Given nor­mal con­di­tions in which crime needs to be brought under con­trol, police offi­cers grap­ple with ways to pre­vent crime through deter­rence, through force of their pres­ence and in sit­u­a­tions where inci­dences of crim­i­nal­i­ty occur nonethe­less, they inves­ti­gate and arrest offenders.

That is man­ag­ing crime.
There are sev­er­al lev­els of crime, most law enforce­ment offi­cials, past and present will attest to the dis­tinct fact that; left to fes­ter crime is a can­cer­ous tumor which nev­er gets bet­ter with­out being reme­died, will not self-cor­rect, and it nev­er gets fixed by apply­ing the wrong antidote.

Given time crime becomes unman­age­able and will invari­ably need cau­ter­i­za­tion or amputation.
This is so as in an infect­ed part of the body which is left to fes­ter, even­tu­al­ly, the infec­tion will dic­tate the need for dras­tic action as a mat­ter of urgency or sure death will follow.
By the time it reach­es that stage the body will cer­tain­ly lose a limb or suf­fer severe trau­ma as a result of the negligence.

Let’s take Jamaica’s sit­u­a­tion for example.
We have a bunch of politi­cians and oth­er lead­ers who are as pre­ten­tious as the sun will rise tomor­row. Never mind the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion which is large­ly too dumb to real­ize the debil­i­tat­ing effect crime is hav­ing on their lives and that of their chil­dren and gen­er­a­tions to come.
They glo­ri­fy crime and tell you just look at the tourist arrival numbers.
If this met­ric was­n’t so sim­plis­tic and down­right retard­ed it would be laughable.

That nar­ra­tive will cer­tain­ly dis­ap­pear, real soon, we recent­ly learned that sev­er­al cruise ship oper­a­tors will not be stop­ping at the Falmouth pier anymore.
Wow !!!
Visitors are fed up with the aggres­sive atti­tude of peo­ple when they dis­em­bark the ships.
Oh, wait, “crime deh ebery weh an dem mus expec seh peo­ple a gu try sell dem tings.”
The only prob­lem with that the­o­ry is that they have the mon­ey Jamaicans need so they will take that mon­ey elsewhere.

The polit­i­cal lead­ers are large­ly crim­i­nal cod­dling oppor­tunists and in some cas­es plain crim­i­nals themselves.
Other sec­tors with and with­out pow­er are heav­i­ly invest­ed in crime. From the board­rooms to the under­tak­ers to the hard­ware store, from the sound sys­tem oper­a­tors to the pul­pit and even the hus­tlers’ mur­der is a way of life.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF CRIMINAL CODDLING.

And now we are here a coun­try at war with itself, a pseu­do civ­il war some may argue. The mul­ti­ple shoot­ings and dead bod­ies each day tell a dif­fer­ent sto­ry, noth­ing pseu­do about those numbers.
Absolutely noth­ing pseu­do about the real­i­ty of this head­line in one of the dai­ly publication.

SECURITY FORCES FORM CRIME BUFFER IN WEST KINGSTON : http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​l​a​t​e​s​t​n​e​w​s​/​S​e​c​u​r​i​t​y​_​f​o​r​c​e​s​_​f​o​r​m​_​c​r​i​m​e​_​b​u​f​f​e​r​_​i​n​_​W​e​s​t​_​K​i​n​g​s​t​o​n​?​p​r​o​f​i​l​e​=​1​228

The prob­lem with the head­line is the head­line itself.
The secu­ri­ty forces are not form­ing a crime buffer, they are plac­ing their bod­ies between war­ring militias.

According to the (OBSERVER) Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Major Basil Jarrett says that both the police and sol­diers have strate­gi­cal­ly locat­ed troops in key hot spots across the coun­try, act­ing as a buffer between rival gangs. “Right now, we have a tense sit­u­a­tion in Denham Town and Tivoli Gardens as rival gangs grap­ple for own­er­ship and con­trol of turf in West Kingston,” said Jarrett in giv­ing an exam­ple of the strate­gic positioning.

“These men have no reluc­tance to attack each oth­er in the com­mu­ni­ty and so our pres­ence forces them to recon­sid­er and reassess their options. As we have seen, this has by no means removed their deter­mi­na­tion to shoot at and kill each oth­er, but with our troops on the ground, it does make it a bit more dif­fi­cult for them.” The pres­ence of the secu­ri­ty forces in the com­mu­ni­ties has not only com­pro­mised the activ­i­ties of the rival fac­tions, but has also led to fre­quent con­tact between sol­diers, police, and criminals.

