The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

During the time that I was waiting at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Friday, two students, both soaked in blood, were brought into the Accident and Emergency section. One was from LW Young, the other from Government High.

The LW Young student had a gash in the back of his head. Although I could not see the wound because of the heavy bandaging, judging from the amount of blood on the back of his shirt, it must have been bad.

As for the Government High student, he was cut on the side of his head. Like the first student I could not see the severity of his wound, again because of the bandages. But his condition was bad. It looked as though a swarm of bees had attacked his face. Both eyes were puffy and swollen shut. His face was a mess. I understand that the swelling was caused by the injury. One of the nurses remarked that he looked far worse than that when he was first admitted. There must have been plenty of blood in his case as his school shirt had been removed, leaving him with a tee-shirt that was heavy with blood.

Government says that it has put the police in the schools to prevent such incidents. In my opinion, this is just one of government’s gimmicks.

The police should be taken out of the schools and put on the streets where they are needed even more.

In the schools the police should be replaced by well trained security guards in uniform with powers of arrest. Surely properly trained security guards can take care of the children and deal with their “chapping” and “jooking.”

The police are needed in the communities to deal with the murders.

Government says murders are down. They can sure talk fool — almost every day that I pick up a newspaper I read that someone has been shot or stabbed, most often he dies. I have just never seen it this bad before, and my senses tell me it’s not getting better, it is daily getting worse. So get the police out of the school yard and onto the streets, and let’s see a turn-around in this crime.

AN AGITATED CITIZEN

September 11, 2012.