The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Jamaica Defense Force JDF has worked side by side for decades. Together both of these Institutions of Government have giv­en blood sweat and tears to nation-build­ing.
In the fight to secure the Nation as it relates to pro­tect­ing Jamaica’s expan­sive unpro­tect­ed shore­line, both the (JCF’S)Marine Patrols and the(JDF’s) Coast guard have logged innu­mer­able amounts of hours while the nation sleeps.
Despite their efforts, because of the expanse of unpro­tect­ed shore­line and the lack of resources, guns and drugs con­tin­ue to flood the Island from Haiti and Latin America.

In the inte­ri­or of the coun­try, the (JDF) has assist­ed the (JCF) with logis­ti­cal as well as numer­i­cal sup­port, par­tic­u­lar­ly when the need aris­es for declar­ing the State of Emergency, or when the Nation faces an exis­ten­tial threat, like the one faced in 2010 with the Tivoli Gardens annex­a­tion to the Jamaican state.
I can per­son­al­ly attest to the rela­tion­ships forged on a per­son­al lev­el with mem­bers of the Military as a young con­sta­ble sta­tioned at the Mobile Reserve.
We did Rat-Patrols, rap­peled from JDF Helicopters in the moun­tains of Montpelier to destroy Ganga fields, staked out ille­gal airstrips and much more.
On all of those assign­ments, whether it was one police offi­cer and a bunch of sol­diers or sev­er­al police offi­cers and even more sol­diers, we were a brotherhood.

Having laid out the way the two Organizations are inex­tri­ca­bly linked, I want to reg­is­ter my dis­gust at the idea that any­one, much less some­one with direct con­trol over the nation­al secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus would expand or exploit any fis­sure or crack (even per­cep­tion wise)which may exist between the two, for polit­i­cal or more omi­nous pur­pos­es.
And so today I want to talk about an age-old per­cep­tion with­in the pop­u­la­tion that sol­diers are more trust­wor­thy, less cor­rupt.
In doing so I wish to offer a bit of per­spec­tive in this con­tin­ued assault on the (JCF) by cer­tain peo­ple at the top of this Administration.
At the same time, I wish to once again explain that sol­diers fight wars and are seen as heroes. Even though mem­bers of the (JDF) nev­er have to go to war, the Military does not go out to haul crim­i­nals off to jail, and so sol­diers are not viewed the same way that police offi­cers are.
In a coun­try like Jamaica which is deemed to be 84% cor­rupt, the flir­ta­tious love affair which exists between the mil­i­tary and the pop­u­lace is quite under­stand­able. Arguably more con­se­quen­tial is the issue of crimes and acts of cor­rup­tion among mem­bers of the (JDF), these are gen­er­al­ly kept out of the pub­lic eye and are dealt with by the mil­i­tary, quite unlike inci­dents which involve the police which is plas­tered in pub­lic spaces for all to see.

Rather than inject much more of my own thoughts about cor­rup­tion with­in the JDF I will co-opt the words of some past mem­bers of both the (JCF) and (JDF) who like myself are nau­se­at­ed at the idea that there are moves afoot to dis­re­spect the (JCF) while extolling false virtues assigned to the (JDF).
None of this should be a thing but when mem­bers of the (JCF) are pushed aside and replaced with heads of the (JDF) to head the force under the guise that the police are too taint­ed and the mil­i­tary trust­wor­thy we are forced to speak out.
When the ZOSO in St James was basi­cal­ly sold as a JDF oper­a­tion with the (JCF) In a sup­port role we are forced to speak out.
When there is a hot­line to the (JDF) because of a sup­posed lack of trust for the police, even as the police hot­lines are con­fi­den­tial we call bull­shit.
When the Commissioner of Police, a usurp­er from the (JDF) brings over his dri­ver to the (JCF) sup­pos­ed­ly because he has spe­cial skills or the com­mis­sion­er do not trust the police and have him pro­mot­ed to Assistant Superintendent of Police, we call them out as cor­rupt.
When the Commissioner of police pur­port not to trust the men and women under his com­mand, he is in the wrong job as my friend said.

So here are a few of the com­ments on this issue, I’ll let them tell it.

Corruption and crim­i­nal­i­ty come from our soci­ety.
I being an ex-sol­dier knows that there is a lot of sol­diers back in my time being incar­cer­at­ed for var­i­ous crim­i­nal activ­i­ties. Guns have gone miss­ing in camp and from New Castle with­out the pub­lic’s knowl­edge. Soldiers and ex-sol­diers have been impli­cat­ed in train­ing crim­i­nal gun­men. Reporters can’t go into camp and get that infor­ma­tion but police high­light every case in which they arrest the police or ex-police offi­cer. Every orga­ni­za­tion has crim­i­nals and cor­rup­tion in it. Soldier shoots girl­friend, girl­friend fam­i­ly, Soldiers shoots girl­friend, sol­dier robs bread van in cross roads.
You hard­ly hear much about the end because they are not all over the Island like the cops. Soldiers col­lect mon­ey from gan­ja-farm­ers in West, allow­ing them to reap their crops then burn a small por­tion.
Soldier drowns their senior ranks at sea, as boat load of gan­ja gone miss­ing.
Let us deploy these sol­diers at every police sta­tion and give them the pow­ers of arrest and also a tick­et book then we can talk about the squeaky clean­ers of the army.
Most Jamaicans are always and will for­ev­er be stu­pid. It is like a dieheart­ed polit­i­cal lack­ey, their par­ty is always the best regard­less of all the malfeances and atroc­i­ties they commit.

There was a time back when sol­diers based at Vernamfield Clarendon, actu­al­ly every week they arranged for and cause gan­ja planes to land on the strips and col­lect gan­ja, think­ing now are paragons of virtue?

The first RPG (Rocket Propel Grenade launch­er) recov­ered in Jamaica was in 1997 and was recov­ered by the police in Kingston 11 in pos­ses­sion of a sol­dier at top jun­gle or tank, Kingston 12.
The importer of this weapon was the nephew of Member of Parliament, and he was­n’t arrest­ed and charged for the shoul­der held weapon.
The man fled to anoth­er juris­dic­tion and the sol­dier was on bail, and he fled the country.

In 1999 a for­mer mem­ber of the Jamaican Defense Force who was a mem­ber of the Jamaican Constabulary Force and sta­tioned at Half-Way-Tree Police Station (name with­held) gave his police uni­form to a Canadian fugi­tive who was able to escape from the Kingston Public Hospital under police guard.
The fugi­tive was a white man, and the police offi­cer was half white. The fugi­tive was held a few weeks lat­er in Rose Town, Kingston 11 liv­ing with the for­mer sol­diers fam­i­ly mem­bers.
He was allowed to resign because they did not want to embar­rass the army because there were red flags dur­ing his antecedent inves­ti­ga­tions, but he got help from with­in the organization.

There were two (2) Trailer loads of guns and ammu­ni­tion found near a high rise build­ings down­town Kingston (near the Coronation Market). Those Containers were tak­en to JDF-HQ where they went miss­ing. You who are talk­ing about Soldiers hon­esty, please do some research and let us know your findings.

There was a Soldier name, Kenamar Johnson, who usu­al­ly trained gun­men in web lane, Clarendon to use, Ak and m16. He was a Sniper for the JDF and a hit man for the Web Lane Gang. He was even­tu­al­ly killed by Police in Clarendon, after he was dis­missed from the army.

