CRIME “Stop this please, we need help”

"Stop killing innocent people".........

What does CRIME means? After starting with this topic; I will like to share what does a crime means. A crime is an offence against a public law. In my words, for me a crime is an action that a person made in order to violate the law and to damage our society. A crime is always sanctioning if the person that commits it was found. We can’t see this topic as one, because in my opinion this joins lots of people in order to get with the criminal.

What are some types of crimes? We can find lots of crimes but the most important are these ones:

1) Serial crime (with a serial nature).

2) Federal crime (federal offense)

3) Organized Crime (transnational grouping manage by the leader)

4) Signal Crime (anti-social behavior)

5) Verbal Offence (limitations on freedom of speech)

8) White-Collar (committed by a well-standard person)

I’m going to be honest; I love crimes, I love the investigations and mystery that all these actions involve. For example there is a program on TV that I always see it (it name: “La Ley y El Orden”). I prefer to do these kinds of things and spend my night watching these movies than hanging out with my friends /depends.

Now, I’d had already see millions of cases of crimes that were very difficult and horrible to solve because they were about suicide or violation, so they were very aggressive. But one recent crime that happened right here in Mexico captured my attention. This crime was the one from the girl Paulette.

The first time I saw it, I thought: “ it’s the mom definitively”; but then when the girl appeared on the bottom of her bed, I started making different hypothesis. One of them is that maybe the mom got scared because it was an accident and she hide the baby, so then she get the baby out again and put it as if someone comes and put her there. But for example how does the police, with all that stuff of cameras, radios and technology couldn’t see who was the person that entered and hide the baby there. Another reason for the one I thought that was her mom is that when she is talking to the media, I don’t know if she was in shock or whatever but she doesn’t express her feelings. She was frozen; she doesn’t even have a tear.

Now, the other one that was suspicious for me or a bid doubt was her father. Maybe he wasn’t in her house, but for example he can get this as a vengeance toward her wife because they were separated. So, he left the girls and the mom says that they slept at 8 o`clock and when at 8 in the morning the “nana” came, she saw that the girl wasn’t there. But the only thing is that how does they can make this!!! Kill a girl of 4 years in order to take vengeance or any other objective that isn’t an excuse to kill a girl neither to kill someone or something.

Money vs Justice

On March 17, 2009 Denisse Fimbres Oquita and Victor Quiroz Beltrones were killed by Fernando Noriega Soto at Bahia de Kino. Denisse and Victor were camping in the beach when Fernando, who was driving in an alcoholic state run over them.
It has been a year since the dead of Denisse and Victor but is still I tragic story that we will always remember and have present. It’s incredible how having power and money can make a difference when you are involved in a crime. When the accident happen every single evidence and witness was hidden. The families new about their sun’s and daughter’s dead almost 12 hours later. Imagine what they felt about. What would have felt if nobody tell you what had happen? Let me tell you that I was frustrating not knowing anything. When Victor’s brother, Carlos Quiroz, finally arrive to the police station, Fernando Noriega was already being asses by a lawyer. It was obviously that something was going wrong. Everything that happen was changed in order to make Fernando Noriega an innocent person. When the accident was published in the newspaper, the story was completely changed. What the newspaper said that Fernando’s car got stucked in the sand and when he finally was able to move he accidentally run over the tent where Denisse and Victor were sleeping. Bullshiit ! it was a total controversy. How can it be possible that just because you are rich and know important people you are able to make your son free of any fault?
The families of Denisse and Victor wanted to know the truth, they wanted the truth to be published, they wanted justice. It took like a month after the accident for the truth to come a light. Fernando Noriega went to jail for less than a year. Even though he is free from jail, I’m sure he is not free of culprit and he will have to live with that. i don’t wish him any bad but I hope the death of Denisse and Victor is not in vane. I hope that what happen help create conscious in Fernando and in other people who drive in an alcoholic state. I also hope that authorities take more serious their work. They are there to make justice not to accept extra money you know what I mean. And I also hope the same that Fimbres and Quiroz family hopes too: Thet this never happens again

