PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES;
WHAT ABOUT THE NATIONAL CRIME PROBLEM
Listening to the Republican & Democrat Presidential debates, I discovered that VERY LITTLE is discussed about the nation’s crime problem. The national crime problem is more than local thugs, muggings or domestic violence. The October 9, 2007, Republican Debate had very little opinion about our crime problem, only discussed policing Internet Predators. Not to say that Internet Predators are not a serious problem, however Crime in America has reached far beyond the computer networks.
DRUG WAR
Today, we are fighting a war against terrorism both abroad and within America, yet we are treating Al Qaeda as a criminal organization, when in fact they are a serious threat to the stability of America, American’s and American business. As we cleared out the Taliban in Afghanistan, we dramatically reduced the POPPY FIELDS, the crop that produces Morphine and street Heroin. While for years America had seen a dramatic drop in street Heroin, the drug trafficking from Afghanistan across the world is currently entering America at a rapid pace. We’ll be back in fighting heroin addiction through local law enforcement, drug treatment centers and the courts. Stopping its importation is best achieved by destruction of the Poppy fields. The Afghan farmers should be subsidized to stop growing the poppy fields as we've done in the past. America needs to concentrate on this problem before it’s again out of control on our streets.
I spent some years as a “Narc” in NYC during the 1960’s and 1970’s seeing young men and women, teenagers, adults and children killing themselves by injecting, overdosing and destroying their lives, and families lives is just a tragedy. What’s it take to remember those crime years when street heroin was the drug of choice, creating street crimes such as robberies, muggings, burglaries dramatically increased?
Heroin is not a drug of a specific culture; it crosses the boundary of white, black and Hispanics communities. It reaches not only into the urban and ghetto community, but crosses the boundary into the wealthy suburbs.
GANGS in AMERICA
Why hasn’t GANG activity issues been a concerns by Presidential candidates? This subject is more than a crime problem; it’s the stability of communities, safety of children, schools, and even inside our prisons. The MS-13 international criminal gang, local street gangs that control communities, like the 18th Street Gang of L.A., through the form of terrorizing neighborhoods, businesses and even the police is as serious as our economy. The lack of attention to the gang problem affects the level of community control, education, family unit and our children’s safety.
GUNS on OUR STREETS
Many of our Presidential candidates speak to the issue of constitutional rights, the availability of guns on our streets, made available to street thugs and gangs is not what the Constitutional “Right to Bear Arms” section was designed or written for. I have no problem with NRA gun ownership rights, but we need to look at the lack of gun control, the straw purchases and transportation of hand guns and ammunition that reach the streets, unregulated, and available to criminal networks.
Crime and enforcement needs a priority and public discussion from our Presidential candidates. Without this attention, the local community, states and police departments will be engaged in not fighting crime, but rather holding the line between civility and chaos.
TASKFORCE ENFORCEMENT vs. STATES RIGHTS
Another concern is the movement within the Federal law enforcement community to establish “TASKFORCES” of various law enforcement agencies to combat the local crime waves. By establishing these taskforces, our local police have become surrogates of the Federal Law Enforcement establishment. Therefore, federalizing our community police by deputizing the local police to work in Federal agencies creates a threat against the separation of State’s rights. Cross-over from local law enforcement to federal law enforcement may infringe on constitutional guarantees. This indicates that “National Policing” may threaten the division of state from federal authority. If the local police become more integrated with federal jurisdiction and authority, the separation of States rights may be infringed, therefore jeopardizing individual’s rights as a constitutional issue.
I’m a proponent of aggressive policing against organized gang activity, organized crime controls and street crime enforcement. Attacking these three crime problems will greatly reduce the threat of crime to the community. It has been proven that attacking the quality of life crimes, petty thefts, and street crimes, illegal congregation of groups greatly reduces the local crime rates.
Attacking the organized gangs, organized crime activities and street crimes by aggressive enforcement by local authorities will greatly reduce the level of crime in the local community, either by displacement or by incarceration and will aid in the break-up of the gang controls over the community. Some communities in Florida, California, Arizona, the Mid West and North East are just examples of communities inundated with organized street gangs that endanger the daily lives of our citizens.
Our Police should be taking back the community from street thugs, gangs and organized crime activity. The Presidential candidates should address these problems as a national crisis. If not addressed, our communities will continue to live in fear, be flooded with news reports of murder and robberies, and even those crazy car chases that endanger the community.
It’s time for the national crime problem to become the focus of the Presidential race, not just a passing thought.
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK!!!!
Labels: Crime Talk America, Drugs, gangs, Presidentail Debates