Why Soldiers are more liked than police 🤔, first thing comes to mind (pow­ers of arrest), when you serve as an occu­py­ing force and have the pow­ers of arrest, I can tell you that peo­ple don’t like you as much…

So there, I believe there ought to be an account­ing by both the (JDF) and def­i­nite­ly the (JCF), of all mem­bers of the mil­i­tary who have been arrest­ed and charged with a crime and appro­pri­ate case dis­po­si­tions done involv­ing each case.
Just like the inci­dents of police cor­rup­tion are always right­ly in the open.
One of the things which I have sug­gest­ed the (JCF) can be bet­ter at, despite the lack of resources and sup­port from Government, is to do an over­all bet­ter job on its own.
These are some of the areas in which the Agency can col­lect this data and archive it, so that the Agency can use the data to debunk the lies and dis­re­spect com­ing from the two crim­i­nal gangs which run the coun­try, as well as to for­mu­late strate­gies.
Members of the (JCF) at all lev­els, have done tremen­dous harm to the Agency, for that there is no excuse.
The crimes attrib­uted to mem­bers are inex­plic­a­ble and inde­fen­si­ble.
The cor­rup­tion in the (JCF) is nev­er­the­less a func­tion of a wider soci­etal decay and lack of moral­i­ty which has its’ gen­e­sis at the high­est lev­els of Governmental Administrations.
Before the Politicians exploit for their own pur­pos­es, the dif­fer­ences between the two orga­ni­za­tions, it is impor­tant that they look in the mir­ror and first pluck the beam from their own eyes, then remove the cor­rupt crim­i­nals who are among them right there in the People’s house.
When there is moral lead­er­ship from the top the peo­ple have no choice but to fall in line.

There is a set of facts which is not being debat­ed as it relates to the con­tro­ver­sial issue of Joel Hamilton’s sojourn to becom­ing an Assistant Superintendent of Police.
From JDF staff Sergeant to District Constable in the JCF, then to civil­ian and now an Assitant Superintendent of Police.
Before we get to the hard facts of this mat­ter we need to briefly take a look at the con­se­quences of what occurred.
It is hav­ing a neg­a­tive effect on the JCF, peri­od.
Regardless of what the JCF spokesper­son says, it is not just about the facts of the mat­ter, the per­cep­tion is far more con­se­quen­tial than they would have you believe.
Sufficing to say, that the expla­na­tion out­lined by Dahlia Garrick, the head of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion arm of the JCF, is as jum­bled and inco­her­ent, as it is nonsensical. 

Before we get to the facts how­ev­er, we need to remem­ber that mem­bers of the JCF Rank and file are basi­cal­ly hostages in the job they under­take to pro­tect and serve.
They are not allowed an opin­ion on Social Media crit­i­cal of their boss­es or their polit­i­cal over­lords.
They are under penal­ty of seri­ous prison time, just for dar­ing to leave with­out first advis­ing their mas­ters, 6‑months in advance of their intend­ed depar­ture.
After a shoot­ing in which they are injured or oth­er­wise trau­ma­tized, they are forced to give affi­davits which could decide whether the actions they took in ser­vice to oth­ers could land them in prison for life.
No oth­er Jamaican has that bur­den placed on them, in fact, no oth­er Jamaican can be forced to give a state­ment account­ing for their action.
No oth­er Police Department does this to its offi­cers.
Though not a Military force, the JCF is the only Agency of Government which has these stip­u­la­tions forced on them.
Not to men­tion that those stip­u­la­tions have been added after the vast major­i­ty of the peo­ple serv­ing today had already start­ed serv­ing.
These poli­cies are intend­ed to snuff out dis­sent.
Essentially they should die in ser­vice to their coun­try but should not have an opinion.

Deputy Superintendent Dahlia Garrick, pushed back at the crit­i­cisms, say­ing the for­mer JDF staff sergeant was nev­er
pro­mot­ed to the rank of assis­tant super­in­ten­dent.
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Wait.…what?
Instead, she said that Hamilton, who has near­ly two decades of secu­ri­ty expe­ri­ence, resigned as dis­trict con­sta­ble before he was appoint­ed through the nor­mal chan­nels.
Okay, wait just a f*****g minute there.
So an [appoint­ment] is not the same as a pro­mo­tion? You know if this state­ment was­n’t so inher­ent­ly retard­ed it would actu­al­ly be fun­ny.
What nor­mal chan­nel?
Did he go to the Police College to be trained, grad­u­at­ed and eval­u­at­ed before being giv­en such a senior Rank?
The answer is a resound­ing “No”. So how is the process of his ele­va­tion assumed to be through the nor­mal chan­nels?
This is exact­ly what Comedians mean when they say some­one is (brain-fuck­ing you).[sic]
Whoever sent her out to say that, has no respect for her, nei­ther do they have respect for the Jamaican peo­ple.
Notice I did not say any­thing about respect for the serv­ing mem­bers who are dis­tressed by this?
That is a fore­gone con­clu­sion!
The idea that an appoint­ment of that kind is rou­tine is in a word, “Bullshit.“
The idea that the Assistant Superintendent Rank was left open for exact­ly that pur­pose is false in this case, Joel Hamilton brings(a) absolute­ly noth­ing to the JCF which is not already there and (b) even if he did, he should have been sent to the Academy to do basic train­ing as a police offi­cer before ele­vat­ed to that Rank.
His ele­va­tion is a [ fuck-you ]to the hard-work­ing men and women of the JCF.
As I said before, they know it but they do not give a shit, who cares about these low-lev­el cops any­way?
The Jamaican econ­o­my is not near­ly large enough to absorb all the degrees being hand­ed out by the col­leges.
Somehow polit­i­cal favors have to be repaid, friends have to be posi­tioned, peo­ple have to eat- a‑food, what bet­ter place to put them than in the JCF.
A place where the poor­est peo­ple in the coun­try could, through ser­vice and risk-tak­ing, acquire some degree of pow­er.
They can­not have that any­more, and so they demo­nized the force as inher­ent­ly cor­rupt, inca­pable of reform.
They starved it of resources and refused to pay cops a liv­able wage.
Through high attri­tion, they man­aged to put their friends and cronies in place, all the time dis­re­spect­ing the Agency and mak­ing the case for replac­ing the peo­ple in it with bet­ter peo­ple more qual­i­fied peo­ple.
Only they are not.
These peo­ple from Utopia will ride in on gold­en Unicorns of Education, or in this case supe­ri­or expe­ri­ence in security.[sic]
What total and unadul­ter­at­ed bull­shit?
A sol­dier who was basi­cal­ly a body­guard has supe­ri­or train­ing and expe­ri­ence in secu­ri­ty which the JCF, the Nation’s pre-emi­nent secu­ri­ty Agency does not have?
While you con­tem­plate that bla­tant (brain-fuck ), or if you want to be polit­i­cal­ly cor­rect, while you con­tem­plate that affront to your intel­lect, imag­ine that the JCF has nev­er had an instance in which a (VIP) in its charge has ever been lost. (
With the excep­tion of Roy McGann and his spe­cial cor­po­ral body­guard, Errol Whyte). Since they believe in the supe­ri­or­i­ty and trust­wor­thi­ness of the JDF every­one from the Prime Minister on down, and across both polit­i­cal par­ties should have their secu­ri­ty detail come from the JDF. I say this with the great­est degree of sar­casm but I also say it with the great­est degree of hope.

