I gen­er­al­ly avoid com­ment­ing on cas­es under police inves­ti­ga­tions for sev­er­al rea­sons. (1) You nev­er know how inves­ti­ga­tions will turn out; eat­ing crow is not some­thing I par­tic­u­lar­ly relish.(2) the police deserve all of the def­er­ence they can get to do an already dif­fi­cult job. With that said, one homi­cide has caught my atten­tion amidst the litany of oth­ers, not for any par­tic­u­lar defin­ing char­ac­ter­is­tic except that it seems that par­tic­u­lar homi­cide should not be too dif­fi­cult to solve.
Nevertheless, over a year has passed, and still, the deceased’s fam­i­ly has not got­ten clo­sure as the police have not made an arrest.
Now I under­stand that it’s easy to shrug and say, “join the line; there are thou­sands of unsolved mur­ders in Jamaica,” but again, the cir­cum­stances of this case cause me to sec­ond guess my def­er­ence to the police on this one.

The case involved the death of 51-year-old Germaine Junior at a home sup­pos­ed­ly owned by an attor­ney at law, Patrick Bailey, over a year ago.
According to local report­ing, the deceased was stabbed sev­er­al times and shot once in the head.
The deceased man was report­ed to be a nat­u­ral­ized American cit­i­zen and was sup­pos­ed­ly vis­it­ing the Island upon his death. Mister Junior’s fam­i­ly is incensed at the police for good rea­son. The fam­i­ly insists if their loved one were a promi­nent per­son, the case would have been solved long ago. They bemoan the fact that the police have been in con­tact with them only once in the last year since mis­ter Junior’s death.
A cou­ple of points have stuck out like a sore thumb, in this case, leav­ing much room for spec­u­la­tion in the absence of bet­ter report­ing and more infor­ma­tion forth­com­ing from the police.

♦ Patrick Bailey is a promi­nent attor­ney who eas­i­ly fits into the cat­e­go­ry of the prover­bial big man accord­ing to Jamaican culture.
♦ Was mis­ter Junior there as his guest, if not his, then whose?
♦ Who else lives in the home of attor­ney Patrick Bailey if anyone?
♦ Police report­ed that Bailey stum­bled upon the body at about 4:30 am in his own house as he was asleep even though mis­ter Junior was alleged­ly shot.
♦ If the homi­cide hap­pened in a sec­tion of the res­i­dence out­side mis­ter Bailey’s earshot (assum­ing the res­i­dence is large enough that Bailey would not have heard a gun­shot), nev­er­the­less, who gets up and walk around the house at 4:30 am?

♦ How could Bailey sleep through what must have been a strug­gle, much less the sound of a gun­shot in his house?
♦ The state­ment that he stum­bled upon the body at 4:30 am could only have come from Bailey him­self, which gives it lit­tle cred­i­bil­i­ty under the circumstances.
♦ A prop­er coro­ner’s inquest should nail down approx­i­mate­ly what time mis­ter Junior was killed, as against Patrick Bailey’s assertions.
♦ The Police report­ed that there was no forced entry to Bailey’s house. This is absolute­ly crit­i­cal evi­dence as it demon­strates that who­ev­er killed mis­ter Junior had access to the residence.
♦ A knife believed to be the one used to stab mis­ter Junior was alleged­ly found beside his body, was it checked for fingerprints?

♦ If Mister Junior was liv­ing abroad at the time and was only vis­it­ing the Island, why would the police and oth­ers allege that he was a care­tak­er of the residence?
♦ The fact that mis­ter Junior’s body was found with mul­ti­ple stab wounds sug­gests a crime of pas­sion cou­pled with the fact that he was also shot.
♦ Was Patrick Bailey’s per­son checked for marks indi­cat­ing whether he was involved in a strug­gle, or did the police take his word that he slept through a stab­bing and a shoot­ing? If not, why was it not done?
♦ Why was Patrick Bailey ruled med­ical­ly unfit to give state­ments to police by Doctor Jeptah Ford at the time?
♦ According to local media reports after the inci­dent, Patrick Bailey’s doc­tor and client, Jephthah Ford, instruct­ed that he be con­fined to bed after report­ed­ly exhibit­ing signs of being unwell. Ford also said he was not fit to give a state­ment at the time.

♦ Why was Bailey giv­en spe­cial priv­i­leges when even police offi­cers trau­ma­tized by instances of fatal encoun­ters are forced to give a quick account­ing as to what occurred?
♦ Who else had access to the res­i­dence, if any­one, and what was their rela­tion­ship to mis­ter Junior?
♦ Did the police check Patrick Bailey’s house for bloody clothes or clothes recent­ly washed?
♦ Did the Police check out­hous­es (if applic­a­ble) and garbage recep­ta­cles for poten­tial bloody clothes?
♦ If the police deter­mined there was no forced entry to Bailey’s house, how could they sum­mar­i­ly rule him out as a suspect?

I am mak­ing no assump­tions about who killed this man; I am not say­ing any­one, in par­tic­u­lar, is respon­si­ble. I am say­ing that the Police should get up off their back­sides and do the inves­tiga­tive work, and who­ev­er killed mis­ter Junior should be ban­gled up and bun­dled off to jail. Bailey was report­ed to be arro­gant when con­tact­ed by the media assert­ing quote,” any­thing dem seh, mek dem seh it. I have no answer; just pub­lish what­ev­er they say. My back is broad. I have no com­ments, no com­ments, no com­ments! Just sim­ply, you report what­ev­er you want to,”
According to local media report­ing, Assistant Commissioner of Police Élan Powell, who had the crime port­fo­lio at the time of the homi­cide, insist­ed that the police were hid­ing noth­ing and the inves­ti­ga­tions would be done, and the chips would fall where they may.

This state­ment does lit­tle to assuage the anger and dis­trust the fam­i­ly of mis­ter Junior har­bors as it relates to the police’s abil­i­ty to bring the killer of their loved one to justice.
Clearly, what­ev­er the under­ly­ing assump­tions and pre­sump­tions in this case are, a human being was mur­dered, and some­one is respon­si­ble for his unlaw­ful killing. This can­not be a dif­fi­cult case to solve one way or the other.
If the own­er of the premis­es, a well-heeled lawyer, did not kill the vic­tim, some­one else did in his house.
It does not require rock­et sci­ence to fig­ure this case out; if no one broke into the house and there was no one else in the house, then the per­son in the house is the killer, or the per­son in the house knows who killed mis­ter Junior and has aid­ed and abet­ted the coverup of this hor­ren­dous murder.

