KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) today began a spe­cial ini­tia­tive to restore order in pub­lic spaces, with spe­cial empha­sis on May Pen in Clarendon, and Linstead and Spanish Town in St Catherine.

In a release a short while ago, the police say the oper­a­tions being con­duct­ed will focus on mar­kets and bus parks and aim to: tar­get peo­ple involved in extor­tion, restore order, reduce con­ges­tion caused by ille­gal vend­ing, ille­gal park­ing and pro­vide a reas­sur­ing pres­ence in the pub­lic spaces. http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​l​a​t​e​s​t​n​e​w​s​/​J​C​F​-​b​e​g​i​n​s​-​s​p​e​c​i​a​l​-​o​p​e​r​a​t​i​o​n​-​t​o​-​r​e​s​t​o​r​e​-​o​r​d​e​r​-​i​n​-​t​o​w​n​s​h​ips

“It is not merely enough to be outraged. It is not merely enough to be saddened at what is happening. It is not merely enough even to weep over what is happening. Outrage calls for action! You gotta do something about it if you’re outraged.”(Fellowship Tabernacle Pastor Merrick Al Miller.)

The occa­sion was the funer­al ser­vice for 17-year-old Calabar High School stu­dent Stephan McLaren who was stabbed to death on New Year’s Day on Hagley Park Road in St Andrew, after leav­ing a party.
It was report­ed that while walk­ing with a group of friends, McLaren stopped along the way indi­cat­ing that he want­ed to urinate.
One of his friends said soon after he rushed to them say­ing he was stabbed.

It becomes almost curi­ous to talk about a sin­gle mur­der in Jamaica with­ing the con­text of the dai­ly mul­ti­ple killings.
The killings are so fre­quent , so fast, and in such num­bers that talk­ing about an indi­vid­ual case makes one seem almost silly.
I am just blown away at the idea that a kid on his way from a par­ty who stopped to uri­nate could be stabbed because some­one believed he had some­thing they want­ed to rob.

Having served a decade in uphold­ing the law on the Island, hav­ing been a voice speak­ing out against the unchecked epi­dem­ic of crime since I left in 91, I am exas­per­at­ed as I know many peo­ple are, about whats happening.
In a no holes barred arti­cle, local jour­nal­ist Ian Boyne expressed sim­i­lar exasperation.
Of course Boyne’s bit­ing nar­ra­tive seemed more direct­ed at the pre­ten­tious know noth­ings and the human rights crowd, than at the killers themselves.

Social media is replete with raw emo­tion­al respons­es from Jamaicans liv­ing, both in the dias­po­ra and at home.
Much of what has changed and has become clear­er, is a dis­tinct thread of anger at the bur­geon­ing cabal of indi­vid­u­als and Organizations which has sprung up in the coun­try pur­port­ing to be defend­ers of human rights.

I am all for human rights , but if I want­ed to be cred­i­ble when I lend my voice to the cause, I believe my pre­oc­cu­pa­tion would be with the indis­crim­i­nate loss of inno­cent lives .
Not about the rights and secu­ri­ty of the killers.
Nevertheless, as is the case with much of what ails Jamaica, bull­shit car­ries the day over commonsense.
Human rights advo­ca­cy in Jamaica is just anoth­er eat a food gravy train and a place to have a mega­phone, con­se­quences be damned.

Hearing the Reverend Al Miller’s state­ments made me cringe however.
It is not mere­ly enough to be out­raged. It is not mere­ly enough to be sad­dened at what is hap­pen­ing. It is not mere­ly enough even to weep over what is hap­pen­ing. Outrage calls for action! You got­ta do some­thing about it if you’re outraged.”

If only we would fol­low our own advice, take due care about our asso­ci­a­tions and motives.
Being good cit­i­zens in our indi­vid­ual capac­i­ties when no one is looking.
Then when we speak to spe­cial cir­cum­stances our words would have greater resonance.
Jamaicans have fall­en in love with mur­der, like much of the world wrong is right and right is wrong.
It should sur­prise no one that sym­pa­thies are with and for the wel­fare of the killers and not with the victims.
A peo­ple blind with igno­rance will for­ev­er reap the whirl­wind of their actions.
America is about to find that out.

Two of the Islands most pop­u­lar dance-hall lumi­nar­ies Rodney Pryce o/​c Bounty-kil­la and Desmond Ballentine o/​c Ninjaman teamed up in an event designed to lift the morale and pay a lit­tle com­pli­ment to the Island’s law-enforce­ment offi­cers recently.

In a ses­sion orga­nized to lift the spir­its of the cops the two, whom many believe are unlike­ly sup­port­ers of law enforce­ment ‚declared that fight­ing crime was every­body’s business.
Speaking at the Jamaican con­fer­ence cen­ter both disc jock­eys paid trib­ute to the police , label­ing them “slaves”, because they did not receive the remu­ner­a­tions they deserve for their work.,
Most impor­tant­ly Ninjaman blast­ed the agency “indecom“for it’s aggres­sive per­se­cu­tion of police offi­cers when they go after killers.

