We have just received word that Police Commissioner George Quallo has been fired.

The (POA) Police Officers Association recent­ly blast­ed nation­al secu­ri­ty min­is­ter Robert Montague for med­dling in the run­ning of the force and vowed to accom­pa­ny Commissioner Quallo to a meet­ing sched­uled today between the Commissioner and the Minister.

Word is that it was at that meet­ing that the Commissioner was fired.
Sources con­firmed the Commissioner was told he has to go but for the moment is still on the job.
The Government faced with mount­ing mur­der sta­tis­tics seem­ing­ly is look­ing for a scape­goat and the com­mis­sion­er of police is an ide­al target.
More to come.…..

Welcome to jus­tice Jamaica style.
In all of the talk about crime in Jamaica and the reg­u­lar anti-police gib­ber­ish com­ing from the faces of the self-styled elites in the coun­try like Cliff Huges of Nationwide radio, we intend to show you why crime is so stub­born in Jamaica.

#1

Paul Raphael, 49 years old fined $1 mil­lion or 12 months in prison for traf­fick­ing cocaine and $500,000 or 12 months in prison for deal­ing in cocaine.
Most impor­tant­ly he was admon­ished and dis­charged for the offense of pos­ses­sion of cocaine by Parish Court Judge Sancia Burrell.

It is incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult for crime to trend down­ward when the very agen­cies of jus­tice work assid­u­ous­ly and duti­ful­ly to make the coun­try much more attrac­tive to those who are pre­dis­posed to com­mit crimes. And fur­ther­more to help to recruit oth­ers who may oth­er­wise have been deterred had the coun­try made it clear it will not tol­er­ate crim­i­nal behavior.

Ironically this is the very same judge who paid lip ser­vice by mock­ing the ridicu­lous law which con­strained her from issu­ing a fine above J$100 on gang­ster Tesha Miller after he plead­ed guilty to mak­ing a false dec­la­ra­tion to Jamaican immi­gra­tion officials.

Given a chance to show that she was­n’t just chat­ting because she had a mouth she wilt­ed like a four leaf clover.
At the time even some of the lame politi­cians were stunned that these laws are still in effect.
Unfortunately what the nation gets is a bunch of losers who bang on desks and shout insults at each oth­er on the pub­lic’s dime.

#2

Thirty-sev­en ( 37)-year-old Michael Abrahams of Caribbean Estate, St. Catherine was sen­tenced for: Possession of Cocaine — $500,000 or 6 months in prison and Dealing in Cocaine — 9 months hard labor, sus­pend­ed for two years when he appeared before the St. Catherine Parish Court.
Abrahams was arrest­ed at his home on Friday, July 7, after detec­tives from the Narcotics Division con­duct­ed a raid at his premis­es and found Cocaine weigh­ing approx­i­mate­ly 70 kilo­grams and val­ued at $92.8 million.

How long are the Jamaican peo­ple going to be idi­ot­ic sheep lulled and indoc­tri­nat­ed into believ­ing that these judges are not being paid to deliv­er these kinds of justice?

What we do not hear from the frauds like Hughes is a demand for account­ing from his friends who are mak­ing deci­sions or bet­ter yet are not mak­ing the right decisions.
This is why we must eschew these char­la­tans when they try to turn us against the police in the line of fire who are real­ly doing all they can with pre­cious lit­tle to no sup­port from the sys­tem as you have seen in these ridicu­lous sentences.

This sto­ry has been updat­ed after the ini­tial publication.

Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey who has for all intents and pur­pos­es sub­vert­ed the process to set Kern Spencer free of all charges in the Cuban light bulb scan­dal has been ele­vat­ed to the Supreme Court.

Pusey is One of six women ele­vat­ed to the supreme court at a time when the coun­try is inun­dat­ed with crime and ter­ror­ism the coun­try needs Judges who are going to uphold their oaths to the con­sti­tu­tion, not judges who do all in their pow­ers to sub­vert the process of justice.

Jamaica’s Mad Liberal Judges:

RM PUSEY SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THIS CASE NOW:

Man Fined $50,000 For Driving Over Cop’s Foot

Magistrate: Not Guilty, But Is Kern Innocent ?

The Problem With Jamaica’s “Grung Gads”

In a new year’s speech which gives us a win­dow into his soul and a view of his think­ing, Prime Minister Andrew Holness had much to say about the dan­ger­ous spate of killings in Jamaica.
Holness made the fol­low­ing com­ments while address­ing the con­gre­ga­tion at the 13^th annu­al ‘Heal the Family Heals the Nation’ gath­er­ing at the National Arena staged by the Power of Faith Ministries.