This case is a trav­es­ty and should not stand; the police can­not be that incom­pe­tent or, worse, pissed-scared that they are unwill­ing to arrest the killer or killers.
Whatever the police know caused them to rule Patrick Bailey out as a sus­pect ought to be made pub­lic or told to the griev­ing family.
Bailey deserves no spe­cial treat­ment or def­er­ence under the law over and above any­one else, which would give the police rea­son not to divulge how they deter­mined he was not a suspect.

In February of 2016, Assistant com­mis­sion­er Powell told a Gleaner Editor’s forum that the police did not wish to name the sus­pects in the mat­ter but sought to assure that the police were active­ly pur­su­ing the case.
Since Powel was in charge of crime at the time, both he and the head of crime must now give a prop­er account­ing to this bereaved fam­i­ly as they are duty-bound to do.
There should be no more mur­ders swept under the rug because some­one knows some­one who knows someone.
This should not be allowed to stand, and the fam­i­ly should not stand for it; they are right in demand­ing answers.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

There is a cer­tain sense of detached res­ig­na­tion asso­ci­at­ed with the killings going on today, whether they are in the United States or any oth­er nation includ­ing our own small Island of Jamaica.
We no longer process each death with the same amount of grief and rev­er­ence we did in times past. Whether the grue­some­ness of the images and the speed and fre­quen­cy with which the images bom­bard our brains have desen­si­tized us is for the experts to decide.

Whether the sense­less­ness of the killing of 59 inno­cent con­cert­go­ers in Las Vegas Nevada or the mur­ders of Horace and Daisy Lyn in May Pen Clarendon, the shock­ing real­i­ty is that we are so desen­si­tized to the mur­ders that we only respond to them as sta­tis­tics or based on the fame and impor­tance of the victims.

The truth is that every time an inno­cent life is snuffed out we are less­er as humans for the loss of that per­son­’s con­tri­bu­tion to mankind.
The tragedy now is in the care­free way in which we treat the death of indi­vid­u­als. Like a sin­gle leaf falling from a tree at the end of its time so too do we treat the many indi­vid­ual mur­ders each day, sav­ing our atten­tion and in some cas­es our out­rage for the mass casu­al­ty situations.

It does not mean that those of us who are yet alive are all cru­el uncar­ing peo­ple it means that we can only process the cru­el­ty of each act in a lim­it­ed amount of time before we are greet­ed with another.
Sometimes so many indi­vid­ual cas­es that we can no longer pay spe­cial atten­tion, we sim­ply glance at the headlines.

What is it which caus­es some­one to open fire on a group of inno­cent peo­ple whom he does­n’t know? What caus­es some­one to make the deci­sion to blow up inno­cent men women and chil­dren he has nev­er met?
What is it which caus­es any­one to slaugh­ter an inno­cent cou­ple when sim­ply rob­bing them in dis­guise would suf­fice if rob­bery was the motive?

How many more lives will be snuffed out before the Government stop lis­ten­ing to pre­ten­tious peo­ple with their own agen­das and take the req­ui­site steps to pro­tect­ing the Jamaican people?
According to the report­ing, the Las Vegas shoot­er took his own life, he was not the only killer to take his own life before author­i­ties could arrest him, he won’t be the last.
One thing is cer­tain every mass killer in the United States know that if caught he will nev­er see the light of day again.

Can we say the same for Jamaica?I think not, killers sim­ply walk away with pret­ty lit­tle fear they will be held account­able for their actions.
The few who are brought before the courts are prompt­ly grant­ed bail and allowed back onto the streets to kill again as many times as they wish.
Nothing in the nation’s laws or the sup­port giv­en to law enforce­ment sends a clear mes­sage that crime will not be tolerated.

Contrarily, the lack of unequiv­o­cal sup­port ded­i­cat­ed to law enforce­ment and the lax atti­tude of the courts sends a clear mes­sage that the lives of cit­i­zens are not impor­tant unless they are from upper St Andrew.
The clock is tick­ing on this issue before we reach a point of no return. In 2010 Jamaica received a very impor­tant mes­sage of the clear and present dan­ger immi­nent against the state

The United States has the law enforce­ment infra­struc­ture to repel an attack on the sov­er­eign­ty and legit­i­ma­cy of the state Jamaica does not.
Clearly, despite the killings, there is a sense of busi­ness as usu­al on the part of the admin­is­tra­tion, that the func­tions of Government can be advanced despite the dai­ly mur­ders with a lit­tle mag­ic act involv­ing smoke and mirrors.

The oppo­si­tion par­ty is far worse, it’s goal is the con­trol of state pow­er and the pil­fer­ing of scarce tax-pay­ers resources.
That has been its modus operan­di, there is noth­ing to indi­cate that any­thing will change with that party.
So the nation is left with the hope that the Holness admin­is­tra­tion will stop the pos­tur­ing, send the so-called human rights lob­by pack­ing and get to work secur­ing the nation.

In case the admin­is­tra­tion is won­der­ing where secur­ing the nation falls with­in its raft of respon­si­bil­i­ties, the answer is num­ber one.
Every Administration’s pri­ma­ry respon­si­bil­i­ty is to ensure the safe­ty and secu­ri­ty of the people.
Advancing the idea that there will be pros­per­i­ty in this mur­der mad­ness is sim­ply anoth­er act in the smoke and mir­rors sideshow.

I write about the val­ue of truth from time to time, I do so because I believe fun­da­men­tal­ly in the impor­tance of truth as a moral prin­ci­ple on which we must build our societies.
As a kid, I prid­ed myself on speak­ing the truth to the best of my abil­i­ty. My guardians knew well, that what­ev­er my answer was to their ques­tions they could rely on it. I strove nev­er to let them down on that front.
As a par­ent now, I impress upon my own chil­dren the impor­tance of being hon­est with their answers so that when trou­ble comes I may count on their answers to guide me in my defense of them.

I recent­ly wrote about the times we are liv­ing in and in that arti­cle, I won­dered whether or not we have entered a post-fac­tu­al stage as some experts sur­mise. What is evi­dent is the fact that those who con­trol infor­ma­tion medi­ums do have the abil­i­ty to shape nar­ra­tives. Those peo­ple are not always hon­est players.
Does that mean we have entered a post-fac­tu­al world or have we sim­ply entered a phase in our his­to­ry in which those who pro­mul­gate infor­ma­tion under­stand the val­ue of shap­ing the nar­ra­tive to suit their own agendas?

EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS AND THOSE WHO CRY WOLF

Take for instance the fact that there are now few­er police shoot­ings in Jamaica since the Bruce Golding Administration passed the INDECOM act into law.
Does that fact mean that there were uni­ver­sal extra­ju­di­cial killings by the police?
Or rather does it mean that police offi­cers have cho­sen to be less proac­tive in going after crim­i­nals and there­fore vio­lent law-enforce­ment encoun­ters with crim­i­nals have gone down?
More impor­tant­ly, as a result, crim­i­nals have been vast­ly embold­ened and the nation has seen a sub­se­quent increase in homi­cides and oth­er vio­lent crimes includ­ing assaults on police offi­cers themselves.

