. Their colleagues in St. Catherine South, who have so far solved 23 per cent of the reported homicides in the divisions, continue to grapple with 80 unsolved cases out of a total of 104.

In Clarendon, a rural division beleaguered by escalating violence, the clear-up rate was 24 per cent, with 68 of the 90 homicide cases still open for investigation.

Other divisions struggling with very poor clear-up rates were Portland with 25 per cent (three out of 12), St. Andrew North with 26 per cent (20 out of 76), St. Catherine North with 29 per cent (38 out of 131), Trelawny with 33 per cent (six out of 18), and St. Mary with 37 per cent (10 out of 37).

In terms of sheer volume of unsolved cases, St. Catherine North’s 93 puts it ahead of Kingston Western (89), St. Andrew Central (87), St. Andrew South (84), St. Catherine South (80), St. James (68) and Clarendon (68).

The Metro region, which consists of all the divisions in Kingston, St. Andrew and St. Catherine, has a combined clear-up rate of 29 per cent (231 out of 790). For the combined rural divisions, the clear-up rate stood at 43 per cent (187 out of 438), nine per cent above the national figure.

The divisions that boasted the most successful clear-up rates were Westmoreland with 80 per cent (24 out of 30), Manchester with 60 per cent (15 out of 25), Kingston Central with 53 per cent (25 out of 47), and St. James with 51 per cent (70 out of 138). These four were the only divisions with clear-up rates of over 50 per cent.

The bloody St. Andrew South Division has managed to solve 46 per cent of its murder cases and has emerged as the national leader in total number of cases cleared up – 72. A close second is St. James, with 70 homicides cleared up.

Senior Superintendent of Police Ray Palmer of the St. Andrew Central Division told the Sunday Herald that there were several challenges facing the police as they carried out homicide investigations.

“There is the whole issue of fear. People are reluctant to come forward and give statements. There is a culture of silence, especially in the inner city. We can’t work with conjecture or what people heard, but eyewitnesses are often unwilling to come forward,” stated SSP Palmer.

He added that many of the murders have been carried out under the cover of darkness, with no witnesses present. SSP Palmer, whose division has a clear-up rate of 20 per cent and consists of areas such as Kintyre, Hope Flats, Tavern, Verene Avenue off Red Hills Road, and Nannyville, noted that the unstructured and informal nature of many of the communities was also a factor hindering the work of the police.

http://www.sunheraldjamaica.com/coverstory1.htm

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Murder Toll Tops 1000

More police presence for inner-city communitiespublished: Thursday | November 8, 2007

Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment Coordinator

With more than 280 persons murdered over the last 68 days, the Police High Command will be deploying resources and additional police personnel across inner-city communities where there has been an increase in homicides.

Police records indicate that 134 persons were killed violently in September; the figure increased last month to 143. This is the second highest number of killings recorded in a month since the start of the year. The highest was in January when 149 persons were killed. The lowest so far is February with 97 murders.

The country's murder toll reached a staggering <span style='font-size: 17pt'>1,270 </span>yesterday. The gun has been the most popular murder weapon.

Among the areas under the microscope of the security forces are Kingston East, where there has been several killings in the Vineyard Town, Mountain View Avenue and Rockfort areas. Because of the violence, a curfew has been imposed in the Mountain View area since last week.

Other areas under close watch are the Kingston West, St. Andrew South and St. Andrew Central divisions.

A short-term plan

This is part of a short-term plan discussed yesterday between National Security Minister Derrick Smith and members of the Police High Command, who met for about two and a half hours yesterday to evaluate anti-crime strategies implemented two months ago.

According to Mr. Smith, the strategy was looked at against the increase in homicides in an effort to analyse what was happening and what needs to be done for the future, as well as to formulate a plan for the upcoming Christmas season.

Pointing to the successes in the continued fight against narcotics smuggling, the minister said that during October, the Narcotics Police, in collaboration with Operation Kingfish, seized more than 8,000 lb of ganja, the main significance of this seizure being that it was based on intelligence.

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