Said Ninjaman:

“I’m com­ing from a bad man point of view. No bad man nuh inna Jamaica again; unuh have a set of crim­i­nals and mur­der­ers deal­ing with. Some peo­ple just tek up gun and turn it on any­one they feel, and if the police catch one of dem and deal wid dem, INDECOM charge dem for it,”.

Said Bounty: “Fighting crime is everybody’s busi­ness and not just the busi­ness of those with direct respon­si­bil­i­ty”.

Neither of these two men are with­out sin.
In fact Ninjaman recent­ly did time in prison ‚and Bountykilla have been arrest­ed I believe more than once for domes­tic abuse of one live in lover or another.
What I find instruc­tive is that these two men, both of whom have con­tributed immense­ly to the pop­u­lar cul­ture, now have the vision and insight to see that the cul­ture is bad­ly flawed.

Dance-hall lyrics are not the rea­son there are so many homi­cides on the Island but they do con­tribute to the so called bad-man culture.
That these two are able to rec­og­nize that law-enforce­ment deserves the sup­port of every sin­gle Jamaican ele­vates them expo­nen­tial­ly in my view over many who pur­port to be educated.

The back­lash against the two by trolls on social media, depicts in real ways the mind­set of Jamaicans when it comes to crime in our country.
Lets be clear, there is noth­ing that these two men could have said, out­side their sup­port for law enforce­ment of course,which would not have elicit­ed tens of thou­sands of blan­ket likes and raves.
But the minute they decide to become good respon­si­ble cit­i­zens , using their plat­forms to save lives, the vil­lage lawyer cock­roach­es are out with smart ass dissent.

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What both­ers me is that these trolls had no prob­lem when Carolyn Cooper had Adijia Palmer (Vybs Kartel )at the University of the West Indies lec­tur­ing stu­dents on the mer­its of dance-hall in our pop­u­lar culture.
Might I remind them that Kartel is now doing a life sen­tence for cap­i­tal murder.
By the strangest real­i­ty Kartel is allowed to con­tin­ue to per­pet­u­ate on the pop cul­ture, the same putrid mur­der music for which he is heav­i­ly responsible.

Lets under­stand some­thing here.
There was a strong argu­ment to be made that the poor boys in the ghet­to are unable to afford the high pow­ered weapons, and un-end­ing sup­ply of ammu­ni­tion they have in their possessions.

That was in the past, Here’s how they make mon­ey today
Murder for hire.
Extortion.
South American cocaine and guns com­ing into Jamaica, a trans­ship­ment hub .
The Haitian con­nec­tion which exchanges Ganja and stolen meat for guns.
The huge amounts of cash com­ing into the Island as a result of the scam­ming trade.
Jamaicans liv­ing in the dias­po­ra send­ing back mon­ey to pur­chase guns and ammunition.
Jamaicans send­ing back guns in bar­rels and every oth­er recep­ta­cle rivals only the inge­nious meth­ods they employ in try­ing to get mar­i­jua­na into the United States and oth­er countries.
These boys have cash.

Those of us who have ever had any­thing to do with law enforce­ment are clear-eyed about the var­i­ous ways guns enter into our country.
So when we ask that there be a mind­set among all of our rea­son­able cit­i­zens regard­ing the crime mon­ster , we must com­mend these dance hall artiste when they step for­ward to lend their voic­es toward the cause of sav­ing lives and our coun­try in the long run.

At the same time we should nev­er lose our focus as it relates to those who active­ly encour­age, fund, and oth­er­wise sup­port crim­i­nal­i­ty in Jamaica even as they live as decent law abid­ing cit­i­zens in oth­er countries.
Their bel­li­cose rhetoric and ham­ster-wheel argu­ments are the same as those who do live in Jamaica who essen­tial­ly encour­age, fund, and oth­er­wise sup­port crim­i­nal­i­ty, but are shield­ed from it’s con­se­quences by virtue of their posi­tions in society.
The oth­er mon­grels only yelp because those in pow­er tell them when to yelp.
Ignore those !!!

Jamaican Media is report­ing that two offi­cers were shot ear­ly this morning.

ST JAMES, Jamaica — Two police offi­cers were shot and injured this morn­ing in St James.

The police con­firmed the inci­dent, which took place about 12:45 am, but declined to give any details, say­ing they have not received any “com­pre­hen­sive report” on the matter.

The two offi­cers are said to be in sta­ble con­di­tion. http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​l​a​t​e​s​t​n​e​w​s​/​T​w​o​-​c​o​p​s​-​s​hot – injured-in-St-James

HANOVER, Jamaica — A man and two chil­dren were last night shot dead in Williamsfield, Hanover while three oth­er peo­ple were injured in the attack. Dead are 34-year-old Hopeton Lee, five-year-old Kimani Johnson and one-year-old Daquan Davidson, all of Williamsfield address­es in Hanover. Police reports are that about 10:45 pm, Lee was at home with his rel­a­tives when armed men entered the premis­es and opened fire hit­ting him. The assailants fled the scene and about 10:50 pm, opened fire on anoth­er house in the com­mu­ni­ty, where Kimani, Daquan and three oth­ers were shot.