In order to under­stand this ques­tion, one has to look at the def­i­n­i­tion of extra­ju­di­cial killings.
[Extrajudicial killings are char­ac­ter­ized as is the killing of a per­son by gov­ern­men­tal author­i­ties with­out the sanc­tion of any judi­cial pro­ceed­ing or legal process].

In this char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, there is noth­ing which speaks to the dan­gers police face when they are forced to use lethal force to save their own lives or the lives of oth­ers in the law­ful exe­cu­tion of their duties. And for good reason.
The fact that police are forced to shoot vio­lent crim­i­nals though regret­table, may be viewed three ways depend­ing on what nar­ra­tive a per­son choos­es to convey.
(a) vio­lent police officers.(b) vio­lent soci­ety.© both.
If a police offi­cer kills a per­son who pos­es no threat to him­self or the life of oth­ers that action would con­sti­tute an extra­ju­di­cial killing.
What is wrong and decep­tive is that there are those who take large swaths of data and use that data to make their argu­ments that police are killing large amounts of inno­cent peo­ple extrajudicially.

Carolynn Gomes did that and no one except myself chal­lenged her, instead, they gave her a nation­al hon­or for dis­tort­ing data, not just at home but in front of International Human rights agencies.
Terrence Williams learned the val­ue of that les­son to make his points. Of course, that kind of decep­tion could only fly in a soci­ety intent on sup­port­ing crim­i­nal­i­ty, a soci­ety igno­rant as hell or both.

DATA MANIPULATION

The Commissioner of INDECOM must sub­mit quar­ter­ly reports on its func­tions to the parliament.
Those reports indi­cate the nuances of how the agency is pro­gress­ing as per its man­date. Withing those reports are numer­i­cal data of peo­ple charged with crimes, files sub­mit­ted to the Director of Public Prosecution for action, files sub­mit­ted to the three agen­cies over which INDECOM has over­sight for action by those depart­ment heads among oth­er things.

Despite the fact that INDECOM is the agency tasked with inves­ti­gat­ing alle­ga­tions and arrest­ing errant offi­cers of the [3]departments, and despite hav­ing done it’s very best to do so, INDECOM’s prin­ci­pal offi­cers con­tin­ue to smear the police that its use of force is a cause for con­cern even though it[the chief inves­tiga­tive agency] have no evi­dence of wrong­do­ing by offi­cers involved in these use of force instances.

Gone are the days when there were cries and out­cries that the police are a law unto themselves.
There is an over­sight agency, a con­fronta­tion­al, inef­fec­tive one that pro­duces noth­ing over and above what the CCRB was doing but one nonetheless.
In fact, every Tom Dick and Henry[sic] is now an author­i­ty on police use of force protocols.
Truth can­not be what Terrence Williams or his sup­port­ers say it is or what the con­niv­ing duplic­i­tous media allows him to proffer.
Truth must super­sede rhetoric and dem­a­gog­ic smear.

We live in vio­lent times, we must hold our law enforce­ment agen­cies account­able, no one wants to live in an unac­count­able police state.
On the oth­er hand, it is disin­gen­u­ous and wrong to con­tin­ue to use the term extra­ju­di­cial killings when there is no evi­dence to sup­port those claims.
A lie is a lie no mat­ter how many times it is retold. As such, it is impor­tant that the nation under­stand that no mat­ter how many times Terrence Williams and his sup­port­ers lie about ques­tion­able killings it does not make them so, guns includ­ed or not.

It is very dis­turb­ing that Terrence Williams can con­tin­ue to give the false impres­sion to a gullible pub­lic that the police has no legal right to use lethal force if they are attacked with weapons oth­er than a gun.
In fact, the Police has the right to use lethal force to defend his life even if an assailant does not have a weapon of any kind, as long as the assault on his per­son con­vinces him/​her that his/​her life is in danger.

No police offi­cer has an oblig­a­tion to absorb assault in the pur­suit of his duty. When you attack an offi­cer of the law you must know that you by your actions have placed your life in danger.
What is even more despi­ca­ble is that those who ought to know bet­ter have gob­bled up fake news and embarked on the process of spread­ing it against the nation’s law enforce­ment Agencies.
If the tra­di­tion­al media is unable or unwill­ing to push back against this kind of mis­in­for­ma­tion maybe it’s a sig­nal to the rest of us that its time has come and gone.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR THE JCF TO CORRECT THIS?

From time to time I write about the lack of prop­er real police train­ing for mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.
I also talk about a seem­ing lack of super­vi­sion and prob­a­bly just as impor­tant a sense of Esprit-de-corp which has vis­i­bly and demon­stra­bly been miss­ing Whenever mem­bers of the force attempt to effect arrests.

At a time when prop­er train­ing, lead­er­ship, super­vi­sion, and coör­di­na­tion are crit­i­cal to law enforce­ment the JCF seems to be hell-bent on wait­ing on the next big event at which it will fail.

The images in the video below are a tes­ta­ment that offi­cers are not being prop­er­ly trained. They are not being prop­er­ly super­vised and they are not exe­cut­ing their duties properly.

This video ought to be a must in lec­tures on what not to do.
Not only should the offi­cers have arrest­ed the assailant imme­di­ate­ly, the offi­cer who fired his weapon at the last moment fur­ther exac­er­bat­ed the sit­u­a­tion with a net zero effect.
Someone could have been killed as he fired his weapon.
These occur­rences are not new, we write about them, social media is replete with them yet the hier­ar­chy of the JCF has not done a damn thing to change this kind of thing and change it fast.

Just a day ago a sin­gle gun­man killed 59 peo­ple and seri­ous­ly wound­ed over 500, even though Jamaica is thou­sands of miles from Las Vegas Nevada the JCF can learn valu­able lessons from these incidents.
The JCF has got to be bet­ter, it has got to learn lessons from oth­ers and imple­ment plans to deal effec­tive­ly with the chal­lenges which are sure to come its way in this present reality.
If three and four offi­cers can­not effect a sim­ple arrest of an indi­vid­ual who assaults one of them with­out fir­ing a weapon in a futile attempt to stop that assailant how will it react to a seri­ous assault?

WHY SINGLE OUT HUNTS BAY?

For decades the dress code of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has been a sore subject for members of that police department.
For rank and file officers who are required to go out and make arrests and be responsive to the requirements of modern-day policing, the impracticality of the uniform is a real issue.

The uni­form still being worn by the police has not kept pace with the ever-evolv­ing face of policing.
The Federation which acts as a de fac­to union for rank and file offi­cers cer­tain­ly have not been as stri­dent as it should be in lob­by­ing for a more prac­ti­cal work dress for its members.
Additionally, the uni­form worn by senior mem­bers from Inspector to Commissioner depicts an image that they are not inter­est­ed in doing police work or worse that they are above actu­al policing.