Said the Prime Minister.

[“Leaders you have to bring it to your pul­pit. We can’t allow much of what is hap­pen­ing to be cov­ered up, par­tic­u­lar­ly the abuse that is hap­pen­ing with­in fam­i­lies. We must preach out against the fathers who are molest­ing their daugh­ters. And it is hap­pen­ing in our midst. Some moth­ers remain qui­et – don’t say any­thing about it: that daugh­ter grows up with a lot of anger in her. She has chil­dren and she takes it out on her chil­dren and all that those chil­dren will know, is vio­lence. If you see some­thing like that, it is not right. It can­not be accept­ed prac­tice in our cul­ture. We must expose it and preach against it.”]

[ “The church has an amaz­ing capac­i­ty for coun­sel­ing and out­reach, use it. That is one prac­ti­cal way in which we can start to address the issue of vio­lence”. “We talk about crime but we don’t talk enough about vio­lence. It is the vio­lence that dri­ves the crime: it is the vio­lence that makes the crime bru­tal and sav­age, we have to address this issue of vio­lence which is becom­ing part of our cul­ture, a part of our social trans­ac­tion”…]

INDECOM​.FAST. JFJ, IACHR. PMI. OPD. Silent On Murders Of Over 1600 Murdered Jamaicans In 2017…

NOTHING WRONG WITH HIS STATEMENTS REALLY, EXCEPT…

There is noth­ing wrong with the text or tenor of the Prime Minister’s state­ments real­ly. Except that what is miss­ing, is a fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing by the Prime Minister of what the nation is deal­ing with and more so what will be required to fix it.

Firstly and before we get into the prac­ti­cal mechan­ics of whats hap­pen­ing in Jamaica and what fix­es will be effec­tive, let us get some­thing real­ly straight.
God Almighty will not fix our prob­lems for us, he has already strength­ened us to do for our­selves. Through his pre-set principles,we decide out­comes based on our own actions.

Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strength­ens me.
That include putting men on the moon, plac­ing satel­lites into orbit, mas­sive advances in sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy as well as in Engineering. 

We are not going to win wars by kneel­ing and pray­ing, we win wars by train­ing and sup­port­ing our armies, know­ing our ene­mies, and ensur­ing that we do not under­es­ti­mate them.
God is not a magi­cian sit­ting atop the clouds wav­ing a wand one way or the oth­er based on how we respond to him.

Mister Prime Minister, well over 1600 Jamaicans was mur­dered in 2017. Compare that to Chicago Illinois, one of America’s most vio­lent cities, which had 675 homi­cides and rough­ly the same pop­u­la­tion as Jamaica.
There are Jamaicans who are giv­ing you the impres­sion that this is mere­ly crime.
I assure you it isn’t, I can also tell you, yes there is crime every­where but your mur­der num­bers are not mere crime numbers.
The coun­try is at war.

The homi­cide num­bers in Jamaica far exceeds that of Great Britain, Jamaica’s patron, which record­ed 723 mur­ders in 2017 and 524 in 2016. [www​.sta​tista​.com] Britain has a pop­u­la­tion of 65.64 mil­lion as com­pared to Jamaica’s 2.7 mil­lion.

We can poll nations around the world with larg­er and small­er pop­u­la­tions than Jamaica’s and we would be hard-pressed to find a nation with the per capi­ta mur­der sta­tis­tics of Jamaica.
A good place to start is with Cuba 90 miles off our shores, which has a pop­u­la­tion of approx­i­mate­ly 12 mil­lion peo­ple rough­ly four times that of Jamaica which has 2.7 mil­lion people.
They have a stan­dard of liv­ing which is sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er than that of Jamaican [thanks to over 50 years of American block­ade] yet their homi­cide num­bers are far less oner­ous, where available..

According to https://​www​.osac​.gov.

While there are no reli­able crime sta­tis­tics from the gov­ern­ment, the U.S. Embassy con­tin­ues to receive sev­er­al reports per month of non-vio­lent crimes against tourists. These num­bers are increas­ing slight­ly and are con­sis­tent with report­ing from oth­er diplo­mat­ic mis­sions. Most crime can be asso­ci­at­ed with pick­pock­et­ing, purse snatch­ing, fraud schemes, and thefts from unoc­cu­pied cars, hotel rooms, and dwellings. American trav­el­ers are gen­er­al­ly per­ceived to be wealthy. Most offens­es take place in areas fre­quent­ed by foreigners.

