Huffpost Canada ca The Blog   Peter Worthington Headshot  You
Can't Stop Crime if You Can't Say Who Is Doing it  Posted:
Updated:    For starters, we (the police and government) should
determine who is doing the shooting. Is there a particular
segment of society that is more prone to using guns than other
groups?  If the answer is "yes," then steps can be taken to curb
such violence.  But to make the initial determination means
profiling who exactly is doing the shooting and, in general, who
the victims of such shootings are.   Examining gun violence is
more like diagnosing who and why such violence is rampant. And
diagnosis is essential before one can find a cure. The two go
hand and fist.  The reality is that the groups for whom handguns
are a factor of daily life are adept at profiling and making
targets of their enemies.  In Toronto, the ones using guns --
and the victims of shootings -- mostly tend to be of Jamaican
origin. Police know this, even if they can't say so publicly.
Certainly Jamaicans know i