It is not the role of the gov­ern­ment to craft crime strate­gies. The gov­ern­men­t’s role is to con­sult with law enforce­ment on what’s best to aid them in their efforts against law­break­ers. That is not to say that law enforce­ment should be the only inter­est group con­sult­ed on leg­is­la­tion; hav­ing wide con­sul­ta­tion gen­er­al­ly result in bet­ter, more bal­anced leg­is­la­tion: too much con­sul­ta­tion and def­er­ence results in bad laws. No input from law enforce­ment offi­cers is ridicu­lous, dis­re­spect­ful, and bound to fail, as has been the case in much of the laws passed in Jamaica in recent times. When politi­cians craft strate­gies, pol­i­tics gets involved, and the results are gen­er­al­ly slant­ed in their own interest.

One of the under­ly­ing prob­lems in our coun­try is the gen­er­al dis­re­spect that law­mak­ers have for mem­bers of the law enforce­ment com­mu­ni­ty. That is true of both polit­i­cal par­ties. That dis­re­spect may be traced to three bul­let points. (1) Politicians need the police to fail to main­tain con­trol of exist­ing gar­risons and grow oth­ers. (2) Politicians are gen­er­al­ly arro­gant, self-absorbed nar­cis­sists who believe they, and they alone have all the answers. (3) Members of the Police high com­mand from whom sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion and crit­i­cal data would be expect­ed in detail, pros and cons includ­ed, have allowed them­selves to be lap­dogs to the polit­i­cal class to the extent that they have no authority.

A sim­i­lar exam­ple of the dis­re­spect and dem­a­goguery I speak is play­ing out in the United States today. To break the laws with impuni­ty, those who seek to tear down the struc­tures of demo­c­ra­t­ic nations must first destroy the con­fi­dence of cit­i­zens in those struc­tures and insti­tu­tions to be effec­tive and trustworthy.

Changes In Leadership, Crime Plans, Approaches, I Say Throw Out Everything.

As I have said before, the issue of vio­lent crime in Jamaica has long passed the stage where it is mere­ly a crime; the coun­try is in an exis­ten­tial fight for its very soul.
A few days ago, I wrote that the mil­i­taris­tic assaults the nation is expe­ri­enc­ing from the gang­sters are a pre­cur­sor to a larg­er event.
Stunningly a day lat­er, the Prime Minister, In a release Friday after­noon, said, “Jamaica is now beyond a pub­lic order issue or street-lev­el crime.”

These Military Style Attacks Are Precursors To The Real Event/​Ignore The Signs At Your Peril

This has been my argu­ment all along; the Prime Minister wants more anti-crime laws; unfor­tu­nate­ly, there will be no change in the num­ber of killings with more laws; what is need­ed is a 180-degree men­tal turnaround.
Jamaica is a crim­i­nal-lov­ing soci­ety; there is no deny­ing it; con­se­quent­ly, it is tough to break the back­bone of crime.

Even those who reap no ben­e­fits from crime are huge­ly sym­pa­thet­ic to crime fig­ures, the more infa­mous the mur­der­ers, the more seg­ments of the soci­ety clam­or for their atten­tion. Even the so-called edu­cat­ed make excus­es for them; they teach col­lege cours­es jus­ti­fy­ing their behav­ior. In some instances, they active­ly san­i­tize their sor­did his­to­ry by blam­ing the police for their demon­ic actions.
(see the: http://​www​.ober​lin​lib​staff​.com/​o​m​e​k​a​_​p​r​o​j​e​c​t​s​/​e​x​h​i​b​i​t​s​/​s​h​o​w​/​r​a​d​i​c​a​l​-​t​h​i​n​k​e​r​s​-​a​n​d​-​m​o​v​e​m​e​n​t​s​/​r​a​s​t​a​f​a​r​i​-​a​n​d​-​r​e​g​g​a​e​/​o​p​p​r​e​s​s​ion – the-coral-gar­dens-)
They even bring them into their uni­ver­si­ty to give lec­tures, there­by rais­ing their pro­files and giv­ing them legitimacy.
Society then won­ders why the vast major­i­ty of young men are not get­ting an edu­ca­tion but are choos­ing lives of crime?
Why would they become rich overnight, have immense pow­er derived through the bar­rel of a gun, have all of the crea­ture com­forts and trap­pings of mod­ern soci­ety then give it up?
Those tasked with uproot­ing the crim­i­nal empires are auto­mat­i­cal­ly viewed as pub­lic ene­my num­ber one in this kind of soci­ety. This Orwellian con­cept of the rule of law has seen our coun­try devolve from a gen­uine par­adise, the pearl of the Caribbean, into a dystopi­an night­mare from which over 90% of its cit­i­zens want to flee.