Extortions lead Mexico to cut cellphones

Tens of millions of Mexicans could find their cellphones disconnected this weekend if the government goes ahead with a new law meant to fight crime by forcing people to register their identities. Advertisements on government radio and television have been urging Mexicans for weeks to register their cellphones by sending their personal details as a text message, but on Thursday 30 million lines remained unregistered as the Saturday deadline neared.
Analysts said that any related losses for Mexico's largest wireless operator, America Movil, would be tiny relative to the company's overall sales. Most of Mexico's 84 million mobile phones are prepaid handsets with a limited number of minutes of use that can be easily bought in stores. The phones can be topped up with more minutes through street corner vendors.
Imagine how many money could lose Telcel, Movistar, Lusacell, andm any other brands we don’t know. Also this will create a lot of disorder in the stores, people asking for service and attention to their situations.
America Movil has 71 percent of Mexico's wireless market, together with operations in Brazil, Chile and other countries in the region. Most of the rest of Mexico's cellphone market is in the hands of a company in Spain.
This week, senators refused requests from telephone companies to extend the deadline for a year, but discussions were ongoing and a last-minute vote could not be ruled out. The Reforma newspaper reported that a judge refused to give Telcel an injunction to stop the deadline.
I don’t think this is a good idea because anyway extortions will continue meanwhile cellphones keep in bad guys’ hands. It is true that many of these calls come from jail on those people would not be able to keep calling, but lets be realistic, we are in a country were corruption is everywhere, how much time will elapse from the cancellation of this cellphones systems to a man to take a phone to a guy in jail, how much for 20 cases of this type, how much for 100, faster than can we imagine.

Murders in Ciudad Juarez

Continued drug-related violence in the troubled Mexican border town of Juarez caused the Mexican government to make a change: replacing the army with a federal police force. It is very sad to read that in Ciudad Juarez, now officially recognized as the most insecure city in the world, the breaking news is that there were no people killed in 24 hours. At that point this city has arrived, to be happy because of one day the police did not have to lead with a bloody body.
Now Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico is sending more troops in order to keep controlling the insecurity in that city watching specific places and taking care of the citizens in order to wait the Federal police to retake their activities. Under the "Safe Corridors" program, the SSP will deploy 5,000 agents to patrol in the city's main streets, and carry out inspections in bars, billiards bars, schools and addiction treatment centers.
Turf wars between criminal gangs have caused 4,200 deaths in 2008 and 2009, and 500 so far this year.
Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told several Mexican media outlets on Wednesday that the city would now have a "policing solution." But how many times we have heard this and the murders keep going?
The army had taken over for a local police force widely seen as corrupt. But the use of the Mexican army as the chief policing force in Juarez had riled critics, who said the influence of troops led to torture and extrajudicial killings, as well as human rights violations, now more often than before.
Insecurity is everywhere in Ciudad Juarez, the “sicarios” and the army had taken almost by complete the city, it is a live war that hundreds of thousands of people are experiencing day after day, like is they were at war also, the only big difference is that they are not in charge of combat the bad guys.

Even the FBI is in Paulette’s case

The March 22 disappearance of Paulette Gebara Farah drew great attention throughout Mexico, and officials said they assigned 30 investigators to the case. Web pages from friends of the family and others were posted on the Internet, asking for help finding her.
Everyone in the country know about this tragic case, even the people that is not following it very often day after day in the news, even those people knows about the case of the 4 year old girl Paulette.
A lot of stories have been told around many newspapers and television channels, a lot liars are in this tragic story that it seems that has no end, when a clue to find the suspect comes up, it is know something else that erase all possibilities of getting into the bottom of the case.
What impress me other day was that this case went too far that the FBI had to intervene, it seems that only an organization so big like this one could lead us to the real problem. Sources have said that FBI people is checking the department when this whole thing took place. Are they really the solution? What comes next? The CIA will come to try to find out what happen to the little girl, is it that in Mexico we don’t have enough sources to solve our problems? This tragic episode of Mexican life has made impact in many people not only of Mexico but from other countries, this story has been read worldwide. Unfortunately this are the kinds of news that people from other countries read about Mexico. Let’s pray for justice, because that is what we need, justice and that the really guilt people go where they belong, to jail.

