firstly empathy must be shown to those hundreds of thousands of victims of crime to the families of the fifty citizens murdered every single day to the sixty eight citizens raped every single day and there must be a clear indication that a cohesive direction has been determined followed by a national strategy to take us forward to a safer future instead this past thursday references to this situation that haunts the nation were made as asides comprising less than three percent of the speech that is supposed to detail and determine the state of the nation