Insecurity vs Criminality - Haitians have it all Confused and it is making the country look bad

Jean Jean Roosevelt Surrounded by Police in Mirebalais Haiti

Every day in the United States, many crimes of all sorts are committed all across the country. Haitians who live in diaspora knows this but they are never in a state of panic because the news media in the United States calls it a murder, a homicide, a shooting, but never "insecurity".

Everyone is OK with that including Haitians who lives in the US where these crimes are happening.

But in Haiti, a small island nation where every major radio station is like Haitian CNN, broadcasting news nationally, every time two people get into a fight and one ends up killing the other, you hear "insecurity is going up in Haiti".

That's the first thing you hear and it raises panic not just in the entire nation but across every Haitian diaspora community around the world.

Haitians across the globe begin to panic:

"Oh my God!"

"Insecurity in Haiti!"

"Haiti will never change!"

There is no place on earth where crimes are not committed. It is time for us to stop calling it insecurity.

It is this specific choice of word, insecurity, that is causing the panic.

Perhaps we should start focusing on the crime rate in some of the major Haitian cities like Port-au-Prince. Compare our crime rate to cities in other countries like Chicago USA, Kingston Jamaica or Tijuana Mexico. You will be surprised how safe Haiti is compared to these other cities.

My fellow Haitians, let's change our vocabulary about Haiti.

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