In police depart­ments across the world, police offi­cers wear full dress uni­form with util­i­ty belt replete with accou­ter­ments of the trade. This is true of the last joined guy or girl all the way to the chief of the department.

There is no log­i­cal rea­son for the uni­form still in exis­tence except that this is the uni­form which they have had for decades.
I think it is safe to say that there are many things which we have had for decades which aren’t work­ing so well, that includes some of our laws.
Not only is the uni­form of the police cer­e­mo­ni­al and imprac­ti­cal the hier­ar­chy of the force in typ­i­cal utter obsti­na­cy con­tin­ue to insist on the wear­ing of dress uni­form as opposed to the blue den­im even in cas­es where it is a dan­ger to offi­cer’s lives.
I will come back to that.

There are offi­cers who are called upon to take on crim­i­nals in ways oth­er police offi­cers are not.
This has been true through­out the nations short his­to­ry, it will be true as long as this nation exists, it is sim­ply the way things work.
This is not unique to Jamaica, it is stan­dard pro­ce­dure in police depart­ments across the world.
That is the rea­son two offi­cers who have had dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ences serv­ing in the same depart­ment will have dif­fer­ent opin­ions in dis­cus­sions on aspects of the very same department.

Some of those spe­cial func­tions include the Mobile Reserve offi­cers, CIB, and oth­er offi­cers, also there are offi­cers who are asked to pen­e­trate deep into depressed com­mu­ni­ties and bring polic­ing to those residents.
In depressed com­mu­ni­ties all across the coun­try and in places like Riverton City and oth­ers with­in the Hunts Bay police area of responsibility.
Some of these offi­cers are asked to ride motor­cy­cles and are gen­er­al­ly required to work night shifts.

The abil­i­ty to use stealth in the per­for­mance of their duties is absolute­ly crit­i­cal to these offi­cers who risk their lives dai­ly with­out the val­ue of back­up in short order.
Having prac­ti­cal uni­forms (not dress cer­e­mo­ni­al uni­form) is crit­i­cal as well.
These offi­cers we are told, have removed many guns from the streets and have saved many lives. Nevertheless, we have learned that Deputy Commissioner of Police Clifford Blake has sin­gled out the Hunts Bay offi­cers and demand­ed that they wear dress uni­form even though they are required to work nights and under less than ide­al circumstances.

Speaking to sources I was told that the DCP is demand­ing that only 20 offi­cers be allowed to wear the more prac­ti­cal Denim dress.
When I inquired what was the expla­na­tion giv­en for the fact that the DCP sin­gled out Hunts Bay, I learned that none was given.

Whatever the rea­son for this direc­tive from DCP Blake, it should not be that one divi­sion is sin­gled out for a pol­i­cy direc­tive. Particularly in a divi­sion which, for all intents and pur­pos­es serves some of the most depressed and vio­lent com­mu­ni­ties on the Island.
The con­di­tions the Hunts Bay police encounter each day direct­ly stip­u­lates that they need the best accou­ter­ments to do their job.
That includes the most prac­ti­cal uni­form available.
We would like to ask DCP Blake to look at this direc­tive and under­stand the impli­ca­tions of his direc­tive when con­sid­ered against the life and safe­ty of the men and women over whom he has super­vi­so­ry control.

The need to have offi­cers con­form to dress code can­not be overem­pha­sized, how­ev­er, the den­im uni­form is vast­ly supe­ri­or in prac­ti­cal­i­ty and functionality.
The den­im, or some­thing close to it, should be the way for­ward not dress to be scoffed at for the more imprac­ti­cal cer­e­mo­ni­al cum­mer­bund attire.
We urge DCP Blake to con­sid­er the lives of offi­cers over old cer­e­mo­ni­al norms.

“TRUTH”

“A tran­scen­dent fun­da­men­tal or spir­i­tu­al real­i­ty”(Merriam ‑Webster)

It’s has become increas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to have a con­ver­sa­tion on how to solve some of our nation’s prob­lems these days.
Many peo­ple much smarter than I argue we are liv­ing in a post-fac­tu­al world. I am no intel­lec­tu­al so I don’t know whether we are or not, I still believe in the good in each per­son to see reason.
Whether true or not it is becom­ing clear­er, at least to me, that con­ver­sa­tions and debates get bogged down in the mundane.
In addi­tion to the ad hominem attacks that are com­mon­place when we dis­agree, it appears we can’t even agree on truths.

We are not going to solve the issues fac­ing us a race of peo­ple or even in small­er quan­ti­ties as Jamaicans if the basic require­ment of acknowl­edg­ing the truth is out­side our grasp.
As an opin­ion writer, I am thrilled to dive into the debate and defend my point of view. I believe that when we are able to hash out opin­ions and agree on truths we are that much clos­er to resolv­ing our problems.
We can always dis­agree on opin­ions but it becomes a waste of time talk­ing when we can­not accept facts such as cred­i­ble irrefutable data.
Of course, we can dis­agree about how the data was col­lect­ed, we can dis­agree on how it is inter­pret­ed, we may even argue on its rel­a­tiv­i­ty to the top­ic being dis­cussed but it does no one any good to argue when the data is unindictable.

A friend recent­ly told me that she dis­agrees with my writ­ing style, she tells me it’s too jar­ring, “I get a headache every time I try to read your work.”
I Love my friend but the truths that I try to com­mu­ni­cate, are not exact­ly palat­able to the poten­tial tar­get groups of which she is a part.
My friend, a real down to earth edu­cat­ed woman may find it dif­fi­cult to agree that the edu­cat­ed elit­ist class has no use for cer­tain truths which dis­rupts their decade’s long com­fort zones.

As much as I rel­ish the thought of appeal­ing to my friend’s group­ing I am more inter­est­ed in appeal­ing to the wider mass­es who must begin to take their own lives into their hands through the appro­pri­ate assim­i­la­tion of use­ful truth­ful information.
In order to make the best use of truth­ful infor­ma­tion, we must first iden­ti­fy truth and use that as a start­ing point. Essentially at some point in time, we have to accept that black is black and white is white instead of wast­ing time bick­er­ing over shades.
Or even more banal spend time tear­ing down the mes­sen­ger when the truth does not line up with the safe place you devel­oped on the issue.

It’s ridicu­lous to accuse your con­tem­po­rary of being a Democrat because his views do not line up with your Republican world-view.
It’s equal­ly unpro­duc­tive to spend time accus­ing your con­tem­po­rary of being PNP because your Government is in pow­er and I just hap­pen to chal­lenge them with facts.
How dumb are we real­ly when we believe the par­ty we sup­port can do no wrong and the one we despise can do no right?
I’ll tell you what that is, it is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of small-mind­ed­ness and ignorance.