Tv reporter being threatened

It is very ugly to watch in the news how a woman reporter for ESPN has been receiving death threats, especially because her only job is to inform people from the field when she is at a game. Erin Andrews is the woman who has been target of death threats according to CNN.com.

It was horrifying for me watching this note, especially because at this day but five years ago, a journalist from El Imparcial, was kidnapped and nothing was known of him again.

Even though both cases are very different, the two cases caught my attention because now with technology and crazy people out there, is harder to be free when you are a public figure in the case of Andrews.

In the case of the Mexican journalist, he used to write notes about organized crime and stuff like that, what makes clear that some people did not agree what he write, so they decided just to shut him off. According to a Mexico City journal, in the past three years Mexico lead every country in murdered journalists.

These are ugly realities we are facing, and we will hardly stop them. When this topic shows up I don't like to talk about it, write it does not make it easier, but is something I just wanted to share.

A great sister and a smart criminal

Last day I read a story about a girl who worked for his stepfather. This type of job was a bad job, the stepfather made the girl work as a model for nude photos. She didn't wanted to be working on this type of job, so she said to her stepfather that she would quit from working like that. The stepfather, furiously told her that if she quitted he would make her little sister work on the same job or maybe just kill her. The girl didn't wanted her little sister to be working on those kinds of jobs, and furiosly killed her stepfather. She didn't wanted for them to suffer everyday cause of him, she didn't wanted for her little sister to live what she lived, thats why he killed him, to protect both of them.

This made me think, what if most criminals make this kind of terrible things in order to protect someone precious? Anyways, they are just humans and they have someone they love and want to protect.

Teacher of Alabama University with violent past

A couple of days before, I saw an horrible note that involved a teacher of Alabama University killing three collagues at a faculty meeting. The 42-year-old had just months left teaching at the University of Alabama in Huntsville when she opened fire Friday in a room filled with a dozen of her colleagues from the biology department.

Today (Sunday, 14) I saw in the newspaper (El Imparcial) that this same woman 23 years ago, shot to his brother in the chest and killed him. "Amy Bishop fatally shot her teenage brother at their Massachusetts home in what police at the time logged as an accident – although authorities said Saturday that records of the shooting are missing" said The Star paper of Toronto, Ontario.

It is unbelievable for me how bad people could be everywhere. How could the one who hired Bishop for teach in UA (University of Alabama), know that he/she was hiring a murderer? This terrible event remind me the tragedy that happened like five years ago in another USA's university, I think it was Virginia College, that many students died because a crazy man opened fire against them.

This is another example that we have to take care of ourselves at any moment. We cannot live thinking that every time something bad is going to happen to us, but is really necessary to know who are we dealing with.

Poverty and crime

Overpopulation leads to lack of jobs, which leads to poverty. When people are desperate to get out of it, they look for an "easy" way out, crime. In crime you don't need to fit standards, you don't have to get hired, you just have to get money from others without being caught. I'm sure they are aware committing a crime is a bad thing, unless they have some sort of psychological problem, but they do it anyways, they do it to survive and maybe take care of a family too. What should we do to stop crime? I think there isn't much an individual person can do about this, but in a bigger scale, more jobs could be created, but how and from where? And if we need to end poverty why do we give those new jobs to people who don't need them as much? Because it is in our best interest, what does it has to do with me that someone thinks he needs to recur to crime to eat every day? It has to do with me because every person has a right to live properly, it has to do with me because it isn't fair that someone is swimming in a pool of money and the other in mud, it has to do with me because no one should be committing any crime, no matter how small or big it is, it's still a crime, and no one should get money by this dishonest and awful means.

What can I do know? I can start by stop complaining about what i don't have and start being grateful about what I do have, because not many people are as lucky as we are.