The police were sum­moned and on their arrival, all six were tak­en to hos­pi­tal where Lee, Kimani and Daquan were pro­nounced dead, while the oth­er three were admit­ted in seri­ous con­di­tion. The police said no motive has been estab­lished for the incident.

Well you can’t make this up!!!

Out of the mouth of babes and suck­lings hast thou ordained strength because of thine ene­mies, that thou might­est still the ene­my and the avenger.

I was always of the view that if you keep chip­ping away at a moun­tain long enough, giv­en enough time you can chis­el out a tunnel .
A tun­nel leads to light.
For years I have made it a per­son­al cam­paign to speak out using every medi­um I can to bring atten­tion to the seri­ous and exis­ten­tial prob­lem of crime in our country.

I have received much blow-back over the years for stand­ing with the police.
Many dis­missed my unshak­en sup­port for the police as sim­ple loy­al­ty borne out of the fact that I served.
To those I have said repeat­ed­ly ‚” No“It’s not about the fact that I served, it’s because I under­stand that there is no oth­er sit­u­a­tion in which we can have a liv­able coun­try with­out the rue of law.
Which means no mat­ter how flawed our law enforce­ment agen­cies are we stick with them and fix the problems.

Desmond Ballentine (Ninjaman) and Rodney Price (Bounty Killer) are two foun­da­tion dance-hall artiste who came up through the grit­ty streets of Kingston .I do not know Bounty Killa but Ninjaman a prod­uct of the beau­ti­ful parish of saint Mary came to Kingston and resided in the Marl Road com­mu­ni­ty where I lived.
As a Young police offi­cer I met Ninja, I had a small bar on Plantain avenue behind the Old New Yorker fac­to­ry off Waltham Park and Bay Farm Roads.

Every Friday and Saturday I had a lit­tle sound sys­tem play­ing at my lit­tle spot . The sound sys­tem was owned by a Rastafarian gen­tle­man from the area. That is where Ninja cut his teeth as a disc jock­ey long before he became the don-gor­gon.
There is an old Jamaican proverb which says, if fish comes from the bot­tom of the ocean and tell you there are sharks down there you bet­ter believe the fish.,

On the issue of crime and how we deal with it effec­tive­ly Ballentine and Pryce are babies , though they are from the streets, and knows what goes on, these gen­er­al­ly aren’t the peo­ple as per con­ven­tion­al wis­dom, we would look to for advice, hence my “lit­tle child shall lead them scrip­ture verse..
Notwithstanding when peo­ple like the afore­men­tioned two tell us whats going on it behoove us to listen.

At a ses­sion organ­ised to moti­vate mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) yes­ter­day received crime-fight­ing instruc­tions from two of the most unlike­ly indi­vid­u­als that one would expect to see address­ing cops — dance­hall dee­jays Bounty Killer and Ninjaman.(source JamaicaObserver)

Ballentine, in his address, chid­ed the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) for putting what he described as unwar­rant­ed pres­sure on police seek­ing to uphold the law.

“I’m com­ing from a bad man point of view. No bad man nuh inna Jamaica again; unuh have a set of crim­i­nals and mur­der­ers deal­ing with.

Some peo­ple just tek up gun and turn it on any­one they feel, and if the police catch one of dem and deal wid dem, INDECOM charge dem for it,” the artiste, who served three-and-a-half years behind bars, said before turn­ing on the Government.

He called for more resources for JCF mem­bers, whom he described as the country’s “slaves”, argu­ing that they are not ade­quate­ly paid for the work they do.
http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​B​o​u​nty – Ninja-lecture-cops_86875

Let’s start mak­ing the vil­lage raise the child again. Last year was a grue­some year with killings. The police, the sol­diers, the secu­ri­ty forces, they are play­ing their part; we as soci­ety have to play our part as well,” Pryce said.

I rest my case !
Dance-hall artiste are not fools, they know whats going on, they have their ears to the ground. The pow­ers that be in Kingston know that inde­com is bad for the coun­try, many peo­ple have come out and said so.
As some­one who has been ham­mer­ing this home since I first saw the minu­tia of the law, I under­stood it was going to increase crime.

At the risk of sound­ing like a bro­ken record I say again . The( inde­com )act serves the inter­est of a small cabal of pow­er­ful peo­ple on the Island.
It was a gift giv­en to them by Bruce Golding.
The act has many sup­port­ers, those sup­port­ers may be found in two groups. (1) Those who ben­e­fit from it and I have named them in mul­ti­ple pre­vi­ous articles.(2) And a bunch of know noth­ing vil­lage lawyers who can­not see beyond what they are told.
The abil­i­ty to crit­i­cal think was not giv­en to everyone .
Some swal­low every­thing they are told with­out the abil­i­ty to think things through for themselves.

Those sheeple[sic] have to be led , deci­sions have to be made for and despite them , not with them.
The harm the inde­com act con­tin­ue to do is being mea­sured in the blood of too many Jamaicans, some of them inno­cent and undeserving.
It’s time that this law and this creep who head the agency be shown the door.

