And Shyne also posed a question to the Minister of Home Affairs, to update everyone on the implementation of his crime prevention strategy. Kareem Musa has told us before the plans include stalling more surveillance cameras, more community policing but also tackling crime from the root, which is poverty, by implementing a free education program starting on the southside.
But all that is yet to come. For now, Musa said there are measures being implemented to deal with the current criminals.
Hon. Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"Those in the courts will recognize that we have begun to turn up the heat on gang members, fast tracking and prioritizing prosecutions of gang members. Our strategic meeting with officers at the prosecution branch was refreshing. The pressing resolve was clearly welcomed and the good officers are more than ready to execute. For a long time gang members with outstanding fines and warrants skirted the consequences of their failure. We have activated a program specifically to execute commitment warrants against these gang members. We want them off the streets and we want them off now. In this regard we have also assigned senior investigators to follow up and sure up cases involving gang members. The detention and conviction rates will eventually make a life of crime less attractive. This should make the parallel installations of social and rehabilitative programs more attractive. We have every intention of working with those who want to turn their lives around but we also have every intention of targeting, disabling and removing those who wish to terrorize and kill."
