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Jamaica’s Leaders Silent On Mass Terror Killings..

As a kid grow­ing up in NE St, Catherine , I was moved to tears , and prob­a­bly changed for­ev­er ‚when an elder­ly man , “Mass Grampa” was bru­tal­ly mur­dered on his farm a few miles from my home.

Mass Grampa (real name has elud­ed me now ),and his wife had spent most of their lives in England and had returned to his home­land to live out the remain­der of their years

They had a decent home just out­side Linstead. Mass Grampa had prop­er­ty on which he did farm­ing in a sparse­ly pop­u­lat­ed com­mu­ni­ty called Palm Hill.
Palm Hill adjoined my dis­trict of Bonnett.

From Monday to Friday evenings Mass Grampa toiled on his farm . He lived there in a one room struc­ture he built .
It was con­crete struc­ture that many peo­ple would die to call home.
On Friday evenings he would trav­el back to Linstead to be home with his beloved wife of many years.
Come Monday morn­ing he would be back on his farm and the cycle continued.

On his farm Mass Grampa grew acres of Gungo peas in the soft pli­ant sandy soil , he also grew coco a kind of tuber that is a Jamaican staple.
He would grow a vari­ety of oth­er crops on those open hill­sides includ­ing Tobacco and of course a lit­tle marijuana.

Mass Grampa’s one room house was perched atop a hill , on both sides of the house the land dropped away rapid­ly , iso­la­tion the struc­ture for plain view from miles around on both sides .
Because of the moun­tain­ous nature of the ter­rain, the sin­gle room struc­ture stood out for miles around like a sore thumb.
It was there in that struc­ture that Mass Grampa’s life was snuffed out in the most bar­bar­ic and grue­some way one night, all because he had some cured Marijuana in the residence .

His killers chopped him but that was­n’t enough, they ran a gar­den forth through his body, over and over again , with the final thrust they nev­er both­ered remov­ing it.
They ran­sacked the room and left.

I am unsure whether any­one was ever held account­able for his grue­some death.
Mass Grampa died because he dared to work hard.
He could have opt­ed to take it easy, he had already put in a full life’s work.
But being a man he thought he would con­tin­ue to work hard. Whether one agreed with whether he should be plant­i­ng weed is beside the point .
He should not have been killed for his own property.

Barbaric killings are not anom­alies in Jamaica.
They have been going on for decades . Several decades to be exact.
What is dif­fer­ent now than when I was a kid is the fre­quen­cy and lev­el of detach­ment with which these killings occur.
Mass Grampa may have lost his life because peo­ple were taught in the 70’s that what oth­ers have should be divid­ed up and giv­en to them who chose not to work.
As a return­ing res­i­dent Mass Grampa did not stand a chance, farm­ing a few mar­i­jua­na plants which may have yield­ed a few pounds of the weed meant he was unwit­ting­ly sign­ing his own death warrant.

ACQUIESCENCE..

I have long main­tained that the mas­sive increas­es we have wit­nessed in the Island’s vio­lent crime sta­tis­tics are a func­tion of Government and soci­etal acquiescence.
I hard­ly com­ment on indi­vid­ual cas­es in which Jamaicans are slaugh­tered, we now talk about the mul­ti­ple mul­ti vic­tim mur­der scenes.

Despite what was a demon­stra­bly vis­i­ble deter­mined and vis­cous streak in the crim­i­nal under­world , the elit­ist in the soci­ety lob­bied the Government to lay off deal­ing deci­sive­ly with crime , because they said , crime is a socio-eco­nom­ic prob­lem which will go away if peo­ple have jobs.

The only prob­lem with that lib­er­al the­o­ry is that in Jamaica, as it is in oth­er coun­tries where vio­lent mur­ders occur , they are not mur­ders com­mit­ted by a man steal­ing a bunch of Banana because he has to feed his hun­gry children.
The most egre­gious and dar­ing killings are orches­trat­ed by pow­er­ful peo­ple with mon­ey , and connections.
So while in Jamaica they wait for a mirac­u­lous respite as a result of a mirage of an eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty , mass mur­ders con­tin­ue unchecked.

Murderers push the enve­lope because they know that Government does not have the balls to do any­thing about them.
They know that politi­cians are far more focused on stay­ing on the gravy train than doing any­thing sub­stan­tive for country.
So the Militia upris­ing of 2010 against the state should have been a bell wether ‚but it wasn’t.

Many oth­er sit­u­a­tions which should have caused mas­sive alarm and a deci­sive mil­i­taris­tic response drew nary a whimper.
In June of 2012 , less than two years lat­er over 30 heav­i­ly armed men invad­ed the com­mu­ni­ty of August Town St Andrew and car­ried out a massacre.
The Government of the day did nothing !

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Since then a new admin­is­tra­tion has tak­en office , but the crim­i­nal­ly com­plic­it dere­lic­tion of duty has remained and may be seen as com­pound­ed on.
A sit­u­a­tion in which an entire com­mu­ni­ty take up arms against the state would have been dealt a mil­i­tary solu­tion in any oth­er country.
Not in Jamaica !!!
The Nation’s secu­ri­ty forces entered Tivoli gar­dens and annexed it , they got a com­mis­sion of Inquiry for their troubles.
Any sit­u­a­tion in which 30 men armed with auto­mat­ic weapons invade a com­mu­ni­ty and killed peo­ple would have been dealt a quick mil­i­taris­tic response, one which would have sent a clear and unequiv­o­cal mes­sage that sim­i­lar inci­dents will be put down.

Not in Jamaica, those instances are seen as mere crim­i­nal acts.
Only prob­lem is, they aren’t !
They are larg­er omi­nous red flags of a more sin­is­ter road ahead.

So when we hear talk from politi­cians , past and present ‚about crime thriv­ing because crim­i­nals feel that there are no consequences .
They are damn right, but what did they do while they were in office.?
Did they use their office as a plat­form to speak out for the rule of law , or did they toe the polit­i­cal line?

The killings in Jamaica for the most part are decid­ed­ly not just crime.
They long ceased being just that.
This is ter­ror­ism , the out­come they desire may not be polit­i­cal as they were in the 70’s and 80’s but they are designed to sow fear.
They are designed to intimidate.

Instead of send­ing the mil­i­tary out to kill these killers the Government has decid­ed to go the oth­er direction.
That direc­tion is to fur­ther empow­er agen­cies and just about any­one who can stand between ter­ror­ists and those who would ren­der jus­tice to them.
Unfortunately for the fam­i­lies of the dead they can expect no respite from the mass killings.
There is no inten­tion to do a damn thing about them.
The Government’s focus is to con­tin­ue to empow­er INDECOM to go after the secu­ri­ty forces .
It is a con­tin­u­a­tion of Bruce Golding’s abbre­vi­at­ed tenure .
May God help the fam­i­lies of those slaugh­tered dai­ly, because the Government has no inter­est in lift­ing a finger.

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You Mean To Say Cops In Developed Countries Are Not Perfect?

On April 19th of this year a young man known to me walked into my store and pur­chased a new Chrome book com­put­er and a mini key­board separately.
The total cost of the trans­ac­tion $320.00 plus tax , he hand­ed me a cred­it card.
As a mat­ter of course we do not ask for Identification,.

Were we to ask for ID for one we would have to do so for all to avoid accu­sa­tions of discrimination.
Additionally it would make the sim­ple act of ring­ing up a sale more laborious.

So we did not ask him for ID.
Initially we had some dif­fi­cul­ty get­ting the machine card read­er to accept the card . He told me he it was a com­pa­ny card and inputting the num­bers as an over ride would be okay.
That worked , he left with his com­put­er and key­board. Before leav­ing, the gen­tle­man left his busi­ness card with me.

On May 10th my busi­ness check­ing reflect­ed a charge-back for the total­i­ty of the trans­ac­tion on April 19th.
I went back to the cred­it card receipt and matched the name on the receipt against the name on his busi­ness card .
They were two dif­fer­ent names.
I real­ized that my busi­ness was scammed out of $330.00

I made copies of his busi­ness card, the cred­it card slip he signed , the charge-back noti­fi­ca­tion from the bank and start­ed a search for the gen­tle­man on the web.
I found him in my very first search on LinkedIn, por­trait and all.
I print­ed off his profile.
A slight­ly deep­er search revealed that 3 years ago he was work­ing in a near­by town as a bank teller .
He was arrest­ed by state police for fal­si­fy­ing doc­u­ments and fleec­ing the bank out of $500.00.

I print­ed off the report and placed it into the file I cre­at­ed and took it to the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department on Wednesday May 31st.
A uni­formed cop took the report and gave me a blot­ter num­ber which I doc­u­ment­ed as well as his name .
He told me a detec­tive would be assigned the next day and he would get in touch with me the very next day.
I thanked him and left the precinct.

So we are no longer in Jamaica where the Police have no vehi­cles to attend to reports.
In fact on any giv­en day you dri­ve past the city of Poughkeepsie Police depart­ment there are any num­ber of ser­vice vehi­cles just parked there.
If you have any rea­son to walk into the detec­tive bureau there are offi­cers sit­ting around chat­ting away .

Nevertheless when I did not receive a call from the police on June 1st , ‑2nd-3rd or 4th I was a lit­tle pissed but I sur­mised okay they may have big­ger fish to fry than chas­ing down a fraud case for $330 .00.
However by the time it got around to June 8th , I thought” hell no , this does not hap­pen in white communities”.

I pulled out the card of a dear friend of mine who is a Captain in the depart­ment intend­ing to call him to find out why no one got back in touch with me.
Then I decid­ed “no I am not doing that , I should­n’t have to call some­one in the depart­ment that I know to get the police to do what they are sworn to do”>

So I decid­ed to call the precinct instead . The woman who answered the phone told me she saw the report after I pro­vid­ed her with the Blot # .
I inquired of her why no one had got­ten back in touch with me?
She told me the police does not always get back in touch with complainants.