What the men and women in the trench­es are com­plain­ing about is not to be brushed aside.
They con­tend that Antony Anderson was brought in under the pre­text that cor­rup­tion was rife in the JCF.
So much so, that they had to bring in some­one from the out­side to be police com­mis­sion­er.
Antony Anderson played into that nar­ra­tive, promis­ing that he would not engage in the Owen Ellington style of lead­er­ship in which friends and fam­i­ly were pro­mot­ed to senior posi­tions they were not pre­pared for.
As far as the rank and file are con­cerned, this appoint­ment is exact­ly what Anderson promised he would not do.

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THE CONSTABLES (DISTRICT) ACT [Date of Commencement: 16^th May, 1899]

Appointment of dis­trict con­sta­bles

 (1) The Commissioner of Police may, with the sanc­tion of the Governor-General, appoint in any parish, such num­ber of per­sons as he may think nec­es­sary, being house­hold­ers res­i­dent in such parish, to be dis­trict con­sta­bles, whose pow­er and author­i­ty under this Act shall extend to all parts of the Island. 

Day in day out we talk in this medi­um about things which are unhealthy to our nation being tak­en for grant­ed and every­one sim­ply falls in line.
This sense of apa­thy, or igno­rance of best prac­tices allows those hold­ing the reins of polit­i­cal pow­er to con­tin­ue to push the bounds of nor­mal­cy and decen­cy.
In the above para­graph high­light­ed in blue, I cit­ed part of the District Constable Act as doc­u­ment­ed in [jamaicala​won​line​.com].
The pur­pose of this is to look at the author­i­ty under which the per­son act­ing as Commissioner of Police may appoint District Constables with the sanc­tion of the Governor-General.

Which brings me to the point of this Article.
A sim­mer­ing caul­dron of anger and resent­ment is brew­ing at the actions of the Commissioner of Police Antony Anderson.
Anderson who hails from the JDF, was brought in to be Commissioner of Police after a stint as the first National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister.
Anderson brought with him his dri­ver, a Jamaica Defense Sergeant, we have been reli­ably informed that Anderson appoint­ed that dri­ver a District Constable.

Now so far there is noth­ing unto­ward that a for­mer mem­ber of the JDF would want to join the JCF, albeit in an aux­il­iary role.
It has cer­tain­ly hap­pened before. In oth­er cas­es, for­mer mem­bers of the JDF has applied and entered the JCF, under­went the train­ing and became full-fledged mem­bers of the JCF and has served with dis­tinc­tion.
Now, remem­ber that the rea­sons giv­en to the Jamaican pub­lic for the con­tin­ued appoint­ment of for­mer heads of the JDF to head the JCF are that the Senior Corps of the JCF has been taint­ed and a new approach is need­ed.
Of course, if you join the JDF as an offi­cer and spend your career not inter­act­ing with crim­i­nals it is expect­ed that you will be seen as pris­tine and above board.
Before the knack on the JCF was that they were dumb and une­d­u­cat­ed, that can­not be used any­more, so they go to the default cor­rup­tion option to appoint their friends to these posi­tions of power.

Force orders March 7^th, 2019
Tucked away on page [13]
The Governor-General, act­ing on the advice of the Police Service Commission, has approved the appoint­ment of Mr. Joel Hamilton to the rank of Assistant Superintendent with effect from 2019-01-19. 

Tucked away on page 13 of the 45-page cir­cu­lar was the afore­men­tioned. You may be won­der­ing what is strange about it?
Okay, I need you to con­cen­trate here. This Mr. Joel Hamilton who is so neat­ly tucked away on page 13 with­out much fan­fare, where it could eas­i­ly slip by with­out any notice or com­mo­tion is the very same JDF dri­ver Antony Anderson brought over to the JCF and made him a District Constable.
That same Joel Hamilton is now an Assistant Superintendent of Police.
I know that you thought this sup­posed mod­ern­iza­tion of the JCF would once and for all eschew the Owen Ellington era of bla­tant and crass nepo­tism.
No, it has not stopped, it is sim­ply being done in a man­ner which ben­e­fits a dif­fer­ent set of peo­ple.
Those of us who served in the JCF know that the aver­age joe on the street is more enam­ored with mem­bers of the JDF and with good rea­son.
It is not unique to Jamaica it is a world-wide thing, sol­diers do not gen­er­al­ly haul crim­i­nals off to jail, what’s not to love?
And so Antony Anderson, like Hardley Lewin and Trevor McMillan before him came to the JCF as out­siders because the pow­ers who run the coun­try and their friends in high soci­ety con­vinced the larg­er pop­u­lace that there is no one suit­able or qual­i­fied enough to head the JCF.
Never mind that these are peo­ple who large­ly have come up through the ranks and have earned grad­u­ate degrees.
The fact of the mat­ter is that Anderson is no dif­fer­ent than Owen Ellington, or any oth­er Commissioner of Police has ever been.
Someone once said, ” the true test of a man is to give pow­er to him and watch how he con­ducts him­self”. If ever this was an appro­pri­ate quote, this inci­dent per­son­i­fies it.
The real­ly dis­heart­en­ing thing here is that I see jus­ti­fi­ca­tions used from time to time to shut down dis­qui­et over brazen instances of nepo­tism like this one.“Oh he brings spe­cial skills.“
Law enforce­ment Agencies hire peo­ple as con­sul­tants all the time. In fact, while I was at the Academy Mister Branford taught English but Mister Baranford was nev­er giv­en a police Rank.
There is absoloute­ly no jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for giv­ing Rank to a civil­lian employ­ee in a police depart­ment which is struc­tured as a pyra­mid.
It kills morale, demo­ti­vates and cre­ate ran­cor.
This is wrong no mat­ter how it is spun. 

From what we learned this man brings noth­ing to the JCF which is not already there.
Unless of course being a dri­ver now requires some spe­cial skill. Of course, they will lie to you that he brings all kinds of dif­fer­ent tal­ents to the JCF.
The truth is it will be a lie.
The peo­ple above 35 ‑years old who have been serv­ing in the JCF are not like­ly to ever be pro­mot­ed above where they are at the moment. The sup­posed mod­ern­iza­tion of the JCF will even­tu­al­ly see those who have worked but are above the age of 35-years old dis­card­ed as col­lat­er­al dam­age.
Unfortunately, the qual­i­ty of ser­vice offered to the pub­lic by the JCF will not improve regard­less of the mon­e­tary expen­di­ture, because the fun­da­men­tal tenets of fair­ness, decen­cy and best prac­tices are miss­ing.
Like the now-defunct Air Jamaica, the JCF is being used as a means to place friends and fam­i­ly in posi­tions of pow­er.
It looks dif­fer­ent but it’s the same old eat-a-food for those in power.

I recent­ly wrote an arti­cle in sup­port of Representative Omar a first-term Democrat from Minnesota as the white Nationalist Republican Party and the pathet­ic Democratic Party, the Republican-lite Party piles onto her.
The pil­ing on is as a result of state­ments Omar made regard­ing AIPAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israeli Zionist lob­by which has more than an over­sized role and influ­ence on America’s for­eign and local poli­cies.
Omar’s in a state­ment hint­ed that American sup­port for Israel is fueled by mon­ey from the pro-Israel lob­by­ing group AIPAC.
Omar lat­er apol­o­gized as a firestorm erupt­ed from lumpen who blind­ly give alle­giance to Israel.