“Just last night there was con­tact between a JDF patrol team and gun­men in the vicin­i­ty of Tulip Lane, Denham Town when gun­men opened fire on the patrol team. Fortunately, no inno­cent civil­ians were hurt in the exchange but this demon­strates the frus­tra­tion of the gun­men and their will­ing­ness to engage us as a result of our inter­fer­ing presence”.

Jarrett com­ment quote ” this demon­strates the frus­tra­tion of the gun­men and their will­ing­ness to engage us as a result of our inter­fer­ing presence”. 
That he would char­ac­ter­ize the pres­ence of the secu­ri­ty forces from the mili­ti­a’s per­spec­tive as “inter­fer­ing,” should be lost on no one.
In light of that char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, one is tempt­ed to ask ratio­nal­ly who is in charge, the gov­ern­ment or the militias?

The world will know the answer to that and oth­er ques­tions soon enough as the pre­ten­tious Jamaican lead­er­ship and peo­ple con­tin­ue to pre­tend this is normal,
Nothing to see here it’s just crime/.Yah stu­pid­ly pre­ten­tious is just plain stu­pid the joke is on no one but the pretenders.
Other coun­tries are doing what they must to deal with their terrorism.
Jamaica in the mean­time is active­ly engaged in a sys­tem­at­ic pat­tern of pretense.

Other coun­tries send their best troops and police to erad­i­cate Terrorists from their midst, Jamaica pre­tends that the mer­ci­less killers who slaugh­ter men women and chil­dren are choir boys wor­thy of social intervention.
Given this stu­pid non­sen­si­cal atti­tude, it will only be a mat­ter of time until the secu­ri­ty forces will not have the pow­er to stand as a buffer between these war­ring factions.
If events of 2010 are any­thing to go by this lit­tle Island is in for a rude awakening,.The ques­tion is what will remain after the shit hits the fan?

Speaking at a news con­fer­ence fol­low­ing the clo­sure of the 38^th meet­ing of Heads of Governments in Grenada on Thursday night, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness said that he had request­ed of heads of CARICOM states that the issue of crime and vio­lence be placed on the agen­da for discussion.

Holness told reporters gath­ered after the meet­ing that while crime and vio­lence had not been a mat­ter on the agen­da for this sum­mit, he had tak­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to raise the mat­ter at that meeting.

“I raised the issue from the per­spec­tive of not just a secu­ri­ty issue but from a macro-social per­spec­tive that the use of vio­lence as a means of resolv­ing con­flict, as a means of social con­trol, as part of our social trans­ac­tions that it is becom­ing almost a fea­ture of our societies.”

The Prime Minister’s state­ments may be viewed in two or more lights depend­ing on where you stand.
(1) The Prime Minister is cor­rect this is a region­al issue in which the broad­er CARICOM com­mu­ni­ty has a stake and must take action.
(2) This is a cry for help from the Jamaican Prime Minister.

THE CASE FOR CARICOM’s POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT

Of course, crime is a region­al issue best tack­led with all hands on deck. There are guns com­ing into Jamaica from Haiti. There are drugs com­ing through Haiti, into Jamaica from Colombia as far as the report­ing goes.
Jamaican farm­ers are expe­ri­enc­ing a sig­nif­i­cant loss of live­stock as Jamaican gangs are steal­ing and slaugh­ter­ing their live­stock and tak­ing the car­cass­es to Haiti to exchange for guns and ammunition.
Trinidad and to some extent Guyana have had issues with ter­ror­ism some export­ed from South America and in Trinidad’s case Islamic fundamentalism.
All of these fac­tors dic­tate that the region must come togeth­er in the fight against crime as it has for oth­er reasons

The issues of region­al crim­i­nal­i­ty and ter­ror­ism are best tack­led from a region­al per­spec­tive, while each state insti­tute their own sys­tems of deal­ing with their crim­i­nals as they see fit.
Only through col­lab­o­ra­tive effort and best prac­tices will this mon­ster be brought under control.
No mem­ber state is suf­fi­cient­ly rich, to com­bat on its own the grow­ing list of crimes affect­ing mem­ber states. Together CARICOM can have a sig­nif­i­cant effect in reduc­ing crime in the region.
Criminals should have no safe zones in the region, with coun­tries like the US, Canada, and Britain clamp­ing down on who enter their coun­tries, region­al coöper­a­tion on this issue would go a long way in con­trol­ling this problem.

