killing chickens to scare monkeys

There is an old Chinese proverb which says you kill chickens to scare monkeys, the context pictorial is a heavily laden fruit tree and the chickens on the ground are eating the fallen fruit or low hanging fruits and the monkeys are on the tree picking the best fruit and wasting it. So the owner of the tree cannot reach the agile clever monkeys takes his/her wrath of loss and frustration by slaughtering the chickens publicly so as to scare off the monkeys in the tree. It never works but there is relief in the owners psyche.

There are leadership elements within the crime scene , and all one has to ask is Cui bono?, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago_Police_Service ,www.nationalsecurity.gov.tt/.../TrinidadandTobagoPoliceService/.../Default. aspx follow the money, well the Ministry of National Security benefits from crime overload by getting a larger budget , in excess of $11.7 Billion TT in the budget, and this trickle downs to the Police,,SIA,SAUTT,CID etc. The private security firms benefits to the tune of excess $5.81 billion TT per annual, and of course the small upper echelon criminal snake-heads/kingpins/capos benefit with their illicit profits, to the criminal -narco trade in Trinidad worth about $6 Billion TT per annum. So basically trying to "fix" crime in Trinidad means interfering with with a $24 Billion TT/yr moneybag. If our budget for 2011 is an est. $45 Billion TT and you have a criminal economy taking in excess of $24 Billion per year, the economics speak for itself.

So lets us accept the reality , this amount of money is not going to allow fixing , so one has to kill chickens , my tie in with the prior paragraph, and to kill chickens there are only three remedies of note that are effective historically as relieving public anxiety though having little effect on serious crimes:

* Capital punishment /death penalty
* Applying writ of attainder for serious crimes , armed felony , felony assault , kidnapping , public office fraud, embezzlement/white collar crime homicide etc
* Applying bills of pains and penalties as Acts of Parliament

These three in concert ought to have enough blood and gore to scare chickens for some time while the monkeys enjoy the view and eat the high fruit.

Kind Regards

Adrian Matadeen

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