I read three articles during this period. The article which impressed me the most was the one about El Salvador. The murder rate of that country is 22 times than that of U.S. so we can know how serious the situation is. The officers are checking for tattoos that would reveal certain gangs and a forensic team from a local morgue heads out into the streets to collect the dead bodies every night. The article also mentioned what do the bereaved family feel so l felt really sorry after reading it. This is the summary for the article.
We discussed what can we do as Japanese and than we concluded with two things. The first one is to export police station system to those countries and another is to donate money to make children be able to receive education.
First of all, Japan has a police station which is called “Koban” in Japanese and it is been attracting foreigner’s attention. The representative example is Brazil. Brazil was elected as one of the most dangerous place in the world by UN in 1997, but it started to accept this Koban system from 2005. Owing to 270 of ” Koban” in Sampaio, the murder crime rate decreased to one-fifteenth. It is effective for not only to arrest criminals, but also to have communications with citizens and prevent the crime happen. We thought Japanese can advice on this system to those countries which the crime rate is quite high.
The second one is donating money to make children be able to receive education. It is said that half of perpetrators of abuse are graduated from junior high and 12 percents are graduated from high school and only 2 percents are graduated from university in Japan. From this result, we can definitely say that the education is one of the most effective way to prevent the crimes happen. In El Salvador, the compulsory education is ensured until junior high school like Japan,but two-third of students who are to attend high school don’t go to school. I’m not sure whether donating money is effective to prevent the crime because we cannot say that the money is going to be used effectively by the government. However, I think we can say that to make children receive education is important so if the money which was donated was used to make the education system work, I think it will be good.
To conclude, we discussed that exporting police stations “Koban” system and donating money to make the education system work is something that we can do.