So what if the per­son is a Democrat, so what if I just hap­pened to be a mem­ber of the PNP, does that then trans­form truth to fiction?
Does it change the fun­da­men­tal fact that we must come togeth­er to solve the issues which affect us?
I vot­ed once in Jamaica and it was for Edward Seaga It was my very first oppor­tu­ni­ty to vote.
Not only did I vote but at the ten­der age of 18 I signed up to be a return­ing offi­cer at the polling sta­tion because I believed in the demo­c­ra­t­ic process.

It is that fer­vent belief in the demo­c­ra­t­ic process which makes it impos­si­ble to sit idly by and watch as our coun­try embarks on process­es which I know are absolute­ly the wrong path, regard­less of who sits in Jamaica house.
The only time I ever vot­ed was for the Seaga Government yet I was one of his harsh­est crit­ics and con­tin­ue to crit­i­cize Seaga today and give him cred­it where he deserves that credit.
The PNP has been demon­stra­bly destruc­tive for our coun­try, sub­se­quent­ly, I nev­er con­sid­er that par­ty wor­thy of much dis­cus­sion or debate.
I was always quite com­fort­able to see the PNP on the side­lines look­ing in, just not com­fort­able enough to allow the arro­gance of some with­in the labor par­ty to go unchecked.

I am Jamaican, not JLP and damn sure not PNP.
I will con­tin­ue to lob­by and speak truth to pow­er, not just in Jamaica but in my adopt­ed home, the truth is lib­er­at­ing it is refresh­ing we should all wel­come truth, regard­less how unpalat­able it is.

The much maligned and belea­guered Jamaica Constabulary force has been fight­ing through some of it’s most dif­fi­cult times.
In recent weeks the JCF has suf­fered sev­er­al attacks on it’s mem­bers in their own homes.
In fact in less that two weeks three offi­cers have been shot in their homes.
Though this is not new it marks an esca­la­tion in the war being waged on the Island’s Law enforce­ment by the crim­i­nal underworld.

In recent days the police has with­stood those assaults and have actu­al­ly tak­en out the cop killer Marlon Duppy film Perry .
They have been involved in sev­er­al shoot­ings in which dan­ger­ous killers have been removed from the streets and have with­stood ambushes.

Additionally, they have recov­ered sev­er­al guns and numer­ous amounts of ammu­ni­tion ren­der­ing the streets, high­ways and byways of the Island some­what safer.

Caches of guns the police recov­er almost daily.

All of this has gen­er­at­ed much pos­i­tive press for the police but more impor­tant­ly the chat­ter on social media has been changing.
The nar­ra­tive have been much more sup­port­ive of the police of late and that ter­ri­fies some peo­ple who eat the flesh of dead cops and drink their blood..
If you are a crim­i­nal or you are in the busi­ness of dem­a­goguery, lies and sen­sa­tion­al­ism against the police that is bad for business.
So what do you know, chief dem­a­gogue and media whore, the com­mis­sion­er of the crime enhance­ment agency INDECOM , decid­ed he want­ed some of the spotlight.

Williams aid­ed by his friends in the media was not about to allow the police a sin­gle moment of respite so he found a way to worm him­self into the limelight.

Big Gleaner headline.

JCF Slowly Responding To INDECOM On Sanctions.

(INDECOM) Terrence Williams yes­ter­day said that respons­es are slow­ly com­ing in from the hier­ar­chy of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Police Service Commission a day after he informed Parliament that the lead­er­ship has failed to take action against 138 senior cops rec­om­mend­ed for dis­ci­pli­nary sanc­tions.

The only trou­ble with this attempt to draw atten­tion to him­self, is that this was in rela­tion to INDECOM’s April to June report to the parliament.
Terrence Williams aid­ed by his loy­al lieutenant[sic] British trans­plant Hamish Campbell said that the police have respond­ed by let­ter in some cas­es say­ing that the depart­ment has decid­ed not to act on some of the reports.

“We have received some let­ters updat­ing us. Some of the let­ters are say­ing that they are going to con­duct fur­ther inves­ti­ga­tions. Some are say­ing that too much time has passed and they are not going to take any fur­ther action or dis­ci­pli­nary pro­ceed­ings, and some are say­ing that they agree with us.” 

Williams said that while the law allows for the con­stab­u­lary to explain to Parliament why no sanc­tions have been under­tak­en, no expla­na­tion has been tendered.

In oth­er words not only have Terrence Williams decid­ed to usurp the press the JCF is get­ting on it’s suc­cess­es, he has decid­ed­ly tak­en on the role of lec­tur­ing the Parliament.
Remember that in cas­es where the police decide not to act on a rec­om­men­da­tion of INDECOM, in the inter­est of trans­paren­cy and account­abil­i­ty they are man­dat­ed to give rea­sons for their decision.
The Parliament have not issued a com­plaint or made any demand for addi­tion­al respons­es from the police.
In fact it is with­in the pre­rog­a­tive of the police to make the deter­mi­na­tion whether Williams’ rec­om­men­da­tions are act­ed upon as he suggest.
Upon mak­ing the rec­om­men­da­tion Williams’ job is done.

Even as a female offi­cer and her daugh­ter were shot, their wounds still raw, the glo­ry hunt­ing, media whor­ing Terrence Williams had one intention.
Get the cam­eras on him­self, how pathet­ic and inse­cure this lit­tle man must be?

Williams went on to rat­tle off num­bers which points to increas­es in police fatal shoot­ings. In the same breath he made no men­tion of the shoot­ings in which offi­cers are shot in their own homes.

Said Williams; ”

“Investigations by INDECOM show that a sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­age of those shoot­ings are not in accor­dance with eye-wit­ness accounts pro­vid­ed. Of the 185 peo­ple who have either been shot and killed or shot and injured, 42 per cent of them did not have a firearm. A small­er num­ber had oth­er weapons like ice picks, stones, a piece of wood, and a num­ber hav­ing a machete or knife.”

So though he has the pow­er and the author­i­ty to pros­e­cute if there is evi­dence of wrong­do­ing, and even though he clear­ly has no evi­dence which could poten­tial­ly crim­i­nal­ly indict offi­cers who use lethal force in case where ice-picks and machetes are used, and even though we all know that the sup­posed wit­ness­es are gen­er­al­ly crim­i­nals them­selves, Terrence Williams chose demagoguery.
And at a time when the police high com­mand raised the threat lev­el against it’s offi­cers to severe.