Although most tourist hotels are rel­a­tive­ly safe in Havana, pick­pock­ets, pros­ti­tutes, and oth­er crim­i­nals may con­gre­gate there. Cuba has an active com­mer­cial sex trade.

We could go on and on but you get the pic­ture. Our clos­est neigh­bor geo­graph­i­cal­ly, hard­ly has a homi­cide prob­lem. The crimes report­ed by this America Agency [hard­ly a friend of Cuba] makes men­tion of non-vio­lent crimes, the kind which may appro­pri­ate­ly be assigned to poverty.

Mister Prime Minister here is the prob­lem in our coun­try and I dare­say you are a sig­nif­i­cant part of that prob­lem, if not cul­pa­bly, culturally.
You have tak­en the posi­tion that crime can be approached using plat­i­tudes, beg­ging, beseech­ing, pray­ing, and a soft hand.
You and those who advise you are wrong. The fact that you and I dare­say the crim­i­nal­ly com­plic­it polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion have mort­gaged out the nation’s secu­ri­ty to Criminal sup­port­ing groups, is entire­ly why you are unable to prop­er­ly deal with the problem.
You can­not fix what you have decid­ed­ly and will­ful­ly refused to prop­er­ly diagnose.

What is going on in Jamaica will not be reme­died with com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing. We have long passed that stage, that is not to say that com­mu­ni­ty based polic­ing can­not oper­ate side by side with a more mil­i­taris­tic approach to the problem.
You sim­ply have to stop lis­ten­ing to the pre­ten­tious know-it-alls who dom­i­nate the pub­lic air­waves and the nation­al dialogue.
As I have said repeat­ed­ly in pre­vi­ous arti­cles, human rights and hard no-non­sense polic­ing are not opposed to each oth­er. The oppo­si­tion par­ty and your acolytes of the cler­gy and those in the media and crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty are quick to make the link that if police go after dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals they, by virtue of that fact alone are pre­dis­posed to abus­ing the rights of citizens.
Simply put it is bull-shit.

Young men who have engaged in the pow­er rush they seem to get from tak­ing inno­cent lives are not about to give up those weapons and return to irrelevance.
They are not going to go back to being nobody when the Prime Minister and oth­er lead­ers are in church beg­ging God for help from them.
They will not give up their weapons when politi­cians are meet­ing with them, essen­tial­ly rais­ing their pro­file and importance.

The shin­ing path in Peru, the ELN , and FARC in Colombia did not give up their weapons, nei­ther have the car­tels in Mexico done so.
Those weapons will have to be tak­en from their life­less fingers.
Jamaicans can pre­tend all they want that what is hap­pen­ing in our coun­try is dif­fer­ent. We have seen what it real­ly meant in 2010.
Shamefully, rather than laud the secu­ri­ty forces the nation through its polit­i­cal lead­ers on both sides of the aisle cre­at­ed a kan­ga­roo court to con­demn the secu­ri­ty forces for sav­ing Jamaica.
Paying Tivoli res­i­dents and apol­o­giz­ing to that com­mu­ni­ty cement­ed the fact that there is pre­cious lit­tle dif­fer­ence between the two polit­i­cal parties.

The two par­ties are basi­cal­ly the white col­lar seg­ment of the crim­i­nal gangs which rule the streets.
More con­se­quen­tial, pay­ing Tivoli and apol­o­giz­ing and demo­niz­ing the secu­ri­ty forces cement­ed the notion that Jamaica is a crim­i­nal state.

Regardless of what you think about slain police offi­cer Constable Courtney Linton, who was shot dead by gun­men in Orangefield on October 31, last year, what do you say about the killing of his girl­friend 40-year-old Zoe King who was nine months pregnant?

Ms. King was killed at her home in Orange field St Catherine, a once peace­ful rur­al com­mu­ni­ty of law-abid­ing families.
She was sched­uled to have her baby next week accord­ing to pub­lished reports.

The police say she was at home when 4 armed men invad­ed her home, the preg­nant Ms.King was chased by the men and sum­mar­i­ly slaughtered.

Let me be clear about this, I believe that the peo­ple who sit in their offices in Kingston and pon­tif­i­cate about human rights bet­ter be careful.
Whether they are from INDECOM, FAST, JFJ, IACHR. Peace Management Unit, Public Defender’s office or wher­ev­er, the blood of the peo­ple is cry­ing out.
If you are not for the peo­ple you are against the people.

There is no more fun­da­men­tal a right indued to any per­son than the God-giv­en right to life.
The over 1600 dead Jamaicans last year elicit­ed death­ly silence from every sin­gle group named and the ones not named.

