There is a sense of Karma in lit­er­al­ly every action we take .
The Religious ascribe the con­se­quences of our actions to a God who see to it that we are pun­ished for what­ev­er neg­a­tive actions we engage in, and reward­ed for the pos­i­tives we do.
Me, I believe in God, yet I am far less attuned to the notion of God sit­ting some­where keep­ing score of the actions of mankind with the inten­tion to pun­ish and reward as the case may demand.

I believe our world is set up on principles.
Those prin­ci­ples dic­tate but not guar­an­tee good results when we strive toward cer­tain goals. They also respond the same way when we engage in actions which are evi­dent­ly counterproductive.
We have the abil­i­ty to pick our­selves up and try again when we fall down, but we can also chose not to get up, it’s all up to us.

ACTIONS/​CONSEQUENCES 

For years we Jamaicans watched our soci­ety devolve into a law­less jun­gle where the priv­i­leged cre­ate a soci­ety in which they live above the laws they cre­at­ed. While the not so well con­nect­ed are allowed to tear at each oth­er like vul­tures rip­ping at rot­ten carcass.
What is the dif­fer­ence between the lives of women and chil­dren over that of men?
For years men have been mur­dered and the soci­ety hard­ly bats an eye. Children gets abused and killed no one cared really.
Now women are being killed and all of a sud­den the sky is falling?
I don’t think so!!!
Life is life. none is more impor­tant than the oth­er, this selec­tive out­rage about the killing of women is nauseating.

I am remind­ed of a joke I shared with a friend a cou­ple of years ago. He point­ed to a sil­ly trend in the dance-hall indus­try, lit­er­al­ly every­one has a trib­ute song to their mama.
He argued that many who sang about their mama were actu­al­ly raised by their sin­gle fathers who moved moun­tains to take care of them.
Even when they are raised in homes in which they had a moth­er and father they paid trib­ute to their moth­ers and not their fathers.
The sig­nif­i­cance of that is far deep­er than just whats like­ly to sell records or earn a few for­wards in the dance-halls but I will deal with that at anoth­er time.
It’s kin­da like the litany of girl’s schools against the few all boys schools.
The Bureau of wom­en’s affairs.
Still wait­ing for some­one to pro­vide me with the address to the bureau of men’s affairs.[sic]

Then they won­der why the young men are out in the streets rap­ing, maim­ing and killing while the women are fill­ing the halls of academia.
The women are get­ting killed like every­one else, the calls to “stop killing our women” are sim­ply anoth­er retard­ed way in which the soci­ety look at gen­der in Jamaica.
Not to be out­done, the dance-hall artistes ‚(remem­ber them)they have joined the cho­rus, call­ing for the killing of women to end.
That’s all good, but then they added the ridicu­lous, as they were cer­tain­ly expect­ed to do.
“How the race a gu con­tin­ue wen unuh kill aaf de woman dem”?
I know right?
No need to wor­ry about the killing of men.
Society can sim­ply source semen from the near­est riv­er or stream, but we got­ta pro­tect the women at all cost.[sic]
We real­ly don’t need men as long as we pre­serve the women.
You ever won­dered why through­out his­to­ry there has been poverty?
Well in many cas­es pover­ty is not just pover­ty of finan­cial resources, it is a pover­ty of com­mon sense. Poverty of intel­lect. People mil­i­tat­ing against their owns self-inter­est mak­ing the case of others.

Jamaican women were always side by side with the crime culture.
“Missa Beckles mi like yu but yu a police, yu nu have nu mon­ey, fi mi man haf­fi teef , mi like nice tings” 
You know how they say that in that down­town drawl lips turned up ? I smile at that even as the seri­ous­ness of that think­ing was nev­er lost on me.
Sure they know the men are rob­bing and killing inno­cent peo­ple for the mon­ey they bring them,> Does it mat­ter to them?
Hell no!!!
Sure they go out and demon­strate against the police claim­ing they saw the killing at 4:00 am and it was mur­der ‚know­ing they are lying .
They do so anyway.
When their men fight the timid poor­ly trained police offi­cers in the streets lis­ten to hear the loud­est voic­es egging on the men.