In response to the killing of six gangland figures recently by the security forces I commended the police and soldiers who valiantly took it to gangsters.
At the same time I questioned comments coming out of the police high command lamenting the loss of the gangsters lives.

Now all life was cre­at­ed by God Almighty , sub­se­quent­ly all life is to be respected.
However ‚when someone(1) takes the life of anoth­er human being, or (2) embark upon a dai­ly life of crime .
That per­son of their own voli­tion, make the deci­sion to place their life in danger.

Lets make it real sim­ple.……
A per­son who decides to jump over Niagara Falls does so on their own volition.
We do not blame the Falls for the death of that indi­vid­ual right? The falls is the falls , you jump you die !!
At the same time there is no need to lament the deceased, he or she made their own choice, and in that case “died with their choice”.
Me, I lament the loss of life of peo­ple who did not make a deci­sion to give up their lives.
That is at the heart of why I became a police offi­cer as a young man in 82.
It is why I con­tin­ue to speak out on behalf of vic­tims of crime, regard­less of who they are.

What are you bab­bling about Mike?… 

Well lets get back to the police and their apol­o­giz­ing for the loss of life>
Is it just me or does it seem like the men and women of the force have a new pep in their steps at the instal­la­tion of a real leader, DCP Novelette Grant, albeit temporarily?
Okay it’s prob­a­bly just me and my excite­ment at Novelette get­ting a shot, no mat­ter how short, to show that she can do the job as well as oth­ers before her if not better.

Nevertheless the Police high com­mand have found it nec­es­sary to keep up the apol­o­gy tour after the appro­pri­ate demise of the six thugs in St James.
In a release the high com­mand asked peo­ple want­ed by police to avoid vio­lent con­fronta­tion with the police.
Acting police com­mis­sion­er Novelette Grant said that “had the deceased peace­ful­ly sur­ren­dered, they would have been arrest­ed and charged with ille­gal pos­ses­sion of firearm and ammunition”.
“Regrettably, they chose to vio­lent­ly con­front the secu­ri­ty forces,” Grant said.

According to Grant, there is an increas­ing pat­tern of vio­lent attacks on the police and mil­i­tary by crim­i­nal sus­pects who, on many occa­sions, have elud­ed cap­ture. Unfortunately, on this occa­sion, those who were embold­ened by these pre­vi­ous instances con­front­ed the secu­ri­ty forces and met their demise. http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​S​u​r​r​e​n​d​e​r​-​p​e​a​c​e​f​u​lly – police-urge-sus­pects-after-gang­sters-killed-in-gun-bat­tle.

The Police are absolute­ly trau­ma­tized by the con­stant and inces­sant haranguing .
The inces­sant bar­rage of crit­i­cisms is sure­ly hav­ing an effect on even the high­est lev­els of the force. Even though offi­cers at the high­est lev­els are not exposed to the dai­ly dan­gers of polic­ing in Jamaica the way street cops are.

The fact that the police high com­mand see it nec­es­sary to con­tin­ue on what I call an “apol­o­gy tour” , for doing exact­ly what the JCF Act empow­ers them to do , is tes­ta­ment to the lev­el of trau­ma the depart­ment has been exposed to, for car­ry­ing out it’s sworn mandate.

Here’s where I dif­fer from Novelette Grant.…

Said Grant.“had the deceased peace­ful­ly sur­ren­dered, they would have been arrest­ed and charged with ille­gal pos­ses­sion of firearm and ammunition”.
“Regrettably, they chose to vio­lent­ly con­front the secu­ri­ty forces.”
My dear act­ing com­mis­sion­er, every per­son on this plan­et knows what the func­tions of the police are.
There are no ambi­gu­i­ties inher­ent or oth­er­wise, which would reg­u­lar­ize or legal­ize, not com­ply­ing with autho­rized agents of the law, much less threat­en­ing their lives.

On that basis alone, there need be no apology!!
If we are to have a coun­try . If we are to have a democ­ra­cy. If we are to have the rule of law. The foun­da­tions of that soci­ety, our soci­ety must respect the rule of law and those who enforce said laws.
You jump over Niagara Falls you die.
You attack the police in the law­ful exe­cu­tion of their duties, much less with weapons of death you die.

The police should nev­er find itself apol­o­giz­ing for doing exact­ly what they are tasked with, and empow­ered to do.
We begin to take back our coun­try street by street, block by block, neigh­bor­hood by neighborhood.
Being a tough and pro­fes­sion­al police depart­ment has noth­ing to do with being dis­re­spect­ful and abusive.
It’s a straw-man lie being fed the pub­lic by the elites who are liv­ing off the pro­ceeds of crime. They are in the media, and these Trolls are intent on using those perch­es to shape the nar­ra­tive to suit their end.

We know who they are.
The tri­al liars, I mean lawyers. The Media elites. The polit­i­cal elites, some of whom can­not get on an air­plane to trav­el abroad because the Americans have yanked their visas,.
I recall being a very tough cop.
I also remem­ber young and old com­ing out to thank me for my work in the Grant’s Pen Gully, Shortwood gul­ly ‚White Hall, and Red Hills slums.
Yup the kiss­es from those old ladies will for­ev­er be in my heart as long as I live, as they thanked me for ensuri ng that they could go about their busi­ness peaceably.
That kind of polic­ing , tough though I was, does not seem to me to have been abu­sive polic­ing, not to those law-abid­ing residents.
Those who want­ed me moved away to anoth­er sta­tion or dead were the peo­ple who were a dan­ger to those communities.

