A multiplier effect
published: Friday | September 19, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
ALL AVAILABLE indicators show that murders and shootings will substantially increase in the rural areas over the next 12 to 18 months.
Those violence-prone urban offenders who have migrated to the countryside are beginning to have a multiplier effect on rural youth whose refusal to farm has led them to a life of drift and hopelessness. More ominous, illegal guns are flooding the hills of Westmoreland, Clarendon, St. Catherine and St. Ann.
We had better begin to organise volunteer policing early, because our government could never afford the cost of hiring enough policemen and soldiers to confront this menace on a national scale.