A CRY FOR HELP?

You bet!
There is noth­ing wrong with ask­ing for help if a prob­lem seems too large to tack­le alone.
After decades of polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence, arm­ing crim­i­nals, shack­ling law-enforce­ment, INDECOM, erect­ing and insti­tu­tion­al­iz­ing oth­er bar­ri­ers to the rule of law, a Jamaican Prime Minister is by default acknowl­edg­ing that the prob­lem they cre­at­ed is big­ger than their control.

Nevertheless, despite the past region­al coöper­a­tion on crime is imper­a­tive as it is on eco­nom­ic and oth­er issues.
The Caribbean com­mu­ni­ty must come togeth­er on all rel­e­vant issues or face the bleak consequences.
All hands are required on deck to deal with the bur­geon­ing issue of crime and ter­ror not just in Jamaica, but across the region, on Trinidad and Tobago and yes even Barbados.
Member states can take a hands off approach (hi Barbados) and pre­tend that they are an Island, [sic] well they are indeed an Island, but not even Island’s can stand alone anymore.

The prob­lems fac­ing us are glob­al issues which if not attacked com­pre­hen­sive­ly will have cat­a­stroph­ic con­se­quences for our coun­try and the region.
Even as the Jamaican PM speak about crime on the region­al stage, I would have pre­ferred to see a dif­fer­ent point per­son oth­er than Delroy Chuck speak on the local stage about the imple­men­ta­tion of the of the yet to become law spe­cial zones Act.

If our coun­try is to climb out of this hell-hole it is in, Delroy Chuck, an anti-police, crim­i­nal apol­o­gist is cer­tain­ly not the per­son to be run­ning point on this.
I have absolute­ly no con­fi­dence that Delroy Chuck has the char­ac­ter or the know how much less the desire to see Jamaica’s gar­risons become a thing of the past.
Delroy Chuck attend­ed the funer­al of a know crim­i­nal gang­ster and as such he has zero cred­i­bil­i­ty or char­ac­ter to talk about the imple­men­ta­tion of anti-crime measures.

As long as Chuck is out front talk­ing about this new law, or have any­thing ng to do with nation­al secu­ri­ty and jus­tice on the Island I will be a skeptic.

The process by which Jamaica evolved into its present law­less state did not occur overnight, even as I am tempt­ed to say it will not be resolved overnight I won’t because that would be too predictable.

Jamaica’s Terrorism prob­lem has been a slow but steady burn. Needless to say that burn has ebbed and flowed based on the polit­i­cal admin­is­tra­tion’s atti­tude at any giv­en time.

Before we get to how are we going to deal deci­sive­ly with this lit­tle prob­lem we must first acknowl­edge that the fix­es employed over­time and the fix­es being pro­posed are mere reac­tions to the mur­der rate, not tan­gi­ble sus­tain­able solutions.

So even as the lit­tle pow­er play­ers in the Senate debate Special zones bill recent­ly passed in the low­er cham­ber, the antic­i­pat­ed results after pas­sage will be just as neg­li­gi­ble as all of the oth­er anti-crime ini­tia­tives before it.

I wish I had a dol­lar for my many friends who tell me to lay off and give the bill time. They say after pas­sage we will see whether it works or not.
With all due respect to my friends, I don’t need to wait to know that pour­ing water into a bas­ket is a futile effort.

The fact of the mat­ter is that the fix­es being put forth in this bill are a dol­lar short and a day late.
The Island does not need anoth­er anti-crime law, nei­ther does it require anoth­er spe­cial police anti-crime task force if the atti­tude toward the rule of law and law enforce­ment continues.

Jamaicans have a very high tol­er­ance for law­less­ness, the politi­cians know it, the crim­i­nal Dons know it and the gang lead­ers know it.
If I said it once, I must have said it a thou­sand times.
This law­less­ness is fed by the acqui­es­cence of not just the locals but by Government and civ­il society.
Here ‘s a nov­el concept .….….
What would hap­pen if the gov­ern­ment called out the mil­i­tary and police and tell them to go get the criminals?