Nowadays there is no short­age of bleed­ing heart char­la­tans who come as sav­iors of the people..
The only lives they care about are the lives of those whom have tak­en mul­ti­ple inno­cent lives.
So to hell with Terrence Williams and indecom.
Tell that lit­tle leech Horace Levy at Jamaicans for Justice to go get a damn job and stop pros­ti­tut­ing as a defend­er as of the poor, we know he is mere­ly eat­ing a food.

Tell the entire bunch of Parasites who sit around and crit­i­cize the police but does noth­ing to help to secure the country.
Words are words , actions are what’s important.
Those at the pub­lic defend­er’s office as well , what a waste of tax-pay­ers dollars.
We have a Director of Public Prosecution, that’s the pub­lic defend­er. Any oth­er office which oper­ates as a defend­er of the pub­lic is a dupli­ca­tion which should be dis­band­ed and the funds redi­rect­ed to the real defend­er of the pub­lic the office of the DPP.

If our coun­try is to be bet­ter there need be a full repeal of the inde­com act and the law reauthorized.
As it is it is a crime enhance­ment law which is cost­ing Jamaicans their lives, it must go and so should Terrence Williams.
Lets begin the process of tak­ing back the streets of our cities , towns and villages .
Lets do it the right way.….

The fol­low­ing is a snip­pet of the way real Jamaicans are feel­ing about their com­mu­ni­ties and their coun­try in general.
It is impor­tant that as you watch and lis­ten you appre­ci­ate the pal­pa­ble fear these ordi­nary Jamaicans feel, and the gen­uine con­cern they have about not even appear­ing on cam­era out of fear of reprisal from cronies of the six urban ter­ror­ists who were extin­guished by the secu­ri­ty forces two nights ago.

(cour­tesy of cvm television.)

The Jamaican peo­ple are a decent law abid­ing people.
This writer has spo­ken to this for years, about the good­ness and kind­ness of these people.
I under­stood fun­da­men­tal­ly that the elites who define and dom­i­nate our cul­ture are total­ly uncon­cerned about the peo­ple like the folks in this video.
Ordinary peo­ple are the one’s who allow their sons and daugh­ters to place their lives on the line as police offi­cers and soldiers.

Outside the elit­ist bub­ble , these peo­ple are ordi­nary peo­ple whom have con­tributed much toward the devel­op­ment of our country.
More than any­thing else they have sent their sons and daugh­ters to put them­selves in harms way for all Jamaicans , none more so than their great­est ene­mies who walk the halls of acad­e­mia, sit in the media hous­es and the oth­er places where elit­ism grow and thrive.
These, the above Cross Roads crowd, receive much from our coun­try with­out risk­ing anything.

They are giv­en pow­er­ful posi­tions in Government and the diplo­mat­ic ser­vices, they receive nation­al hon­ors they do not deserve, and haven’t earned.
The elit­ist media and their friends above Cross Roads have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly used the sto­ry line of these, the least pro­duc­tive, most crim­i­nal­ly com­plic­it ele­ments in our coun­try to shape nation­al secu­ri­ty policy.
The peo­ple who give the most, their sons and daugh­ters to die receives noth­ing in return.

The despi­ca­ble per­pet­u­a­tion of the vic­tim-hood men­tal­i­ty has been duti­ful­ly and glee­ful­ly enhanced by the lame stream cheer-lead­ing media which unwit­ting­ly allowed inner city alle­ga­tions of abuse to deter­mine how crime is approached.
This has not only shaped local pol­i­cy but has impact­ed inter­na­tion­al per­cep­tions about local law-enforce­ment practices.
A google search bears that out.

The time has come for real Jamaicans. Real peo­ple like the peo­ple in this video to make it known that they will not tol­er­ate this kind of crim­i­nal­i­ty in their communities.
I will say this again , the vast major­i­ty of the rur­al folks are decent good people.
I call on all Jamaicans in every nook and cran­ny of our beau­ti­ful coun­try to stand against the elites in Kingston.
Tell them where they can go with (inde­com) and Terrence Williams.

For years we warned against the lying char­la­tan Carolyn Gomes’ .
Many accused me of tak­ing the side of police because I am a for­mer police officer.
It was only after they had already bestowed a nation­al hon­or on Gomes that she showed who she tru­ly was.
And what her cam­paign about human rights was tru­ly about.

We have been warn­ing about Terrence Williams for awhile now .
The idea of an over­sight Agency to look at alle­ga­tions of secu­ri­ty forces excess and abuse is a must.
In this day and age there must be safe­guards , checks and bal­ances against state power.
However that check against the pow­er of Government must be bal­anced with the Government’s pri­ma­ry role and pre­rog­a­tive to pro­vide a secure envi­ron­ment for the nation.