The chick­ens are com­ing home to roost. If you asso­ciate with blood thirsty killers sure­ly one day they are going to turn on you.
It’s extreme­ly dif­fi­cult to sleep with skunks and not have the stench rub off on you.
It is shock­ing to see what Jamaica has come to. Police offi­cers being mobbed in the streets, afraid to defend their own lives.
Supervisors leav­ing their juniors, to deal with grow­ing mobs while they hide and shel­ter away from the fray.
Don’t even men­tion the women cops who sim­ply stand there like win­dow dress­ing. I mean what pur­pose do they real­ly serve?
As I have asked repeat­ed­ly where is the train­ing, where is the esprit de corp?
Police offi­cers do not run from mobs, Police offi­cers do not show fear.

♦Real police offi­cers hold their ground in mob sit­u­a­tions, weapons point­ed steadi­ly at the leader of that mob.
♦Do not flinch.
♦Give clear, con­cise, loud , law­ful commands.
♦Officers have a right to be safe from assault and death in the exe­cu­tion of their law­ful duties.
♦Do not fire warn­ing shots.
♦Point the weapon straight at the fore­head as soon as he steps too close to assault you fire, drop­ping him dead.
♦Maintain your stance, the next per­son who steps up to assault you, same treatment.

That’s my train­ing , that’s police train­ing. No (i.n.d.e.c.o.m) law can take away any police offi­cer’s right to do their job, to pro­tect their lives first and foremost.
If the com­mis­sion­er of i.n.d.e.c.o.m attempts to assault an offi­cer in the exe­cu­tion of their sworn duties he is enti­tled to the very same treatment.
Period.

AN inex­pe­ri­enced selec­tor blasts music from portable speak­er box­es, pock­ets of smoke per­me­ate the air from the pots of ven­dors, young and old dance up a storm — it is grave-dig­ging time and grave dig­ging is a lucra­tive busi­ness in rur­al Jamaica.

“When it a gwaan good you sell, trust me, but when it poor a just suh,” said Charmaine Douglas-West, a ven­dor look­ing to ben­e­fit from the day’s business.

“Mi work inna bar in gen­er­al, but mi seh, ‘you know, bar slow inna di day’, so mi come out here. You see peo­ple do it and you seh ‘alright mek mi try it’. And it work, trust mi; it work because even when mi sell at di ninth night den mi get good sale. Mi fol­low some of the bands dem and dem will call mi some­times and tell mi where dem play­ing,” she con­tin­ued as she watched the day’s pro­ceed­ings at the Buff Bay ceme­tery in Portland.

Wednesday is the tra­di­tion­al grave-dig­ging day for parish­es in east­ern Jamaica and many seek to ben­e­fit from it. The Jamaica Observer North East team observed nine graves being dug in the neigh­bor­ing parish­es of St Mary and Portland.

“It’s a way to earn, trust me,” those attend­ing will tell you, while advis­ing that you exer­cise patience cou­pled with a socia­ble demeanour to meet your goal.

That is how you get by, that is how you cap­i­talise on earn­ings from those mourn­ing or cel­e­brat­ing the dead.

“Yuh have some places weh yuh can’t give it out in pri­vate to the funer­al home. Yuh have to give it to com­mu­ni­ty peo­ple or dem will vex and seh how yuh nuh mek dem help you bury your fam­i­ly and dig di grave,” Patrick Green said from the back of his van, which was loaded with items for sale.

Green not­ed that sales for the day depends heav­i­ly on the per­son who has died or that dead person’s family.