The first push­back would be the howls of con­dem­na­tion from the usu­al quar­ters. You know them they act smart, act like they are human rights advo­cates, but are lit­tle more than cheap oppor­tunis­tic leech­es.
Then there are the legions of vil­lage lawyers who know how every­thing should be done but have nev­er done anything.
Not to for­get the prog­nos­ti­ca­tors and pun­dits, the pon­tif­i­cates and the purists who have access to the airwaves.
They who shape pub­lic opin­ions and per­cep­tions, night and day, telling the unin­formed mass­es that the skies are falling.

Unfortunately for the unin­formed mass­es, it seems that they alone are bleed­ing, not the self-pro­claimed elites who live behind the high walls of the gat­ed communities.
But what would hap­pen if the Government ignored the vil­lage lawyers, pun­dits, and prognosticators?
What if the admin­is­tra­tors sim­ply ignored the provo­ca­teurs and the bleed­ing heart frauds who only care about dead crim­i­nals but have no love for the thou­sands of inno­cents dead?

You know what would happen?
The mind­less ter­ror­ists would get the mes­sage that the gov­ern­ment will not tol­er­ate their shit any­more and things would change.
In order to erad­i­cate this mon­ster from our midst, a gov­ern­ment must first under­take its pri­ma­ry function,
That func­tion is the safe­ty and pro­tec­tion of the pop­u­la­tion. Everything else is periph­er­al, incon­se­quen­tial until we have safe­ty and security.

These killers are killing because they know no one is com­ing after them.
The atti­tude of the admin­is­tra­tion must be to launch an all-out attack on Jamaica’s ter­ror­ists and if need be dri­ve them into the sea.
There should be no respite until these mur­der­ing scums are dealt full force with full force.

To the bleed­ing heart per­fec­tion­ist who have a prob­lem see­ing the blood of mur­der­ers, you hyp­ocrites have no prob­lem with the blood of inno­cent vic­tims, includ­ing chil­dren and lit­tle babies.
You are mod­ern day Pharisees who have no desire to see the end of the blood­let­ting as long as you can get some legit­i­ma­cy from it.
You are heathens.

The politi­cians, too pre­oc­cu­pied with the trap­pings of pow­er and the desire to get pow­er does not care a rat’s ass about the mul­ti­ple dead bod­ies each day, for them, it is a num­bers game which they see as a means to score cheap polit­i­cal points.
Up to June 24^th, 697 peo­ple were report­ed killed. That num­ber does not include the many oth­ers who have been shot but sur­vived or may have died later.

In a mat­ter of 181 days, 697 peo­ple were slaughtered.
That trans­lates to just under 4 liv­ing breath­ing Jamaicans hav­ing their lives snuffed out by the Island’s terrorists.
In addi­tion to the car­nage on the roads and the oth­er deaths, it is no won­der that funer­als are now sport­ing events.
No wor­ries, pour the rum and go heavy on the cur­ry goat and white rice , every­thing irie.

Jamaica got on a path of car­ing about the lives of known killers, In a twist­ed Orwellian alter­nate uni­verse that exists today the lives of heart­less mur­der­ers are much more trea­sured than the lives of their inno­cent victims.
This sick twist­ed love affair with crim­i­nals, taught by the bour­geoisie from upper St Andrew has brought our coun­try to the edge of ruin and there is none to say enough of this shit.
Those of you who believe this will be fixed by social inter­ven­tion and social engi­neer­ing are even more stu­pid that you sound.
A coun­try and a peo­ple who erect bar­ri­ers to their own suc­cess are doomed to fail­ure and disaster.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he’s mon­i­tor­ing the crime sit­u­a­tion in his West Central St Andrew con­stituen­cy fol­low­ing the mur­der of three peo­ple along Hill Avenue in Olympic Gardens on Monday evening.

Holness is cur­rent­ly in Grenada attend­ing the 38^th CARICOM Heads of Government meeting.

Today, he told jour­nal­ists that he has received an update on the mur­ders from the police.

Residents have called for the Olympic Gardens com­mu­ni­ty to be des­ig­nat­ed the first zone of spe­cial operations.

They argue that it is impor­tant to send the right sig­nal, say­ing the prime min­is­ter’s con­stituen­cy, or sec­tions of it, should be used as an example.

The Zones of Special Operations Bill, which was passed in the House of Representatives last month, is to be debat­ed in the Senate on Friday before becom­ing law.