I must acknowl­edge the Prime Minister for this state­ment; I hope this is not a flash in the pan; hope­ful­ly, the Prime Minister and oth­ers around him are final­ly open­ing their eyes to the grim real­i­ty of what is happening.
The state­ment referred to what Jamaica House calls a threat to the very foun­da­tion of the Jamaican State and the peace and secu­ri­ty of citizens.
This writer has been say­ing this for years, long before the events of 2010, it is now 2018, and the Jamaican Prime Minister seem­ing­ly is just awak­en­ing to those stark realities.

Wrong Headed Approach To Crime………fueling Crime (video)

This admin­is­tra­tion came to office with­out a fea­si­ble crime plan. The PNP Administration nev­er cared about crime. The par­ty and its func­tionar­ies are far too heav­i­ly invest­ed in crime and its bul­wark as a means to state pow­er to care.
As such, the nation should expect that the PNP will con­tin­ue to make straw­man argu­ments about human rights because they can­not sup­port strong, mean­ing­ful leg­is­la­tion that will empow­er the secu­ri­ty forces to deal effec­tive­ly with this scourge.

The PNP has con­sis­tent­ly used that log­ic, under­stand­ing full well that- that argu­ment has much res­o­nance with the crim­i­nal under­world, many res­i­dents of under­served gar­ri­son com­mu­ni­ties, and the huge pha­lanx of crim­i­nal rights lob­by on the Island.
It is now time for intel­li­gent and patri­ot­ic Jamaicans to demand that the People’s National Party sup­port the Government’s lead in sav­ing the coun­try, fail­ing which the par­ty must be sent to the dust­bin of history.

Breaking news from Jamaica, Good job JCF.

DSP K. Francis and 16 mem­bers of his team car­ried out spe­cial oper­a­tions in the Ramble Hill area of Bogue, St. James. During the oper­a­tion four (4) M16 Rifles were recov­ered along with 5 mag­a­zines con­tain­ing 5.56 mm rounds. Four (4) bal­lis­tics vests were also found

I total­ly under­stand how the sheer num­ber of unsolved mur­ders and mil­i­taris­tic assaults occur­ring in the coun­try can cause apa­thy and a sense of numb­ness. After all what exact­ly can the aver­age law abid­ing cit­i­zen do if there is no mean­ing­ful attempt to end the reign of ter­ror which has engulfed the country?

The sheer vol­ume of the killings has now become almost benign, peo­ple talk about sev­en killed in one assault as they would about a sin­gle case. Simply put there is a new nor­mal, a sense that the num­bers real­ly do not mat­ter, they have accept­ed that Jamaica is now at war with itself and there is noth­ing they can do about it.

Generally, the raw organ­ic sounds from the streets around these killings do not get seen or heard by the Government or oth­ers in the coun­try except for those who are lucky enough to sur­vive the mil­i­taris­tic assaults on their communities.
Furthermore, the macabre grue­some images from the scenes of those mas­sacres almost nev­er get seen by those out­side law enforce­ment cir­cles or those who man­age to film these scenes after the mas­sacres occur.

Ladies and gen­tle­men, we are at crit­i­cal mass, you may not know it but we have long passed the stage where it is just a high crime rate. It is not a high crime rate there have long been bands of 20 and 30 or more heav­i­ly armed men attack­ing whole com­mu­ni­ties and lay­ing siege to those com­mu­ni­ties, killing whom they wish.