“Some peo­ple car­ry a big­ger crowd. The more famous the per­son is or fam­i­ly mem­ber, the big­ger the grave dig­ging. Normally mi bring mi sound, play some gospel, then some big peo­ple music, then lat­er on down inna di evening when it touch 5 o’clock mi play di young peo­ple dem song,” he said as he described how he oper­ates on a typ­i­cal grave dig­ging day.

For Calvin Hill, a man who has spent 27 years dig­ging graves, busi­ness is always good.

“Sometimes mi get five, some­times mi get six, accord­ing to how di peo­ple dem dead. Mi will bury five Saturday and four Sunday reg­u­lar­ly you know,” he explained, though admit­ting that he would dig graves every day if it were up to him.

For the Portlander, it is the eas­i­est way to make $8,000 — dig­ging the earth four feet deep, then fin­ish­ing up with six blocks.

“Yeah man, a suh mi mek mi mon­ey. Mi nuh work wid parish coun­cil; mi mek mi mon­ey offa di peo­ple. I work with di peo­ple. You come and doing a grave, I work with you, you give me something.

“Yuh come and mi seh, ‘Bwoy, gim­mi a $8,000,’ and yuh can’t pay dat, mi naah kill yuh. Yuh seh, ‘ras­ta­man, yuh know seh mi can’t pay eight,’ mi seh ‘give mi five’. A it help mi fi live,” Hill added.

While con­cur­ring that it’s a job many would shy away from, the 57-year-old said it is some­thing he loves.

“I don’t afraid of noth­ing. You see on earth, only live peo­ple can do you things. Dead peo­ple can’t do you noth­ing. A live peo­ple obeah yuh, a live peo­ple shoot yuh, a live peo­ple stab yuh. Mi an’ dem [dup­py] live an’ dem nev­er do mi noth­ing from mi an’ dem live.

“I am here every day and some­body soon come in and mi have a food to eat. A suh mi live. Wi must affi die; yuh think mi count out myself? I would nev­er do that. a nuh mi mek life, a God mek life,” Hill said. Story orig­i­nat­ed here : http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​G​r​a​v​e​-​d​i​g​g​ing – A‑lucrative-busi­ness-in-rur­al-Jamaica_84026

On December 22^nd 2015 at about 8: 00 Pm Corporal Kenneth Davis attached to Protective Services Division and Constable Craig Palmer, attached to the Kingston Western Division were killed in a hail of gunfire. The two were off duty and among a group of men enjoying a friendly game of dominoes at Poor Mans corner in the Parish of Saint Thomas when they were savagely slaughtered in cold blood ‚another person present was also injured in the incident.

At the time of the killings then Minister of National Security Peter Bunting issued the fol­low­ing statement.
“This demon­strates the risk that the police are con­stant­ly exposed to by virtue of their occu­pa­tion and inci­dents of this nature remind us of the extreme­ly dif­fi­cult chal­lenges fac­ing the secu­ri­ty forces, and the great sac­ri­fices they con­tin­ue to make in the fight to rid Jamaica of the scourge of crime and vio­lence.”
Bunting not­ed that one of the offi­cers killed was from the Kingston West Division, which had already lost two mem­bers of their team that year in vio­lent attacks.
Bunting plead­ed with mem­bers of the pub­lic to help the police in their inves­ti­ga­tions by pro­vid­ing them with infor­ma­tion that may lead to the appre­hen­sion of the per­pe­tra­tors. “I express deep­est con­do­lences to the fam­i­lies, col­leagues, and com­mu­ni­ties that have trag­i­cal­ly lost these police­men and call upon all law abid­ing cit­i­zens to sup­port the police in appre­hend­ing the cul­prits of this heinous crime, ” he said.

The Commissioner of Police said “no stone will be left un-turned in the quest to bring the killers to justice”.
Immediately after the killings the police high com­mand named Marlon (dup­py film) Perry as the shooter.

The speed with which the police released this infor­ma­tion at the time sug­gest­ed to this writer that the police had been sit­ting on infor­ma­tion that Perry was an immi­nent threat to offi­cers and had done noth­ing about it.
To cor­rob­o­rate my hunch local media report­ed that The West St Thomas MP James Robertson said he had received infor­ma­tion that one of the cops mur­dered in the parish had been receiv­ing threats over an inci­dent years ago. 