If it becomes law, it will give the prime min­is­ter pow­er, in con­sul­ta­tion with the National Security Council, to declare an area a zone of spe­cial oper­a­tions to tack­le increased volatil­i­ty in a community.

However, the zone can only be estab­lished after the police com­mis­sion­er and the chief of defence staff make a request for such a dec­la­ra­tion in writ­ing to the prime minister.

More than 697 per­sons have been mur­dered across Jamaica up to June 24, up from 584 for the sim­i­lar peri­od last year. http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​7​0​7​0​5​/​h​o​l​n​e​s​s​-​m​o​n​i​t​o​r​i​n​g​-​c​r​i​m​e​-​w​o​r​r​i​e​s​-​h​i​s​-​c​o​n​s​t​i​t​u​e​ncy

Florida sheriff’s deputy is out of a job after a pho­to sur­faced of him boast­ing about almost shoot­ing some­one to “set [his] head right.”

The Snapchat pho­to, which was post­ed June 25, shows Deputy Austen Callus, 23, sit­ting in a vehi­cle in plain clothes. The cap­tion read, “Nothing like almost shoot­ing some­one to set your head right lol. God I gate peo­ple with knives.” It is assumed that “gate” was a typo of the word “hate.” The inci­dent he was refer­ring to was a domes­tic vio­lence call involv­ing a knife.

On Thursday, Pinellas County Sherif Bob Gualtieri fired Callus, a patrol deputy, say­ing that the pho­to raised doubts about Callus’ mind­set when he’s out on the job.

Too right, because had Callus actu­al­ly shot some­one … well.

Anyway, it turns out that the Good Samaritan who called Callus out was a friend of his who report­ed the pho­to, along with sev­er­al oth­ers that were tak­en while Callus was on-duty in his cruis­er as well as off-duty. The woman told the sheriff’s office that Callus’ girl­friend has recent­ly bro­ken up with him and that he’d been drink­ing heavily.

Around the same time, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement ana­lysts caught wind of the pho­to, which was mak­ing rounds on social media.

“This is the kind of cop Pinellas coun­ty sheriff’s office hires?” wrote one Facebook user who shared the pho­to. “Someone who wants to shoot some­one just to get his head right?”

According to Gualtieri, through­out the inves­ti­ga­tion, Callus nev­er said any­thing that eased Gualtieri’s con­cern over what the pho­to depict­ed and said.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.

The recent­ly tabled (Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special Security and Community Development Measures) Act, 2017” )oth­er­wise called the (“spe­cial crime zones Bill”) was passed in the house of rep­re­sen­ta­tives last night.
The process is not over, there is a process which includes the Senate debat­ing and vot­ing on it , then to the Governor General for his sig­na­ture before it becomes law.
If Delroy Chuck has any­thing to do with it,-it is guar­an­teed to be anoth­er paper tiger.

Simultaneously, the month of June has been the most vio­lent in 7 years. The police reports ‚141 per­sons were killed up to Tuesday June 27^th.
That num­ber rep­re­sents the largest num­ber of per­sons to be killed in Jamaica since 2010 in a sin­gle month.

Now that the bill has gar­nered some sem­blance of bi-par­ti­san sup­port ‚there are enough rea­sons to believe it may actu­al­ly become law despite my per­son­al mis­giv­ings about it’s ulti­mate success.
As I said in a recent Article the fact that the likes of the PNP’s Paul Burke is sup­port­ing the bill is not only a sign of the times, but a glar­ing exam­ple Jamaica’s crime prob­lem has reached crit­i­cal mass.

The vil­lage lawyers are already out with their ill-informed prog­nos­ti­ca­tions. They will talk about the poten­tial for police abuse . They will talk about past instances of abuse. They will even talk about the press­ing need for restraint, because some­how we must pro­tect the human rights of crim­i­nals and their supporters.
What the Monday Morning quar­ter­backs won’t talk about is the fact that the coun­try is a ver­i­ta­ble zone of exclu­sion for law abid­ing people.
Decent law abid­ing cit­i­zens are lit­er­al­ly liv­ing , in fear that the next per­son killed may be them.

In response to the bill ‚the PNP’s Paul Burke spoke elo­quent­ly in a sin­gle statement.
“Our rights have already been tak­en away…I have wit­nessed first-hand the lev­el of fear…I used to be able to go across many com­mu­ni­ties, I am [now] reluc­tant to do so” .
Burke’s state­ments came in response to his par­ty’s con­tin­ued harangu­ing, and hid­ing behind the issue of human rights as a rea­son for not sup­port­ing anti-crime initiatives.

