the day before<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n“As the vicious cycle of senseless murders and gun play permeates our territory, I appeal to the residents of this community, who are the parents, relatives, friends, and associates of the victims, to cooperate with and assist police and all law enforcement agencies in their efforts to solve these crimes.\u00a0 Since many of these violent crimes seem to be retaliatory in nature, we must, as a community, change the mind set of victims and their associates, who too often take it upon themselves to resolve matters on their own, as if to preserve some code of honor,” the acting governor said.<\/p>\n
He added: “Unless we are able to discourage and overcome this misguided attempt to enforce \u2018street justice\u2019 among groups, gangs, and families, we will continue to bury more and more of our residents, particularly those among the young male population.\u00a0 The time has come, if we are to survive as a community, for each of us to demonstrate responsibility, and share what we know with our law enforcement community, and enable our duly authorized professionals to do the jobs which they have been trained to do.<\/p>\n
“All members of our community must face the sobering reality that our police officers need our help.\u00a0 Victims of violent crimes, their families and associates, must begin cooperating with police, or we risk being held hostage by a minority of thugs, who will continue operating as usual, confident in the knowledge that many in the community fear them, while the rest have bought into their \u2018culture of secrecy\u2019, and will not share information with law enforcement.\u00a0 I ask that we not allow ourselves to be doomed to such a fate.\u00a0 We should all consider the consequences for the future of our community if we do not reverse this deadly trend.”<\/p>\n
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ST. CROIX —\u00a0Following the barrage of criminal activity on this island on Friday, Lieutenant Governor Osbert Potter will host a press conference at Government House here at 12:00 p.m., according to a press release issued this morning. Governor Kenneth Mapp left the territory on Thursday to participate in New York’s Labor Day Weekend celebrations, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[228,11,191,147],"tags":[3146,3147],"yoast_head":"\n
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