Terrence Williams is a sick, dement­ed nar­cis­sist who is hell bent on doing what­ev­er he needs to do to remain relevant.
If Williams believes ice-picks and machetes pose no threat then he should do us a favor and take on the role of a police officer.
It would be a tremen­dous favor to our coun­try and to human kind.
The nation should reject INDECOM in’it’s present form and should unequiv­o­cal­ly reject the polit­i­cal plant Terrence Williams before he does more dam­age to our country.

Day in day out I per­son­al­ly take on the unen­vi­able and unpaid task of writ­ing about what is hap­pen­ing in Jamaica. I con­tin­ue to remark on crime’s influ­ence and how it is destroy­ing the qual­i­ty of life for my fel­low coun­try­men and women who only want to live a law-abid­ing and decent life.
I feel that to whom much is giv­en much is required and so it is not just about the lit­tle gifts that one may be able to give it’s also about the greater good ‚that one may help in shap­ing the pol­i­cy debates through legit­i­mate well-inten­tioned advocacy.

In the process I have tak­en a lot of per­son­al heat, crit­i­cism and even threats, enough to cause any­one to rea­son­ably say what do I care , I just wont both­er with this.
Others have accused me of try­ing to gain fame and noto­ri­ety from try­ing to bring atten­tion to whats hap­pen­ing as it relates to crime.
The peo­ple who actu­al­ly know me actu­al­ly do laugh at those accu­sa­tions, I am the last per­son to seek atten­tion , in fact I do my utmost to stay in the shadows.
Others say “you are doing it for mon­ey,” that’s laugh­able too, I use my own mon­ey to ensure that this plat­form remain on the web so that not just myself but who would nor­mal­ly not have a voice gets their opin­ions and points of views heard.
I am con­vinced that the Jamaican peo­ple, despite all of their intel­lect and exu­ber­ance can­not live out their God-giv­en poten­tial in an atmos­phere of ram­pant crime, cor­rup­tion, and violence.

It was that love of peo­ple and ded­i­ca­tion to duty which got me shot in a dark alley on Blackwood Terrace one night in 87 as I accom­pa­nied a com­plainant home after he made a report to us.
We could have tak­en his report and sent him home, instead we chose to accom­pa­ny him to his house. We were to learn lat­er that he had only told us half of the sto­ry, that omis­sion near­ly cost me my life on that fate­ful night.
A cow­ard with a brand new ille­gal gun and the inten­tion to kill wait­ed in the dark­ness, I was not about to go with­out a fight, though shot and bleed­ing I was not about to sur­ren­der my life to a use­less piece of human waste.

It is that ded­i­ca­tion to duty and com­mit­ment which gal­va­nizes my ener­gies and caus­es me to con­tin­ue to keep sup­port­ing the rule of law and the imper­fect men and women [many of whom dis­agree with me] who risk their lives to keep oth­ers they nev­er met safe.

It is for that rea­son that I con­tin­ue to point to the struc­tur­al defects in the laws which allows crime to con­tin­ue unchecked.
As for­mer SSP Reneto Adams allud­ed and I have been spo­ken to for years, there are no real deter­rent in the laws. That lack of deter­rent is hav­ing a dele­te­ri­ous effect on the abil­i­ty of the police to impact crime in a mean­ing­ful way.

The nation’s lead­ers have stead­fast­ly buried their col­lec­tive heads in the sand and ignored the advice and coun­sel of peo­ple who know and have opt­ed to take the advice of peo­ple with per­son­al vendet­tas and agen­das anti­thet­i­cal to the best inter­est of our country.
Pride will not allow them to say we made a mis­take, so they dou­ble down on the mis­takes, squan­der­ing scarce resources and pre­cious lives in the process.

No ZOSO will have any mean­ing­ful impact on crime. ZOSO is like a well run police precinct which cov­ers a par­tic­u­lar geo­graph­i­cal area.
My expe­ri­ence taught me that crim­i­nals will not stick around where there are no-non­sense police, they sim­ply migrate to oth­er areas.
This I stat­ed repeat­ed­ly before the ZOSO was even enact­ed into law, imme­di­ate­ly after the first ZOSO was declared the police and oth­er enti­ties con­firmed that crim­i­nals were run­ning to oth­er areas.

the exis­ten­tial threat crim­i­nals pose to the coun­try can­not be ignored by the nation’s lead­ers. It is a gross dere­lic­tion of duty and an abject fail­ure to take active mea­sures to pro­tect law abid­ing cit­i­zens from ram­pag­ing crim­i­nals, who are unafraid and undeterred.
The Island’s lead­ers con­tin­ue to out­source the Island’s secu­ri­ty to Terrence Williams, an ego mani­a­cal nar­cis­sist with an agen­da and a vendet­ta, fund­ed by for­eign interest.
Additionally the Government have allowed anoth­er tax-pay­er fund­ed agency, [the pub­lic defend­ers office] to become a antag­o­nis­tic tool of crim­i­nals against the nation’s law enforce­ment agencies.

At what point does the Government say enough?
Chief among the rea­sons for the nation’s excep­tion­al­ly high mur­der rate is the fact that the Island’s judges act as a law onto themselves.
They sum­mar­i­ly release the most dan­ger­ous killers back onto the streets as soon as the police haul them before the courts.
This kind of behav­ior is stan­dard prac­tice regard­less of the grue­some nature of the crimes the accused are alleged to have committed.

The courts con­tin­ue to make the scur­rilous argu­ments that Bail ought not be used as pun­ish­ment while ignor­ing the guide­lines with­ing the very same bail act.
It is time that judges stand up and respect the con­sti­tu­tion of Jamaica and cease and desist from the nefar­i­ous prac­tices of grant­i­ng bail to accused mur­der­ers over and over and over and over regard­less of the amounts of time they kill while on bail.

SECTION OF THE BAIL ACT FOR CLARIFICATION

4.-(1) Where the offence or one of the offences in rela­tion to C~~CW which
the defen­dant is charged or con­vict­ed is pun­ish­able with which bail
impris­on­ment. Bail may be denied to that defen­dant in the following
cir­cum­stances­r­ta­nies
in
(U) the Court, a Justice of the Peace or police offi­cer is
sat­is­fied that there are sub­stan­tial grounds for believing
that the defen­dant, if released on bail would-
(i) fail to sur­ren­der to custody;
(ii) com­mit an offence while on bail; or
(iii) inter­fere with wit­ness­es or oth­er­wise obstruct
the course of jus­tice, whether in rela­tion to
him­self or any oth­er person;

(6) the defen­dant is in cus­tody in pur­suance of the sentence
of a Court or any author­i­ty act­ing under the Defense
Act;
the Court is sat­is­fied that it has not been prac­ti­ca­ble to
obtain suf­fi­cient infor­ma­tion for the pur­pose of taking
the deci­sions required by this sec­tion for want of time
since the insti­tu­tion of the pro­ceed­ings against the
defen­dant;
(d) the defen­dant, hav­ing been released on bail in or in
con­nec­tion with the pro­ceed­ings for the offence, is
arrest­ed in pur­suance of sec­tion 14 (abscond­ing by person
released on bail);
(e) the defen­dant is charged with an offence alleged to have
been com­mit­ted while he was released on bail:

It is an affront to the dig­ni­ty of law-abid­ing Jamaicans that this kind of behav­ior is allowed to con­tin­ue to jeop­ar­dize their lives.
Aided and abet­ted no less than by paid ser­vants of the pub­lic whose duty it is to pro­tect them, but who does­n’t think enough of them to them­selves fol­low the laws.

