Force cannot solve the kind of problems we have

Dear Editor,

What is known to us is that the mourning will never really end. A reflection on our history yields the awareness that the victim race forever feels itself dismembered and degraded. Whether it be Wismar or Son Chapman, the mourning and resentment live on in the racial memory. This is a lesson all should have learnt.

If the events that marked the generations in the sixties and imposed, by their horror, the seething peace of subsequent years, are to be avoided for all time then the calls for a retreat from the brink resonate in ways that all will feel in their souls. There are lessons in what happened in Lusignan.

One such, in its hideous urgency, is that it takes atrocity to get attention. What Rondell Fineman Rollins has demonstrated is that the Police could change the way it handles the public information side of its criminal investigation.

Our Police Force, notorious for appearing to drag its feet, for disappearing behind a wall of contemptuous silence, for having its case files disappear and active members free-lancing for drug distributors, for its cowardly inability to catch and prosecute the big dealers, for its shameless bribe-taking and planting of evidence, its quite criminal collusion with some in power , a police force that doesn’t answer the phone when you call from Lusignan in your anguish and distress