00:00Senior counsel Martin Daly says a state of emergency is only a temporary pause button and not a solution to
00:08crime,
00:08warning that deeper socioeconomic issues must be addressed if the cycle is to change.
00:15He points to what he describes as a poor detection rate for serious crimes, saying,
00:20too many cases appear to go without meaningful resolution or consequence.
00:25One of the things that we have not dealt with over two decades is the abysmally low detection and successful
00:35prosecution of offenders.
00:37It's one thing to say you've held people, you're charging people, but the detection rate and the successful prosecution rate
00:44is abysmally low.
00:46Daly says he was deeply disturbed by the killing of Corporal Anoushka Eversley inside a municipal police station
00:54and warns that national safety concerns are also damaging Trinidad and Tobago's international reputation.
01:01It is evidence of rot from within.
01:05And there's a lot of talk also about rot within, you know,
01:08and it's been accepted that many of the guns or most of the guns coming through the legal borders.
01:14Well, how can that be? How can that be? It means that there is rot within.
01:18He also highlights growing public fear, saying citizens are increasingly reluctant to speak out on crime-related issues.
01:27Then there is a fear that if you take an interest in a particular incident, you might self-beard hurt.
01:36Then there's a fear you might be victimized, that if you speak out, you will lose your state enterprise work
01:42or you will lose your make work.
01:44So the fear of victimization is also a very big thing.
01:47Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