Robertson did not give details of the alleged inci­dent, but called for the police High Command to release all the infor­ma­tion they had and to seek help. According to him, oth­er police per­son­nel in the parish have also been receiv­ing threats. Robertson who is a Jamaica Labour Party MP mem­ber says he will meet with the High Command to pro­vide the infor­ma­tion he has received.

We are unsure whether Robertson ever met with the police lead­er­ship in the Parish or any oth­er police offi­cers to pro­vide the infor­ma­tion he sup­pos­ed­ly had.
We do not know whether he met with the Island’s crime Chief ACP Élan Powell and if so why not ?
Who did Robertson meet with to tell what he knew?
We are also skep­ti­cal as to the rea­son­ing as well. If Robertson had infor­ma­tion which clear­ly was impor­tant, (two police offi­cers are dead) ‚why did he not sim­ply pick up the phone and make that infor­ma­tion known to the Police ?
If Robertson pro­vid­ed infor­ma­tion after the fact to the Police, what is the nature of that information?
Why has the police lit­er­al­ly not done any­thing about this case?
Powell is the Assistant Commissioner of Police with respon­si­bil­i­ty for crime .

Mister Commish My Sources Can’t Recall Seeing The Police Looking Under Any Rock.….…..

I want to know from Powell why noth­ing has been done regard­ing the death of these two inno­cent police officers?

Where is this filthy cop killer ?
If he is not on the small Island of 4411 square miles and 2.8 mil­lion cit­i­zens , where is he?
Who in posi­tion of pow­er and influ­ence helped him to evade justice ?
Don’t tell me that the police includ­ing Carl Williams and Élan Powell who has respon­si­bil­i­ty to bring killers to jus­tice do not know where this piece of scum is, and if so what is pre­vent­ing them from bring­ing him to jus­tice, or more appro­pri­ate­ly bring­ing jus­tice to him?

How pathet­ic is the police depart­ment that it allows a com­mon piece of garbage to snuff out the lives of two hon­est police offi­cers with­out bring­ing him to justice.
Where is the con­stab­u­lary force’s oblig­a­tion to the fam­i­lies of these two slain officers?
Where else on this plan­et could a com­mon low-life kill two police offi­cers and not be exterminated?
As crit­i­cal as it is for this scum to be brought to jus­tice or have jus­tice gift wrapped and deliv­ered to him , it is even more crit­i­cal that whomev­er is asso­ci­at­ed with, assist­ed his flight, or is sup­port­ing him in any way, that the very same stan­dards be applied to them.
Which means that the same plight those offi­cers suf­fered must be the rem­e­dy applied to whomev­er sup­ports , and enabled/​s him.
Whomever they hell they are.

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Almost three decades ago tac­ti­cal units like the Ranger Squad were front and cen­ter in the fight against Jamaica’s blood­thirsty killers and rapists.
After the high pro­file sweeps and oper­a­tions were con­clud­ed these offi­cers includ­ing myself would go back to the Mobile Reserve change into civil­ian clothes and go stand at a bus-stop wait­ing for one of the crammed rov­ing dis­as­ters which tra­versed South Camp Road under the guise of pub­lic trans­port to get home.

Nothing is wrong with pub­lic trans­porta­tion, in fact major devel­oped metrop­o­lis­es in Asia , Europe and even the United States has demon­strat­ed that pub­lic trans­porta­tion can be quite effec­tive in mov­ing huge amounts of peo­ple in dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed centers.
Police offi­cers at that time were poor­ly paid and could bare­ly afford rental above cross roads , which effec­tive­ly forced us to live in com­mu­ni­ties with high inci­dents of crime.
In oth­er words offi­cers were forced to live in the very com­mu­ni­ties they just went in to remove the urban terrorists.
Thirty years ago there was an inor­di­nate amount of guns in the hands of the Island’s crim­i­nals, today the amount of guns and ammu­ni­tion in their hands is mind boggling.