I asked her how could that be when they specif­i­cal­ly told me that a detec­tive would get in touch with me the very next day , upon which I could turn over the file to him?
She offered to get me the voice­mail of the uni­formed offi­cer’s to whom I had made the ini­tial report .
I told her what was hap­pen­ing was they were shuf­fling me around and I was not going to stand for it .
I hung up the phone.

By this time I was pret­ty angry , the police do not act this way in white communities.
The tax­es I Pay each year is noth­ing to scoff at, not to men­tion sales tax rev­enue which my busi­ness gen­er­ate for the city , coun­ty and state, so that police offi­cers can sit around and do nothing.
I called the Mayor’s office that same evening.

Months ago I had addressed a Religious gath­er­ing , the Mayor and oth­er offi­cials were in attendance.
I was able to schmooze and speak to them afterwards.
I decid­ed that was my best course of action to get some­thing done.
Mayor Rollison was out of office but an aide took the call and assured me she would call the City’s police chief immediately.

Friday June 9th a detec­tive called me ‚he assured me he was on his way up to speak to me .
Half an hour lat­er he arrived and took my report.
He was very cour­te­ous and pro­fes­sion­al. He apologized .
I will not dis­close the full extent of our con­ver­sa­tion suf­fic­ing to say he assured me he would do what he could to bring the case to a close.

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Every time the ques­tion of the Jamaican police comes up there is vis­cer­al con­dem­na­tion and dis­re­spect for officers.
In most cas­es those who com­plain and crit­i­cize ignore the good things Jamaican offi­cers do but are quick to ampli­fy the negatives.
We should nev­er be accom­mo­dat­ing of lethar­gy or dere­lic­tion of duty in our pub­lic officials .
But in Jamaica’s case it is impor­tant that we nev­er for­get that as a mat­ter of course offi­cers lack the most basic tools to do their jobs.

As we issue our blan­ket con­dem­na­tion of offi­cers , it is impor­tant that we remem­ber that Jamaican cops are cops like cops every­where else, they are humans, they are imperfect.
And some­times they are doing the best they can.
Many talk about the per­fec­tion of police in devel­oped coun­tries, I beg to differ .
I live right her on Earth , not on Planet Utopia.

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The Return Of James Comey, Patriot

The former FBI Director fired for looking into Russian interference in our election finally speaks — and passes the investigative baton to his old friend Robert Mueller.

Michael DalyMICHAEL DALY

In the most man­i­fest­ly heart­felt moment of his tes­ti­mo­ny, James Comey spoke as a true and pas­sion­ate patri­ot about the Russian effort to influ­ence the out­come of the 2016 pres­i­den­tial election.

“Nobody tells us what to think, what to fight about… except for oth­er Americans, but we had a for­eign government…try to shape the way we think, we vote, we act…which is a big deal,” he told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

He went on, “It’s not about Democrats and Republicans. They are com­ing after America, which I hope we all love equally.”

The ques­tion left for the coun­try is why all those who pro­fess to love America do not share Comey’s outrage.

That includes Trump sup­port­ers, even though the Russian effort ben­e­fit­ted their candidate.

That also includes President Trump him­self, even though he was the intend­ed ben­e­fi­cia­ry of that effort.

In press­ing Comey to drop the inves­ti­ga­tion into a “good guy” like Mike Flynn, Trump may sim­ply not have under­stood the rules are dif­fer­ent from when he was wheel­ing and deal­ing in New York real estate.

But any true American should be roused to fury by the thought that a for­eign pow­er would seek to sub­vert the democ­ra­cy that makes us who we are.

How can Trump talk about mak­ing America great again and try to dis­miss such sub­ver­sion as just Fake News con­coct­ed by a bunch of sore losers?

As Comey and vir­tu­al­ly every­body else in the know asserts, the Russian effort was the realest of news.

“There should be no fuzz on this what­so­ev­er,” Comey declared.

“The Russians inter­fered in our elec­tion dur­ing 2016 cycle. They did it with pur­pose. They did it with sophis­ti­ca­tion. They did it with over­whelm­ing tech­ni­cal efforts. It was an active mea­sures cam­paign dri­ven from the top of that gov­ern­ment. There is no fuzz on that. Community and mem­bers of this com­mit­tee have seen the intel­li­gence. It’s not a close call. That hap­pened.”http://​www​.thedai​ly​beast​.com/​t​h​e​-​r​e​t​u​r​n​-​o​f​-​j​a​m​e​s​-​c​o​m​e​y​-​p​a​t​r​iot

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Councillor’s Suggestion On Using Extortionist To Collect Fees Comes From Fertile Soil..

Each day we report and opine on crime and cor­rup­tion on the Island Nation of Jamaica .
Despite the bla­tant acts of mur­der and oth­er vio­lent crimes each day, the atti­tude of Jamaican author­i­ties seem to be to blame the police.

They con­tin­ue to sell Jamaica as a place of sun, fun, music , great food and people.
“Don’t wor­ry be hap­py every­thing alright”.

In fair­ness to them, brand Jamaica has tremen­dous pull , peo­ple across the globe like the name Jamaica, for the rea­sons out­lined above, but not just, they also like our coun­try for the fabled Ganja weed as well.

Nonetheless tourists come in droves ‚they dis­em­bark from cruise ships, and aero­planes , they con­verge on the all inclu­sive prop­er­ties, many do not get to see the true Jamaica out­side the all inclu­sive properties.

None are obliv­i­ous of the dark under­bel­ly which they are warned about before leav­ing their home countries.
Unfortunately for many Jamaicans who do not have police details, osten­ta­tious man­sions with grilled for­ti­fi­ca­tions and elec­tron­ic gates, the real­i­ty is grim.

At a time when mur­ders are run­ning wild,over 4 homi­cides dai­ly , rapes at astro­nom­i­cal highs, extor­tion con­tin­ue unabat­ed , suck­ing the lifeblood of busi­ness­es and indus­tries , chil­dren being sold into servi­tude and gen­er­al law­less­ness runs unchecked, the atti­tude of the Government is to fur­ther shack­le law enforcement.

In this medi­um we have noticed a pat­tern on the part of the Andrew Holness led Government .That pat­tern is to do the bare min­i­mum while giv­ing the impres­sion that max­i­mum efforts are in place to deal decid­ed­ly with criminals.

This is evi­denced in the wishy washy leg­is­la­tion it has pro­posed which would sup­pos­ed­ly give law enforce­ment pow­ers the secu­ri­ty forces should have had as a mat­ter of course to search and cor­don cer­tain com­mu­ni­ties in search of weapons and want­ed offenders.
These pow­ers on the face of it, would seem to be proac­tive, how­ev­er once the thin veneer of decep­tion is peeled back, it reveals the mali­cious intent of the bill.

The pow­ers seemed more about the indi­vid­ual civ­il rights of dan­ger­ous gun­men than of remov­ing those gun­men from the streets.
Cordons and search­es are good for recov­er­ing weapons and arrest­ing want­ed crim­i­nals , they are not intel­li­gence-based tech­niques which has sus­tain­able val­ue to law enforcement.
Targeted intel­li­gence based polic­ing is the only way to effec­tive­ly remove these dan­ger­ous killers from the country.

Despite the ever increas­ing seri­ous­ness of the crimes and the poten­tial for Terrorism, Jamaican author­i­ties seem to be look­ing to make it eas­i­er for dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals to oper­ate out­side police control.
This, when it should be ful­ly engaged in find­ing ways to empow­er law enforce­ment to pro­tect the population.

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John Myers

The alle­ga­tions that a Parish Councillor of the gov­ern­ing Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) has sug­gest­ed that the admin­is­tra­tion use crim­i­nal extor­tion­ist to col­lect out­stand­ing fees owed to the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is shocking.

According to pub­lished reports Councillor for the Lawrence Tavern Division in St Andrew West Rural John Myers, sug­gest­ed using the “col­lec­tion skills” of extor­tion­ists to make mar­kets prof­itable after it was dis­closed that an esti­mat­ed $17 mil­lion in mar­ket fees is owed to the KSAMC and that the month­ly mar­ket deficit is $5.5 million.

Myers con­tends that his state­ments were tak­en out of context.
“I said that if you are los­ing so much mon­ey, bil­lions of dol­lars, and you know the extor­tion peo­ple them or you know the per­son them you could deal with them or maybe talk to them. Hear what they have to say.” Said Myers !
“I don’t know if it is a crime to say some­thing like that. I could­n’t come out and tell them to lock them up. I could­n’t do that; I don’t know them as extor­tion­ists. It’s the offi­cers [of the cor­po­ra­tion] who explain that it was extor­tion,” he con­tin­ued. In fact, Myers said report­ing extor­tion­ists could result in him being killed.

Any sug­ges­tion, or even the most vague nod in that direc­tion must be seen as the thought process of a depraved mind, or maybe a prod­uct of depraved minds.
That should alarm even the most hard­ened JLP par­ti­sans. This parish Councillor must have known that there is fer­tile soil with­ing the Government for that kind of think­ing , regard­less of what the admin­is­tra­tion does to dis­tance itself from his comments.

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In Brief Sentence British PM Speaks Volumes..

On how to deal effec­tive­ly with terrorism.
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“If our human rights laws pre­vents us from doing it , we’ll change the laws ”
Theresa May.
(BRITISH PM)

While in Jamaica a Govt. Agency con­venes a con­fer­ence on how to lim­it police use of force on mind­less mur­der­ers who kill an aver­age of 4 Jamaicans daily.

One would have hoped com­mon sense would rub off on the Jamaican Prime Minister and some of the Jamaican peo­ple , the pow­ers behind the throne , just not Justice Minister Delroy Chuck.
What is obvi­ous is that the pow­ers behind the throne are the hands which con­trol the crim­i­nal empires.

But con­trary to what I have been say­ing about Jamaica’s crime fight­ing strat­e­gy many Jamaicans feel we are con­strained by human rights laws which can nev­er be changed.
I nev­er quite under­stood why we would be con­strained by laws made by peo­ple, we are the peo­ple ‚but we can­not change them back?

Even as Jamaica does it’s best to copy every­thing British and American , both nations con­tin­ue to evolve dai­ly in how they adjust in deal­ing with threats to their nations.