These mil­i­taris­tic assaults from time to time pit them against the less­er armed police who do not have the resources to engage them at the appro­pri­ate levels.
As a con­se­quence, of the weapon­ry in the hands of the gangs, the end­less sup­ply of ammu­ni­tion they pos­sess and the unique­ness of the ter­rain, the out­matched, unsup­port­ed police are gen­er­al­ly at a dis­ad­van­tage result­ing in gun­bat­tles last­ing for hours.
Those shootouts tend to end at the dis­cre­tion of the gangs rather than any­thing the secu­ri­ty forces are able to counter with.

The coun­try is in cri­sis. It is so because for the past sev­er­al decades the empha­sis has been decid­ed­ly placed on the pro­tec­tion and preser­va­tion of the rights of crim­i­nals rather than an unvar­nished approach toward enforc­ing the laws.
That has been the strat­e­gy of both polit­i­cal par­ties to some extent as a result of the cul­ture they cre­at­ed in our coun­try from as far back as the 1960’s. As a means to attain­ing and hold­ing state pow­er, the gar­ri­son cul­ture was born, the deliv­ery of huge blocks of votes was more impor­tant than the over­all preser­va­tion of the coun­try. The chick­ens have sim­ply come home to roost.

It is absolute­ly stu­pid, yes stu­pid, to be wor­ry­ing about how law enforce­ment treats and respond to vio­lent mass mur­der­ers rather than ensur­ing that we give them the tools and sup­plies to uproot and eridi­cate them.
These killers have guns, many guns, they have mon­ey, lots of it, they can amass huge amounts of mer­ce­nar­ies to their caus­es at any giv­en time. In fact, word on the streets is that that very sce­nario is play­ing out in Westmoreland as we speak.
These Gangsters are able to amass the mus­cle they need to lock down entire com­mu­ni­ties and kill whomev­er they wish with­out any wor­ry or fear of the nation’s secu­ri­ty forces.

This is hap­pen­ing today as we speak, it hap­pened years ago with Zekes, it hap­pened with Christopher Dudus Coke and there have been no lessons learned from it.
We are los­ing Jamaica and no one is giv­ing a shit about this dan­ger­ous state of affairs. Are the peo­ple too dumb to real­ize that they are been and have been fed total baloney on crime?
Or are they more pre­oc­cu­pied with their fake uptown accents hid­ing behind the grill for­ti­fi­ca­tions and pre­tend­ing they are some­thing they are not?
What we damn sure aren’t is a devel­oped coun­try, so the shit for brains power­bro­kers who decide pub­lic pol­i­cy ought to under­stand that first world solu­tions are total­ly unwork­able for our raw, third world sit­u­a­tion. Yet they con­tin­ue with their pre­ten­tious atti­tudes and it’s only the lit­tle peo­ple who are dying.

The tragedy in all of this is that speak­ing out about it elic­its crick­ets from Jamaica house regard­less fo which of the two lame polit­i­cal gangs occu­pies it.
They don’t care, they have set a course which is per­se­cu­tion of the police, despite the 8 or so over­sight agen­cies which have police over­sight respon­si­bil­i­ty and the pletho­ra of self-serv­ing spe­cial inter­est lob­bies which mil­i­tate against the police department.

For years I have warned that this is not just crime as we once thought about it. It is a form of insur­gency which requires a strate­gic yet mil­i­taris­tic response which will send a clear mes­sage that the state will not tol­er­ate any such behavior.
States of emer­gen­cies and Zones of spe­cial oper­a­tions can­not and will not solve this, this is no game.
Instead of using the army to go after these mur­der­ous gangs the idi­ot­ic desk bangers in the stu­pid par­lia­ment sit and pon­tif­i­cate about who will oppose what emer­gency dec­la­ra­tion and who won’t.