City surveillance: Crime deterrent or invasion of privacy?

The governments say they are doing all of this for our safety, but I don't think that way. They say is easier to caught people who commit crimes thanks to all this surveillance devices. That is okay as long as is for solving crimes only but now individual citizens are also having their privacy invaded in the work place by employers who utilize surveillance cameras and computer software programs to monitor their employees and forcing their workers to sign waivers of their expectations of privacy.

Today the right of privacy is also coming to the forefront as more and more employers operate surveillance systems in areas in which their employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy. In an effort to prevent theft, sexual harassment, the viewing of pornography on office computers and the perpetration of actionable civil or criminal acts, employers are in many instances intruding on and invading the privacy of their employees. Employers are using hidden cameras, workplace searches, keystroke monitoring computer programs, e-mail, website and voice mail monitoring, and other software to snoop on their employees while cloaking themselves with the claim that their actions are being done to protect their employees.

Also the government of Mexico is saying that we have to register our cellphones numbers for our own security. They are sending helicopters very near to the ground of cities, you know why?, because the helicopters have a special device that can hear or intercept the call made on telephones and cellphones to be able to track persons involved with the narcs. But the government doesn't have the right to hear and intercept our calls. In Mexico D.F. police officers can enter your house without an order if they want to with the pretext that is for looking narcs. If we don't stop this right now you is going to stop the government of controlling our every action. I rather be free and be insecure but with hopes of a better future than being a prisoner in my own house knowing that I can't do anything about it.

It Is Our Fault Too.

I was reading my friend's posts, when I read Naiomi's point of view about crime and its impact on society. A certain comment about this captured my attention:

" And we pay for it like in higher prices for clothes, food, and in taxes to maintain criminals at jail. I don't think that this is fair we are paying for something that isn't our fault"

So I thought, what if it is actually our fault? If we think more deeply, why do criminals do the things they do?
Every criminal is a human being, and each human being is social by nature. So, it is imposible for a criminal to do those things without experiences he learned from somebody or certain emotions he had for somebody.

Here's an example:

-A thief shoplifts. Why?

A)He wanted food for his children.
B)He learned to shoplifting from his parents or friends at an early age.
C)The man in charge of the store said or did bad things to the thief before he actually shoplifted, and the shoplifter had an agressive character due to his parents.

and even if you think, why didn't he worked?
Well, he didn't worked becuase he is extremely poor and doesn't cover his basic needs like shower(lets face it, nobody ever contracts someone that smells); or he wasn't educated enough because he didn't got an scholarship( scholarships are scarce, they have an amount of scholarships to give and if you aren't good enough or didn't made it to the list, then you don't have it).

A criminal usually makes something illegal becuase the society pushes him to do it. In order for a criminal to do something bad, he needed to experience many harsh things about society and who compose the society? His parents, friends, people that surround him, and even other countries may influenced him indirectly too. Like war..

What can we do to stop crime?

The police can't. The only thing they do is create fear on people in order to keep them from doing something illegal.

The only ones that can help them is society itself.
We can help others or show that we care for them when they are living a harsh moment.

So, here is a final comment for Naiomi's point of view:

We pay for them in jail becuase we didn't helped them before they become a criminal.
It is our fault too.

Youth Students Assassin in Juárez

Cuidad Juárez, Chihuahua

Cuidad Juárez, Chihuahua has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world as reported in the news. On Sunday, January 31, 16 youth students were killed in a house.

The news report said, they arrived in four trucks, and they got down and started shooting all over the place. At first, it was said that the students weren’t part of any gang, but how are we sure… in my opinion, most of the kills are because of gang rivalry, it’s true that they kill innocent people that has nothing to do with them, but this time it was a bigger crime. Days later it was spread that one of the children who had died last weekend, could be related to organized crime, because in one of their cellphones was found photographs of them carrying rifles. The authorities report that the search for the responsible will be intensified in various parts of the city, which were installed in addition to military and police checkpoints.

