The Tribune

By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

THERE is no “silver bullet” that can get rid of the generation of killers bred by this society over the past two decades, attorney Wayne Munroe warned yesterday.

Defending police efforts to combat violent crime, Mr Munroe charged that public criticisms of law enforcement are largely misinformed.

He said: “The issue in any country, small or large, is that you have resource issues, limited resources you have to deal with – education, health, policing.

“The question is, would it really be appropriate to not be directing resources to the homicide situation? I’m not saying they aren’t, nothing shows me that when they act.

“The fact that [police] aren’t doing what we think they should be doing is because they are the professionals, and they are making decisions based on their intelligence and the reality of the situation.

“The police deal with the failure in society. After you’ve arrived at that point where you are going to take someone’s life, there is nothing the commissioner is going to say that is gonna deter you.”

The murder count was at 76 after three separate weekend shootings claimed the lives of two men and a woman.

Last week, Prime Minister Perry Christie said there is a “compelling need” for heightened protection against the scourge of crime with the influx of resort developments in western New Providence.

He added that the government is considering using the Defence Force to help expand the reach of the police.

Mr Munroe said: “As a country we have bred murderers over the last two decades. After we bred them, there are quite a number of them.

“It’s a social circumstance that we have and we’re going to have it for the next decade or so. There is no silver bullet. We raised these young killers, and they are gonna be killing.

“We raised them as a society, not the police. We have to be careful how we go forward with that.”