Karachi Voilence Solutions from New York Police

Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 3:43 am

Karachi Voilence Solutions from New York Police Daily we hear of the target killings in Karachi. The Police and Rangers are out in full force trying to curb this problem. But with the ever-increasing population of the city and its metropolitan size, the police are finding it difficult to control the violence. There are calls for Army to step in, but the Army are not trained and equipped to police civilian cities. They are not interested and cannot afford to get involved as they are already fighting insurgency in the North and patrolling the Border with India in the East.

Like Karachi many other International cities around the globe had to deal with similar violent situations. Especially New York in America, where crime was uncontrollable. Gang wars and target killing between drug dealers were carried out in similar ways like in Karachi. The USA had a very serious crime problem in the 1980’s and 1990’s, but they managed to control their crime rate and reduce it by more then 70% nationally by researching the problem and solutions for more then 2 decades and finally finding out the perfect mix of tactics to use to help a Nation and/or cities reduce their crime.

The first most important solution for reducing crime nationally is implementing strict crime laws for repeat offences. In the USA, the main instrument that helped reduce the crime nationally was the “Three Strike Law”. The law basically says that if a person is convicted three times, no matter how big or small the crime is, they will be sent for life imprisonment after their third conviction (strike). This law alone helped reduce crime in
all the cities of USA. Crime levels of robberies, car snatching, burglaries and many other similar crimes have seen a 68% reduction in the USA in the past 20 years. The general assumption by experts is that people don’t want to risk getting three strikes on non-lethal crimes. Lethal crimes, drug and prostitution crimes have not seen such big drops in their levels (infact the drug use level has remained high) because those are mostly crimes of
passion or anger. In Pakistan the National and Provincial Assemblies can make similar laws quickly to help
save Karachi and the country from a worst situation in future and help reduce the crime rates and allow the police forces more time to work on more dangerous crimes.

The second and third tactics are used by the New York Police Force. New York city is a metropolitan sized city, the huge size and mixed population created many cultural and social differences, which resulted in lots of violence. The New York Police have used many techniques and found out that two of their techniques helped reduce New York city’s crime rate by more then 80%, 20% more then the National average. The New York Police have one Central Planning Center, where all the crime committed in the city on the day is pinpointed on a map. This gives the New York Police the layout of where the most crime is committed in a city, so they can plan their patrols and movements the next day according to the previous day report. The New York Police researchers found out that when a certain crime, say a burglary, is committed in an area, then for the next few weeks, similar crimes will be committed in the same area, which will give rise to a number of more different crimes in those weeks. They figured out that criminals return to the area where they have had success once. Therefore to counter this the New York Police used a very simple approach, which brings

us to our third important solution/tactic. The New York police use high number of police presence to deter the criminals. For areas found to have high crime rate, the New York Police would setup a contingency of Police personnel there, who would do random stop and search checks and even make arrests for small misdemeanors. They would follow this tactic for a few weeks in one area and then move to the next crime area. They found
out that with the “Three Strike Law” people would be so scared of being arrested that
they would not do anything un lawful. In Pakistan our Police Force and Rangers can follow a similar strategy for Karachi. Although they are trying their best but the violence has become so bad that I think the best strategy for the Police and Rangers forces is to re-group, re-plan and then go out in force.

These three points have helped USA reduce their national crime rate by 60% and New York have reduced their crime rate by 80%. This reduction has helped the Police of USA in the long run by reducing the number of criminals in the jails and by reducing the crime rate they have helped reduce the workload on the police. Similarly these measures have now made the people feel more secure.

The government of Pakistan can use two decades of knowledge and experience of the New York Police in curbing the violence quickly in Karachi. Or they can continue their Political rambling and allow the violence to continue, until it spreads across Pakistan.

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