It can be done.
It must be done, the two are not mutu­al­ly exclu­sive. and are inex­tri­ca­bly linked.
With that said, our coun­try must move from being a coun­try of men, to becom­ing a coun­try of laws.
This tran­si­tion effec­tive­ly removes the abil­i­ty for lit­tle men with grandiose ideas and over inflat­ed sense of their own impor­tance to cause harm to many.

The silent major­i­ty of Jamaicans want a peace­ful place to live and raise their families .
I call on the Administration to ignore the noise of the Kingston crowd , both those in the ghet­to and those above Cross Roads who enhances, sup­port and defend crim­i­nal­i­ty in our country

The silent major­i­ty of Jamaicans do not sup­port criminals .
The elit­ists do.

Soldiers in a the­ater of war places a lot of trust in the men who lead them into war.
They believe they will be giv­en the kind of lead­er­ship they deserve which allows them the best shot at com­plet­ing their mission.
Well so I’m told by my friends and fam­i­ly mem­bers who actu­al­ly served in the great­est, most lethal mil­i­tary in the his­to­ry of mankind, the United States military.
Right Chris Porter , Copelad Bedward , Haniff Brown and the many oth­er ex-police offi­cers who served with dis­tinc­tion in the US mil­i­tary after leav­ing the Jamaica Constabulary Force?

Policing in dan­ger­ous urban envi­ron­ments require strong lead­er­ship as well, just of a slight­ly dif­fer­ent nature.
Cops who take on the dan­ger­ous job of polic­ing dan­ger­ous Favela In Brazil do their jobs with the knowl­edge that their lead­er­ship stand solid­ly behind their efforts to bring san­i­ty to these oth­er­wise chaot­ic urban slums.
Jamaica , one of the world’s most vio­lent coun­try, with dan­ger­ous urban slums known as Garrisons. is no different.

Police offi­cers go out to do good !
That is the premise from which any dis­cus­sion on polic­ing must commence.
For the cyn­ics who line up to chat and crit­i­cize, I ask , when was the last time you placed your mis­er­able life on the line in defense of others?
So then, if the police go out to do good, and the back up their com­mit­ment by plac­ing their lives on the line for us.
Why would we not sup­port them again?

Nobody wants bad cops , we want our cops account­able like every­one else .
What we should nev­er tol­er­ate is the demo­niz­ing of our pro­tec­tors by peo­ple who are too cow­ard­ly to step up to the plate and do. yet they have every­thing to say.

Welcome to the Commissioner’s chair DCP Novelette Grant a leader.
A cops cop, a woman who signed up to do a job dom­i­nat­ed by men and did it well.
My praise for the Police high com­mand is well.…… There is nev­er any praise for the high com­mand from me .
However, I have great respect and trust in my for­mer col­league Novelette Grant .
Smart as a whip, speaks her mind and is not afraid to stand up for her colleagues.
Something Dr Carl Williams for­got to do.

I knew Novelette Grant from our days at Port Royal her batch of stu­dent con­sta­bles were the very first to grad­u­ate from the Police academy.
Six months lat­er my batch, the first batch to begin train­ing at the acad­e­my , followed .

One of her Former female colleague and friend who entered the academy and graduated with her. had this to say about Novelette Grant.

I was a squad­mate of Novelette Grant we start­ed our ini­tial train­ing in Port Royal and was the first grad­u­at­ed batch out of Twickenham Park called the Jamaica Police Academy. Novelette was our Valedictorian and was the select­ed grad­u­ate, Best at Laws. She was trans­ferred to the rur­al areas where she worked along­side what you would call the grass-root police.
She has always per­sist­ed in qual­i­fy­ing her­self edu­ca­tion­al­ly. She was nev­er one to suck up to the pow­ers that be, but where she saw weak­ness or unfair­ness. Would with intel­li­gence. Speak her mind.

I remem­ber even in train­ing school , her stand­ing up to the feared ““shock­ing” Sgt. Brooks and our drill instruc­tor Ruddy Bailey””. We would always wor­ry once Novelette was. Called to the office Summoned by screw Morgan”” with Ms Frazier behind. Novelette always came back smil­ing. Shrugged and said” the frog is only dead when he is on his back, but as long as i can hop i will croak” Novelette has grown in the ranks.

She went onto the accel­er­at­ed ranks, served as ACP under two Commissioners and as DCP. Under two Commissioner. I dare­say she should be giv­en a fair chance to uti­lize her skills many and var­ied in get­ting the Job done. The fight for our Forces pro­fes­sion­al and impor­tant duty to fight crime and to bring back respect for law and order, giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty, tools, the vehi­cles and finan­cial resources need­ed for their morale.

That is a ring­ing endorse­ment of a col­league if ever there was one. Well said Donna Dell.
As I have stat­ed in this medi­um from time to time the JCF lead­er­ship is weak, feck­less, inef­fec­tu­al, cow­ard­ly, and incompetent.
Those are actu­al­ly the good adjec­tives, the oth­ers .….….don’t ask.
Novelette Grant stands head and shoul­ders above all of the peo­ple in the high com­mand, in her clar­i­ty of focus and her staunch defense of offi­cers on the street.
Jamaica does itself a tremen­dous ser­vice by appoint­ing this qual­i­fied woman to the posi­tion of chief constable.