In his con­tri­bu­tion to the debate the Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said “The truth is that the Jamaican State only exists in some areas of Jamaica, and so from a nation­al secu­ri­ty point of view we want to ensure that every square inch of Jamaica has some pres­ence of the Jamaican State,” he said. “We are accept­ing it as the norm, and we are nor­mal­iz­ing a sit­u­a­tion that should nev­er be nor­mal,”
This is a remark­able state­ment from the Jamaican Prime Minister.
In that state­ment he acknowl­edged that Jamaica is now a frac­tured coun­try in which state pow­er exists only in some areas.
For the record Jamaica is an approx­i­mate 4411 square miles and a pop­u­la­tion of 2,7 mil­lion people.
That is a pro­found admis­sion. We have been warn­ing against this for years.

Now grant­ed that Holness just recent­ly seemed to have had this brush with real­i­ty , a con­tact aware­ness which may have hap­pened because of the num­ber of dead bod­ies , nonethe­less this writer feels oblig­at­ed to wel­come him to the plan­et real­i­ty.[sic]

According to Jamaican media 712 peo­ple were report­ed killed from the start of the year to June 27^th.
If that trend hold the coun­try is on track to record over 1400 homi­cides for the year. Those mur­der num­bers are much clos­er to the year 2005 than a sit­u­a­tion in which the coun­try’s homi­cide num­bers are being checked.

Now of all the idi­ot­ic, sil­ly things I have heard in this crime con­ver­sa­tion, noth­ing piss­es me off more than the request Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett made. Bartlett wants the local media to bury the crime num­bers in the nether regions of their publications.
This idi­ot­ic nar­ra­tive has tak­en on legs , not sur­pris­ing­ly , many Jamaicans believe hid­ing bad news is okay, as long as they are not killed while they are hav­ing cur­ry goat and rice, Guinness stout and Ganja. Many are not too con­cerned about the dead bod­ies they step over to get to the party .

I per­son­al­ly wel­come this bit of leg­is­la­tion ‚the “special crime zones Bill” ‚even though I am under no illu­sion that it will do much to take back the streets from the gangs which now rule them.
But because it seem to indi­cate an awak­en­ing of the peo­ple who run the coun­try to the grim real­i­ties of the time .

I dis­agree with the intent of the bill , I doubt when it becomes law it will be suc­cess­ful because the bill will be focus­ing on com­mu­ni­ties not indi­vid­u­als and entities.
When the secu­ri­ty forces swoop down on cer­tain areas as des­ig­nat­ed by the prime min­is­ter or whomev­er that author­i­ty is , it can almost be guar­an­teed they will not be swoop­ing down on Cherry Gardens or Norbrook.
They will not swoop down on Jacks Hill or up on Stillwell Road.

Based on that alone poor­er peo­ple who are con­fined to sec­tions of Three Miles, of Rema, Olimpic Gardens or Payne avenue will be penal­ized for being poor.
If the so-called human rights advo­cates want to make that argu­ment I am all for sign­ing on to that narrative.
What I will have no patience for ‚is the gib­ber­ish from those who talk about human rights for killers but have no com­pas­sion or empa­thy for crime victims.
This is why I con­tin­ue to speak about the val­ue of what Los Pepes did in Colombia.

Any effec­tive strat­e­gy which will have a pos­i­tive impact on Jamaica’s bur­geon­ing ter­ror prob­lem must begin with…

♦The under­stand­ing that whats going on is terrorism.
♦ Remove the hand­cuffs from the hands of the good police offi­cers, and place them on those of crim­i­nal cops.
♦ Fire Terrence Williams , repeal INDECOM, and replace it with a law and lead­er­ship which is not in con­flict with police , but roots out dirty cops.
♦ Ignore for­eign Government’s opin­ion of how we enforce our laws and what laws we pass to gov­ern our country.
♦ Make mon­ey avail­able and begin the task of train­ing enough detectives .

♦ Infiltrate the gangs.
♦ Take from judges hands the pow­er to deter­mine sen­tence in gun crimes( truth in sentences).
♦ Hire more judges who under­stand their roles as inter­preters of the law , not lawmakers.
♦ Hire more, (and )com­pe­tent prosecutors.
♦ Hire Judges who were prosecutors.