For the most part lit­er­al­ly, all of the mur­dered vic­tims had their lives snuffed out ille­gal­ly, yet there has been no out­cry from the crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty named above.
We are not unmind­ful of the fact that the only time we have heard from these char­la­tan crim­i­nal sup­port­ing groups have been on the occa­sions that mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces exter­mi­nate ele­ments of the crim­i­nal underworld.

As a con­se­quence let us be clear, INDECOM, FAST, JFJ, IACHR. The Peace Management Unit, The Public Defender’s office, and oth­ers are crim­i­nal sup­port­ing groups oper­at­ing in Jamaica.
Let us dis­pense with the lies and pre­tense and peel off the veneer of bull­shit. Each and every one of these enti­ties by them­selves and col­lec­tive­ly is work­ing toward the fur­ther­ance of the defense of those who kill inno­cent and defense­less Jamaicans.

Who mur­ders a preg­nant woman?
What will it take for the pow­ers that be in this coun­try to rec­og­nize that it has a seri­ous war on its hands?
How long will it take these peo­ple who clear­ly are in a drunk­en stu­por to come to the real­iza­tion that this is not just crime?

When will the blood of the inno­cent rise up and engen­der rage in the peo­ple to the extent they say “no more”?
How long will it take for the peo­ple to real­ize that God will not be fight­ing this bat­tle for them, they will have to fight it for themselves?

When will they real­ize that the wolves in sheep cloth­ing who pre­tend to care about them are indeed the ene­my with­in, pro­tect­ing and enhanc­ing their demise?

I call on the Holness Administration to stop play­ing pol­i­tics, sus­pend habeas cor­pus and send the mil­i­tary in to root out these killers.
To hell with the Opposition and the talk­ing head in the media and oth­er crim­i­nals sup­port­ing entities.

Failing which there will inevitably and inex­orably be a right­eous upris­ing and the results will not be pretty.
Act now and put an end to the car­nage Prime Minister.

The blood of well over 1600 Jamaicans is very well on the hands of these fraud­u­lent imposters as it is on the hands of those who pulled the trig­ger or uses a knife.

The coun­try must decide, as the new year begins with record num­bers which already sug­gest it will be a ban­ner mur­der year, whether it wants to con­tin­ue lis­ten­ing to these frauds.

If Jamaicans are okay with four armed men gun­ning down a preg­nant woman killing her and her unborn baby, then I will write not anoth­er line about this war being waged in Jamaica.
It will be enough to say this coun­try we all love is no more, it is now a killing field unwor­thy of our care.

It will mean, gone is the lit­tle rock I took a bul­let for and in its place is a Godless, las­civ­i­ous and hedo­nis­tic waste­land in which life has no value.

A place in which plea­sure cir­cum­vent every­thing else and every­day life con­tin­ues as the spilled blood of the inno­cent wash­es over the bar­ren waste­land our four father slaved and died for.

Sixteen hun­dred and six­teen (1,616) mur­ders were record­ed in Jamaica dur­ing the year 2017.

Of those mur­ders, 335 took place in the parish of St James. However, the tal­ly for total mur­ders could rise as fifty oth­er cas­es have report­ed­ly been list­ed as death investigations.

This means 2017 is among the blood­i­est years on record.

In the year 2009, 1,683 per­sons were killed in Jamaica – the high­est on record.

In 2005 a year also a year filled with blood­let­ting there was a record­ed 1,670 mur­ders. http://​jablogz​.com/​2​0​1​8​/​0​1​/​2​0​1​7​-​a​m​o​n​g​-​t​h​e​-​b​l​o​o​d​i​e​s​t​-​y​e​a​r​s​-​o​n​-​r​e​c​o​r​d​-​i​n​-​j​a​m​a​i​ca/

National Security Minister Robert Montague has reject­ed the report sub­mit­ted to him by Police Commissioner George Quallo.
Montaque had demand­ed a full report from the police on the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the traf­fic pile­up on new years day, on the sole road which leads into the Norman Manley International airport.

According to pub­lished reports, the traf­fic pile­up came as a result of rev­el­ers block­ing the road­ways pre­vent­ing the free flow of traffic.
Many trav­el­ers wish­ing to leave the coun­try were report­ed to have missed their flights.
Montague cor­rect­ly demand­ed a full report from Quallo as to the cir­cum­stances which led to what clear­ly was a dan­ger­ous and cost­ly foul-up.
For his part Commissioner, Quallo has said that the inci­dent was an embar­rass­ment to his Agency.

