10/14/2020 7:29 PM
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 10/14/2020 8:22 PM
It is not the same to
have a security policy than
to
do politics with insecurity
.
The first option needs a plan and reliable execution.
The second is a low-flying exercise whose main objective is not to improve daily life but to hit the political adversary or seduce insiders with a living room story.
Designing
public policies
is not the same
as doing
party politics
.
National Minister Sabina Frederic gave three very tangible examples in just 10 days.
First, he blamed the crime of a policeman in Palermo (at the hands of a psychiatric patient who stabbed him) on the City Police.
In political terms, it should be read like this: that a federal police officer (Alberto Fernández) died because of the negligence of Buenos Aires police (Horacio Rodríguez Larreta).
The crime reignited the debate on the use of
tasers
- which the minister opposes - to immobilize people in risky situations.
Frederic usually resorts to ideological frames that look good on the blackboard of an Anthropology classroom but that catch fire in the reality of the street: with
Taser
guns
we don't know what would have happened;
without them
there were two deaths
.
Six days later, the minister met with senators to analyze drug trafficking
"from a public health perspective
.
"
Will the meetings on the prospect of persecuting drug gangs be held at the Ministry of Health?
Later, he informed the chief of staff Santiago Cafiero - and the latter to the Senate - that a land seizure is considered illegal
only when there is a final judgment of the justice system.
That is, you have a piece of land and they occupy it: the occupiers will stay until a judge decides that they should leave;
that after the appeal a higher court intervenes;
that after another appeal, Cassation intervenes, and so on until the Court.
So yes, after the intervention of
12 magistrates
(one of instruction plus three from the first chamber, plus three from Cassation, plus five from the Court) in 8 or 10 years, hopefully, justice will say that the taking of their land is illegal
in a final ruling
and from there the government should order the eviction.
The same is difficult because the Buenos Aires minister Sergio Berni says that he does not have quadricycles or buses to take the police to evict the Guernica takeover.
We have to see if they get them for this Thursday, when the eviction period imposed by the Justice begins and which runs until the end of the month.
Berni does defend the use of
tasers
but this week he came out to condemn the idea of some mayors to start buying them.
Why did he do it?
Because they are
mayors of the opposition
.
Berni appears commenting on the almost miserable conditions in which the police who lead have to work, although that lack of means became chronic when
almost 50,000 police officers
joined the Buenos Aires
at one stroke
without being very clear
where the funds would come from
to pay such a volume of salaries and equipment.
It was in the Scioli government, which before the 2015 elections presented them in Berazategui to a guest who came smiling to celebrate that huge increase in provincial spending:
Berni himself, who at that time wanted to be governor
.
While Frederic's entire plan would consist of showing handfuls of gendarmes and contesting for power spaces with Berni, he only seems interested in maintaining
a high profile
to add votes to Cristina from those in the Province who see him as a
sheriff
without a patent against the taking of lands and the liberation of prisoners.
It is the furrow where Patricia Bullrich usually sows.
"I'm from the right,"
says Berni, and feels that he occupies an exclusive rhetorical space on
Planet K
, while violent crime continues to gallop in the open, well away from the catholes of public speeches.