♦ Fast-track court cas­es so that jus­tice may be served and cit­i­zens may once again have con­fi­dence in the state to deliv­er justice.
♦ Get politi­cian’s grub­by lit­tle fin­gers off law enforce­ment by cre­at­ing a sys­tem of checks and balances.
♦ enact seri­ous laws which puts crim­i­nals caught with a gun in prison for a min­i­mum of two years, grant­ed the weapon was nev­er used in the com­mis­sion of a homi­cide or assault.
♦ In the event the weapon was involved in a n assault or Robbery the penal­ty should be twen­ty years in Prison.

♦ A crim­i­nal caught with a weapon , or who used a gun in the com­mis­sion of a homi­cide, the penal­ty should be life with­out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of parole.
♦ Improve account­abil­i­ty in the JCF , using the CompStat  sys­tem , short for COMPuter STATistics), a sys­tem if applied judi­cious­ly and hon­est­ly cre­ates best prac­tices of account­abil­i­ty for Police Commanders. If you aren’t mea­sur­ing it, how do you know if you are fail­ing or succeeding?
♦ Create in the JCF and élite task-force to inves­ti­gate while col­lar crimes , that includes every Jamaican, no one is above the laws.
♦ It’s time for a nation­al Identification data­base, cre­ate one.

Jamaica must remove some of the voic­es from the debate if this thing is to be resolved . Many of the loud­est voic­es push­ing back against reform and solu­tions based sug­ges­tions, are the peo­ple ben­e­fit­ing from the cul­ture of crime on the Island.
This law will not do a damn thing to bring mur­der down, mur­der­ers will sim­ply slith­er out of what­ev­er zones are des­ig­nat­ed at a giv­en time, and move to oth­er areas as they did in 2010.

(Chubble ketch yu pickney shut fit yu )!!!
Old Jamaican proverb !
Translation when you get in trouble you are forced to do things you would normally never do.

The Jamaican Government is in a mad rush to pass by mid July a bill into law it calls the Special Security of Community Development Measure.
I com­mend the Government for now rec­og­niz­ing that some­thing dras­tic needs to be done to cor­ral the Island’s gal­lop­ing mur­der rate.
Since the start of the year almost 700 Jamaicans have been report­ed mur­dered. In addi­tion to those shot and injured oth­er types of assaults, includ­ing sex­u­al assaults and a gen­er­al sense of law­less­ness is the norm. This in addi­tion to the insane car­nage on the Island’s road­ways, which has result­ed in 156 fatal­i­ties up to May 8^th.

Ignore Bunting And Phillips On Crime: Not Long Ago Bunting Wanted Divine Intervention…

The new leg­is­la­tion is being tout­ed as a means toward bring­ing down the Island’s out of con­trol mur­der numbers.
Many Jamaicans at dif­fer­ent lev­els believe there is no need for more laws or emer­gency pow­ers for law enforcement.
What is need­ed they argue is a restruc­tur­ing of the crim­i­nal jus­tice system.
I concur.

There is much that the police can do with the immense pow­ers they have if they learn to use those pow­ers intelligently.
Since the long­stand­ing emer­gency pow­ers of the 70’s and 80’s have been pulled from the police they have strug­gled to deal effec­tive­ly with crime .
Nevertheless, intel­li­gence gath­er­ing, exploit­ing the flee­ing felon arrange­ments and oth­er built-ins, allows police offi­cers to do their jobs with­out undu­ly incon­ve­nienc­ing cit­i­zens, or abro­gat­ing their rights.

Sadly the arc of crime is not going to be bent by this bit of leg­is­la­tion even if it becomes law.
Another law which sin­gles out com­mu­ni­ties rather than indi­vid­u­als and enti­ties (gangs) are prob­a­bly going to yield neg­li­gi­ble results at best and worse case may even exac­er­bate rather than fix the prob­lems it is intend­ed to fix.

There is much which can be done with­out anoth­er bit of anti-crime legislation.

♦Hiring judges who respect the law , not judges who rely on their own emo­tions regard­ing bail and sentencing.
♦ Hire more judges and prosecutors.
♦ Remove cor­rup­tion from the Judiciary
♦ Remove cor­rup­tion from the police department.
♦ Repeal the INDECOM Act and reau­tho­rize a law which inves­ti­gates like the FBI does , not an agency of one per­son­’s ego , which cre­ate con­flict with law-enforce­ment and align itself with lob­by groups which are opposed to police.
♦ Train and equip hun­dreds of moti­vat­ed young offi­cers who want to serve in the CIB.
♦ Eliminate polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence from law enforce­ment and elim­i­nate polit­i­cal con­nec­tions to crim­i­nal gangs.
♦ Both polit­i­cal par­ties must come togeth­er and throw their unequiv­o­cal sup­port behind the police.