In a release, yes­ter­day Minister Montague said the report did not meet the stan­dards which the Jamaican pub­lic has come to expect from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

He said the report is inad­e­quate, as it has not addressed the ques­tions he raised. According to the release, the report did not out­line the con­di­tions of approval and did not clear­ly speak to a polic­ing plan that was put in place for the event. Montague said as the min­is­ter, he can­not accept the report as it is not reflec­tive of the hard work of the men and women who pro­tect Jamaica daily.

He said it is on their behalf that he had no choice but to reject it.
Additionally, the min­is­ter said based on reports from the pub­lic, the police per­son­nel on the ground dis­played the utmost pro­fes­sion­al­ism and cour­tesy, in the face of the hos­tile behav­ior from some peo­ple who attend­ed the party.
Montague remind­ed the Commissioner that he has total com­mand and super­in­ten­dence of the force and as such some­one must be held accountable.

National Security Minister Robert Montague is well with­in his rights to reject the report from the Police Commissioner based on the bul­let points he out­lined for the rejection.
The JCF has been under attack for decades, some­thing which the present com­mis­sion­er bears no respon­si­bil­i­ty for, the Island is sim­ply a crim­i­nal sup­port­ing enclave.

Nevertheless, the JCF can­not be absolved of respon­si­bil­i­ty for some of the prob­lems it faces. The chal­lenges are many and the options are few, notwith­stand­ing the police depart­ment had it with­in itself to do a much bet­ter job for the country.
Lack of resources, polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence, sub­ver­sive attacks from crim­i­nal rights groups and a lack of prop­er remu­ner­a­tions are just a few of the chal­lenges which have plagued the agency.

Over the decades, how­ev­er, as the com­plaints rose to crescen­do lev­els, the police high com­mand has been con­tent to sit on the side­lines and allow the rank-and-file members,[the offi­cers with the least pow­er] to bear the full brunt of the crit­i­cisms and per­se­cu­tion from the crim­i­nal sup­port­ing public.
Clearly, the lat­est report of the com­mis­sion­er up the lad­der has been noth­ing more than an abbre­vi­at­ed doc­u­ment which was hasti­ly thrown togeth­er to deflect blame from the incom­pe­tence of the high command.

No Inspector, Sergeant or cor­po­ral much less a con­sta­ble has the author­i­ty to green-light sport­ing events like the one which cre­at­ed the log-jam on the Palisadoes road.
Minister Montague is exact­ly cor­rect in the stance he has tak­en in not allow­ing Commissioner Quallo to deflect blame from the senior aides under his command.

For years this writer has com­plained about the lev­el of incom­pe­tence with­in the high com­mand. Simple fix­es to prob­lems elude the senior cadre of the depart­ment and the con­se­quences are chan­neled to the men and women who have zero con­trol over deci­sion making.
Members of the Police High com­mand have no sense of shame in hog­ging the cam­eras when the hard-work­ing men and women of the depart­ment reap success.
They should not be allowed to hide away and chan­nel blame onto the pow­er­less offi­cers who do their best under try­ing circumstances.

It is a brand new year we should be focused on new ideas and new ini­tia­tives to keep our coun­try safe.
Unfortunately, our lead­ers have not moved to take con­trol of the crises fac­ing our coun­try so we are forced to be obsess­ing about issues which should have been addressed years ago.

Fortunately, the threats Jamaica faces are not from hos­tile state actors but from crim­i­nals with­in and with­out who would turn the Island into a Serengeti of blood­shed and lawlessness.
Our prob­lems are not insur­mount­able, nev­er­the­less, if the nation’s lead­ers con­tin­ue to pos­ture for cheap polit­i­cal lever­age it won’t be long before they become so.

Yesterday I spoke to how Jamaica got to the state of law­less­ness it’s present­ly mired in. I also point­ed to a few Nations which have had seri­ous prob­lems with law­less­ness and out­lined specif­i­cal­ly how the nation of Colombia has weath­ered the storm under the strong decid­ed lead­er­ship of pres­i­dent Álvaro Uribe Vélez.

My friend tells me that if Jamaica wants to fix its crime prob­lem it has to adopt New York City’s model.
Unfortunately for Jamaica the mod­el used by New York City which began under the lead­er­ship of David Dinkins the city’s first African-American Mayor begun with com­mu­ni­ty policing.