On a side note :
I hope that the Investigative arm of the police force (whats left of it)understand the wealth of infor­ma­tion which are on these cell phones.
They must secure war­rants and go get these phone records .
The death of these gang mem­bers should nev­er be the end of inves­ti­gat­ing them it should be the beginning .
These guys are killers who use their tele­phones to com­mu­ni­cate with oth­ers. their nefar­i­ous and evil deeds.
Those instru­ments are trea­sure troves of action­able infor­ma­tion which local law rein­force­ment must secure and utilize.
Breaking the backs of these gangs require tough smart policing.
Do it right !!!

Jamaicans woke up to wonderful news Sunday morning January 15^th. It was like back in the days when the police were allowed to go after criminals.
The fatal shooting of six men in an alleged gun battle with members of the security forces in Goodwill, St James was good news indeed.
There will be two types of responses from these killings , wild celebration by people who believe in the rule of law ‚and a load of bullshit from those who benefit from crime and thus support criminality.

That’s it.
The com­ments going for­ward will be clear cut in deter­min­ing the side com­men­ta­tors are on , no mat­ter how they try to couch their argu­ments in gobbledygook.

The secu­ri­ty Forces final­ly decid­ed to say “fuck you” to Terrence Williams and his bunch of scum-bag friends who pro­tect the crim­i­nals on the Island.
They demon­strat­ed that what all for­mer Jamaican Police offi­cers already knew, cops are absolute­ly not afraid of any dirty filthy crim­i­nals.
They are afraid of a Government which is too chick­en-shit to pro­tect them as they go about what they are sworn to do.
This not a crit­i­cism of the Andrew Holness led Government.
Government in this con­text is par­ty neutral.

As usu­al (inde­com) is sup­pos­ed­ly inves­ti­gat­ing the exter­mi­na­tion of the six. My only regret is that every­one in that out­fit was­n’t caught in the cross­fire.
These sce­nar­ios are not the same as shootouts in oth­er coun­tries where a per­son pulls a weapon on an offi­cer and is shot.
These sce­nar­ios have exist­ed for decades in Jamaica and has exac­er­bat­ed now with the huge pro­lif­er­a­tion of semi auto­mat­ic weapons all over the Island.
In oth­er coun­tries the sce­nar­ios which play out in Jamaica dai­ly elic­it mas­sive swat respons­es, and the shoot­ing death of the perpetrators.
The take-away is that Jamaican cops are asked to face heav­i­ly armed killers but are not allowed to appro­pri­ate­ly defend them­selves if the elit­ists con­tin­ue to have their way.

Jamaican Police offi­cers are not con­fronting sane ratio­nal peo­ple who are will­ing to drop their weapons when con­front­ed, they want to kill police officers.
These are ruth­less , mind­less, ani­mals who take tremen­dous plea­sure in killing every­one, includ­ing police.
Strike that .
Particularly police.

What I don’t want to hear from the Police is the non­sense bull­shit that they are sor­ry for the loss of life.
Get over your damn selves already.
The spe­cial inter­ests who sup­port these mass mur­der­ers do not utter a word when police offi­cers are gunned down mercilessly.
Neither of the two state spon­sored anti ‑police enti­ties, (inde­com) and the pub­lic defend­er’s office, nor Jamaicans for Justice and the oth­er despi­ca­ble leech­es who give aid and com­fort to those low life garbage, ever offer a word of com­fort to the fam­i­lies of slain officers.
These crim­i­nals made a deci­sion not to val­ue the lives of oth­ers . They decid­ed not to val­ue their own lives when they opened fire on the police and soldiers .
The secu­ri­ty forces should not be in the busi­ness of apol­o­giz­ing for their loss.
Thats the remit of (inde­com) (jfj) and others.

Novelette Grant strong­ly believes that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is ready to be led by a woman.

Though she is yet to sub­mit her appli­ca­tion for the post of police com­mis­sion­er, adver­tised rough­ly two weeks ago, Grant, who is now act­ing com­mis­sion­er, yes­ter­day declared her inten­tion to apply. The post offi­cial­ly became vacant last Friday, the last day of Dr Carl Williams’ tenure, after he exit­ed the job on ear­ly retire­ment. Yesterday, at a JCF press con­fer­ence held at the Commissioner’s Office, Grant explained why she should take lead­er­ship of the 150-year-old organisation.“What I bring is 35 years of knowl­edge of this organ­i­sa­tion. I think I have an excel­lent under­stand­ing of its work­ings and I think I have an excel­lent under­stand­ing of its fail­ings, too,” Grant said.
See sto­ry here :http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​G​r​a​n​t​-​r​e​a​d​y​-​f​o​r​-​t​h​e​-​t​o​p​-​j​o​b​_​8​6​290

Laws are made to deal with situations at the time. Jamaica’s laws are largely Colonial era laws which have precious little relevance to today’s problems.

