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Industrialization
and Crime
Crime Fact:
Alcoa has multiple CRIMINAL convictions including the largest criminal
fine for pollution violations ever paid in history: US$3,75million for
polluting a river.
Crime Fact:
The area around Chatham was designated by an act of Parliament as
agricultural land. Who authorized designating the area a "industrial
estate" without parliamentary consent?
- Q: What kind of 'Crime Plan' would
forcefully remove people from their safe homes into NHA ghettos?
Q: How many more terrorist targets (i.e. Industrial Estates) do you want to create?
Industrialization increases the gap
between the "haves" and "have nots" and crime will be on the increase.
Just compare the crime rates in Jamaica (Industrial Country) and the Caymen Islands or St.
Lucia (Tourist Countries)!
Would you like to visit Maloney alone late at night?
Do you think that LNG in Pt. Fortin is a better terrorist target than Frederick St.?
Don't kid yourself, We are a prime target!
Foreign Industries in Trinidad draw the economic gap even wider, the salary differences
between the haves and the have nots, the Natural Gas worker making $400. a day and a
grocery packer $80. a day. "In the US one of the richest countries in the world
"one in five children in this country live below the poverty line? Do you deny that
such a level of social depravation—alongside staggering levels of wealth for the
economic elite—is a significant factor in the prevalence of crime? What is your
attitude to the fact that over 40 million Americans, a large percentage of whom are
children, do not have health insurance—a basic necessity for a healthy and productive
life? Health care is considered a basic right in most advanced industrial countries,
where, incidentally, crime rates tend to be much lower than in the US". - Larry
Roberts.
In a recently published book entitled Crime
and Punishment in America, Elliott Currie, a leading criminologist, states without
reservation that crime is the product of social and economic dispossession, a fact that is
proven by data collected not only in America, but all over the world. Currie notes that
America, of all the advanced industrial countries, has the distinction of having more
people living in absolute poverty and more of its citizens—also overwhelmingly
poor—in its prisons.
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Around the world, the countries with relatively low levels of violent crime tend to be not
only among the most prosperous but also those where prosperity has become most general,
most evenly distributed throughout the population. The countries where violent crime is an
endemic problem are those in which prosperity, to the extent that it is achieved at all,
is confined to some sectors of the population and denied to others. That includes a number
of less developed countries in Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean (and parts of the
former Soviet bloc) and one country in the developed world-the United States.
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Countries where there is a wide gap between rich and poor routinely show higher levels of
violent crime-which helps explain why the world's worst levels of violence have been found
in places like Colombia, Venezuela, South Africa, and Mexico, where inequalities are even
harsher and more consequential than in the United States. Look closer, and it becomes
apparent that violence is worse in neglectful or mean-spirited societies than in more
generous ones-even if they are poorer. Societies with weak "safety nets" for the
poor and economically insecure are more likely than others at a comparable level of
development to be wracked by violence.
To make your voice heard about crime in
Trinidad, do not forget to sign the petition at www.trinidadmurders.org
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