“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grate­ful for Jewish allies and col­leagues who are edu­cat­ing me on the painful his­to­ry of anti-Semitic tropes.”
“My inten­tion is nev­er to offend my con­stituents or Jewish Americans as a whole,” Ms. Omar wrote, adding, “I unequiv­o­cal­ly apologize.” 

Donald Trump is President.
Steve King is still in the Congress, so too is Mark Meadows. Louie Gohmert. Steve Scalise and the end­less line of racists who attack whomev­er they chose with­out con­se­quence.
Nancy Pelosi the Democrat speak­er of the House has­n’t drawn up any res­o­lu­tion in con­dem­na­tion of them.
And the white Supremacist Republican par­ty would­n’t even con­sid­er doing so when they were in charge.
Yet Pelosi is in the process of tabling a res­o­lu­tion in con­dem­na­tion of Congresswoman Omar’s free speech, even though we are told that it will not men­tion Congresswoman Omar direct­ly.
This is in addi­tion to Marco Rubio ® Florida and Ben Cardin (D) Maryland bill, which would crim­i­nal­ize any American who boy­cotted the state of Israel.
This is the rea­son why peo­ple have no faith in the Democrat Party. And of course the act­ing jews on the Democrat side like Nita Lowey (D)NY, who believe that every­one must bow down in slav­ish feal­ty to the apartheid state.

Make no mis­take about it, no one should be fooled in not speak­ing out about American sup­port for the Apartheid state of Israel and the war crimes and crimes against human­i­ty being com­mit­ted by the Israeli army (IDF) against the Palestinian peo­ple.
Neither should any­one have any doubts about Israel’s hor­ri­ble human rights abus­es vis­it­ed upon real Hebrew African Jews who are return­ing to the land of their ances­tors, Palestine.
Attempts to label dis­senters “Anti-Semitic” is a clever strat­e­gy designed to shut down those who speak out against Israel’s apartheid poli­cies and it’s dis­dain for International norms and laws under the United Nation’s charter.

Nita Lowey.(Democrat tweet­ed)
(Lawmakers must be able to debate w/​o prej­u­dice or big­otry. I am sad­dened that Rep. Omar con­tin­ues to mis­char­ac­ter­ize sup­port for Israel. I urge her to retract this state­ment and engage in fur­ther dia­logue with the Jewish com­mu­ni­ty on why these com­ments are so hurtful).

Congresswoman Omar said noth­ing wrong and should not have apol­o­gized, much less hav­ing apol­o­gized repeat­ed­ly.
What they are after is not an apol­o­gy as Congresswoman Omar will dis­cov­er as she matures in the process.
They are after com­plete loy­al­ty and obe­di­ence to the dic­tates and poli­cies of the Apartheid state.
Policies pushed in America by AIPAC and the many oth­er Zionist Lobbies despite the fact that their teach­ings and poli­cies are direct­ly anti­thet­i­cal to her faith and beliefs.
When will the Congress pass a Resolution apol­o­giz­ing to us for slav­ery, Jim Crow, The Prison Industrial Complex and the con­tin­ued killing of our peo­ple by their var­i­ous strate­gies in place to dec­i­mate us? ( see polic­ing killings)
I bet you even the thought of that would have the likes of Steve Scalise up in arms against such a pro­pos­al.
To add insult to injury Congresswoman Omar has received hate­ful attacks on her sim­ply because she is of the Muslim faith. No Democrat or Republican has stepped for­ward in sup­port of her except con­gress­woman Ocasio Cortez.
Steve Scalise fur­ther tried on FOX hate TV to smear Congresswoman Omar ques­tion­ing whether she should even be receiv­ing intel­li­gence briefings.

Steve Scalise attend­ed white suprema­cist ral­lies and received back­ing from them. Should Scalise be receiv­ing intel­li­gence brief­ing?
The white suprema­cist groups which sup­port Steve Scalise pose the great­est secu­ri­ty threat to America and have been respon­si­ble for the great­est loss of life from the mass killings they have engaged in on American soil.
Scalise’s state­ments regard­ing Congresswoman Omar is a direct assault on her Muslim faith.
For Scalise and his par­ty and those in the Democrat Party who are gang­ing up on Representative Omar, it is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to let her know that as a (Muslim) an (African-American) and a( woman) she should sit down and be quiet.

The cow­ards and frauds in the Democrat Party who love to beat the drums about [Religious free­doms], [wom­en’s rights], and [First Amendment rights] have sac­ri­ficed what­ev­er cred­i­bil­i­ty they may have had left, in ser­vice to an Apartheid state for­mer President Jimmy Carter said is worse than what obtained in South Africa.
Guess what President Jimmy Carter should know.

It real­ly does­n’t mat­ter who the chef is, or who is stir­ring the pot. If the ingre­di­ents in the stew are not the right ones the out­come can­not be good. 

The essay I am about to write, whether con­densed or expan­sive will be well rep­re­sent­ed and encap­su­lat­ed in the above para­graph.
I will be rather brief nev­er­the­less, as I once again try to lay out rea­sons why the path we are on as it relates to crime and inse­cu­ri­ty in our coun­try is the wrong path.
There are two calls which gen­er­al­ly suc­ceed a killing or set of killings in our coun­try.
(1) What is the Commissioner of Police doing about it?
(2) What about a new crime Plan?

The fact of the mat­ter is that even if we were to appoint the best per­son imag­in­able, and even if we were to co-opt the best pos­si­ble crime plan any­one could devise for our unique sit­u­a­tion, sin­gu­lar­ly or togeth­er, these ini­tia­tives would have a neg­li­gi­ble, or no real pos­i­tive mea­sur­able effect.
Here’s why!
The police can only arrest peo­ple for crimes which are on the books.
I hard­ly think there is any­one who would dis­agree with the idea that our laws have not kept pace with the sophis­ti­ca­tion of the coun­try’s local crim­i­nals, much less those who are being deport­ed back to the Island.

And so we rec­og­nize that good laws which are well-inten­tioned, con­struct­ed and cod­i­fied, are an inte­gral part of what ought to be in the mix in order to have opti­mum results.
We do not have laws which ade­quate­ly and sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly tar­gets those who plan, facil­i­tate, finance, and exe­cute crim­i­nal behav­ior. Subsequently, even if we have the best Commissioner of police in place, the absence of good laws makes it impos­si­ble for a mean­ing­ful dent to be made in crime.

The struc­tur­al inad­e­qua­cies and entrenched bul­warks which have been insti­tu­tion­al­ized and entrenched in the laws and pub­lic bod­ies make it vir­tu­al­ly impos­si­ble for bet­ter out­comes on the crime front.
The entire gov­ern­men­tal struc­ture is a giant incu­ba­tor for crime to hatch and flour­ish.
Unless we method­i­cal­ly tear down and rebuild the gov­ern­men­tal struc­ture which wit­ting­ly and in some cas­es unwit­ting­ly sup­ports crim­i­nal con­duct, all of the efforts sup­pos­ed­ly geared at the elim­i­na­tion of crime will be for naught. In the mean­time, lives con­tin­ue to be lost needlessly.