Stubbornly , yet stun­ning­ly mys­ti­fy­ing both polit­i­cal par­ties on the Island has stead­fast­ly refused to co-opt a pol­i­cy which would at lest sig­nal to the maraud­ing crim­i­nals on the Island that they are seri­ous about putting a stop to their crimes.

As a for­mer law enforce­ment offi­cer, I find the actions of both polit­i­cal par­ties on crime debil­i­tat­ing in it’s stu­pid­i­ty and obstinacy.
After the events of 2010 when mili­tias open­ly took up arms against the state result­ing in the need for the mil­i­tary to return pow­er to the state , one would have thought that politi­cians and pow­er-bro­kers would have got­ten the message.

Instead both polit­i­cal par­ties have hun­kered down in their love fest with the hun­dreds of crim­i­nal gangs which tra­verse the 4411 square miles of the small English speak­ing Caribbean Island.

While lit­er­al­ly every nation on earth strug­gles to find ways to com­bat crime and ter­ror , Jamaican author­i­ties con­tin­ue to strive to find new ways to cir­cum­vent the rule of law, shack­le law enforce­ment, and erect bar­ri­ers to peace tran­quil­i­ty and less occur­rences of the shed­ding of inno­cent blood.

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JA, Conned Into INDECOM : This Will Be Just As Consequential Or Worse…

Only in Jamaica would a conference on law enforcement’s use of force protocols be discussed and there is no input from Law Enforcement.
In fact the Andrew Holness Government can only be characterized as disrespectful of the police, military and Corrections departments, which are the agencies which would use force against civilians as part of their job.
Terrence Williams
(Photo cred­it Jamaica Observer)
That the Holness Government allowed INDECOM to convene a meeting with support from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, the United States Embassy and the United Nations office in Jamaica but did not invite the police, military or corrections is testament of it’s refusal to appreciate the serious implications crime poses to Jamaicans.
Andrew Holness

But most impor­tant­ly it under­scores the dim light in which the admin­is­tra­tion, as the one before it, and the Island’s elites view mem­bers of the law enforce­ment community.
Surely the light in which the law enforce­ment agen­cies are viewed is con­sis­tent with short pants and night watchmen.
The Force has evolved some­what but mem­bers of the polit­i­cal class cer­tain­ly hasn’t .

ONLY IN JAMAICA

Montague

Holness addressed the con­fer­ence, so too did the Minister of National secu­ri­ty Robert Montague and others.
But the police were treat­ed like adopt­ed chil­dren , removed from the room, while their sur­ro­gate par­ents dis­cussed the best ways to pro­ceed with them.
No need to have the chil­dren in the room , they are ful­ly inca­pable of par­tic­i­pat­ing in mean­ing­ful­ly discussion.
Or worse, chil­dren have no busi­ness in grown folks conversation.
The rules are made and chil­dren do what they are told.

I got­ta say, am I glad I walked away from that in 1991.
Here they have a con­ver­sa­tion about police use of force, yet the very agen­cies which are being dis­cussed, the very agen­cies which would be the ones using force in their encoun­ters with the pub­lic are exclud­ed from the table.
How ridicu­lous is that?

Yet don’t be sur­prised that there will be no short­age of world the wise who will tell you that a con­fer­ence like this does not have to have the groups exclud­ed to be legitimate.
This is not new , Bruce Golding and the sim­ple­ton Portia Simpson Miller came togeth­er and [trumped] up an anti-law enforce­ment law called the INDECOM Act.
Absent from the debate as well was the Police Military, and Corrections Departments .
The Jamaican Government views these agen­cies as serfs and peas­ants who do not deserve a seat at the table , they ought to sim­ply do as they are told.

Simpson Miller

Remarkably, Andrew Holness could not get the sim­ple-mind­ed Simpson Miller to agree to a walk-through the gar­risons as a sym­bol­ic ges­ture of peace.
But Bruce Golding was able to get Portia and the Opposition PNP to agree to craft the INDECOM act a crime enhance­ment law.
The only area in which the two polit­i­cal par­ties, or more apt­ly, the two ( crim­i­nal gangs) ever came togeth­er in a bi-par­ti­san fash­ion was to craft the crime enhance­ment bit of garbage law called the INDECOM Act.
Such is the pal­pa­bil­i­ty of the hatred and dis­re­spect the two Jamaican polit­i­cal par­ties have for the rule of law.

Pointing out these facts nev­er fail to draw out howls of accu­sa­tions that I do not want to see account­abil­i­ty in the police department.
Over the years, not only have I writ­ten exten­sive­ly about police cor­rup­tion, I have offered up work­able solu­tions on how to help resolve said malady.
I refuse to spend my time reflect­ing on idi­ot­ic state­ments from sim­ple mind­ed indi­vid­u­als who can­not face facts because those facts are anti­thet­i­cal to , or do not line up with their world view.

But if you thought that what the Labor Party is doing is bad as it relates to INDECOM and the dis­re­spect for the Police and Military you are sad­ly mistaken.

For years I have been warn­ing in this very medi­um that the Jamaican Government’s in-bed rela­tion­ship with Carolyn Gomes of JFF and oth­er groups whose inter­est does not line up with the best inter­ests of Jamaica and Jamaicans is indeed bad for our country.

I have also warned what the con­se­quences would be as it relates to the INDECOM law .Other Former Police offi­cers have too. Former SSP Renato Adams warned that Jamaica would pay dearly .
I doubt that there is any­one who would con­tend that the coun­try isn’t pay­ing dear­ly today .
Not only is the Island pay­ing dear­ly, it has no idea how to walk back the effects, because no mat­ter how many Jamaicans die they can­not gath­er the courage to repeal the INDECOM Act out of fear of their for­eign handlers.

Delroy Chuck Will Most Likely Receive A National Honor All Their Cronies Do: But He Belongs In The Hall Of Shame !!!

I warned about Delroy Chuck’s agen­da as it relates to crime.
I write inces­sant­ly that Delroy Chuck wants the court dock­ets purged of all cas­es which are over 5 years old , includ­ing mur­der cases.
Chuck argues that it would free up the courts to be more efficient ‚.
The fact of the mat­ter is that such actions would exac­er­bate and accel­er­ate the strate­gies in motion which cause the delays in the first place.
Violent mur­der­ers would have their lawyers frus­trate the sys­tem fur­ther mak­ing sure they nev­er face jus­tice for their crimes.

Carolyn Gomes and her for­eign fund­ed JFJ has been on the fore­front of the cre­ation of INDECOM.
These are the elites respon­si­ble for giv­ing the nation INDECOM . They must take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the wave of mur­ders and rapes sweep­ing the coun­try.
Yet they are untouched by the carnage…

Despite my warn­ings about Gomes no one paid atten­tion until Gomes agen­da was revealed when her orga­ni­za­tion, Jamaicans For Justice was found to have dis­trib­uted homo­sex­u­al lit­er­a­ture to under­age children.
Carolyn Gomes was forced to step aside .
Again Delroy Chuck’s name come into the pic­ture. Chuck recent­ly revealed in the par­lia­ment that he was lob­bied by a for­eign ambas­sador to change the Nation’s bug­gery law.

Is Delroy Chuck King?

These are the hid­den agen­das being forced on our people.
This crawl­ing peg insti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of an alien cul­ture being pro­mul­gat­ed on our peo­ple is not read­i­ly obvi­ous to Jamaicans.
The ideas are duplic­i­tous in the way they are couched in lan­guage which con­vinces ordi­nary Jamaicans it’s for their own good.
INDECOM was sup­posed to root out cor­rup­tion from the police, mil­i­tary and cor­rec­tions departments.
What the coun­try end­ed up with are a lot of dead Jamaicans and dra­mat­ic ero­sion of respect for the rule of law. Additionally, less crooked police offi­cers and oth­er mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty ser­vices are con­vict­ed that when the CCRB was respon­si­ble for that function.

Hypocrite :Delroy Chuck!

Carolyn Gomes was exposed but not before she was bestowed with nation­al honors .
Delroy Chuck now wants to insti­tu­tion­al­ize homo­sex­u­al­i­ty in Jamaica at the behest of for­eign lobbyists.
He is not afraid to tear down the church and the insti­tu­tions we have held dear and which have served us well for generations.
What we must ask then is, ” does this Administration serve the inter­est of the Jamaican peo­ple”, whether we sup­port the par­ty in pow­er or not?
Speaking out against intrin­sic wrongs does not make the mes­sen­ger a polit­i­cal shill for the oth­er party.
It means some of us are pre­pared to stand up for Jamaica, regard­less of the occu­pant of Jamaica House.

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INDECOM Conference On Police Use Of Force Had No Police Perspective: A Farcical Shell Game

So INDECOM con­vened a fan­cy con­fer­ence at the Jamaica Conference cen­ter down­town Kingston to address use of force in law enforcement.
The con­fer­ence was under­tak­en with sup­port from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, the United States Embassy and the United Nations office in Jamaica.

National Security Minister Robert Montague (right) accepts a gift pre­sent­ed by attor­ney-at-law at the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), Courtney Foster, on the final day of the agency’s three-day ‘Use of Force in Law Enforcement’ Conference on June 2. The three-day forum was held at the Jamaica Conference Centre, down­town Kingston. Looking on is INDECOM Commissioner Terrence Williams.
Gleaner pho­to.

Absent from the con­ver­sa­tion on police use of force was you guessed it , the Jamaican Police !!!
After the speech­es by Minister of National Security Robert Montague, Andrew Holness and oth­ers , laugh­ter , back slap­ping for their accom­plish­ments and the hand­ing out of gifts the proud spon­sors and the stu­pid Jamaicans went on their way.

So lets peel back a lit­tle, the lay­ers of hyp­o­crit­i­cal bull­shit about this conference.
Lets look at the Americans present, need I remind any­one about the lethal­i­ty of American police par­tic­u­lar­ly as it relates to threats to officers?
I don’t think so .

