00:00Dr. Sipasad stresses that any state of emergency must go beyond curfews and police crackdowns.
00:08He says it must confront the key factors driving crime within communities and across society at large.
00:15The thing about an SOE, unfortunately, though, is that it still never touches the root causes of the problem.
00:21It doesn't go into communities and families and the education system and look at the underlying problems that have caused us to reach where we are currently in Trinidad and Tibet.
00:34Without really a solid grasp of these underlying problems, the situation will reoccur.
00:41Dr. Sipasad adds that these underlying issues extend beyond communities and families and include, but are not limited to, challenges facing the protective services.
00:53For instance, those related to corruption, those related to low detection rates, you know, where there are inadequacies with the intelligence apparatus, etc.
01:04So there's a lot that really needs to be examined and fixed, and no government can afford to pat itself on the back when they put a state of emergency in place and they see those declines in crime rates.
01:18You cannot really pat yourself on the back and say that, OK, you've done something about it.
01:23Still, the criminologist commends the government's crime plan, saying it has clearly unsettled criminal elements.
01:30He believes that is the cause of recent threats against officials.
01:34They have gotten the ball rolling already, and if they put even some of these measures in place, it's going to have an impact on the criminal element.
01:44And the criminal element, therefore, feels threatened and is now making a move against the government.
01:50He says we are now at a stage where government has to take decisive action, adding that the country has the resources to trace and track down these criminal elements, and we should utilize them.
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