Government officials hold press conference to announce crime crackdown

Thursday, September 2, 2004

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Reader comments:

• I assume that this is just more lip service pushed by certain individuals as the election nears. If it is true I hope that they actually remove a very well known large volume drug dealer on Town Hall Rd. in West Bay and help with the blight that he brings upon our area. But again, I'm sure this is all just lip service - Jerome Bush
  
   
• All these foreigners talking for Caymanians, this is the most irritating development in Cayman - we cannot speak for ourselves. If you want to get rid of crime, round up all the foreigners that don't have jobs and send them back where they came from, Idle time makes troublesome neighbors. If you are not working you have a lot of time to be mischievous! - Concerned Caymanian
  
   
• Is this just more official rhetoric? Or is this a serious decision to be followed through and put into practice? Is it just words to fall on the drifting sands and blown away in the wind? The purpose of having the police and laws, and the Courts, IS to crackdown on crime. If they have to wait until things have reached this crisis stage before taking ALL CRIME seriously, then they have failed miserably in their jobs they are paid to do.
  
  If they didn't treat the small crimes... home break-ins, purse snatching, domestic violence, etc… so lightly, maybe the perpetrators would not get the idea that it is okay to do burglaries, business thefts, beat up your wife or girlfriend, break in to people's houses just to have a free place to sleep and live, etc. Maybe the drug pushers and the international mafia drug lords would not get such a choke hold on our young people and be able to threaten and kill witnesses in our Court Cases.
  
  You better believe it is time to crackdown on crime... of any sort... no matter how trivial it seems. If it is against the law, the person should be made to understand that it will NOT be accepted. I recently wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Police, concerning a matter where the police failed to carry through with any of the investigations.., and even didn't report a crime they found had been committed, to the owners.
  
  I have faith in Buel Braggs... I know he can't do it alone... but we all need to take seriously ANY CRIME, and try to see that the persons responsible for the crime get it through their thick skulls that it is not acceptable in the Cayman Islands... or is it? Turning your head the other way, won't get rid of crime. It is time to open our eyes, ears, and minds (if we have any left), to the reality of the road to perdition that we are on - A Very Concerned Caymanian
   

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