The prob­lem con­tin­ued under a more aggres­sive Rudolph Guliani but was infused with a far more decid­ed and no-non­sense approach as it relat­ed to enforce­ment prac­tices and procedures.
The so-called bro­ken win­dows approach which includ­ed pros­e­cut­ing offend­ers for all infrac­tions as well as a stop and frisk com­po­nent which many criticized.
I sup­port­ed the stop and frisk com­po­nent, I fun­da­men­tal­ly believed that a per­son who would take an ille­gal weapon into the streets who believes he will be stopped and arrest­ed for that weapon he would think twice about doing it.

As was the case in most sit­u­a­tions in America, it was the dis­parate appli­ca­tion of the stop and frisk com­po­nent which jus­ti­fied the courts step­ping in and end­ing it.
Jamaica is long past the place where sim­ply adopt­ing com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing will change the par­a­digm. Community polic­ing is invalu­able after the brush has been cleared. There is no sce­nario in which com­mu­ni­ty offi­cers can be inject­ed into com­mu­ni­ties war­ring with AK47 and oth­er auto­mat­ic weapons.
Which brings me to the issue of wars.

WARRING ACTORS ARE NOT MERE CRIMINALS THEY ARE A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY.

As long as the nation naive­ly con­tin­ue to pre­tend that the heav­i­ly armed war­ring fac­tions which oper­ate in parts of the Wareika foothills, Tivoli and Arnett Gardens, Riverton and all places in between, all the way to the west­ern parish­es, there will be no end to the bloodletting.
This is not mere­ly crim­i­nal con­duct, it was­n’t just crim­i­nal con­duct when the mur­der­ous over­lord Christopher Coke decid­ed that he would not sub­mit to an arrest warrant.
In the same way that Pablo Escobar the leader of the Medellin car­tel in Colombia and oth­er lead­ers of the Cali and oth­er car­tels act­ed when the Government sought to arrest them. They fought the state.

Today Mexico and Guatemala con­tin­ue to strug­gle to deal with nar­co-ter­ror­ists with­in their coun­tries pri­mar­i­ly because of the cor­rupt nature of many with­in the body politic.
Nevertheless, Mexico took the nec­es­sary steps to arrest El Chapo Guzman and ship him off to the United States where he is present­ly fac­ing real jus­tice for his crimes.
As it was in Colombia and it is in Mexico today so is it in Jamaica.
This is exact­ly what is hap­pen­ing in Mexico today, it was the norm in Colombia before Uribe’s Presidency in 2002.

Jamaicans on the streets have acknowl­edged that the exis­ten­tial threat the nation faces from these vio­lent actors is indeed a state of war.
People are ter­ri­fied and trau­ma­tized in their homes at the inces­sant sound of gun­fire, unsure whether this time it will be their doors kicked in and lights out for their entire family.
Children are unable to go to school and entire com­mu­ni­ties are placed under siege as maraud­ing gangs of urban ter­ror­ist parade their heavy auto­mat­ic weapons total­ly uncon­cerned about consequences.

The aver­age Jamaican have long under­stood that the coun­try was in a state of unde­clared civ­il-war, it is the two polit­i­cal par­ties which have con­sis­tent­ly refused to acknowl­edge it for what it is.
This year alone there are esti­mates which put the Island’s homi­cide num­bers above 1600 for the first time since 2005.

It is not only the polit­i­cal par­ties which are cul­pa­ble in this fias­co, there are oth­er actors which are equal­ly as cul­pa­ble in the con­tin­u­ance of this charade.
The fact that there is a so-called “Peace Management Unit”, is in and of itself an acknowl­edg­ment that the coun­try is in a state of war.
Ironically the Peace Management Unit and its lead­ers, begin­ning with Horace, Levy does not want peace. Peace would mean irrel­e­vance for Levy and his cabal of deplorables.

Instead of help­ing the Police to iden­ti­fy the ter­ror­ists in the com­mu­ni­ties Levy and oth­ers foment and nur­ture dis­sent and oppo­si­tion against the police all the while pre­tend­ing to want peace in the communities.
What we end up with are a bunch of peo­ple who attach them­selves to the body politic like the thou­sands of par­a­sitic plantlife which attach them­selves to the tall trees in the Amazon Jungle.

They fan the flames of anar­chy, all the time pre­tend­ing to care about Human Rights. They play a dan­ger­ous game of Russian roulette with the nation’s secu­ri­ty with dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for the aver­age Jamaican.
Some of these agen­cies are fund­ed by for­eign dark money.