The fore­gone is not a panacea for the elim­i­na­tion of crime . It is a road map which if expand­ed upon will begin the slow and tedious return of Jamaica to some sem­blance of safe­ty and security.
Civility and respect must be taught in the home.

It is a wel­come change to see PNP stand­out Paul Burke come out in sup­port of the new anti-crime ini­tia­tives of the admin­is­tra­tion, despite intran­si­gence and obstruc­tion from lead­ers of his party.
If old front-line sol­diers of the PNP like Burke can now see the need to stop with the pussy­foot­ing I don’t know what it will take to wake up the lead­er­ship of the coun­try that the play time thing has long passed.

The PNP fraud­u­lent­ly main­tain that more pow­ers to law enforce­ment means the rights of Jamaicans will be tak­en away.
In a bril­liant rebut­tal to his par­ty Burke said “Our rights have already been tak­en away…I have wit­nessed first-hand the lev­el of fear…I used to be able to go across many com­mu­ni­ties, I am [now] reluc­tant to do so” .

In the mean­time , while the Government is dead set on get­ting this mag­i­cal bit of leg­is­la­tion passed by mid July ‚it has invit­ed the reg­u­lar shapers of pol­i­cy to make sub­mis­sion about the legislation.
Of course the inter­est groups which have always impact­ed anti-crime leg­is­la­tion are the very same groups which will be inform­ing the debate on this one as well.
In the end this bit of mag­ic will have the same degen­er­a­tive effect the INDECOM law has had on crime.
The Norman Manley Law School.
The Bar Association.
Anti-Police lob­by, Jamaicans for Justice(JFJ. FAST, PMI, and the oth­er crim­i­nal sup­port­ing cabal of deplorables, all of which make mon­ey or gain rel­e­vance from crime.

The per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of stu­pid­i­ty is doing the same old thing and expect­ing a dif­fer­ent result.…

The police Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) has con­firmed that one of Hanover’s most want­ed men is dead. 

He has been iden­ti­fied as 33-year-old Shenarda Leslie, oth­er­wise called ‘Blacks’, of Mount Pleasant dis­trict, Hanover.

According to the CCU, Leslie was among a group of men who fired shots at the police dur­ing an oper­a­tion in Green Island in the parish last night.

The CCU said about 8:50 p.m., a team of cops was con­duct­ing oper­a­tions in the area when they sig­naled the dri­ver of a Toyota Corolla motor­car to stop. The dri­ver dis­obeyed the sig­nal and men inside the vehi­cle opened gun­fire at the team.

The police coun­tered the attack and Leslie was lat­er found with gun­shot wounds and a 9mm Smith and Wesson pis­tol with four car­tridges was seized.

He was pro­nounced dead at hos­pi­tal. The oth­er occu­pants escaped in the area.

The mat­ter was report­ed to the Inspectorate of Constabulary as well as the Independent Commission of Investigations.

The police have report­ed that Leslie was the leader of the One Voice Gang, fol­low­ing the incar­cer­a­tion of Yasser James. He was impli­cat­ed in at least 15 mur­ders in the Hanover in the last eight months. These include:

- Andre McKenzie, oth­er­wise called ‘Kush’ who was killed in Williamsfield on November 12, 2016.
 — Malik Dixon who was killed in Williamsfield on December 24, 2016. Two oth­er men were injured in that incident.
 — Triple mur­der in Williamsfield, includ­ing one-year-old and five-year-old chil­dren. Three oth­ers were also shot and injured on January 18.
 — Triple mur­der in Dias on March 24. One man was also shot and injured.
 — Double mur­der in Middlesex on May 26.
 — Murder in Malcolm Heights on June 14. A woman was also shot and injured.
 — The most recent quadru­ple mur­der in Mount Pleasant dis­trict on June 13.  http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​7​0​6​2​4​/​a​l​l​e​g​e​d​-​m​u​l​t​i​p​l​e​-​m​u​r​d​e​r​e​r​-​k​i​l​l​e​d​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​h​a​n​o​ver