What happened with Peter Bunting’s crime plan?
Published:Tuesday | July 23, 2019 | 12:07 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, Peter Bunting introduced his five- year crime plan to the nation. He promised to get murders down to 321 in 2017 by reducing them by 134 annually for the next five years.
One thousand one hundred and twenty-five murders were committed in 2011 and 1,192 in 2015. By November of 2015, Peter Bunting said he was implementing a new crime plan where the country would see heavy military deployment.
Peter Bunting doesn’t have any moral authority on crime strategies and plans. In the past, he said it was the dismantling of the Shower Posse in Tivoli that caused the murder rate to go down and not the states of emergency. Clearly, without a declared state of emergency, disrupting that gang activity would’ve been impossible.
St Andrew South Police Division’s homicide tally from 2004-2018:
2018 148 murders
2017 160 murders
2016 92 murders
2015 76 murders
2014 63 murders
2013 104 murders
2012 101 murders
2011 100 murders
2010 154 murders
2009 240 murders
2008 223 murders
2007 209 murders
2006 187 murders
2005 270 murders
2004 242 murders
Clearly, the 2010 Tivoli state of emergency reduced the tally in this murderous police division. For Peter Bunting to vote against states of emergency speaks volumes about his thinking.
Teddylee Gray