It can­not be over empha­sized that American Police kill more peo­ple under dubi­ous cir­cum­stances than Jamaican police could ever get away with .
That fact alone removes the Americans from the equa­tion. The British are just as bad , they cer­tain­ly do not tol­er­ate much in the way of crime in England , and cer­tain­ly even demon­stra­tions have to be done with per­mits under the watch­ful eyes of cops and CCTV cam­eras on every square yard of space on which those protest occur.
The lev­els of crime and law­less­ness in Jamaica would absolute­ly not be tol­er­at­ed for a sin­gle hour in either England or the United States.

So this leaves Jamaica and INDECOM.
INDECOM revealed sta­tis­tics which shows that they charged 3 police offi­cers with mur­der as a result of actions they took while on duty over the last five months.
I need remind no one of the con­fronta­tion­al aggres­sive nature of INDECOM toward prov­ing it’s legitimacy.
Yet in all of the shoot­ings there are only three accu­sa­tions, nev­er mind the sev­er­al dead cops over the last sev­er­al months .
Never mind that Jamaica is one of the most vio­lent nations with one of the high­est mur­der rate.

No one at the con­fer­ence spoke about con­sta­ble Leighton Hanson get­ting killed by a scum­bag in broad day­light or the oth­er offi­cers who died after being shot earlier.
For the fam­i­lies of these dead cops it’s “fuck you and your son”.
What is impor­tant to them is that police stop shoot­ing the mind­less demons who kill mul­ti­ple peo­ple dai­ly or as they say mek dup­py.

Despite that there have only been three offi­cers charged, in a coun­try in which the Government is part­ly crim­i­nal and pret­ty much has no real inter­est in seri­ous law enforcement.
Might I remind you also that being charged with a crime does not mean guilty of a crime , par­tic­u­lar­ly when you con­sid­er the men­tal­i­ty of Terrence Williams and INDECOM’s toward the police.

The shell game Terrence Williams is sell­ing to the dumb , blind and deaf mon­keys is that over the last sev­er­al years police shoot­ings have dropped dramatically.
Well of course , police shoot­ings have dropped , why do you think the voice of the police was not rep­re­sent­ed at the conference?
What was not men­tioned while they slapped each oth­er on the back and con­grat­u­lat­ed each oth­er, was that less and less mur­der­ers are being giv­en a quick sendoff .
Murders rapes , and oth­er vio­lent crimes con­tin­ue to rise steeply, because police have disengaged.

If how­ev­er you find the fact that less crim­i­nals are get­ting shot, and that’s accept­able to you, then by default you have accept­ed that the goal is to have less mur­der­ers get their just desserts and more inno­cents should con­tin­ue to be killed.
Unless you have got­ten to a place where you have begun to won­der if there are any inno­cents in all of this.

Terrence Williams is coy , he is absolute­ly not a fool ‚he wants to con­trol how the pub­lic views this narrative. 
He is also ful­ly con­ver­sant that pub­lic per­cep­tions of INDECOM is begin­ning to soft­en .
He knows that despite hav­ing peo­ple eat­ing out of his hands, he needs to ensure that he does not lose con­trol of the nar­ra­tive in the court of pub­lic opinion.
But he need not wor­ry too much , Jamaicans are very sup­port­ive of crim­i­nals and politicians.
Between their love for politi­cians and crime Williams need not wor­ry that they will wise up remove their heads from their col­lec­tive ass­es and rec­og­nize the con game he has going for the upper Saint Andrew crowd.
The tragedy for the police is that the peas­antry has bought into INDECOM as well.

The Police do not speak for them­selves , they are too afraid of not cur­ry­ing favor .
Williams knows that if a cost ben­e­fit analy­sis is done it would show that INDEDOM is not doing any­thing dif­fer­ent than what the CCRB was doing.

In fact the CCRB was far more effec­tive in remov­ing the crim­i­nals from the depart­ment because it was doing it with­out acrimony.

The Police for it’s part would rather stay on a sink­ing ship as long as they can get pro­mo­tion, than stand up for themselves .
In fact the police have become so brain­washed and neu­tral­ized that it’s hard to fig­ure out what the police think any­more as a col­lec­tive unit.

Not all Jamaicans are blind to this far­ci­cal shell game being per­pet­u­at­ed on the coun­try by the JLP and PNP Elites. In fact sev­er­al per­sons includ­ing a few with­in the JLP as well as Damion Crawford of the PNP have come around to rec­og­niz­ing that this is a fraud being per­pet­u­at­ed on the country.
The minute you begin a fac­tu­al con­ver­sa­tion about the far­ci­cal nature behind the INDECOM shell game the trolls and bots come out with the tired worn out argu­ments about police abuse.

As long as they can keep the con­ver­sa­tion on alleged police abus­es they are win­ning the con­ver­sa­tion about the rel­e­vance of INDECOM.
Unfortunately for the decent law abid­ing peo­ple in the coun­try who are forced to hide in their homes from 6 : 00 pm their views do not matter.
It’s about the mili­tias which roam around with their high-pow­ered weapons , unafraid of the police.

No oth­er police depart­ment in the world is more scru­ti­nized and to some degree the JCF has brought it onto itself through it’s own actions.
But ratio­nal intel­li­gent peo­ple under­stand that with­out police there is no us.
There are peo­ple who say they will be just fine with­out the police , we must con­clude we are talk­ing about them, they are the ones pulling the trig­ger. They are the ones order­ing the murders

A coun­try can­not begin to chas­tise it’s law enforce­ment agen­cies about their use of force lev­els while doing noth­ing about the brazen bru­tal­i­ty of the crim­i­nals who kill with­out fear of apprehension.
Unless of course the objec­tive is to pla­cate the crim­i­nals .
The Jamaican Government has essen­tial­ly become a lob­by for the crim­i­nal underworld.
INDECOM is the gov­ern­men­t’s lob­by­ing arm for non-action against criminals.

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Elites Within JLP/​PNP Created Culture Which Protects Them Places Police In Untenable Position…

Years ago I wrote a short arti­cle about the impro­pri­ety of Terrence Williams attend­ing advo­ca­cy meet­ings with Carolyn Gomes of JFF , and oth­er anti-police advo­ca­cy groups.
At the time the police were up in arms demand­ing that Williams be fired from INDECOM .

The Government of Bruce Golding scoffed at the idea and as the years pro­gressed it has become clear­er and clear­er that Williams is a polit­i­cal activist and a friend of the rul­ing JLP and the Elites on the Island.
To include those with­in the People’s National Party.
He was put in the posi­tion of com­mis­sion­er of INDECOM to do exact­ly what he is doing per­se­cute the police dri­ve up crime and keep law enforce­ment in Jamaica neutered.

As mur­ders, Rapes and oth­er vio­lent crimes con­tin­ue to surge , instead of stand­ing solid­ly behind the Police and Military as Countries like Colombia and even the Philippines have done and con­tin­ue to do, the Jamaican Government (both polit­i­cal par­ties) con­tin­ue to pla­cate crim­i­nals as they active­ly sup­port gang cul­ture in the zones of polit­i­cal exclu­sions (gar­risons) from which they oper­ate (con­stituen­cies.

This places the Police in an unten­able posi­tion. They are tasked with reduc­ing crime while the pow­er base of the politi­cians are in these very zones of polit­i­cal exclu­sions and are sup­port­ed by the Members of Parliaments who dou­ble as legislators.

In some cas­es the mem­bers of Parliament are active crim­i­nals , engag­ing alleged­ly in mur­der for hire, fraud, issu­ing guns to unem­ployed youths and oth­er crimes.
They are basi­cal­ly untouched as the sys­tem they cre­at­ed places them out­side the ambit of law enforcement.

The police are unable to reduce crime as the Government’s loy­al­ty is not to the con­sti­tu­tion , it is not fideli­ty to the rule of law which would cause them to have loy­al­ty and give sup­port to law enforcement.
Their loy­al­ty lies with and with­in the con­stituen­cies which keeps them in office.
This is true of both polit­i­cal par­ties which in many cas­es are lit­tle more than glo­ri­fied crim­i­nal gangs.

Here is a let­ter to a local news­pa­per on the issue of the police watch dog agency the Government of Bruce Golding cre­at­ed in 2010.….

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I took note of the fact that the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), at its first quar­ter­ly press con­fer­ence on May 26, 2017, expressed alarm at the increase in police fatal shoot­ings for the first quar­ter of 2017 com­pared to the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od last year. The fig­ures pre­sent­ed by INDECOM showed a 45 per cent increase, which the Deputy Commissioner of INDECOM described as quite “dis­turb­ing”.

Mr Editor, let us recall that INDECOM was estab­lished out of a sit­u­a­tion where the pub­lic out­cry at the time was that there exists an inher­ent risk of appre­hend­ed bias in a sys­tem where ‘police inves­ti­gate their own’. This call accord­ed with the old adage: ‘Justice should not only be done, but should be seen to be done.’

Mr Editor, the pos­ture tak­en by INDECOM over time has caused me to ques­tion whether it has prop­er­ly inter­pret­ed its role as con­tained in the INDECOM Act, 2010. Does INDECOM have an advo­ca­cy or inves­tiga­tive role, or both? This seems to be a rea­son­able ques­tion based on the mode of oper­a­tion observed.

Mr Editor, it is my opin­ion that the 2010 act estab­lished INDECOM as an inde­pen­dent inves­tiga­tive body that incor­po­rates the func­tions of both police com­plaint and crit­i­cal inci­dent inves­ti­ga­tions. It, there­fore, means that its mis­sion should be to con­duct trans­par­ent, time­ly and neu­tral or dis­in­ter­est­ed inves­ti­ga­tion of alle­ga­tions of police mis­con­duct. One of the hall­marks of good inves­ti­ga­tion is that they are devoid of emo­tions and based pure­ly upon rea­son and facts.

PRINCIPLE OF NEUTRALITY

Mr Editor, I believe the prin­ci­ple of neu­tral­i­ty or dis­in­ter­est­ed­ness is breached when INDECOM goes to var­i­ous forums, some­times accom­pa­ny­ing advo­ca­cy groups, to lament about increas­es in police fatal shoot­ings. It is a well-known fact that sta­tis­tics, with­out the prop­er con­text, are mean­ing­less. What if the increase in police fatal shoot­ings is because brazen indi­vid­u­als are more inclined to take on the police in con­fronta­tions? What if the increase is a reflec­tion of changes in the polic­ing environment?