Thirty years ago the hier­ar­chy of the JCF stead­fast­ly refused to allow rank and file police offi­cers the basic right to car­ry home their ser­vice weapons to pro­tect the lives of their fam­i­lies and their own lives.
Ironically the kha­ki-clad imbe­ciles who made those deci­sions did not take pub­lic trans­porta­tion home.
They car­ried firearm.
Could afford to live in decent low crime communities.
And they had min­i­mal to no neg­a­tive inter­ac­tion with the public.
So even though they were not tar­get­ed, they lived in safer neigh­bor­hoods , were not exposed to the dan­gers of deal­ing with the killers on pub­lic trans­porta­tion and had reserved and main­tained the means to defend them­selves , they denied the peo­ple under their super­vi­sion those same rights.

Many peo­ple crit­i­cize me because of the uncom­pro­mis­ing stance I took against the hier­ar­chy of the force not just after leav­ing it but also dur­ing my brief tenure as a police officer.
For the most part I thought they were gross­ly cor­rupt. Grossly incom­pe­tent. Grossly igno­rant. Grossly stu­pid, and gross polit­i­cal imbe­ciles but for a few exceptions.
On more than one occa­sion their cor­rupt prac­tices placed the lives of junior offi­cers includ­ing my own at risk. For those trans­gres­sions I will not be forgiving.
Today these imbe­ciles are doing the very same things they were doing yesteryear.
They are stead­fast­ly refus­ing to allow front-line offi­cers the basic right to car­ry their ser­vice weapons at all time.

Today Jamaica is flood­ed with high pow­ered weapons of all kinds and they are all in the hands of the crim­i­nal underworld.
They kill any­one, includ­ing police offi­cers with­out bat­ting an eye.
The Police high com­mand issues warn­ings to offi­cers about the threats against their lives. encour­ag­ing them to pro­tect them­selves at all times.
Even as Carl Williams the com­mis­sion­er of police and his bunch of bang-bel­lied lack­eys issue these advi­so­ry’s, they sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly take the weapons from offi­cers, mak­ing defense of their lives a cer­tain exer­cise in futil­i­ty, an impos­si­bil­i­ty even.
Sure they can apply for licences for per­son­al firearms but it takes approx­i­mate­ly six months to a year to a get a license from the FLA the agency respon­si­ble for issu­ing firearms licences. Police offi­cers get no spe­cial treat­ment even there. Their lives do not matter.
The JCF sets up the rank and file offi­cers to be killed .

This is noth­ing new . Years ago a small group of us were sent to Runaway Bay on spe­cial assign­ment , one evening a col­league and I were sit­ting in a bar and lounge in Priory when a group of well dressed men at one sec­tion of the bar sent us over four beers , we accept­ed the beers but almost imme­di­ate­ly sent them four beers as well.
One gen­tle­men bel­lowed” your mon­ey nu good ere offi­ca” , we were stunned, how could they have know we were cops?
The well dressed man pulled me aside to a cor­ner and hand­ed me an enve­lope with some cash, I took it opened it , thanked him and hand­ed it back to him, I thanked him but explained to him that we were okay.
I only want­ed answers to one ques­tion, “how could he have known we were police offi­cers”.
He told us our supe­ri­ors tell them every­thing, includ­ing that we were com­ing to the area.

