*MAQABANE, we engage on the following little opinion:* Looking at the minister of the police Wednesday was heartening to see him painfully struggling to explain to the parliament portfolio committee his worst nightmares as a new captain at the height of the stinking rotten ministry that is charged with the responsibilities of protecting the citizens. I believe that the ministry is rotten precisely because those who are suppose to be running it are killing us with their smelly omen of rot in relation to their association with the elite criminals, those I have classified as the illegitimate petite bourgeoisie. These are the little capitalists who on a daily basis attempt to match the standards of their masters by maneuvering many tricks with the state and the society, by using the lumpen proletarians in order to drive their malicious criminal acts as street corner tsotsies with a palm gun or even an AK-47.
While I clearly understand that no police is supposed to be dogging and diving at floods of bullets from criminals while they posses legitimate bullets that are supposed to protect citizens, but it is equally not helpful to just fight fire with fire if you do not harshly tackle the source of the fire. It is obvious and crystal clear that most of the car thieves, bank robbers, home burglars and drug distributors are working for bigger bosses who are at very high levels of our society, some of them enjoying coffees with the police chiefs. The state violence will only harden the small criminals who are hassling in the streets for their masters and the police may not win the war. *HOW ABOUT A FEW SHORT TERM REFORM PROPOSALS?* The new minister must just bully the cabinet and demand the highest budget for crime fighting and use that budget to firstly house the police in one safety residential compounds, increase the salaries of the police to the level of teachers even at constable level, reenergize and boost the crime intelligence operations, dedicate a directorate in the police for community police forum, get more young people to volunteer as police reservists and engage in vigorous road shows on anti-crime educational campaigns in the communities. This will boost the confidence and the moral of the police and even encourage them to convict even the stinking reach crime captains, but for as long as the status quo remains, how would you expect constable earning a paltry R5000.00, staying at Ramaphosa shacks and using a taxi to work to arrest a multimillionaire criminal staying at a wealthy suburb? Let us let our society to debate this. Inspired by JZ, that we have to ignite debates in the society, till we all with our collective wisdom reach certain solutions that can be good for the whole nation and make SA and the world a habitable place by all humans. -- Vincent Masoga 073 513 7705 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
