Concrete Proposals

One of the more reasonable objections to the National Agreement for Security, Justice, and Legality is the lack of short-term, specific, measureable goals. For instance, one of the goals is "strengthening Siedo". Well, of course that's a worthy objective, but that could mean a million different things.

Jorge Fernández Menéndez devotes today's column to laying out five objectives that are both urgently needed and achievable. They are paraphrased below:

1) The creation of a comprehensive national security system, which would lay out the relationships and mechanisms for coordination between the various security agencies. I imagine this would be something along the lines of the 1947 National Security Act in the US.

2) Give more investigative and prosecutorial powers to prosecutors at every level of government.

3) Centralize police command, if not through one central police, then through greater coordination between 32 different state police agencies and their federal counterparts.

4) Focus efforts primarily on the crimes that most affect the public: extortion and kidnapping.

5) Reform the penal system, through limiting contact with the convicts and the outside world, and by separating the most dangerous criminals from the general population.