This is hav­ing a dev­as­tat­ing effect on the nation’s homi­cide rate and the over­all sta­tis­tics of vio­lent crimes.
Two days ago the police act­ing on infor­ma­tion went to a loca­tion in Naggo Head Saint Catherine where they inter­cept­ed a man armed with a gun, dur­ing that con­fronta­tion the assailant was mor­tal­ly wounded.

The deceased turned out to have been out on Bail on a mur­der charge.
Incensed at his death, his cronies are report­ed to have gone to the home of one of the police offi­cers and opened fire at his wife and daughter.
Even though shot, Woman Inspector Grant returned fire killing one of the assailants and pos­si­bly injur­ing anoth­er ‚who from reports turned up at the Kingston Public Hospital claim­ing he was shot by gunmen.

This medi­um have received cred­i­ble infor­ma­tion that the idea of going to the Inspector’s house was to hold Inspector Grant and her fam­i­ly until her hus­band arrived home then kill all of them.
This is the lev­el of plan­ning which is going on against the offi­cers who uphold the laws.
Our offi­cers are receiv­ing no help from the Government, no help from the courts, no help from the civ­il soci­ety in prac­ti­cal­ly erad­i­cat­ing this men­ace from the society.

Instead the Government indulges in plat­i­tudes and smoke and mir­rors with a view to cre­at­ing the impres­sion that much is being done to aid in the fight against crime.
The ter­ror­ists who threat­en the sov­er­eign­ty and legit­i­ma­cy of the Jamaican state have not gone away, instead their ranks have swollen with depor­tees and oth­ers. Their arse­nals have been replen­ished and improved.

The lethal­i­ty and sophis­ti­ca­tion of the weapon­ry in the hands of the gang­sters is stunning.
Yet the Government aid­ed and advised by crim­i­nal enhance­ment groups like Jamaicans for Justice, the IACHR and it’s own cre­ation, INDECOM, con­tin­ue to ignore the clear and present dan­ger these gangs pose to the nation’s security.

I ask, “how long will this Government allow this con­di­tion to dete­ri­o­rate, how much is enough” ?
How long will it be before both polit­i­cal par­ties final­ly and unequiv­o­cal­ly renounce vio­lence, con­demn gar­risons and com­mit to dis­man­tling the gar­risons which are the incu­ba­tors for these gangs?

Police sources revealed that this man turned up at the Kingston Public Hospital for treat­ment claim­ing that he was attacked and shot.
They believe he was one of the would-be assas­sins of Inspector Grant and her family.

This we are told may very well be the oth­er would be assas­sin of the Grant family.

Police sources con­firmed that their inves­ti­ga­tions have estab­lished that he was not shot where he alleged that he was but that he has stuck to his story.

UPDATE TO THIS STORY
 Assault at com­mon law, Fatal shoot­ing, recov­ery of firearm and ammu­ni­tion, com­mit­ted 26.9.2017 about 3pm nag­go head vic new lus­cious hq bar, Portmore, st Catherine. Circumstances are: mem­bers of the st Catherine south spe­cial ops act­ing on infor­ma­tion that a want­ed man was in the area went there and saw a man fit­ting the descrip­tion, on approach of the police the man pulled a hand gun from his waist­band and point­ed it at the police, the police in defence of their lives fired at him and he was hit, he was rushed to the Spanish town hos­pi­tal where he was pro­nounced dead by Dr Thomas @ 3:40 pm. One .380 semi auto­mat­ic pis­tol ser­i­al num­ber 98003311 loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 7 rds were tak­en from the deceased man. INDECOM was informed. Det Sgt Noël Bryan I/​o. Ssp Bennett,sp grey, ddi south on scene. Futher update follows.

LATER THE REPRISAL ATTACK ON WOMAN INSPECTOR GRANT AND HER FAMILY 

Three (3) counts of Wounding with Intent by gun­shot and a sus­pect­ed fatal shoot­ing, com­mit­ted about 8:15pm . Victims are Insp. Allison Grant-Johnson of MPD, Ashley Rochester, 23 year old Dist. Cons. of TSD and Bianna Johnson, 17 year old stu­dent of a Kingston high school all of the above address. Information is that all 3 vic­tims (moth­er and daugh­ters of the above address) were at home when one of the daugh­ters was about to exit the rear of the house to dis­card refuse when she was pounced upon by at least 3 gun­men, she screamed out and her moth­er who was in a bed­room went to her assis­tance.…. a gun bat­tle ensued dur­ing which all 3 per­sons were shot and injured. Inspector Grant-Johnson fired and based on the descrip­tion giv­en it is believed that one of the men was fatal­ly shot, he was found some dis­tance away. The injuries of the injured who are being treat­ed at KPH are not con­sid­ered life threat­en­ing. Of note, Insp. Grant-Johnson’s hus­band, Sgt. Ainsley Johnson was involved in a fatal shoot­ing and recov­ery of a pis­tol earlier.

Its impor­tant that the nation under­stand that the cir­cle begins because a man who mur­dered was grant­ed bail by the courts , turns around and attack police offi­cers and is tak­en out.
His cronies in turn went to one of the offi­cers home where they shot and injured his daugh­ter and wife who is also a police officer.
She returned fire killing one and wound­ing anoth­er who alleged­ly turned up at the KPH claim­ing he was shot by assailants.

These men did not turn up to kill the judge who grant­ed them bail, they turned up to kill police offi­cers after their crony who was giv­en bail by a crim­i­nals lov­ing judge was killed by police.
This is where our coun­try is today, mur­der­ers grant­ed bail attempts to kill cops , is killed in the con­fronta­tion and his cronies attacks one offi­cer’s fam­i­ly with a view to assas­si­nat­ing the entire family.

The Jamaican Government at all lev­els is in the process of pro­vid­ing aid and com­fort to the ter­ror­ists who are slaugh­ter­ing and maim­ing inno­cent Jamaicans.
Turning mur­der­ers loose through the courts and through INDECOM embold­en­ing crim­i­nals to do things once unimaginable.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force con­tin­ue to erad­i­cate from the small Island the bru­tal and mer­ci­less home grown ter­ror­ists who have tak­en over the coun­try since the Bruce Golding led JLP in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the People’s National Party gave the coun­try INDECOM.