While they are wor­ry­ing about the watch­men the bur­glars have tak­en over the build­ing. Sooner or lat­er all of this will come to a cat­a­stroph­ic end and out of it will emerge a new beginning.
Like a Phoenix ris­ing, life will emerge out of what­ev­er remains, like the green foliage which emerges from vol­canic ash hope­ful­ly, those who had the pow­er to effect change but have not will be con­sumed in the infer­no and the inno­cent will be spared the wrath so that life can con­tin­ue bet­ter and smarter.

According to eye­wit­ness­es a woman who had exit­ed the Sovereign Supermarket in Liguanea St. Andrew was wait­ing in her SUV for secu­ri­ty to lift the bar­ri­er so that she could exit the com­plex, sud­den­ly stepped out of her vehi­cle cov­ered in blood took a few steps then collapsed.

The ini­tial report­ing indi­cates that the woman was hit after a man fired his weapon at a wind­screen wiper and missed. There are alle­ga­tions that the gun­man may be a mem­ber of the secu­ri­ty forces.
More to come …

The police have con­firmed that the shoot­er is a mem­ber of the JCF. They have also con­firmed that the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) and INDECOM are investigating.
Updated:

Having writ­ten a num­ber of arti­cles explain­ing why the Zones Of Special Operations (ZOSO) would at best be stop-gap, I believe wast­ing more time talk­ing about it would be counterproductive.
Nevertheless, I was not opposed to the ZOSO as a mod­el con­cept, even though I was under no illu­sion that the nation had the resources to build out the con­cept to scale.

If the goal was to demon­strate that some­one with­in the admin­is­tra­tion under­stood how peace and some sem­blance of nor­mal­cy could be returned to some depressed com­mu­ni­ties then the admin­is­tra­tion may take a bow.
As a mat­ter of urgency and nation­al import, how­ev­er, the cre­ation of ZOSO was the equiv­a­lent of using a band-aid to stop the bleed­ing of a sev­ered arm.

The incom­pre­hen­si­ble pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with using the advice of doc­tors, pas­tors, lawyers, farm­ers, and oth­ers to shape nation­al secu­ri­ty pol­i­cy has had dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for the coun­try, yet the same method­ol­o­gy is applied over and over with the expec­ta­tion that we will end up with dif­fer­ent results somehow.

The ques­tion of the nation’s approach to crime fight­ing is not nec­es­sar­i­ly about resources or the lack there­of but rather it is intrin­si­cal­ly more to do with a dif­fer­ent atti­tude. As long as the nation’s lead­ers tap their elit­ist friends for solu­tions to a prob­lem they have no solu­tions to, the peo­ple of Jamaica can expect a con­tin­u­a­tion of the mas­sive loss of life which has become a sta­ple now for decades.

As long as the Government and oppo­si­tion par­ty refus­es to give the police the respect it deserves. As long as they con­tin­ue to make laws which are demon­stra­bly harm­ful to the police. As long as they con­tin­ue to cre­ate agen­cies and sup­port the anti-police activ­i­ties which go on in some of its own min­istries. And as long as the empha­sis is on the pro­tec­tion of the rights of mur­der­ing scum­bag crim­i­nals then expect that this Island will con­tin­ue to den­i­grate into a total­ly failed state.

The prob­lem of the edu­cat­ed dunces added to the reg­u­lar dunces who all have become sud­den experts on crime pol­i­cy and crime fight­ing is the Achilles heel of this beau­ti­ful coun­try. The obses­sion of these lead­ers far exceeds the stu­pid­i­ty of those myth­i­cal Trojans who paid atten­tion only to the mag­nif­i­cence of the horse nev­er both­er­ing to see what was inside, allow­ing the Greeks to enter their city and even­tu­al­ly over­take them while they slept.

A friend remarked days ago that its just a mat­ter of time before some of the heav­i­ly armed mer­ce­nar­ies invade the par­lia­ment and take over the country.
I thought about it and in fact, I have been warn­ing about that very same prospect for years. The events of 2010 ought to have been a warn­ing but alas both the Government and oppo­si­tion par­ty has dou­bled down on stupid.
If past is pro­logue then my friend may very well be onto some­thing, maybe it is not such a bad idea to sim­ply wait and see then.