Mr Editor, I humbly sub­mit that INDECOM’s focus should be about dis­pas­sion­ate inquiries to ascer­tain whether these police shoot­ings are deemed jus­ti­fi­able or not and pro­nounce its find­ings accord­ing­ly, on a case-by-case basis. At these forums, INDECOM should be inform­ing the pub­lic on the num­ber of fatal shoot­ing inves­ti­ga­tions that have result­ed in charges being prof­fered against police officers.

I urge INDECOM to clar­i­fy its role and leave emo­tion­al utter­ances to lob­by­ists, as jus­tice should not only be done, but should be man­i­fest­ly and undoubt­ed­ly seen to be done. I dare say INDECOM’s job is to investigate.

MOYA WELLINGTON

Here’s what I had to say at the time Terrence Williams decid­ed to share a stage with anti-police groups..

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INDECOM SHARES STAGE WITH CRIMINAL SUPPORTERS>

Last week there was an uproar over a rash of killings involv­ing Jamaican offi­cers and urban ter­ror­ists. According to reports 21 peo­ple lost their lives at the hands of the Jamaican police, the reports also stat­ed that a cou­ple of peo­ple got caught in the cross­fire. There is already a lot of con­clu­sion made on this mat­ter, even though the inves­ti­ga­tions has not yet deter­mined who fired the shots that killed the inno­cents. The men­tal­i­ty is that the bul­lets can only come from the guns of offi­cers. Of note is the fact that sev­er­al weapons have been removed from the streets by the police dur­ing those con­fronta­tions, includ­ing AK47 rifles.

I will now intro­duce to you some faces that you ought to know and remem­ber when you hear that crime is over-run­ning Jamaica. Do remem­ber these faces these are the faces of crim­i­nal sup­port in Jamaica, I will tell you who they are and quote for your their posi­tions on crime in our coun­try. You decide if this sit­u­a­tion is ten­able and tell us how long our coun­try should tol­er­ate this kind of behavior.

Public Defender Earl Witter JFJ’s Carolyn Gomes INDECOM comm. Terrence Williams

Witter is paid with tax dol­lars to inves­ti­gate instances of abuse on behalf of the pub­lic, frankly I do not under­stand the need for this failed crim­i­nal lawyer to be on the pub­lic pay­roll, but this is Jamaica, (every­one affi eat a food) every­one has to be fed, from the pub­lic purse no less. Carolyn Gomes a pedi­atric doc­tor who has been wag­ing a cam­paign of mis­in­for­ma­tion and per­son­al vendet­ta against the police force, her orga­ni­za­tion is fund­ed by for­eign human rights groups which has gen­uine inter­est in human rights. Gomes has used that mon­ey and influ­ence, par­lay­ing it into a per­son­al cam­paign of lies and innu­en­dos against defense­less Jamaican cops who do not have the soap box Gomes have to defend them­selves. Gomes was award­ed the order of Jamaica for her cam­paign against law enforce­ment . My per­son­al feel­ings regard­ing a National hon­or in Jamaica is, it’s not worth being spat on, in light of Gomes being award­ed one. Terrence Williams was hired to head the new agency, INDECOM that would inde­pen­dent­ly inves­ti­gate alle­ga­tions of police abuse. He has turned out to be a pow­er grab­bing nar­cis­sis­tic ego­ma­ni­a­cal turd. His inves­ti­ga­tions so far has not unearthed any­thing that the police through its own inves­ti­ga­tions have not unearthed when it inves­ti­gates its own.

INDECOM ASIDE GOMES AND WITTER HAS STRIDENTLY ARGUED THAT FOR THE KILLING OF CRIMINALS TO BE JUSTIFIED AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF POLICE OFFICERS MUST BE KILLED.

Yup! one can­not make that stuff up. Williams is the com­mis­sion­er of INDECOM, the agency charged with look­ing into alle­ga­tions of police shoot­ings in an inde­pen­dent and pro­fes­sion­al man­ner. Despite a lot of grand­stand­ing and pon­tif­i­cat­ing mis­ter Williams has not been able to inde­pen­dent­ly con­clude an inves­ti­ga­tion which shows a sin­gle case of unlaw­ful killing. This has not stopped Williams from being on tele­vi­sion and radio every chance he gets mak­ing state­ments and com­pro­mis­ing inves­ti­ga­tions in which his agency is active­ly engaged.

As if that was not bad enough INDECOM Terrence Williams joined the most vit­ri­olic anti police group in the country,(JFJ) Jamaicans for Justice, in a joint press con­fer­ence berat­ing the police for shoot­ing crim­i­nals and remov­ing sev­er­al guns from the streets, to include AK47 rifles. The Police Federation through its chair­per­son has cor­rect­ly hit back at Williams for being at that press con­fer­ence, and demand­ed he resign.The Federation has sent let­ters of com­plaint to the Governor General, the Prime Minister,and the Parliament to have Williams removed. In response INDECOM has fired back that it’s com­mis­sion­er has done noth­ing wrong and as such he should remain in his job.

“We make no apolo­gies for shar­ing the con­cerns of organ­i­sa­tions such as Jamaicans for Justice or the Office of the Public Defender and air­ing our con­cerns in that regard,” the state­ment read. The state­ment indi­cat­ed that those con­cerns do not rep­re­sent an attack on the secu­ri­ty forces and should not be con­strued as such”.

This state­ment from the morons at INDECOM shows two things , (1) that they are com­plete­ly and unequiv­o­cal devoid of ratio­nal thought. If the agency sees noth­ing wrong with hav­ing a press con­fer­ence with JFJ it clear­ly is inca­pable of engag­ing in unbi­ased investigations.(2) That they are inca­pable of under­stand­ing their mandate.

That state­ment from INDECOM , what hubris? So here’s a new agency just formed recent­ly, stat­ing we make no apolo­gies , shouldn’t hubris be left out of this par­tic­u­lar debate? How could this new agency not see some­thing wrong with its actions in shar­ing stage with Carolyn Gomes. Gomes advo­cates the killing of police offi­cers, she has stri­dent­ly argued that even if the killings of crim­i­nals are indeed jus­ti­fi­able , it is unac­cept­able for offi­cers to kill them. What that means is that offi­cers should be killed in equal num­bers as crim­i­nals, . That is the view of Carolyn Gomes and Earl Witter. Clearly this has got to be the tip­ping point. Decent Jamaican will have to take a stand and demand that the police do more to root out bad apples with even more alacrity, but they must col­lec­tive­ly also put their foot down on the neck of JFJ and make sure that kind of non­sense is stopped once and for all.

As if all of this is not enough the recent­ly embar­rassed Jamaica labour par­ty has decid­ed to fur­ther destroy that par­ty by sid­ing with the peo­ple who are fight­ing tooth and nail against the police. Already Andrew Holness, Delroy Chuck, and Derick Smith have thrown their sup­port behind Williams cement­ing the wide­ly held belief that INDECOM was a tool of the JLP. The JLP would be wise to watch its words very carefully,sour grapes?The Police just vot­ed with the Jamaican peo­ple to boot them from office, and I must say that even though I loathe the PNP I would be more inclined to sup­port the PNP if the Labour par­ty sides with those who sides against the police.

I stand with decent law-abid­ing cops , my sup­port is with the rule of law, that com­mit­ment is unwa­ver­ing and unequivocal.

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Montague Even Though Somewhat Misinformed , Head And Shoulders Above Holness On Crime…

I was nev­er real­ly a fan of Robert Montague, Jamaica’s Minister of National Security but there are areas in which he is begin­ing to grow on me.
At least Montague is able to under­stand that he does­n’t know what he does­n’t know .
I can respect that .
It is a marked improve­ment over his boss Andrew Holness the Island’s Prime Minister, who is unable to rec­og­nize that he does­n’t know what he does­n’t know , and should seek guid­ance from those who know instead of tak­ing advice from those who would try to build careers on the corpses of dead police offi­cers as Terrence Williams the com­mis­sion­er of INDECOM is doing.

At the time Holness took over the reins of the JLP I thought he would be a breath of fresh air. I even wrote some glow­ing arti­cles about him and the poten­tial I believe he would have even up to his return to Jamaica House last year.
What I missed in the process of my analy­sis is that Andrew Holness is a prod­uct of his envi­ron­ment rad­i­cal­ly steeped in Elitism and would be no dif­fer­ent than the oth­er degen­er­ate politi­cians on the Island.

In address­ing a con­fer­ence on Law enforce­ment spon­sored by, (you get it) INDECOM, the United Nations in Jamaica, with the sup­port from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, and the Embassy of the United States of America, was pri­mar­i­ly aimed at draft­ing a Model Use of Force Policy for Caribbean Security Forces.

It is impor­tant that those who have eyes to read and brains to under­stand what they read under­stand the con­cept of the idea behind the conference.
Quote, was pri­mar­i­ly aimed at draft­ing a Model Use of Force Policy for Caribbean Security Forces.
The United States which has thou­sands of law enforce­ment agen­cies have their use of force poli­cies which is cen­tered sole­ly on offi­cer safety .
Why are the Americans and the British involved in craft­ing use of force pol­i­cy for Caribbean secu­ri­ty forces when their secu­ri­ty forces are autho­rized to use what­ev­er force they need appro­pri­ate to neu­tral­ize per­ceived threats to include killing a 12 year old child with a toy gun, and killing a man sit­ting in his car with his fam­i­ly strapped in by his seat belt.

The per­cep­tion is that black coun­tries are inca­pable of self gov­er­nance, the psy­chol­o­gy is real sim­ple help them to self destruct.
The well estab­lished idea of white suprema­cy and white excep­tion­al­ism is fur­ther enhanced when we black run coun­tries are fooled into believ­ing that their soci­eties will come togeth­er if peo­ple are able to get jobs.
The notion adopt­ed in Jamaica and oth­er places that if you fix economies crime goes away is like chas­ing rainbows.