The Jamaican Government has a respon­si­bil­i­ty as it’s pri­ma­ry func­tion to drown out the noise and deploy the mil­i­tary to go into the enclaves in which these ter­ror­ists are mur­der­ing and muti­lat­ing and erad­i­cate them once and for all as President Uribe did in Colombia.
There should be no fear of crit­i­cisms, crit­ics ben­e­fit from the mur­der may­hem which exists, with­out it they have no relevance.

That is the rea­son Uribe did not bow to them, it is why Duterte in the Philippines are not bow­ing to critics.
Various admin­is­tra­tions of both polit­i­cal par­ties have giv­en far too much def­er­ence to so-called human rights lob­by oper­at­ing in our country.
The con­se­quences are there for all to see. The idea that a Government in a coun­try like Jamaica would be def­er­en­tial and behold­en to armed thugs is shock­ing and embar­rass­ing to say the least.

There should be one state­ment com­ing from the Government to the heav­i­ly armed gangs oper­at­ing on the Island.
Turn in the weapons, all of them in 7 days, fail­ing which we will pluck them from your cold dead fingers.
The time has come for the Jamaican Government and those on the oppo­si­tion bench­es to rec­og­nize that if they do not act to remove the weapons from the hands of the mur­der­ous killers there will be hell to pay.
Events of 2010 will have been a cake­walk rel­a­tive­ly speaking.

Yes, if that means sus­pend­ing habeas cor­pus then so be it. These are des­per­ate times which requires deci­sive measures.
Those who sit on the side­lines and make grand state­ments are going to do what they do best “chat”, the nation’s nation­al secu­ri­ty can­not be exe­cut­ed with def­er­ence to them.
In many coun­tries, they can crit­i­cize and make their state­ments only from afar. It’s time that Jamaica fol­low suit.

Police offi­cers killed 1,129 peo­ple in 2017.

More peo­ple died from police vio­lence in 2017 than the total num­ber of U.S. sol­diers killed in action around the globe (21). More peo­ple died at the hands of police in 2017 than the num­ber of black peo­ple who were lynched in the worst year of Jim Crow (161 in 1892). Cops killed more Americans in 2017 than ter­ror­ists did (four). They killed more cit­i­zens than air­planes (13 deaths world­wide), mass shoot­ers (428 deaths) and Chicago’s “top gang thugs” (675 Chicago homi­cides).

Yet only 12 offi­cers were charged with a crime relat­ed to a shoot­ing death.

An exten­sive new study from Mapping Police Violence details the data for police vio­lence. The col­lec­tive tracks police shoot­ing num­bers and sta­tis­tics, maps the inci­dents and com­piles the data in real time. The site uses infor­ma­tion from a num­ber of sources, includ­ing Killed by Police, Fatal Encounters and the U.S. Police Shootings Database, to break down shoot­ings by race, loca­tion, weapons used, and whether or not the vic­tim was armed. It is a valu­able tool used by aca­d­e­mics, researchers and cer­tain writ­ers at The Root.

Aside from the fact that only 1 per­cent of the offi­cers who killed some­one were charged with a crime in 2017, some of the report’s most inter­est­ing facts include the following:

• Of the 534 killer cops Mapping Police Violence was able to iden­ti­fy, 43 had shot or killed some­one before. Twelve had pre­vi­ous­ly shot or killed mul­ti­ple people.
• Most of the peo­ple killed (718) were sus­pects in non­vi­o­lent offens­es, were stopped for traf­fic vio­la­tions or had com­mit­ted no crime at all.
• 13 per­cent of peo­ple killed by cops were unarmed.
• Most of the unarmed vic­tims were peo­ple of col­or. Of the 147 unarmed peo­ple killed by police, 48 were black and 34 were Hispanic.
• Black peo­ple account­ed for 27 per­cent of the peo­ple killed by law enforce­ment offi­cers. Of the unarmed vic­tims of police vio­lence, blacks made up 37 per­cent, almost three times their per­cent­age of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion (13 percent).
• Of the peo­ple who were unarmed and not attack­ing, but were still killed by cops, 35 per­cent were black.
• 95 peo­ple were killed when police shot at a mov­ing vehi­cle, a prac­tice that many say should be banned.
• 170 of the peo­ple killed were armed with a knife. in 117 of those inci­dents, police shot the per­son before try­ing any oth­er method to dis­arm the person.
• 20 per­cent of the peo­ple who had a gun when they were killed were not threat­en­ing anyone.
• Law enforce­ment train­ing spends sev­en times more hours train­ing offi­cers on the use of firearms than on how to de-esca­late situations.