In order to under­stand why vio­lent crimes are so entrenched in our cul­ture, we have to face our own short­com­ings and pro­cliv­i­ties.
We are a vio­lent peo­ple which is neg­a­tive. Secondly, we are a peo­ple high­ly tol­er­ant of crim­i­nal con­duct.
Thirdly we are a cul­ture which reveres and is high­ly def­er­en­tial to infa­mous crim­i­nals regard­less of the deprav­i­ty with which they went about com­mit­ting the mur­ders and oth­er acts of crim­i­nal­i­ty attrib­uted to them.
For the most part, soci­ety has mort­gaged away the future sta­bil­i­ty of the nation on what can be derived now.
This is prob­a­bly most evi­dent in the inner sanc­tums of the gar­ri­son com­mu­ni­ties in which mur­der­ous thugs are giv­en def­er­en­tial treat­ment for a few dol­lars.
Young girls and boys are sur­ren­dered to the lust of local thugs because they hand out a few scraps from the ill-got­ten gains they have acquired, usu­al­ly at the expense of some­one’s life.

Yet the soci­ety sees noth­ing wrong with it, not the Media, not the Courts, not even the Government which has an oblig­a­tion to cre­ate sys­tems and prac­tices which secures the pop­u­la­tion. (Government par­ty-neu­tral)
In the decades fol­low­ing Independence, our nation has demon­strat­ed that we are capa­ble of com­pet­ing with any­one. In the areas of sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy, sports and what­ev­er else we put our heads to.
Even our much berat­ed and maligned police offi­cers are bea­cons of light when placed in the right envi­ron­ment. Nevertheless, we have also demon­strat­ed a fatal weak­ness for immoral­i­ty and myopia on the dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences crime is hav­ing on society.

We have a soci­ety in which the entire sys­tem is flawed, yet the blame is placed on the seg­ment of the struc­ture which has the least pow­er, speak­ing of the police.
On the one hand, we have a Bench, Bar, and Prosecution which large­ly grad­u­at­ed from the Norman Manley Law School. This cre­ates a sit­u­a­tion which is almost a con­flict of inter­est just not in the tra­di­tion­al sense.
It is bad enough that all of the peo­ple who pop­u­late the Judgeships, the Prosecutor’s office, and the Private Bar almost all come from the same school. But when the School is a left­ist Institution like the University of the West Indies is, it becomes incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult to get pro­fes­sion­als to staff the dif­fer­ent areas of the jus­tice sys­tem who have a clear under­stand­ing of the dan­gers crime pos­es to society.

To add insult to injury the polit­i­cal class pret­ty much all come from the same left­ist insti­tu­tion, and so are the social work­ers, and oth­er peo­ple who staff the jus­tice sys­tem. So too are the legions who staff the var­i­ous gov­ern­ment agen­cies.
Essentially, but for a few cas­es, the entire work­force at the high­er lev­els of gov­ern­ment all came out of the gates of the UWI Mona Campus or the Cave Hill Campus in Trinidad to a less­er extent. Even so, it makes no dif­fer­ence, as the very same left-wing ide­ol­o­gy is the hall­mark of that insti­tu­tion in Trinidad as well.
It has always been so.
The straw which broke the prover­bial Camel’s back has been the push to edu­cate the lead­ers of the sin­gle police force which has the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­tect the Island’s 2.8 mil­lion inhab­i­tants.
And now the police depart­ment has become a lum­ber­ing behe­moth of over 10’000, top heavy with lead­ers who grad­u­at­ed from .….….…. you guessed it. The University of the West Indies.

Prior to the influx of peo­ple with degrees into the JCF, the Agency was derid­ed and ridiculed as a bunch of une­d­u­cat­ed or at best poor­ly edu­cat­ed losers who could­n’t find work else­where.
Today the force is prob­a­bly the most edu­cat­ed any­where in the world with many serv­ing mem­bers hav­ing grad­u­ate Degrees.
Unfortunately, for law-abid­ing Jamaicans, that amass­ing of knowl­edge has not trans­lat­ed into a bet­ter crime-fight­ing force.
In fact, there is a good argu­ment to be made that the force is worse than 30 years ago when we hard­ly had any­one in the depart­ment with degrees.
In actu­al­i­ty, it is a net pos­i­tive to have high­ly edu­cat­ed, high­ly moti­vat­ed peo­ple serv­ing in all areas of gov­ern­ment, includ­ing law enforce­ment.
Nevertheless, they have to want to be police offi­cers, not just wear the uni­form and col­lect a pay­check.
The gen­er­al con­sen­sus is that many of the peo­ple in lead­er­ship posi­tions today real­ly have no heart for polic­ing but the small econ­o­my in the coun­try does not offer many oppor­tu­ni­ties after grad­u­at­ing from — -the University.

Still, it would be a mis­take to blame the hap­less police depart­ment and its top-heavy cabal of lead­ers with Doctorates and Masters Degrees for the Nation’s woes.
The truth is that the nation is an anom­aly. It is one of the few places any­where where peo­ple gen­uine­ly bend over back­ward to accom­mo­date crim­i­nals and to make excus­es and ratio­nal­ize away vio­lent crim­i­nal acts as nor­mal.
The entire Governing struc­ture is built around the enhance­ment of crime.
Many argue and dis­agree with my assess­ment but can­not come up with a cred­i­ble expla­na­tion for the rea­sons behind the coun­try’s inabil­i­ty to inves­ti­gate and put away know crim­i­nals like Christopher (Duddus)Coke or his father before him.
No one can explain why on the rare occa­sion that a mur­der­er like Vybz Kartel is found guilty of Murder and appro­pri­ate­ly sen­tenced to prison the Appellate Court is almost cer­tain to release him on some incon­se­quen­tial tech­ni­cal­i­ty.
Who is pay­ing off these Judges?
Why is it that there is no one of promi­nence locked away at the Tower-street or the Horizon cor­rec­tion­al facility/​
The answer is clear, the sys­tem is cor­rupt and slant­ed to keep con­nect­ed crim­i­nals out of prison.
Now the ghet­to youths know it and they refuse to be treat­ed dif­fer­ent­ly than the light-skinned upper class peo­ple from upper Saint Andrew.

So how do you fix all this you ask?
I do not pre­tend to have all of the answers, but we need a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent atti­tude on crime nation­al­ly.
The so-called Conservative Prime Minister now occu­py­ing Jamaica House is a prod­uct of the left­ist UWI.
It is a con­tra­dic­tion in actu­al terms. There can be no Conservatism com­ing out of an insti­tu­tion which has, through its entire exis­tence been a caul­dron of left­ist, com­mu­nist dog­ma.
There is not a sin­gle insti­tu­tion of high­er learn­ing which is geared at prepar­ing the work­force based on Conservative prin­ci­ples of God, Family, coun­try.
None geared at teach­ing about small­er Government, root­ing out cor­rup­tion, and build­ing a pri­vate sec­tor in which the entre­pre­neur­ial spir­it can thrive and achieve its full poten­tial.
There is no Institution which teach­es peo­ple not to depend on Government but to depend on themselves.