On the one hand there can nev­er be eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment in a crime infest­ed society.
On the oth­er, striv­ing for eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty under the notion that that will alle­vi­ate crime when their econ­o­my is con­trolled by out­side forces is sim­ply ridiculous.

So though not total­ly not where he ought to be as it relates to what needs to be done about Jamaica;s law­less­ness , Robert Montague is heads and shoul­ders over Holness.

Montague

Addressing the same con­fer­ence Montague struck a much dif­fer­ent tone.
“Society grants the police this pow­er because police per­son­nel may have to make deci­sions in the frac­tion of a minute, often in extreme circumstances.”

“Let us not fool our­selves, law enforce­ment has to use the amount of force that is nec­es­sary to mit­i­gate against crit­i­cal inci­dents.”

“Some of us in Jamaica have to lock our­selves behind bur­glar bars every after­noon, effec­tive­ly cre­at­ing our own prison, and some of us would love to have bur­glar bars, but because some of some hous­es are built with infe­ri­or mate­r­i­al we can’t,” he said.

“Not every­one has a police body­guard or can afford to live in a gat­ed com­mu­ni­ty, some­times our envi­ron­ment are not of our choos­ing, but we should under­stand the envi­ron­ment [in which] the police oper­ates” Minister Montague stated.

“Debunk the lies that INDECOM is pre­vent­ing the police from doing their work and that the police is trig­ger happy.”

Clearly Minister Montague needs to evolve a bit more on the lat­ter state­ment. There are some truths in both points.

You know what both­ers me , it’s peo­ple who are able to piece a cou­ple of words togeth­er then con­vince them­selves that they know what they are talk­ing about , when clear­ly they don’t.So they piece togeth­er non­sen­si­cal clich­es which has no edi­fy­ing val­ue to intel­li­gent debate …

Every use of force police are engaged in are indi­vid­ual cas­es which rests on their own merit.
It can­not be that police use of force is cri­tiqued with­ing the con­text of one broad appli­ca­tion, that’s non­sen­si­cal . Something some­one should tell Andrew Holness and the stool pigeon Terrence Williams the Elitists put in place, so that they may con­tin­ue to run our coun­try like a sub-Saharan fiefdom/.
In most cas­es in which police are forced to use force, it is usu­al­ly a func­tion of the per­son being appre­hend­ed atti­tude to being arrest­ed which deter­mines whether or not force is used..
Not the police offi­cer decid­ing to be vio­lent for no reason.
So for a coun­try’s leader to spend time Demagoguing law enforce­ment instead of edu­cat­ing the pop­u­la­tion into obey­ing the laws ‚shows the type of leader Holness has decid­ed to be.

What the dan­ger­ous and lying Terrence Williams does not tell the dumb sheep who lis­ten to him ‚is that Jamaica is one of the world’s most vio­lent coun­tries in the world.
It also have one of the high­est amount of crim­i­nals per capi­ta with­in it’s population.
Literally every arrest, regard­less of the gen­der or age of the poten­tial arrestee must be achieved by using force.
This is why the state­ment of the fraud Terrence Williams is so insidious.
“We want to see greater sanc­tions for breach­ing of the (use of force) pol­i­cy; we want to see com­man­ders and super­vi­sors being held liable for human right breach­es of their men, and these are the areas that we want to see being rep­re­sent­ed in the new policy.”

This mis­guid­ed notion that we must hand­cuff our police in one of the most vio­lent soci­eties in the world is beyond stu­pid it bor­ders on crim­i­nal com­plic­i­ty by the government.
The fact that Terrence Williams is allowed to craft and deter­mine pol­i­cy which affects 2.7 mil­lion lives ‚includ­ing that of the secu­ri­ty forces, is exact­ly the problem .
It is a trav­es­ty of epic pro­por­tion which jeop­ar­dizes the lives of law enforce­ment officers.
We have a blind nar­cis­sist in the per­son of Terrence Williams lead­ing an elit­ist admin­is­tra­tion head­ed by Andrew Holness down a dan­ger­ous Rabbit hole to destruction.

There is no pla­cat­ing dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals who are deter­mined to com­mit vio­lent felonies and kill whomev­er dare stand up to them , includ­ing Police offi­cers and mem­bers of the military.
That the Jamaican Prime Minister would expend polit­i­cal cap­i­tal in defense of peo­ple who break laws and kill police is shock­ing in it’s reck­less­ness.
Instead of stand­ing stead­fast­ly on the side of law enforce­ment offi­cers with strong lead­er­ship demand that those who break the laws must expect to be arrest­ed and dealt with ‑with the full extent of the law, Holness gives fur­ther com­fort to law­less elements.
Rather than tell peo­ple to sub­mit to being arrest­ed, even if they believe they are wronged, he plays cheap pop­ulist politics.
Disgraceful !!!

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Amidst Prime Minister’s Use Of Force Criticisms: Police Unable To Do Their Jobs In Volatile Communities Of West Kingston .

Prime Minister Andrew Holness runs around the coun­try talk­ing about police over­sight amidst five mur­ders dai­ly and as the coun­try slips clos­er and clos­er into anarchy.

Lets face it for the most part Jamaica is becom­ing an unman­age­able failed state.
Instead of empow­er­ing the secu­ri­ty forces to go into these law­less com­mu­ni­ties to wipe out the anar­chy the Prime Minister grand­stands about Police accountability.

They cre­at­ed INDECOM rather than use those resources to improve the over­sight which exist­ed. Which would have allowed it to go ahead as it was remov­ing dirty cops and improv­ing recruit­ment procedures.
Now INDECOM’s inves­ti­ga­tions are not pro­duc­ing the results Bruce Golding and Holness as well as the PNP expected .

Despite it’s con­fronta­tion­al approach and mul­ti­ple shoot­ings which involves the Police, INDECOM was only able to accuse two police offi­cers of doing any­thing wrong over a 5 month period.
Now it is impor­tant that we under­stand that Jamaica is a law­less police hat­ing coun­try, yet despite that, only 2 offi­cers were alleged to have oper­at­ed out­side the bounds of their authority.
Not charged with a crime and cer­tain­ly not con­vict­ed of anything.

At the same time there are almost 5 homi­cides per day. Rapes are hard­ly report­ed as judges sim­ply let the per­pe­tra­tors walk out on bond, some­times on their own recognizance.
So when the anti ‑police forces on the Island speak about police shoot­ings we will con­tin­ue to tell the truth that on aver­age, the coun­try of 2.7 mil­lion records over 1200 homi­cides annually.
Gang mem­bers open­ly chal­lenge police offi­cers in shoot-outs. Kill police offi­cers with­out bat­ting an eye . Operate with impuni­ty with the bless­ings and sup­port of the two major polit­i­cal parties.

There are hun­dreds of heav­i­ly armed gangs , roam­ing the country .
Two of the most lethal, the Klansman and One Order Gangs, both of which oper­ate out of the Parish of St Catherine are affil­i­at­ed with the Opposition People’s National Party and the Ruling Jamaica Labor Party respectively.

At the same time the train­ing and oper­a­tional readi­ness of the police are anti­quat­ed , and inef­fec­tive , in many cas­es two offi­cers are unable to restrain a bel­liger­ent woman and place her in handcuffs.
Crowds emerge when­ev­er offi­cers attempt to arrest an offend­er hurl­ing insults , video taping(which they have a right to do but from a safe dis­tance), and oth­er­wise do what­ev­er they can to impede , intim­i­date, and stop the law­ful arrest.

For the most part the police are besieged and out in these law­less com­mu­ni­ties per­form­ing an impos­si­ble task with­out support.
At the risk of imprisonment.
With the high­est elect­ed Political offi­cial offi­cial decid­ed­ly focused on strength­en­ing INDECOM, rather than strength­en­ing the rule of law, the coun­try’s police offi­cers are in for a hard time.

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A Goodbye Letter To Earth

Jon Savitt, ContributorWriter, Comedian, Creator
Saving the planet is an uphill battle, and not just because we’re going to have to head for higher ground once the sea levels rise.

Hi, Earth —

It’s me, Jon. How are you? Dying a slow and painful death? Yeah, thought so.

(at this point pre­tend that I am doing an audi­ble sigh)

I know we haven’t had the great­est rela­tion­ship over the years. At points I’ve thrown things that should be recy­cled in the trash. Admittedly, I’ve left the water run­ning while brush­ing my teeth. The oth­er day I saw an Air Bud VHS tape lying in the park grass and I picked it up — not because I care about you, but because I love both dogs and bas­ket­ball. It was self­less. What I’m try­ing to say is, I’ve made my fair share of mis­takes. And I’m sorry.

You’ve done so much for me. Trees are v cool. I fuck with oceans. You cre­ate a home for cows who then make cheese AND I LOVE CHEESE. As humans, we don’t deserve you. So at the very least we could take care of you. Right? Lol nahhhh.

We put you sec­ond like two of our friends were hav­ing par­ties the same night and we just quick­ly stopped by yours to get it out of the way so that we could go to the cool­er friends house. You know what I mean? We’re treat­ing you like The Hangover II when in real­i­ty we should be treat­ing you like the orig­i­nal. You’re just an after­thought like check­ing for your keys after leav­ing the house or like think­ing of a great come­back after an argu­ment. Oh, which reminds me, Rachel, at least I didn’t lose the suit­case in Cabo!!! Boom.

It’s like some sort of sick plot twist in a movie.

Anyways, you get the point. And we need to do bet­ter. I need to to better.

How? Well, to start, prob­a­bly not by drop­ping out of the Paris Accord. I don’t want to begin plac­ing blame, but I’m fol­low­ing the CO2 foot­prints and they’re lead­ing me to peo­ple like Donald Trump. Climate change deniers. Corporate sell­outs. My friend Jake from high school. Seriously, fuck Jake he sucked.

Today, the so called “leader of the free world” took a dan­ger­ous, polar­iz­ing stance and pulled out of a nec­es­sary glob­al cli­mate agree­ment. In doing so he turned a blind eye and small hands to accom­plished sci­en­tists, a major­i­ty of cit­i­zens, the pope, and, yes, my very own moth­er. Shame on you, Donald Trump. I haven’t seen my mom this mad since the elec­tion, the Muslim ban, the health­care bill, the Comey fir­ing, etc.

