Bullshit CCN!!

The Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) has, once again, decided to stop releasing weekly crime statistics, ostensibly because of a heart attack suffered by the head of its statistics department. They'll still send out crime information three times a day, but will refrain from releasing weekly crime statistics.

Said Supt. Ramsay-Nelson, head of the CCN, "I think I have the responsibility to relieve the stress. We compile information and send out releases three times a day. Must we turn around at the end of the week and send the information back to you? Each newsroom has to develop its system to compile the information from now on."

I don't know what method the CCN uses to compile its info, but if the method which the rest of the police force uses is any indication, it probably involves a shit-load of hand written paper-work. I can just imagine the variation in figures produced by each newsroom. Maybe that's exactly what the JCF wants. Then they can just pick the lowest figure and work with it.

Here's an idea Supe, how about using a simple MS Excel workbook that'll calculate all those weekly, and yearly, statistics automatically from your daily entries? Anyone with rudimentary knowledge of Excel can set it up. Shit, I'd come do it for you for free.

How about "relieving the stress" on your statistics department that way, instead of witholding information from the country, or releasing it only to "media practitioners and persons who already had police approval"?

This whole story reeks of bullshit. It appears as if the CCN is just trying to contain the growing dissatisfaction of the general public at the skyrocketing crime rate by only releasing figures once a month, especially since this announcement comes after one of the worst months in Jamaica's history. 167 people were murdered in May 2005.

Find another solution Supe, this one is woefully inadequate.