In so much as Socialism ‑or more specif­i­cal­ly Democratic-Socialism has been an abject fail­ure to Jamaica, so too must the UWI take respon­si­bil­i­ty.
As the Institution which had a vir­tu­al monop­oly on high­er learn­ing, the University of the West Indies has failed the peo­ple and coun­try through the mis­guid­ed poli­cies and peo­ple which came out of its doors.
To this day the cor­rup­tion in the var­i­ous Government agen­cies may be placed square­ly at the feet of the grad­u­ates of that insti­tu­tion who seem­ing­ly are self-absorbed Autocrats, in it for them­selves.
We can­not get mean­ing­ful laws because the peo­ple whose job it is to cre­ate those laws and to cre­ate an envi­ron­ment in which law-abid­ing peo­ple can have con­fi­dence came from a sys­tem in which the rule of law is just a pass­ing thought.

In the mean­time, America will have to con­tin­ue to take away our transna­tion­al crim­i­nals when­ev­er its inter­est is affect­ed.
Murderers, Drug Dealers, Lotto-Scammers all. But it is not America’s job to pun­ish Jamaica’s crim­i­nal scum.
It is for Jamaica to get its act togeth­er and stop play­ing games with this crit­i­cal issue.
Failure by the two polit­i­cal par­ties leg­isla­tive­ly and behav­ioral­ly. Failure by the Judiciary which likes to claim inde­pen­dence for itself.
Failure by the pub­lic sec­tor and pub­lic bod­ies to demand account­abil­i­ty and action on crime have brought us to where we are today.
A coun­try in an unde­clared cold civ­il war. A small nation of 2.8 mil­lion and a crime rate in the top five most vio­lent nations on the plan­et.
Yet that evokes no out­rage, it elic­its no sense of shock or alarm. The cry right now is to free (wurl boss) a con­vict­ed mur­der­er whose claim to fame is to cre­ate dement­ed, degen­er­a­tive lyrics.
May God help us.

But don’t expect to hear about it on the nightly news.

By Ben Ehrenreich

As famine and drought spread through Somaliland, a vil­lager car­ries bags of rice, sug­ar, dates and palm oil back to his house after col­lect­ing food from a char­i­ty, May 2017. (Joe Giddens /​PA Wire)There’s a blur where the hori­zon once was, a ques­tion mark nag­ging at every sen­tence you might think to form. The daf­fodils are pret­ty, but aren’t they a lit­tle ear­ly this year? Is it okay to enjoy the warmth of the sun on your bare arms in February? Some of us get to expe­ri­ence cli­mate change as some­thing like a mood, an unwel­come sixth sense that allows us to imag­ine every­thing we know and love in ruins. It becomes con­crete only in sud­den, head­line-grab­bing bursts: a typhoon here, a wild­fire there, anoth­er species some­where lost. It’s real enough, we know, but main­ly we expe­ri­ence it as a shad­ow cast by some­thing that hasn’t hap­pened yet. To some of us, at least.

It is not every­where so abstract. In 2017, I vis­it­ed the inde­pen­dent but unrec­og­nized nation of Somaliland, the north­ern third of what usu­al­ly gets called Somalia. Crisscrossing the road­less savan­nah, I quick­ly learned that cadav­ers meant a vil­lage was near. Usually they start­ed a few miles out: main­ly sheep and goats, but also camels and don­keys dry­ing to leather on the bare, red earth. The pre­vi­ous year, the autumn rains had failed to arrive. The spring rains didn’t come either. Everywhere peo­ple told me drought had tak­en as much as 90 per­cent of their herds — the pri­ma­ry form of cap­i­tal in an over­whelm­ing­ly pas­toral econ­o­my. And every­where I saw peo­ple on the move: in des­per­ate search of pas­ture, or, hav­ing already lost every­thing, of some oth­er source of sus­te­nance. New com­mu­ni­ties were form­ing on the edges of the cities, ragged camps of the dis­placed, once-proud herders reduced to gath­er­ing grav­el for pen­nies a day with no prospects ahead but fur­ther loss. 

That was near­ly two years ago. Last year, the spring rains came hard, but the herds were gone, the dam­age done. Most of the country’s wealth had been reduced already to bones. The fall’s rains were weak again, and hunger is once more on the march. In the Horn of Africa, invis­i­bly to most Western eyes, the cat­a­stro­phe of cli­mate change has already altered everything.

Last week, the inter­na­tion­al NGO CARE pub­lished its third annu­al report on the world’s 10 most-under-report­ed human­i­tar­i­an crises. Being a bat­tle­ground in the US war on ter­ror still gets you in the news some­times, which is like­ly why Somalia did not rate a men­tion, but its neigh­bor, Ethiopia, received the unwel­come hon­or of mak­ing the list twice. It held sec­ond place for hunger in its east, where the same drought that hit Somalia two years ago has left more than 3 mil­lion peo­ple in need of human­i­tar­i­an aid, and sev­enth place for mas­sive dis­place­ment in the south, where vio­lence broke out between pas­toral and agri­cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ties last spring. (Throughout the con­ti­nent, drought is spurringdead­ly con­flicts between herders and farm­ers over land rights.) By the end of the sum­mer, near­ly a mil­lion peo­ple had fled their homes.

This year, CARE high­light­ed the fact that almost all of these crises can be traced in large part to cli­mate change. In Sudan, unpre­dictable rain­fall has meant “fre­quent droughts,” occa­sion­al flood­ing, and “extreme hunger.” In the island nation of Madagascar, “at the front­line of cli­mate change,” cyclones and drought have put 1.3 mil­lion peo­ple at risk of hunger and, accord­ing to UNICEF, a stag­ger­ing 49 per­cent of the country’s chil­dren have been left stunt­ed by mal­nu­tri­tion. In the Philippines, 2018’s fiercest storm, “super-typhoon” Mangkhut, fed by the heat of the warm­ing oceans, dis­placed more than a mil­lion peo­ple. In Niger, deser­ti­fi­ca­tion has spurred vio­lence and dis­place­ment, just as it has in Chad, where near­ly half the pop­u­la­tion is now chron­i­cal­ly mal­nour­ished. The major source of fresh water in the region, Lake Chad, has shrunk to one-twen­ti­eth the area it once cov­ered. In Haiti it was drought again, plus three dev­as­tat­ing hur­ri­canes over two con­sec­u­tive years, leav­ing near­ly 3 mil­lion peo­ple in need of imme­di­ate aid.

The num­bers, all those mil­lions upon mil­lions, are abstract. The real­i­ties are not. Imagine a child you can­not com­fort, a par­ent you can­not save, a lover lost in the con­fu­sion, a home you’ll nev­er see again. Imagine all pos­si­bil­i­ties fore­closed, and then begin mul­ti­ply­ing those imag­in­ings by thou­sands, and thou­sands of thou­sands, and on.Of course, cli­mate change is far from the only cause of all this suf­fer­ing. Infrastructure was already poor or absent, inequal­i­ty and insta­bil­i­ty already pro­found. All of these crises took shape in a glob­al eco­nom­ic sys­tem in which wealth and resources flow in one direc­tion — from poor coun­tries to rich ones — and mis­ery flows in the oth­er. But the droughts and the storms have trig­gered what Christian Parenti has called a “cat­a­stroph­ic con­ver­gence” in which dis­as­ters do not mere­ly hap­pen simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, but “com­pound and ampli­fy each other.” 