I know I’m just one person/​model/​middle school bas­ket­ball state cham­pi­on, but I will con­tin­ue to edu­cate myself and improve my per­spec­tive when it comes to the envi­ron­ment. I hope that our lead­ers will do the same. If for no oth­er rea­son than that I’m Jewish and sweat a lot out­side and I can’t have this whole glob­al warm­ing thing.

Humankind won’t be around for­ev­er, espe­cial­ly if we can’t get our act togeth­er. And so, Earth, if this is good­bye, I want you to remem­ber me for who I real­ly am: a pret­ty aver­age per­son. In return, I will remem­ber you for sand and water and stuff like that. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a‑goodbye-letter-to-earth_us_59307bbbe4b00573ab57a1cc?section=us_contributor

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Obama: Trump Rejects Future By Pulling Out Of Paris Climate Pact…

Former President Obama blast­ed President Trump’s deci­sion to with­draw the United States from the Paris cli­mate deal, call­ing it an abdi­ca­tion of lead­er­ship, moments before his suc­ces­sor made it official.

Obama also argued the U.S. would be an eco­nom­ic los­er because of Trump’s deci­sion in a state­ment released as Trump told the world of his deci­sion with remarks from the White House garden.

“The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the ben­e­fits in jobs and indus­tries cre­at­ed,” Obama said. “I believe the United States of America should be at the front of the pack.”

The Paris agree­ment nego­ti­at­ed and signed under the Obama admin­is­tra­tion was con­sid­ered a hall­mark of the for­mer president’s efforts to com­bat cli­mate change.

Trump’s deci­sion to with­draw from it con­tin­ues his efforts to erase much of the Obama legacy.

In this case, Obama said he hoped that states, cities and U.S. busi­ness­es would essen­tial­ly block Trump’s actions by seek­ing to reduce green­house gas emis­sions on their own.

“But even in the absence of American lead­er­ship; even as this Administration joins a small hand­ful of nations that reject the future; I’m con­fi­dent that our states, cities, and busi­ness­es will step up and do even more to lead the way, and help pro­tect for future gen­er­a­tions the one plan­et we’ve got.”

Syria and Nicaragua are the only two oth­er coun­tries that are not a part of the 195-nation deal.

In mak­ing his case for leav­ing the agree­ment, Trump argued it would help Rust Belt cities and deliv­er more jobs to the United States. He also said the deal nego­ti­at­ed by Obama treat­ed the United States unfair­ly, and that it effec­tive­ly trans­ferred coal jobs to oth­er nations. http://​the​hill​.com/​p​o​l​i​c​y​/​e​n​e​r​g​y​-​e​n​v​i​r​o​n​m​e​n​t​/​3​3​5​9​7​5​-​o​b​a​m​a​-​t​r​u​m​p​-​w​i​l​l​-​r​e​j​e​c​t​-​t​h​e​-​f​u​t​u​r​e​-​b​y​-​p​u​l​l​i​n​g​-​o​u​t​-​o​f​-​p​a​r​i​s​-​a​c​c​ord

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U.S. Has ‘Resigned’ As Leader Of Free World, Says Fareed Zakaria

Exiting the Paris Agreement is a major blow to the fight against climate change.

By Jenna Amatulli

Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States will with­draw from a glob­al pact to fight cli­mate change.

Throughout Trump’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, he crit­i­cized the Paris Agreement on cli­mate change. He even called cli­mate change a “hoax” he said was aimed at weak­en­ing indus­try in the U.S.

Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” appeared on CNN short­ly before Trump’s announce­ment to talk with Jake Tapper about with­draw­ing from the accord.

Zakaria began the dis­cus­sion by say­ing, should Trump go through with the exit, “This will be the day that the United States resigned as the leader of the free world.”

David Mack

✔@davidmackau

.@FareedZakaria: “This will be the day that the United States resigned as the leader of the free world.”

Zakaria went on to say that the “irre­spon­si­bil­i­ty” of Trump with­draw­ing from the pact is “breath­tak­ing because the Paris Climate Accords are extra­or­di­nar­i­ly flexible.”

“They do not dilute American sov­er­eign­ty,” he said. “They allow every coun­try to make its own plans. That’s why coun­tries that jeal­ous­ly guard­ed their sov­er­eign­ty like China, like India, like Russia have all signed on.”

These sen­ti­ments have been echoed by Susan Biniaz, the State Department’s long-time for­mer lawyer on cli­mate change issues. Biniaz told HuffPost Thursday that “it’s inex­plic­a­ble why we would be leav­ing.”

“We nego­ti­at­ed it large­ly to U.S. spec­i­fi­ca­tions,” she said. http://​www​.huff​in​g​ton​post​.com/​e​n​t​r​y​/​f​a​r​e​e​d​-​z​a​k​a​r​i​a​-​u​s​-​f​r​e​e​-​w​o​r​l​d​-​l​e​a​d​e​r​-​p​a​r​i​s​-​a​g​r​e​e​m​e​n​t​-​c​l​i​m​a​t​e​_​u​s​_​5​9​3​0​6​a​4​0​e​4​b​0​e​9​a​7​7​a​5​3​b​6​f​b​?​t​p​&​n​c​i​d​=​i​n​b​l​n​k​u​s​h​p​m​g​0​0​0​0​0​009

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Holness Attitude Toward Crime In Jamaica Dictates That The Work Begin Now To Remove Him From Office…

In an effort to appease cer­tain sec­tors of the soci­ety it appears Andrew Holness the Jamaican Prime Minister has made a tac­ti­cal deci­sion to do what count­less oth­er Politicians have done over the peri­od of time that Jamaica has had self-rule.

I sup­port­ed the Labor Party Holness now lead, but I did so while I lived in Jamaica under Edward Seaga’s stewardship.
Though Seaga was vast­ly imper­fect there are cas­es to be made that he was vast­ly supe­ri­or to what we are now see­ing from this polit­i­cal neo­phyte. It is becom­ing clear­er by the day that he has made a tac­ti­cal deci­sion to do what­ev­er, say what­ev­er, against the police with­out the ben­e­fit of facts. Someone should take this idiot aside and cau­tion him to engage his brain before he opens his mouth.

Andrew Holness (cen­tre) in dis­cus­sion with (from left) Luis Moreno, United States ambas­sador to Jamaica; Mark Connolly, UN res­i­dent coör­di­na­tor in Jamaica; David Fitton, high com­mis­sion­er of the United Kingdom to Jamaica; and Terrence Williams, Commissioner of INDECOM at INDECOM’s Caribbean Use of Force Conference, yes­ter­day: Gleaner photo.

Addressing an INDECOM gath­er­ing of Elitists The Jamaican Prime Minister said the following.
The use of force to main­tain law and order has not achieved any­thing beneficial.
“The soci­ety that we are try­ing to cre­ate can­not rely on the use of force to get the preser­va­tion of law and order. For too long, since our inde­pen­dence, since our colo­nial past, we have relied on force in order to get law and order.”

This state­ment is not only non­sen­si­cal , but it is also sim­ply ignorant.
Police offi­cers’ use of force is not option­al. It is not like wak­ing up a decid­ing to cut your lawn.
By open­ing his mouth and try­ing to impress, Holness demon­strat­ed his lack of matu­ri­ty and intellect.
Clearly, this state­ment indi­cates that Andrew Holness’s views reflect the flawed, warped ide­o­log­i­cal­ly left­ist world view of the social­ist incu­ba­tor called the University of the West Indies.

Police use of lethal force in Jamaica is par­tic­u­lar­ly nec­es­sary when con­sid­ered against the lev­el of vio­lence and crime which exists there.
Each case of lethal use of force rests with crim­i­nal gun­men , not with the police as the moron­ic Prime Minister seem to think.
Without ade­quate though or con­sul­ta­tion on how law enforce­ment use of lethal force is acti­vat­ed he went ahead and showed the world that he is a total jackass.

Each and every thug who picks up a gun places him­self in jeop­ardy . It is not up to Police to beg gun-tot­ing hood­lums to obey laws and not fire at police or kill inno­cent civilians.
If Holness can find his way out of his ivory tow­er it would be a good idea to do a ride-along with the police­men and women who patrol the gul­lies and gar­risons , includ­ing the gar­ri­son of Olympic Gardens he calls his constituency.

Holness was address­ing the open­ing of the Caribbean Use of Force in Law Enforcement Conference at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston. A report from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) showed that, in 2014, the police were shot at 470 times, 425 times in 2015, and 502 in 2016. During those inci­dents, two police­men were mur­dered and eight injured in 2014, eight were mur­dered and 19 injured in 2015, while six were killed and 22 injured in 2016. At the same time, in 2014 some 112 civil­ians were killed by the police, 92 in 2005, and 102 the fol­low­ing year

The report did not show that a sin­gle bul­let was fired at Holness dur­ing the times detailed in the report, or ever was ‚which is a trav­es­ty giv­en his holi­er-than-thou self-right­eous and igno­rant comments.

Before I get angri­er at this idiot’s state­ment let me add the com­ment of an ex-police offi­cer who worked at Hunt’s Bay and wit­nessed some of the worst exam­ples of Jamaican urban warfare.

Christopher Porter • 

This man St. Andrew Holiness knows what he is talk­ing about! If he knew the his­to­ry of Jamaica, he would­n’t be mak­ing such charge.

Those of us who were around dur­ing the late 1970s up until the 1980 elec­tion remem­bered that the com­mu­ni­ties in Jamaica erect­ed imag­i­nary bor­der­lines. Gunmen killed close to one thou­sand Jamaicans. At the time it was the social­ist think­ing prime min­is­ter the late Michael Manley.

After the gen­er­al elec­tion, Jamaica wel­comes the best, smartest, pro-police Edward Seaga. The man brought a rev­o­lu­tion­ary change to Jamaica.

Mr. Seaga set-up Operations Base [Eradication Squad]. Criminals: Rapists, rob­bers, gun­men, dons were put on notice.