If a farmer wants to pro­duce good crops he has to under­take a series of events before he can reap the rewards of a bumper har­vest. He must first clear the brush which may be the labo­ri­ous process of count­less strokes of many machetes, or it could be the scorched earth assault using gra­max­one or some oth­er brand of weed killer.
Then comes the plow­ing, some­times fur­row­ing, irri­ga­tion, fer­til­iza­tion, sow­ing seeds, wait­ing, and a lot more.
The idea that we can admin­is­ter com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing in areas which are law­less with­out first doing the hard work as in the case of the farmer, is some­thing only the elites who grad­u­ate from the intel­lec­tu­al ghet­to would con­cep­tu­al­ize out of their stu­pid self-absorbed asses.

The evi­dence is clear that the type of crim­i­nals who are com­mit­ting the heinous acts they com­mit are not ordi­nary crim­i­nals and that the approach­es to com­bat­ting them can­not be ordi­nary approach­es. Yet the Government is con­strained by its own cre­ations from empow­er­ing the secu­ri­ty forces to go after these sub-human killers/​. And so it requires spe­cial emer­gency dec­la­ra­tions for the secu­ri­ty forces to go after and evis­cer­ate them and in the process send clear and unequiv­o­cal mes­sages that their actions will not be tolerated.

Imagine the FBI or any oth­er agency of gov­ern­ment ham­per­ing local and state law enforce­ment agen­cies from going after dan­ger­ous killers? The mass killings in vary­ing parts of the tiny Island defies the stu­pid con­ven­tion­al lack of wis­dom that crime is everywhere.
The Security forces final­ly neu­tral­iz­ing mass killer Nico Samuels is a tes­ta­ment to what the secu­ri­ty forces face dai­ly, yet there are those who ques­tion the police ver­sion of events even though the killers them­selves brag about their trade with­out care.

This is what Jamaica has become and it is not get­ting bet­ter. The focus is not on the rule of law it is an upside­down cart drag­ging the ass­es type of approach which favors those who kill and their spon­sors and the ver­mins and par­a­sites who have rel­e­vance as a result of their anti-police stances.

A Jamaica Defence Force Corporal 33-yr old Jeremy Campbell who was attached to the Engineering Regiment at Up Park Camp died sud­den­ly on Tuesday at about 7:10pm. The deceased and a female com­pan­ion were at Rajmaville Gaming Louge in Spanish Town where they had drinks and were report­ed­ly lat­er engaged in inti­mate relations.

The sol­dier report­ed­ly went into the bath­room after which his com­pan­ion heard a loud noise con­sis­tent with some­one falling and went to inves­ti­gate, upon which he was found lying face up in the bathtub.

The deceased was a licensed firearm hold­er, his Glock 9mm pis­tol and four­teen (14) 9mm car­tridges were found lying beside his body on arrival of the police.. The scene and body was processed by Det. Sgt. R. Robinson and Det. Cons. P. Miller of the St. Catherine Scenes of Crime unit.

It is incred­i­bly hard for Law Enforcement offi­cers to make a dif­fer­ence in Jamaica’s cul­ture of law­less­ness and wan­ton mur­der. It is so because truth­ful­ly the present Administration lacks the back­bone to break the back of seri­ous crimes as a result of local lob­bies which are being fund­ed by International pow­ers who have a heavy hand in the deter­mi­na­tion of how our laws are made and enforced.

Listen to direc­tives here.

As a small devel­op­ing coun­try, Jamaica is heav­i­ly depen­dent on for­eign coun­tries for fund­ing. This makes it incred­i­bly vul­ner­a­ble to the dic­tates of those lender nations which gen­er­al­ly do not always have our nation’s inter­est at heart.
In fact, to sug­gest that large and pow­er­ful coun­tries do not have the inter­est of small­er depen­dent nations at heart may be stat­ing the obvi­ous, nations do not have friend­ships they have interests.

