We call upon all local media to engage in more responsible journalism on the matter of crime. Support localized efforts at peacekeeping, peacemaking and community justice. Grassroots initiatives directed at fostering long-term peace between rival gangs and at restoring, through community and restorative justice, bonds sundered by crime should be endorsed, encouraged and facilitated. Increase efforts at rehabilitation within prisons. In this year alone there have been 20 murders and 35 stabbings, an increase of approximately 400 percent for similar incidents reported last year.
Beatings are the prime method for behavior modification in our prisons.
Generate targeted mass employment projects. However, we do want to call attention to findings showing that it is the most blighted areas in the Kingston Metropolitan Area and in places like Montego Bay that have the highest rates of homicide. These areas are responsible for a disproportionate share of the nation's violent crime problem. They will need good, viable jobs if they are to become stakeholders in the society. Do more to enable small-scale entrepreneurship.