More and more the comments someone made to me sometime ago seem relevant to Jamaica’s crime problem. Quote, “Jamaica needs a dictatorship to truly stamp out crime on the Island”.

Now grant­ed I do not nec­es­sar­i­ly agree with that sen­ti­ment , I do wish how­ev­er there was some way to shut the mouths of some of the chat-a-lots who talk a lot about what they either do not know, or their opin­ions should sim­ply be dis­re­gard­ed and discarded.

Yesterday we car­ried Ian Boyne’s Article which appeared in the Sunday Gleaner. In his Article Boyne pro­posed some strin­gent mea­sures which he feels should be adopt­ed as a solu­tion to crime.
I thought it was wor­thy of dis­cus­sion, but I also under­stand that Boyne is a Journalist, not a legal or secu­ri­ty offi­cial. So there is no sur­prise ele­ments of his com­ments would be legal­ly problematic.
At the same time I har­bor a cer­tain degree of dis­dain for those who sup­port the sta­tus quo on the basis that sug­gest­ed fix­es, regard­less of what is sug­gest­ed is either unwork­able or unlawful.
Laws are made to deal with sit­u­a­tions at the time they are made . Jamaica’s laws are large­ly Colonial era laws which have pre­cious lit­tle rel­e­vance to, or impact on, today’s problems.
The broad­er take­away for me from Boyne’s arti­cle is that things are reach­ing crit­i­cal mass. Andrew Holness , the Prime Minister allud­ed to that in a recent speech. He said he sensed that the peo­ple were tired of the killings and want­ed action on crime.

In response to us fea­tur­ing Boyne’s Article a friend who spent years in the police depart­ment opined that Boyne was always crit­i­cal of the police even when it was unwar­rant­ed. He argued that Boyne’s out­burst is rem­i­nis­cent of the mood before the Military and police were forced to annex Tivoli Gardens to the country.
He was adamant that Jamaicans only have some­thing pos­i­tive to say about police offi­cers when their ass­es are in a vice.
Their ass­es are in a vice now…
To his com­ments I said .….….….….….….….….….….Well I said noth­ing because he was exact­ly correct !

Here’s my advice to the pon­tif­i­cat­ing fools who stand in the way of change. Arguing that sug­gest­ed fix­es are “unlaw­ful” is self-serv­ing and should be seen for what it is.
As I said in a pre­vi­ous arti­cle , “you damn fools do real­ize that sim­ply chang­ing the laws strikes down your argu­ments right”?
We dri­ve cars until they are no longer road wor­thy. We wear clothes until they are worn, torn, or we sim­ply tire of them.
So I sim­ply want to point out to you genius elites [sic] , when the laws are no longer serv­ing the pur­pose for which they were intend­ed we change them, whether you like it or not.

After the Morant Bay rebel­lion the Colonial rulers did not sit on their back­sides and hoped there would be no recurrence.
Take this fact or leave it.
They cre­at­ed the Jamaica Constabulary Force ‚which at it’s gen­e­sis was a night­watch­man type force.
Drastic and out­ra­geous you say?
Call it what­ev­er you want, as long as the Colonial mas­ters had con­trol of the Island there were no more unman­age­able uprisings.

If every man, woman, and child in Jamaica had a job mur­ders would still be out of control.
To you who say you “you can’t prove that”.
My response is “prove that it would­n’t be”!
Lack of a jobs has noth­ing to do with murders.
In fact many Jamaicans have this insane propen­si­ty to com­mit crimes. They will tell you they will not take any job that will not allow them to steal. You have all heard it,( “mi lef di jab kaa nu hus­tling nu de de”).

It is an affront to the integri­ty of decent unem­ployed peo­ple to sug­gest that those who com­mit heinous mur­ders do so because they are unemployed.
So like I said yes­ter­day to the vul­tures who fly down on every sug­ges­tion which has seri­ous puni­tive com­po­nents to the crime problem.
Despite your holi­er than thou opin­ions, it is we the peo­ple who have tried it your way . It is we the peo­ple who lis­tened to your self-right­eous bull­shit that ref­or­ma­tion must be the solu­tion with­out a puni­tive response.
It is we the peo­ple who bleed while you sit in your edi­fices of grandeur and pon­tif­i­cate about some­thing you know noth­ing about.
It is we the peo­ple who lis­tened to your grandiose sug­ges­tions that killing mass mur­der­ers does not stop killings.
When was the last time an exe­cut­ed mur­der­er returned to kill again?
Oh wait, spare me the (duppies,)stories .

Since you peo­ple refuse to yield to com­mon sense solu­tions to the Island’s crime problem.
I call on well think­ing Jamaicans who want to live in peace to take action. People who want to send their chil­dren to school with­out fear they will nev­er return take action. People who want to step out with­out the immi­nent threat of mur­der hang­ing over their heads take action.
Since the Government is scared of the elites in high places, it may be time that the elites are not allowed a voice.
It is your chil­dren who are being raped and mur­dered , not theirs, your moth­ers and sis­ters , your sons and fathers , not theirs.
Look at what the Colombian peo­ple did.
It’s your coun­try not theirs alone.….…

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