Read more here: https://​www​.then​ation​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​c​l​i​m​a​t​e​-​c​h​a​n​g​e​-​m​e​d​i​a​-​h​u​m​a​n​i​t​a​r​i​a​n​-​c​r​i​s​es/

Israel’s attor­ney gen­er­al on Thursdayannounced he will indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on cor­rup­tion charges, local media report­ed. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said he planned to charge Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust. All charges are sub­ject to a hear­ing, which will like­ly take place after a snap elec­tion to be held in April. 
Police inves­ti­ga­tors rec­om­mend­ed pros­e­cut­ing Netanyahu on sev­er­al counts last year, set­ting up months of pub­lic spec­u­la­tion over when Mandelblit would announce the charges. The indict­ment is now like­ly to be a focal point of the cam­paign as Netanyahu vies for a fifth term in office. 
Netanyahu’s Likud par­ty unsuc­cess­ful­ly staged a last-ditch effort to pro­tect him, peti­tion­ing the high court ear­li­er Thursday to block Mandelblit’s announcement. 

Netanyahu has sur­vived mul­ti­ple scan­dals over his decades in Israeli pol­i­tics ― rang­ing from pub­licly admit­ting to an extra­mar­i­tal affair on the evening news to fac­ing graft and bribery alle­ga­tions ― but has nev­er before faced an offi­cial indict­ment. Although cor­rup­tion and graft charges are not unusu­al in Israeli pol­i­tics, the coun­try has also nev­er had a sit­ting prime min­is­ter con­vict­ed of a crime. Police inves­ti­gat­ed Netanyahu in three sep­a­rate cas­es. The first case accus­es Netanyahu of improp­er­ly accept­ing about $270,000 in lux­u­ry gifts, such as cig­ars and jew­el­ry, from bil­lion­aires James Packer and Arnon Milchan. Netanyahu alleged­ly helped Milchan with tax exemp­tions and oth­er favors. In anoth­er case, police believe Netanyahu tried to make a deal to get favor­able press cov­er­age in one of Israel’s biggest news­pa­pers in exchange for dam­ag­ing a rival pub­li­ca­tion. The third case also con­cerns Netanyahu alleged­ly try­ing to engi­neer pos­i­tive press ― this time push­ing through reg­u­la­to­ry deci­sions to ben­e­fit the country’s biggest telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny, Bezeq, which owns a pop­u­lar Israeli website. 

The cor­rup­tion inves­ti­ga­tion into Netanyahu’s sus­pect­ed deal­ings began in 2016, but inten­si­fied when the prime minister’s for­mer chief of staff Ari Harow began coop­er­at­ing with inves­ti­ga­tors in the sum­mer of 2017 in a bid to avoid jail time. Israeli police made mul­ti­ple rec­om­men­da­tions last year to indict Netanyahu, say­ing that there was suf­fi­cient evi­dence to charge him. Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, was also indict­ed on fraud charges last year for mis­us­ing $100,000 in state funds in a sep­a­rate case.Netanyahu has gone to great lengths to char­ac­ter­ize the alle­ga­tions against him as a “witch hunt” from “the left and the media” intend­ed to force him out of office. He’s asked to pub­licly con­front the state’s wit­ness­es against him, called the alle­ga­tions a “joke” and claimed that announc­ing the indict­ments before an elec­tion would be unfair­ly dam­ag­ing to his cam­paign. Earlier this year, he gave a nation­al­ly tele­vised address to dis­pute the alle­ga­tions and again cast him­self as the vic­tim of a polit­i­cal plot. 

Although Netanyahu dis­missed the inves­ti­ga­tions, he also tried to bar­gain with the attor­ney gen­er­al and request­ed in mid-January that any indict­ment announce­ment be delayed until after the elec­tion. Israeli law does not require a prime min­is­ter to step down even if they are indict­ed, how­ev­er, and Netanyahu has made it clear he will con­test the charges against him as he attempts to remain in pow­er. Prior to the charges, Netanyahu was wide­ly expect­ed to win re-elec­tion in April’s vote, but fall far short of the num­bers need­ed for major­i­ty rule. In pre­vi­ous months he was able to main­tain a shaky coali­tion gov­ern­ment between his Likud par­ty and allies made up of far-right and reli­gious par­ties. If Netanyahu does man­age to win in April and suc­cess­ful­ly form a gov­ern­ment, he stands to become Israel’s longest-serv­ing prime minister.

Netanyahu is one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest defend­ers abroad, tout­ing the president’s deci­sion to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in his cam­paign videos and offer­ing sup­port for Trump’s bor­der wall with Mexico.

Nick Robins-EarlySenior World News Reporter, HuffPostSuggest a correction

In the meantime,Police identify victims of Westmoreland triple murder.

Yesterday I talked about the fact that INDECOM has become the best asset the crim­i­nal under­world in Jamaica has at its dis­pos­al.
There is always push-back when we talk about the Independent Commission of Investigations(INDECOM).
This is so because over the last four decades Jamaica swung so far on the anti-police-o-meter[sic] , that Jamaicans can­not under­stand that INDECOM in its present con­struct is a swing way too far in the oth­er direc­tion.
It is with­in that envi­ron­ment that one has to keep say­ing to the indoc­tri­nat­ed pop­u­lace, that we are not opposed to over­sight of police. It is with­in that envi­ron­ment that even serv­ing police offi­cers are not opposed to over­sight.
It is not what they want to hear how­ev­er, telling them that police offi­cers past and present and even future cops under­stand the idea of account­abil­i­ty.
But they can­not let go of the nar­ra­tive they have cul­ti­vat­ed for them­selves, that we aren’t opposed to over­sight, because once they do so, they will have to deal with the point by point argu­ments that police offi­cers past and present have made in rela­tion to the INDECOM Act, which makes the agency problematic.

For starters, when there is an [inde­pen­dent] agency look­ing at the actions of the police, actions which for years some have argued were exces­sive and out of the bounds of nor­mal pro­to­cols, it is a good thing.
What isn’t a good thing, is when the [inde­pen­dent agency] start­ed out as a mon­ster and has metas­ta­sized into an uncon­trol­lable out of con­trol par­tial­ly tax­pay­er-fund­ed weapon of self-inter­est.
No police offi­cer can col­lect a state­ment from an onlook­er at an event hap­pen­ing in the street and on the strength of that affi­davit alone, hope to gain a con­vic­tion in a court of law.
In the bro­ken, left­ist courts sys­tem we have, even with good evi­dence mur­der­ers are allowed to walk free on the flim­si­est of tech­ni­cal­i­ties.
On the oth­er hand, INDECOM gets a state­ment from a (paid mourn­er), who said he/​she saw a police offi­cer shoot an (inno­cent unarmed choir­boy), who was on a (fast track to the University of the West Indies), in his bed­room at (three in the morn­ing) and its enough to arrest and con­vict a cop.
While we are on the sub­ject let me insert this bit of irony for posterity.