Moreover, crime is now a global issue. All values are lost and they compared murders in Cd. Juárez with Iraq, and the results are that there are more deaths in Ciudad Juarez than in Iraq (a country at war). How come, a single city in the Mexican Republic has more deaths than a whole country? Mexico should really worry about this issue and make a big change out there.

Crime: A social problem

Nowadays, we are facing a lot of social problems here in México. All this problems are mostly an anwser to economic problems. The last years we’ve been living in a economic crisis, but, how does this takes us to have social problems?...This economic crisis changed the way people live. How?, a lot of people’s job were taken away, what made the family situation harder and crime, increased a lot.

I think that is normal that people who lost their jobs and are fighting to survive, attend to steal. I know, and I agree that nothing can excuse people to comete crimes, even when they are so desperate to get money somehow to buy food for his/her family. 95% of the crimes are reported, but the quantity is that big that the people in charge to take criminals off the society and put them in jail, can’t do all the job. This poverty takes society to another social problems like lack of education.

A guess we’ve all seen all the police cars going all around our city in high speed, searching for criminals and looking and fighting for a safe world. I actually can tell that my brother experienced something about this; he was walking back home from the supermarket , when a helicopter was flying above his head, he turned in a block, and the helicopter kept following him until he walked below a tree. This means that around us, we don’t know who but there are a lot of criminals, and police is searching for them in every corner of the city.

FIGHTING AGAINST CRIME.

Crime and Its Impact in Society

We all know what is crime, and we are living it all days. Every day in the newspaper there is something about it.

Crime affects us in some way, because of crime hey are making new laws to “protect us”.

Even the minor crime. For example shoplift, if a person shoplift the store has to pay that product that he stole, son in order to pay they need to raise the prices and they loose a lot of money. Just imagine that a person shoplifts something of $20 and if you multiply it for 52 weeks that a year has is $728,000 lost every year. It’s a lot of money and we are paying for it and we even noticed it! And imagine that there are more of the same stores it’s even more money. So, stores install cameras and stuff like that, but it isn’t cheap. And we are paying all of this in the higher prices.

But also we pay for the criminal, because it is expensive to maintain them in jail. They need clothes food, etc. In 2007 a newspaper reported that the average annual cost of housing prison inmates in the California prison system was $43,287 per inmate!

And we pay for it like in higher prices for clothes, food and in taxes to maintain criminals at jail. I don’t think that this is fair we are paying for something that isn’t our fault.

Unsafety Streets in Sonora

Last month, some of the local newspapers around the state of Sonora published some notes about the unfortunate events that had disturbed the calm of the citizens. There were several explosive artifacts (granades) that were thrown by unknown persons to four different cities in our state, Oregon, Navojoa, Hermosillo, and Cananea.

The first attacks were registered in Obregon. Five fragmentation granades were thrown against government buildings. Fortunately there were no injured people registrated.

After these attacks to the city of Obregon, more attacks resulted in other cities. In Navojoa there were two fragmentation granades that exploded in a restaurant and in a gas station. In the capital, Hermosillo, there were two granades thrown to the principal entrance of the PGJE, but only one exploded. In Cananea, there were three explosives thrown, two against banks and one against a gas station, but only one of the three granades exploded.

It is believed that the responsibles for these attacks chosed that locations because of the amount of people that attend there. The more damage they cause, the more panic they would produce among the people. It is also said that this attacks are in response to the new governor, Guillermo Padres, because of the “war” that he has started against drug trafficking.

It is not fair that innocent citizens suffer the consequences of the acts of revenge of the drug dealers. I am not against what the new governor says and imposes refering to the dug trafficking subject, but it is not correct to recall all of his ideas for punishing this crime in public because this sort of things could happen. Criminals take revenge against innocent people to demonstrate that they are more powerful and willing to do whatever it takes in order to continue with their trafficking. It is worth saying that we should all take some precautions, more than usual. There is now no safe place anywhere. TAKE CARE AND BE CAREFUL!