Does the fight against crime give positive results for security or not? (OR)

There are citizens’ opinions that they do not feel safe in their own bodies anywhere in Ecuador. We are looking for law reform, life imprisonment, fair justice… (OR)

Alex Xavier Leon Ramirez

Unfortunately, the power to sanction those who violate it did not produce the expected results. The media write daily that our community started lynching criminals because of self-defense or because of unachieved justice by the authorities, or because of disappointment and this is a social reaction; either because of the condition of the victim or because of the malice used. Both facts, the crime and the ‘sanction’, are reprehensible.

No one guarantees that the defendants will not make the investigation difficult or impossible after their release by erasing or distorting important information about the crime, hiding things or material effects, colluding with accomplices, bribing or intimidating witnesses or justice officials.

Every day more and more children decide to belong to one of these criminal organizations; Through the Internet, they obtain information on how to obtain weapons to commit crimes in their areas of influence. The main perpetrators and their helpers must be punished. Crime in Ecuador takes on a special hue due to acts of vandalism that paint a sad picture of insecurity. (OR)

Francis Moto

From Quito, I notice a decline in criminal attacks on the community, thanks to the progressive use of force by the police and military. (OR)

Angel Campoverde

I consider it urgent and necessary to update the laws that Ecuador has to punish the leaders of criminal and terrorist groups that harm innocent people.

This update of the law should consider minimum prison sentences of 20 years and, depending on the seriousness caused, if there are deaths, impose sentences of at least 50 years in prison; also compensation to the state for all costs it incurs such as investigations, the number of police and army used to fight organized crime; compensation to the relatives of the dead victims; All economic resources seized from narco-criminals are used to procure technology for the police and military intelligence. (OR)

Jose E. Ortoneda Sanchez

Frankly speaking, the fight against crime does not produce positive results for national security, because the reports that the public gets to know are rare, and the reality is unfortunately different.

It is revealed that the prisons are thoroughly inspected, but riots, crimes, etc. occur; This means that there are no controls or they are deficient. It is said that education is essential in order for people to devote themselves to learning and work, and not steal out of necessity, kill because there is no work, etc.; but you have to beg for a place at school, at university, to be able to study. Low wages, no work to survive. The police and the armed forces do their job, and dishonest judges immediately release criminals. It is enough to recall the case of politicians, former members of parliament, who commercialized positions for their friends, abusing their influence, and still collect “vaccines” for positions allocated in public and private institutions “thanking” the power they have. . International assistance was requested in the fight against corruption, drug trafficking, kidnapping, murderers, etc.; This aid is allocated to any other bureaucratic action, and not to what is really badly needed in the fight against organized crime. They just remember that a policeman needs a weapon to establish order, a car to move, etc.

When a man has nothing to fear, he faces the detractors and proves that he is innocent of what he is accused of, be it the president or any other authority. We cannot elect leaders who offer gold and the Moor, and when in office do not keep their word. No one mocks the people, they should be respected, not exploited and deceived. The only thing that can be seen is that the country is more indebted than before, with serious problems that it will have to face: natural disasters, the incompetence and ambition of its rulers, the need to survive; We can only hope that God will have compassion for our beloved Ecuador. (OR)

Artemio Rojas

Do I believe that the fight against crime gives or does not give positive results for national security? No, I don’t think so, because murderous criminals attack, injure and kill every day on the bus, when people are in their own vehicles; on the street, in public and private places, in clinics and hospitals, in study centers, in shops, in homes, at parties and funerals, etc. Safety is not felt in the body anywhere in Ecuador.

It must be that they caught some assistants of criminal leaders, certain politicians and corrupt officials, the type guilty of murdering women, rapists, etc.; But they pay big money, they have influence, “justice” (in quotation marks), politicized, corrupt, gives them habeas corpus, declares them innocent or simply says there is no evidence and lets them go free. There should be a life sentence. Justice should be in the hands of only professional people with proven integrity. (OR)