{"id":193066,"date":"2023-12-30T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=193066"},"modified":"2023-12-30T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T17:09:41","slug":"providing-the-appropriate-tools-to-intercept-and-obstruct-vicious-crimes-in-small-islands-like-antigua-and-barbuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/providing-the-appropriate-tools-to-intercept-and-obstruct-vicious-crimes-in-small-islands-like-antigua-and-barbuda\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing The Appropriate Tools To\u00a0Intercept And Obstruct Vicious\u00a0Crimes In Small Islands Like Antigua And Barbuda\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OPINIPN: Providing The Appropriate Tools To Intercept And Obstruct Vicious Crimes In Small Islands Like Antigua And Barbuda\u200b<\/strong>\u200b<\/p>

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Criminals do not say, oh my, they are increasing punishment for a crime, it is nearly never thought about by criminals. Just interview any clear and or convicted criminal. They will tell you that did not even know the exact time or punishment they faced prior to committing the crime. Criminals know the seriousness of the crime and that there will be punishment they do not want but they exact amount they do not consider in their analysis on whether to commit the crime vicious or inherently dangerous crimes.<\/p>\n

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So, what does this tell you? For experts like me, this is telling me that no matter what punishments exist, it will not serve as deterrence to prevent crimes and victimization, especially not from inherently dangerous crimes, to make our society safer. And we should not put most of our energy and time on punishment increase from where it is today. Increasing prison time and fines only has a punishment benefit, it does not make society safer, but it sure provides society with revenge\/punishment (sometimes this is appropriate along with the deterrence factor).<\/p>

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Remember at no time in history has a criminals said, “oh my goodness they are increasing punishment for shooting up in the air (from 20 to 25 years, hypothetical), so let me not shoot in the air, let me turn in the gun to the police, and let me not use it to rob or commit murder”. At no time in history has a criminal (one who intends to commit the crime) done this. So, again, focusing on punishment when crime vicious crimes increase in a nation is not the pragmatic, prudent and professional thing to do, especially in a small nation.<\/p>

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The best and most pragmatic is to focus on opportunity reduction. Reducing the opportunities for people to commit crimes is the way to substantially decrease vicious crimes and prevent vicious crimes in every nation, especially, those small islands, including Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>

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Again, I am calling on the Prime Minister to instruct the Attorney General\/Minister of National Security\/Minister of Social Transformation to immediately hire within these ministries those Antiguans and Barbudans with advance degrees in SOCIAL SCIENCES that includes criminology, victimology, criminal justice, sociology, psychology, law, anthropology, economics, culture, international affairs, government, computational linguistics, education, Development studies, Demography, Gender Studies, civics etcetera.<\/p>\n

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This is the first step towards a safer and better community, and that is to put people in position that actually have studied and understand society and behavior so that tactics can be formed based on the actual circumstances of the community\/nation. Not people just guessing and throwing out anything hoping something will stick and never does.\u00a0The country’s national security advisory committee must be made up of people like this. The head of the country’s crime fighting authorities must be made up of these kinds of people. The police chief\/commissioner, ONDCP, Immigration, customs, and military should now be selected based on having an advanced education in their field and you can pair that with experience.<\/p>\n

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So, deterrence is not about increasing punishment at this time. Crime prevention and deterrence will come from my tools that are made to obstruct and intercept criminal and terrorism activities by substantially reducing opportunities to commit crimes and conditioning the society into living harmoniously and peacefully. Thereby reducing crimes not just immediately but for Longterm.<\/p>\n

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One of my tactics for crime reduction is my flooding policing tactic, along with an Intelligence and National Security Unit (INSU) who will be charged with collecting data\/intelligence, analyzing and understand it, and then use this intelligence to protect National security by giving recommendation that includes strategies on how to effectively use the available resources in Antigua and Barbuda to protect life and property.<\/p>\n

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As law enforcement officers, in a small island, you must be able to pick up patterns, all sorts of patterns related to crime. In terms of frequency, location, repeat offenders, repeat victims, time, etcetera, data should be collected on these because it will provide for a strategic approach on how to use and where to send limited resources strategically to get the biggest results in crime reduction, prevention and deterrence. This will decrease opportunities for criminal activities.<\/p>\n

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My flooding technique will decrease opportunity. It includes a pattern of having all police and military on duty that night and day, walk the beat and park marked police and military vehicles at strategic areas in communities, and having all these personnel walking in communities all at the same time. I would be done a few times per day and night, and randomly. This is not about sending just one vehicle out there to patrol, this is about, confusing criminals and taking away their opportunities to commit brazen daylight robbery, assault, battery, rape, kidnapping, murder and other heinous crimes. It is no longer clear to criminals that tomorrow (day or night) they have a high degree of certainty that they will not see an officer. Now, it is they have a higher degree of seeing, not one but multiple government personnel day or night.<\/p>\n

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I would like to see desk and office police, and military members take walks (armed or not armed) while in uniforms around and within the villages and towns of the small islands (this flooding technique can be used as needed, then rested, and then brought back). It should be used at the most populated and busy areas and the most isolated areas in the country.<\/p>\n

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I also would promptly assign officers to schools, which that officer will teach 30 minutes class of safety to students in secondary and primary school. This is being done for the obvious school safety benefit, and also to give students a voice on how they feel and what they want to see, in terms of policing and safety in their environment. Officers can dress is dress uniform for psychological benefits of the students, and introducing students to another career path, policing and military, is something honorable. It is more honorable to do this than the taxes the PM stated the country should proudly pay the increase (and I am not saying this to knock the taxes increase, I am comparing the benefit of one against the other, because making professional officers more accessible to schools and community will be highly beneficial).<\/p>\n

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I am also encouraging the country to work with endeavors and people who are tremendously into law, criminology and victimology. Stop delaying the advancement of businesses like these. Yes, I am referring to my business endeavor that would have already been established had my fire-arms license already been approved and not just my temporary firearms permit that has now expired.<\/p>\n

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Business owners should have some form of easy access to provide information to the police (I remember while in Antigua while officers are sitting and doing nothing or on phone talking to boyfriends and girlfriends people were there, including me waiting to file report and do other things, not one wants that wait and this causes vital information to be lost that could be used in crime prevention).<\/p>\n

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That suspicious activity should be part of a data bank that will be used as intelligence to form recommendations on how to further eliminate opportunities of criminals. This is a small island, which puts neighbors and communities in a better position than criminals.<\/p>\n

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There should be a daily prediction of crimes and location using data. Then officers will go to those areas and employ deterrence strategies. We all know we are not psychic, so we would not be accurate all or even most of the time, but such a strategy will force officers to be active, be seen, and eliminate criminal opportunities. But every day, a prediction must be made on the types of crimes and where it is most likely to occur.<\/p>\n

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Officer will be out and about and no longer sitting on the steps of police headquarters waiting for calls. Officers will be out and about.\u00a0These should be coordinated nationwide, again, eliminating opportunities from folks who obviously already made up their mind they are committing the crimes, without consideration of what penalties and punishments they will face in the criminal justice system of\u00a0the United Islands of Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n

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My solution is not the lazy solution, but a solution based\u00a0on pragmatic research on crimes, criminals, victims, society and law enforcement. Which will include:<\/p>\n

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