AS AN ASIDE
Constable Chucky Brown was sen­tenced to life in prison with no pos­si­bil­i­ty of parole until he has served 51 ‑years in prison.
Chucky Brown, the gullible eas­i­ly manip­u­lat­ed ham was remov­ing mur­der­ers from the streets.
Gangsters who kill inno­cents with­out com­punc­tion, babies includ­ed, on the rare occa­sion they are found guilty, gets sev­en years and are gen­er­al­ly out in four, if the court of appeals does not let them out before that.
No mur­der­er to my knowl­edge, has ever received that kind of sen­tence. Yet it is a shin­ing exam­ple of where the coun­try is in its sup­port and tol­er­ance to crime

As bad as that is, cops today may be bet­ter served by watch­ing the clock and doing the bare min­i­mum. This is a good way to avoid and nav­i­gate the mine­field that the JLP and PNP have cre­at­ed for police offi­cers in our coun­try.
Even offi­cers who are out on traf­fic duty should con­sid­er not both­er­ing the law­less taxi and bus oper­a­tors.
Because of course, issu­ing a tick­et to an errant bus oper­a­tor who has mul­ti­ple unpaid tick­ets and con­fis­cat­ing his bus is an encounter which will cause a mob of law­less blood-thirsty ani­mals to threat­en your life.
Not to men­tion that the law­less cretin will attack you forc­ing you to have to defend your­self.
And God for­bid, that he died because you auto­mat­i­cal­ly just com­mit­ted an extra-judi­cial killing. (We’ll get back to that).
It will be fol­lowed by false state­ments to INDECOM, we’ve all heard the state­ments of events seem­ing­ly from an alter­nate uni­verse.
There will be zero state­ments from the inter­lop­er at 103 Old Hope Road in sup­port of offi­cers and there will be no state­ment urg­ing cit­i­zens to obey the laws.
It will absolute­ly not elic­it out­rage from Jamaica House, because the occu­pant of that office from his child­hood years thought of the police as the bad guys.
The Commissioner of police can­not speak out because he is the arche­type of the sys­tem they cre­at­ed.
Those in JAMAICA House will not speak out, they cre­at­ed the sys­tem. And the oth­ers who lay in wait to seize pow­er, won’t con­demn it either, the sys­tem works just fine for their exis­tence.
Somehow, they will con­vince you that they are work­ing for you but the police are so cor­rupt that the sys­tem is not work­ing as it should.

Nevertheless, as a friend point­ed out yes­ter­day our police are the National Scapegoat. They manip­u­late the pub­lic into think­ing that all the prob­lems of crime and dis­or­der are because of cor­rupt police. The pub­lic is not dis­cern­ing enough to rec­og­nize that the sys­tem is deeply flawed. The same police that get cussed and dissed here, shine in the UN Peacekeeping mis­sions and var­i­ous Caribbean ter­ri­to­ries. This is due to good laws, reg­u­la­tions, infra­struc­ture, poli­cies, pro­ce­dures and hav­ing the right peo­ple in the right place at the right time.
We chose based on crony­ism, nepo­tism and oth­er trib­al char­ac­ter­is­tics and pro­vide out­dat­ed ram­shackle “sys­tems” to take care of busi­ness. It’s like using the Wright Brothers air­plane to car­ry pas­sen­gers in the jet age”. 

For years, decades even, unin­formed dem­a­gogues have made a name for them­selves, and cre­at­ed and made anti-police dog­ma the nation’s largest growth indus­try.
From Flo O’Connor to Wilmott Perkins, From Ronald Thwaites to Horace Levy, from Barbara Gloudon to Carolyn Gomez to every oth­er mal­con­tent look­ing for a ride to infamy, they have made attack­ing the police their cause celeb.
But it’s not just about those indi­vid­u­als who have lived off the police, entire agen­cies and dis­ci­plines have also jumped on the band­wag­on and helped to bring the coun­try to where it is today.
The media knew full well that the all too pre­dictable demon­stra­tions which fol­lowed the unfor­tu­nate shoot­ing of thugs who chal­lenged the police and lost, were staged.
They knew that the peo­ple were forced to go out and say that they wit­nessed the shoot­ing. Never mind that the inci­dent hap­pened in the mid­dle of the night usu­al­ly in some house the police went to look for a want­ed thug.
The Media knew the sto­ries were con­coct­ed and the demon­stra­tors were some­times paid for or the par­tic­i­pants threat­ened to go out and lie.
None of the afore­men­tioned made a damn dif­fer­ence. The mass hys­te­ria and the buzz it cre­at­ed was good for rat­ings and that was all that mat­tered.
But the chick­en has now come home to roost. None is exempt, even the pro­tect­ed polit­i­cal class is no longer exempt.
Whether it’s a Member of Parliament get­ting stabbed to death in his home, or eight get­ting shot in Westmoreland yes­ter­day the chick­ens have f*****g come home to roost. 

But if we set aside the Media’s role in the pro­lif­er­a­tion of lies and mass hys­te­ria, I would like to once again look at the term (extra­ju­di­cial killing) which has been the fire­wall for the anti-police crowd.
I can­not say that there haven’t been extra-judi­cial killings in the JCF. God knows some of the peo­ple who have infil­trat­ed the agency have com­mit­ted all kinds of crim­i­nal acts, it is pret­ty dif­fi­cult to mount a defense of polic­ing some­times.
Like every oth­er crime cred­it­ed to police an extra-judi­cial killing here and there, may very well be in there with the rest of them.
And that is all it took for the anti-police trolls to co-opt the term and use it to describe every inci­dent in which the police are forced to defend them­selves in the third most vio­lent nation on earth.

Let that sink in for a moment.
The peo­ple who talk the most about “EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS’ have zero con­cepts of what con­sti­tutes the same.
Worse yet, they have nev­er served in law enforce­ment and do not under­stand the rules of engage­ment, or the life and death deci­sions offi­cers are forced to make in mil­lisec­onds.
That does not stop them from speak­ing about the sub­ject with author­i­ty in their lit­tle cir­cles, on their sil­ly lit­tle tele­vi­sion pro­grams, in their lit­tle con­fer­ence rooms, and on the radio as they pon­tif­i­cate to the Lumpenproletariat.
Never mind that their pon­tif­i­ca­tion is based on what they read from the tiny lit­tle cir­cles in which they exist, based on no cred­i­ble under­stand­ing of what it is like to make life and death deci­sions in under a sec­ond.
What they have effec­tive­ly done is to cre­ate an end­less cycle of talk­ing points neg­a­tive­ly car­i­ca­tur­ing the police as vio­lent unchecked killers who kill inno­cent peo­ple.
The police, not hav­ing the means to respond, became the hat­ed vil­lains, in a soci­ety now inun­dat­ed with vio­lent mur­ders, rapes, and oth­er vio­lent crimes.

Every one of the bot­tom-feed­ers who has made names for them­selves from demo­niz­ing the police has reaped boun­ti­ful rewards for their actions.
National hon­ors, seats in par­lia­ment, and oth­er perks have been bestowed on them all. And so the next gen­er­a­tion of bot­tom feed­ers are already in the pipeline wait­ing to feed on the dead car­cass which the police force has become.
The Emperor’s ass is show­ing but don’t tell him it is. No one lined up to watch the spec­ta­cle haugh­ti­ness and self-aggran­dize­ment cre­at­ed, has the char­ac­ter to say this is crazy you are naked.
No one is coura­geous enough to tell the Emperor that when we had name brand cops, inno­cent dead Jamaicans were way down and dead and incar­cer­at­ed crim­i­nals were way up.
Because the naked Emperor is con­vinced still, that if we love the crim­i­nals they will change their ways. If we look after their rights they will decide to become mod­el cit­i­zens.
As the death toll of the inno­cent ris­es, the gangs are get­ting more embold­ened and the bod­ies are pil­ing up.
The Emperor’s ass is showing.