Again, only 12 offi­cers were charged with a crime after killing 1,129 cit­i­zens they were sworn to pro­tect and serve. Here’s to anoth­er ban­ner year of police get­ting away with murder.
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Recent media report­ing that the police high com­mand is demand­ing the names of mem­bers who report­ed sick to press home their demands for bet­ter pay is shock­ing and should be seen as anoth­er attack on the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights and free­doms of mem­bers of the rank-and-file.

Rest assured that this action if true as report­ed, is not mere­ly a func­tion of the incom­pe­tent high com­mand, it is com­ing direct­ly from Jamaica house.
What rea­son would the high com­mand of the force have for min­ing the iden­ti­ty of mem­bers who were sick unless their inten­tions are express­ly retaliatory?

The Police high com­mand have been a tool of politi­cians for decades. This is true across admin­is­tra­tions of both polit­i­cal parties.
This inep­ti­tude and bla­tant yard-boy pro­cliv­i­ty on the part of the men in the high­est ech­e­lons of the force have cre­at­ed a sieve-like effect which sees almost 600 young men and women leav­ing the force each year.

The lat­est bit of under­hand­ed chi­canery by the high com­mand is just the lat­est in a series of actions tak­en against aver­age hard work­ing offi­cers in which the high com­mand has dirty hands.
The recent­ly leg­is­lat­ed ZOSO act had as a crit­i­cal part of its infra­struc­ture a com­po­nent which makes it a crime for offi­cers to leave the police depart­ment with­out first sub­mit­ting a res­ig­na­tion let­ter six months in advance.

It was under the Bruce Golding Administration that the nation was giv­en INDECOM, a bla­tant­ly divi­sive and oner­ous law to law enforce­ment, which eas­i­ly could have been draft­ed bet­ter to deal appro­pri­ate­ly with errant cops with­out the ran­cor and chill­ing effects it has had on law enforcement.

It is impor­tant to remem­ber that the sit­ting Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has him­self now been forced to come around to the oner­ous nature of the INDECOM law. A full 7 years after we have been ham­mer­ing home almost dai­ly, the dan­ger­ous nature of the law.

From social media accounts, there is a gen­er­al feel­ing that mem­bers of the JCF are tack­ing toward the PNP and have been for some time now.
I respect­ful­ly ask the JLP Government and those who sup­port the admin­is­tra­tion slav­ish­ly, “are you not aware that peo­ple are able to think for them­selves”?

The police have been an impor­tant vot­ing bloc in the nation for decades. In fact, the say­ing was ” As goes the police so does the nation.”
There was nev­er any­thing wrong with the police vot­ing their con­science as long as they act impar­tial­ly in the dai­ly func­tions of their duties.

The vote swings of the police en-masse have always been reflec­tive of the gen­er­al mood of the nation at every giv­en time in the nation’s young history.
It’s down­right arro­gant of any­one to believe that the actions of the Golding admin­is­tra­tion as it relates to the INDECOM act would not have lin­ger­ing bad blood.

You can­not keep pok­ing the lion and not expect a response.
The Police high com­mand in place today is a prod­uct of a high com­mand which was before it.
What that means is that the con­niv­ing, puni­tive, incom­pe­tence and the cur­ry­ing of favor with politi­cians are learned behavior.
That is part of the real rea­son young men and women who join are leav­ing in droves.

They can try to crim­i­nal­ize attri­tion all they want, peo­ple are going to drop every­thing and walk away as I did many years ago.
The very same tired and despi­ca­ble puni­tive com­po­nents the police high com­mand employed two and three decades ago are still the very same pathet­ic tools it has in its deplet­ed tool­box today.
Demanding that offi­cers who have just returned from duty hand over their ser­vice weapons in a coun­try which just record­ed over 1600 homi­cides in the year just con­clud­ed, is a telling tes­ti­mo­ny that the police high com­mand has crim­i­nal intent.

If the report­ing is true that they are in fact demand­ing that offi­cers hand over their ser­vice weapons leav­ing them­selves defense­less it goes to the heart of their desire to see young offi­cers killed because they took a stand for bet­ter pay.

The police high com­mand has always pros­ti­tut­ed itself to politi­cians, the nation is gripped by a seem­ing end­less mur­der rate which the high com­mand has no solu­tions to.
Clearly, in the face of its inabil­i­ty to do any­thing sub­stan­tive about crime the high com­mand is now ded­i­cat­ed to bootlick­ing only, some­thing it has done quite well for decades.
The qual­i­ty of a police depart­ment is a direct result of its lead­er­ship, it is not the bad offi­cers who are leav­ing monthly.