00:00Criminologist Dr. Randy Sipersad says, while the state of emergency may assist in disrupting certain criminal activity like gang violence,
00:09a significant percentage of violent crimes fall outside the scope of what emergency measures alone can prevent.
00:17There are other types of offending that an SOE simply cannot touch.
00:21And I'll give you a very obvious example.
00:23Let's say domestic violence incidents which result in murders.
00:27That is something that an SOE isn't designed at all to touch.
00:31However, Dr. Sipersad cautions against viewing the SOE as government's sole crime-fighting mechanism,
00:39stressing that it forms only one component of a broader national security response.
00:45The criminologist also weighs in on the Joshua Samru and Kia Sili matter,
00:51following widespread public reaction to the manslaughter charges against Sili.
00:56There must have been something that happened that was a reason why these persons were fleeing the police, etc.
01:04So this is part of the evidence that we don't know.
01:06We don't have it on video, but presumably something in that evidence that the DPP has access to
01:13has led the office to the conclusion that a manslaughter charge could be laid.
01:19He tells the morning edition that contrary to public perception,
01:23decisions made by the office of the DPP are not political.
01:27I will even go further in this particular matter and say that the non-disclosure of the information
01:33by the DPP isn't necessarily a bad thing.
01:37In fact, the DPP might even be protecting the interests of the defendant,
01:43Kia Sili, in this particular case.
01:45Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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