As a young cop back in the 80’s to ear­ly 90’s I recall the empha­sis placed on the erad­i­ca­tion of Ganga because the United States want­ed it so. Today Jamaica is flood­ed with guns which are large­ly seep­ing in from the very same United States. The US has almost infi­nite resources, yet we have not seen a sus­tained or mean­ing­ful cam­paign to stem the flow of guns into the Caribbean region or Jamaica in particular.

Simply put, the United States is a large man­u­fac­tur­er of guns and those guns have to be sold. In fact, despite the wan­ton slaugh­ter of inno­cent chil­dren in what should be the sanc­tu­ary of their class­rooms across America, there is zero effort to stop the mass pro­duc­tion and pro­lif­er­a­tion of guns unto the streets of the United States.

For these rea­sons and oth­ers, I ask the JCF rank and file offi­cers to take the direc­tives out­lined in the audio above seri­ous­ly as they go about their dai­ly routines.
It is clear that what is called the high com­mand which pass­es for the lead­er­ship of the hard-work­ing men and women is inca­pable of giv­ing lead­er­ship. These sim­ple yet crit­i­cal process­es are tried and proven to work if they are applied pro­fes­sion­al­ly, con­sis­tent­ly and across the board.

Adhering to these estab­lished pro­to­cols are known to work in reduc­ing risk to offi­cers and simul­ta­ne­ous­ly elim­i­nat­ing dan­ger­ous con­fronta­tions between cit­i­zens who are pulled over by police.

According to sources reput­ed Gang leader Nico Samuels o/​c Bowsa was killed in a con­fronta­tion with the secu­ri­ty forces on Saturday in Ironshore St James.

Reports are that the secu­ri­ty forces went to a house as part of an oper­a­tion and were greet­ed with heavy gun­fire. Sources say two police offi­cers have been shot and injured and two weapons recov­ered in the process.

The exchange of gun­fire has been report­ed to have gone on for over two hours.

Reports from the police indi­cate that the decom­pos­ing bod­ies of four 94) uniden­ti­fied males were found buried in three sep­a­rate shal­low graves in Pennants Clarendon.
The dis­cov­ery coin­cides with the mys­te­ri­ous dis­ap­pear­ance of four St Elizabeth farm­ers whose rent­ed car was found aban­doned on Foga Road, Four Paths in Clarendon more than a week ago.
The four miss­ing men were report­ed to be Kevon and Clinton Hutchinson, cousins from Rocky Hill dis­trict and Shawn Thompson and Alwyn Griffiths of Schoolfield, Malvern.

The report can­not say at this time whether the four bod­ies are con­firmed to be that of the miss­ing men.

Update to follow.

Police in Green Island Hanover is report­ing the triple mur­der of a moth­er and her two young chil­dren April 25^th. Abanique Cunningham age 38-yrs old date of birth,(dob) 23/​12/​78 unem­ployed of Dixon Wharf, Jayanna Coote 7‑yrs (dob) 9/​6/​2010 stu­dent of G/​Island Shanique Coote 4‑yrs old (dob) 11/​3/​14 stu­dent both of back street basic school.

According to sources, Abanique who is the moth­er of the chil­dren went to pre­pare them for school at the home of Paul Coote their father when a dis­pute devel­oped between her and mis­ter Coote.
During the dis­pute mis­ter, Coote is alleged to have chopped all three mul­ti­ple times. The police were sum­moned and on their arrival, all three bod­ies were seen lying in the yard.
Paul Coote was caught run­ning away from the scene was held with a machete believed to be the mur­der weapon.

Abanique who is report­ed to live else­where was said to be pregnant.

Police Sergeant takes the keys in the process of seiz­ing a minibus the dri­ver grabs the keys from the police motor­cy­cle and walks away while threat­en­ing the officer.

The ques­tion is this where else on this plan­et could this hap­pen except in Jamaica?