Most of us who are from the ghet­tos, remem­bered that a major­i­ty of the crim­i­nals migrat­ed to oth­er coun­tries because of their fear of the police.

In the mid­dle of the 1980’s I can tes­ti­fy that on sev­er­al occa­sions my cousins and I would walked from Scarface Pathway, Arnette Gardens, Kingston 12, to down­town, Kingston via Hannah Town.

During our trips to and from Jungle, not even a fly both­ered us.

So, when this head mak­ing dis­hon­est state­ments about the police, some­one who lived through the Seaga lead­er­ship can let the prime min­is­ter know that he’s wrong.
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Andrew Holness is Prime Minister because of the hard work sweat and blood of Police Officers and mem­bers of the military.
The coun­try exist because, when the moth­er of all gar­risons rose up in trea­so­nous oppo­si­tion to the rule of law and the exis­tence of the Jamaican state our secu­ri­ty forces said “not on our watch.”

Many peo­ple put in work to change the gov­ern­ment from the tired cor­rupt , out of ideas People’s National Party and it’s bunch of criminals.
They will work just as hard to remove Andrew Holness from Jamaica House when the time comes .
Considering his actions he can count on my efforts toward that end.

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Cops Quick To Release Videos To Shame DUI Suspects: Reluctant To Comply When They Are Under Scrutiny..

As a strong sup­port­er of the rule of law I feel com­pelled to be fair and just in the way I look at all issues involv­ing law enforce­ment whether they are palat­able or not.

Which leads me to won­der why is it so dif­fi­cult for police depart­ments to com­ply with requests to release dash cam and body cam­era record­ings in sit­u­a­tions where police offi­cers use force, to include dead­ly force?
If a police offi­cer is jus­ti­fied in the actions he takes in using dead­ly force, or even less lethal force, why the reluctance?

Departments have no plau­si­ble rea­sons for refus­ing legit­i­mate demands for the release of videos , unless there are exten­u­at­ing cir­cum­stances in which their release would ver­i­fi­ably jeop­ar­o­dize ongo­ing investigations.
Even so, that deci­sion should be the per­og­a­tive of District Attorney and not the police themselves.

In many cas­es in the United States despite the police being pub­lic ser­vants and employ­ees of the peo­ple , it requires court orders to get depart­ments to com­ply with requests for the release of Video record­ings of police use of force encounters .

The Police should nev­er be ham­strung in their abil­i­ty to do their jobs, but they should nev­er be allowed to be laws onto them­selves , account­able to no one.

CONVERSELY.…

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On the oth­er hand it is remark­able how police depart­ments are quick to release dam­ag­ing infor­ma­tion on celebri­ties when­ev­er they are arrest­ed on sus­pi­cion of hav­ing bro­ken some minor traf­fic law.
I hold no brief for Tiger Woods , but it begs the ques­tion , what val­ue is added to the case against Tiger Woods or any celebri­ty when they are arrest­ed under sus­pi­cion of dri­ving under the influ­ence by releas­ing the video?

What is the dif­fer­ence between cit­i­zens demand for videos of police actions for account­abil­i­ty pur­pos­es and the response of depart­ments in try­ing to shame mem­bers of the pub­lic when they are accused of minor infractions?

We can only have a just soci­ety when the laws apply to each and every per­son just­ly and equitably.
No one is big­ger than the law, cer­tain­ly not those whose jobs it is to enforce them.

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Police Officers Get Their Brains Blown Out Andrew Holness Cavorts With INDECOM..

Here goes (baby bruce ) again .
This has got to defy all log­ic and cer­tain­ly will evoke not a whis­per from labourites in cer­tain places.
From Seaga to Bruce Golding and now Andrew Holness it appears that police nyam dem white fowl.

At a time when INDECOM’s own data is demon­strat­ing that the agency is not val­ue for mon­ey Holness found him­self at their con­fer­ence mak­ing grand­stand­ing state­ments against police.

When The Cost In Blood And Treasure Are Computed INDECOM’s Time Has Come And Gone..

At a time when our police offi­cers are hav­ing their brains blown out in the streets in the mid­dle of the day , the Jamaican Prime Minister in clas­sic vul­ture style, has pitched and is engaged in tear­ing at the car­cass of these dead officers.

Andrew Holness

Speaking at a con­fer­ence on Wednesday, Andrew Holness stressed the need to have a well-resourced insti­tu­tion to inves­ti­gate police killings.

He not­ed the need for a shift in how force is used by the police. Holness not­ed that the police also need clear guide­lines and resources to car­ry out their job so they can ensure pub­lic safe­ty while also secur­ing their own lives. Holness said he has giv­en instruc­tions to the Police High Command, through the National Security Council, that all offi­cers in a par­tic­u­lar region must under­go a poly­graph test or what is com­mon­ly referred to as a lie-detec­tor test.

The Gleaner/​Power 106 News Centre had report­ed in late April that police in west­ern Jamaica who failed lie detec­tor tests would be sub­ject­ed to admin­is­tra­tive and inves­tiga­tive reviews. The National Security Council had report­ed that Police Area One which com­pris­es St James, Hanover, Westmoreland and Trelawny, would be the focus of sys­tem­at­ic poly­graph­ing of police per­son­nel. At a meet­ing in late April, the Council had said some 78 cops from Police Area One had so far been poly­graphed. In recent times the JCF has also intro­duced poly­graph tests for police recruits. (jamaica​glean​er​.com)

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I apol­o­gize to the fam­i­ly of the late Leighton Hanson for­mer­ly of the Constant Spring Police , how­ev­er in the inter­est of full dis­clo­sure and hope­ful­ly less dead cops , it is impor­tant that Andrew Holness be made aware of his fuck­ing respon­si­bil­i­ties to the Jamaican people.

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I am at a loss as to what the hell this guy Andrew Holness is talk­ing about .
The Jamaican Police are the ones get­ting killed .His friend Bruce Golding made sure that on his watch a law was passed which neutered police and empow­ered gang­sters and Dons.
There are clear­ly defined use of force guide­lines with­ing the JCF Act . Rules which makes the police hes­i­tant and unsure ‚when jux­ta­posed with the INDECOM act, these crit­i­cal com­po­nents end up get­ting police offi­cers killed in this cesspool of crim­i­nal sup­port our coun­try has been reduced to.
Then these retards won­der why the PNP always win elec­tions in Jamaica ?
Here is this idiot in pow­er with a one seat major­i­ty in the leg­is­la­ture mak­ing a total jack­ass of him­self at the expense of dead cops and the loved ones they leave behind to grieve their loss..

Terrence Williams

There was no sense to his ram­blings about lie detec­tor test , and Police use of force.
If there are dirty cops , go ahead and root them out , but this guy seem to be all about INDECOM as Bruce Golding was.

INDECOM’s media cam­paign is about Terrence Williams hold on a posi­tion which clear­ly is not bring­ing val­ue for mon­ey, and a fail­ing agency which can­not jus­ti­fy it’s exis­tence by it’s performance.
As the chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of the coun­try and the per­son with the ulti­mate respon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­tect the coun­try Andrew Holness has been on a tear to demon­strate his ani­mos­i­ty toward law enforcement.
If the cops pro­vid­ing secu­ri­ty for him and his fam­i­ly were suf­fi­cient­ly intel­li­gent they would all walk away and let INDECOM secure him and his family.
Or maybe he would be elat­ed to pull secu­ri­ty from his Olympic Gardens enclave?

If Andrew Holness wants to talk about poly­graph tests a good place to start is on his agri­cul­ture Minister Carl Samuda who received a report­ed 15 acres of Mombasa grass plant­ed on his prop­er­ty with­out pay­ing for it until he was caught red handed.
Lets get a poly­graph test on these immoral thieves first .…

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LeBron James’ House Spray-Painted With ‘N****r’ In Apparent Hate Crime

LeBron James’ House Spray-Painted With ‘N****r’ In Apparent Hate Crime.

The Los Angeles home of LeBron James has become the site of an appar­ent hate crime just one day before the Cleveland Cavaliers super­star embarks on his sev­enth straight NBA Finals.

The LAPD has con­firmed to HuffPost that author­i­ties were called to James’ home ear­ly Wednesday morn­ing after some­one van­dal­ized the front gate of the home.

TMZ reports that the van­dal spray-paint­ed the word “n****r.”

Police are look­ing into the inci­dent fur­ther as inves­ti­ga­tors sift through avail­able secu­ri­ty footage. Property man­agers at the home have already cov­ered up the graffiti.

Hate crimes rose 20 per­cent in the U.S. dur­ing 2016 amid height­ened ten­sions relat­ed to the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, accord­ing to the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.

James was recent­ly asked about race rela­tions in the U.S. after Boston fans hurled racial slurs at Orioles cen­ter field­er Adam Jones ear­li­er this month. In response, he dis­cussed the dif­fi­cul­ties of rais­ing black chil­drenin the U.S.:

It’s a del­i­cate sit­u­a­tion. Racism, we know, exists. You try not to put your­self in a posi­tion, for me as a father, I try to give my kids the blue­print on how life is gonna be. But at the end of the day, I can only tell them so much, and they have to live it them­selves. For me, I just try to be respect­ful, for one, respect­ful to oth­ers, and I feel like if you do that con­sis­tent­ly, then I believe the kar­ma will come back to you.

James, whose pri­ma­ry res­i­dence is in Akron, Ohio, was report­ed­ly not present dur­ing the time of the inci­dent. He pur­chased the house in 2015,

Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the James’ Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors starts tomor­row at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

Requests for com­ment from James’ team were not imme­di­ate­ly returned. http://​www​.huff​in​g​ton​post​.com/​e​n​t​r​y​/​l​e​b​r​o​n​-​j​a​m​e​s​-​h​o​m​e​-​h​a​t​e​-​c​r​i​m​e​_​u​s​_​5​9​2​e​e​7​e​b​e​4​b​0​9​e​c​3​7​c​3​0​d​d​8​9​?​n​c​i​d​=​i​n​b​l​n​k​u​s​h​p​m​g​0​0​0​0​0​009