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  • 11 months ago
One Senior Counsel is tonight saying if authorities want substantial change to go beyond the limit of a State of Emergency, they need to look at policy changes.
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00:00Senior Counsel Martin Daly says the effectiveness of the state of emergency
00:04will only be evident when it ends.
00:07We've had one murder for the year but we have had two within the first period of the state of emergency
00:14and that is important because if the measures are expected to disrupt killings
00:20that's not an auspicious start.
00:23I'm not going to be pessimistic as a result of that but we need to keep in mind
00:27that the state of emergency will not necessarily prevent.
00:31We will wait to see whether it will decrease the number of murders
00:36and then what will happen when the state of emergency ends.
00:39While the increase in murders over a short space of time would have jolted authorities
00:44in the days leading up to the SOE, Senior Counsel Daly points out
00:48the reasons given by Minister Stuart Young and Minister Fitzgerald Hines
00:53had become a norm in TNT.
00:56What else is new?
00:58We've had ongoing gang activity for nearly two decades
01:02which successive governments have refused to deal with as a subject.
01:08It raises the question of is the gang, anti-gang legislation useless?
01:13The very problems had been brushed aside for decades
01:17this former head of the Law Association contends.
01:20There's nothing new about high-velocity weapons and assault rifles and all this business
01:25there's nothing new about that.
01:27I need only refer to the YouTuber to remind everybody that these velocity
01:33they've been in our face and they've been in our face for a long time
01:37and of course it has been accepted that those weapons
01:42have come in mostly through the legal ports.
01:45He says TNT has become a narco-infiltrated state
01:48and authorities need to recognize this in dealing with issues
01:53which if addressed can yield the everlasting change needed.
01:57The first policy issue is a failure to recognize that violent crime
02:01has been with us and growing for 20 years.
02:04The second policy issue is to accept that we are a narco-infiltrated state
02:09and decide what we're going to do about that.
02:11Then when we turn to solutions, to me I agree with the politicians
02:16that the key areas are young children particularly at the primary school level
02:20but we have an education system that is generally accepted
02:24to be absolutely inadequate to our needs.
02:27Delia was speaking on the TV6 Morning Edition.
02:30Ravishi Tiwari, Rupanarain TV6 News.
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