Since this mon­strous police shack­ling law was passed in 2010 thou­sands of Jamaicans have lost their lives who would­n’t nor­mal­ly have.
Many are indeed inno­cents who should not have lost their lives.
On the oth­er hand many have died who are part of the problem .
With that said between the Government,Opposition, the crim­i­nal courts sys­tem and the agen­cies they cre­at­ed to ham­strung the police the job of the police have become increas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to near­ly impossible.

Over the years Administrations of both polit­i­cal par­ties have allowed lob­by groups opposed to the police and sup­port­ive of crim­i­nals to use police shoot­ing sta­tis­tics to solic­it funds from inter­ests, some of which are opposed to Jamaica’s interest.
Groups like Jamaicans For Justice under the lead­er­ship of Carolyn Gomez have done immea­sur­able harm to our coun­try by manip­u­lat­ing data in sup­port of her own interest .

Out of those actions we got INDECOM, and the Public Defender’s Office but we also got dra­mat­ic increas­es in homi­cides, Rapes, Sexual molesta­tion of women and chil­dren and over­all dra­mat­ic increas­es in vio­lent crimes.
As I have said in pre­vi­ous arti­cles Jamaica has peo­ple with immense tal­ents and intel­lect, there is no rea­son we should not be a first world state despite our late start.

Think for a moment at the immea­sur­able poten­tial peo­ple, all of us, look at what we have done in the dias­po­ra and at home.
Imagine if we are able to coa­lesce those pos­i­tives into devel­op­ing that 4411 square miles?
Now imag­ine if you are a lender to Jamaica and you want to keep mak­ing money.
Would it be in your inter­est in have a devel­oped sol­vent Jamaica?
Use your heads Jamaicans, there are peo­ple giv­ing mon­ey to anti police groups which have done the cal­cu­la­tion, they are hop­ing you will not do yours.

There are high­ly placed peo­ple with­in the present Government and the Opposition par­ty who have the good sense to rec­og­nize that the INDECOM act is hav­ing dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences on the enforce­ment of the Nation’s laws, none have had the char­ac­ter and balls to stand up and demand that this law which kills be repealed.

Just recent­ly and in the space of one week two police offi­cers were attacked in the sanc­ti­ty of their own homes.
I wrote about it argu­ing then that this is alarm­ing and that the police at least must be dou­bly vig­i­lant if that is at all pos­si­ble con­sid­er­ing what they face in Jamaica and the lev­el of sup­port that is giv­en to criminals.

I argued in my last arti­cle that attacks on police in their own homes is noth­ing new but should be watched to see if there is a pat­tern developing.
I believe we need look no fur­ther to come to the rea­son­able con­clu­sion that this is indeed a strat­e­gy being adopt­ed by the well armed crim­i­nal underworld.

Yesterday female cop, Inspector A Grant was attacked in her home and shot along with her 23 ‑year-old daughter .
The offi­cer report­ed­ly returned fire hit­ting one of her assailants killing him.
We under­stand that the offi­cer’s hus­band is a police offi­cer who was involved in a shoot­ing and that the attack on her and her fam­i­ly was a reprisal attack.
We have been unable to get con­fir­ma­tion on that angle of the story.

Since Bruce Golding gave the the coun­try INDECOM, the rule of law has gone to the dogs in Jamaica .
It is not that there should­n’t be over­sight of Government agen­cies includ­ing the ones over which INDECOM have over­sight responsibility.
The prob­lem is the col­lu­sion which occurred between the Bruce Golding Government, out­side lob­by groups with agen­das against the police the PNP with zero input from the police.
It is impor­tant to rec­og­nize that despite the tril­lions of dol­lars Jamaica’s politi­cians have stolen and the crim­i­nal­i­ty in which mem­bers of par­lia­ment have been involved, the Police and the Contractor General’s depart­ment has no pow­er to pros­e­cute them.

The Police Military and Corrections which INDECOM Investigates, have giv­en more than enough rea­sons for gov­ern­ment to lis­ten to the calls for trans­paren­cy com­ing from the people.
Nevertheless, it is the com­plic­i­ty with which Golding and his cronies cob­bled togeth­er INDECOM and placed his polit­i­cal oper­a­tive Terrence Williams at the helm which is the problem.

Out of the INDECOM Act came increased and more brazen mur­ders, attacks on law enforce­ment offi­cers and a gen­er­al unwill­ing­ness of police to go after criminals.
The polit­i­cal pup­pet Golding placed atop the INDECOM fecal pile nev­er miss­es an oppor­tu­ni­ty to trum­pet the fact that police shoot­ings have gone down.
That’s an absolute and irrefutable fact.
Those argu­ments are for his for­eign han­dlers who give mon­ey to INDECOM to ham­strung the police and turn Jamaica into a waste­land of crim­i­nal­i­ty, there­by keep­ing her impov­er­ished and in debt.

What Terrence Williams nev­er talks about is the fact that police shoot­ings have gone down because police offi­cers have large­ly dis­en­gaged while the mur­der­ers which have tak­en over the coun­try have been emboldened.
As a con­se­quences mur­ders have gone up marked­ly with no end in sight.
If the idea behind INDECOM was for less crim­i­nals to get shot and more inno­cent Jamaicans shot and mur­dered the INDECOM Act has been a strate­gic suc­cess for INDECOM’s financiers.

The arro­gance of these ter­ror­ists are on full dis­play for all to see ‚now that they are embold­ened by INDECOM , and the Office Of Public Defender, two tax pay­er fund­ed Government agen­cies which sup­ports criminals.

The killing of law enforce­ment offi­cers will not cause an awak­en­ing of the peo­ple seem­ing­ly drunk on las­civ­i­ous­ness and wine, some oth­er event will have to awak­en them, if of course the coun­try is not already too far gone and is large­ly pop­u­lat­ed with criminals.
Some with­in the Government con­tin­ue to use cruise ship arrivals and vis­i­tors to all inclu­sive resorts as a barom­e­ter of sta­bil­i­ty in the country.
I under­stand the need for sta­bil­i­ty and calm but the Government is woe­ful­ly mis­guid­ed if it mis­cal­cu­lates how quick­ly those arrivals will evap­o­rate if the ter­ror­ism in the coun­try is allowed to continue.

The for­eign press can do a lot of dam­age once this con­tin­ues, its only a mat­ter of time.
The images which many Jamaicans at home are not privy to and that which many in the dias­po­ra pre­tend does­n’t exist are out there for all to see.
People come to me and ask “I want to go on vaca­tion we would like to go to Jamaica what do you think”?
They hear and see whats going on.
What do you think?