On anoth­er occa­sion I was one of two uni­formed offi­cers and a small group of sol­diers dropped from heli­copter into the hills of Westmoreland , sup­pos­ed­ly to watch an ille­gal airstrip and inter­cept any air­craft land­ing to trans­port Marijuana out . Six days lat­er with­out any cov­er oth­er than that which the trees offered, rain-drenched then sun-dried I decid­ed to call the Mobile Reserve to find out when we would be picked up. The duty offi­cer told me he did­n’t even know we were there.
Upon break­ing camp a young man herd­ing some goats told us we were laugh­ing stock as his boss already knew we were there.
Our supe­ri­ors had told them.
Imagine the risk to our lives, being in the woods not know­ing that the very peo­ple who sent us were the very peo­ple who told the airstrip own­er exact­ly where we were.
Then came the irony of all ironies, the very same per­son sent his dri­ver to take us to the mil­i­tary base in Moneague, so we could hitch a ride back to Kingston that Saturday evening.
Having had only mil­i­tary dried rations, hav­ing been drenched with rain dried to a crisp in the sun and almost eat­en alive by Mosquitoes did noth­ing to kin­dle the anger in me as much as the betray­al did.

The moron­ic argu­ments the police brass used then, is the moron­ic argu­ment they use today.
They can­not trust young offi­cers to take guns home.
How can you entrust a per­son with the awe­some pow­ers of a police officer,which includes that of life and death over oth­ers, yet argue that you are unable to trust them with guns?
Some includ­ing past mem­bers have said sim­ply dis­band the force, I am now in agree­ment in the­o­ry, even as I am com­plete­ly con­ver­sant of its prac­ti­cal impossibility.
Notwithstanding, as a mat­ter of prac­ti­cal­i­ty ‚when a team per­forms poor­ly it is always up to the coach­ing and man­age­ment staff to assume responsibility.
Since we have to source Jamaican offi­cers from the same dirty pool from which we source the filthy dis­hon­est politi­cians, lawyers, judges and oth­ers , lets work on cre­at­ing a small cadre of com­pe­tent lead­ers in the JCF which under­stand lead­er­ship and not dis­hon­est grand­stand­ing and pro­fil­ing, the likes of which exists presently.

The prob­lem was nev­er with the young peo­ple enter­ing the JCF . The fact is that today the depart­ment is bleed­ing rough­ly 800 offi­cers through attri­tion annually.
Do the math on what it takes to train these young peo­ple only to see them do a cou­ple of years then decide to leave once they real­ize what they are up against.
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Next we will talk about real cor­rup­tion, and the job a sin­gle Prime Minister did, high­hand­ed­ly destroy­ing the abil­i­ty of the inves­tiga­tive branch of the depart­ment to do it’s job result­ing in the mur­der rate we have today and the woe­ful­ly low rate of mur­der incarcerations.

No greater task may be given any man than to bring the killer of the innocent to justice.

That was what moti­vat­ed me to strive to be a good detec­tive. That was a moti­va­tion­al theme on my CIB course. As pro­found as that theme was it came after I decid­ed to become a police officer.
I took the police plunge because I believed fun­da­men­tal­ly in the idea of good over evil. Standing up to bul­lies. That crimes ought to be punished.
I still believe now as I did then, that cit­i­zens have a right to be secure in their per­sons from per­son­al assault and death . I also believe that a per­son­’s prop­er­ty is their own, and should remain so until they decide to divest them­selves of said property.
In essence I am total­ly opposed to crim­i­nal con­duct of any kind.
Except speeding…cough, cough,(smile).

Losing a loved one is excru­ci­at­ing­ly painful, I can only imag­ine how dev­as­tat­ing it must be for fam­i­ly mem­bers of vic­tims of vio­lent crim­i­nal actions.
Having lost my own child , (albeit not through vio­lent means) , I am par­tic­u­lar­ly sen­si­tive to those who have lost loved ones.
More than any­thing else , I am incred­i­bly empa­thet­ic to the fam­i­lies who have lost loved ones as a result of vio­lent crimes .
As a result I always felt that those who take the lives of the inno­cent should be held account­able for their crimes .
What that account­abil­i­ty looks like is the pre­rog­a­tive of the state.
Since Governments have tak­en it upon them­selves to be arbiter in these mat­ters of justice/​vengeance, it is impor­tant that it does what it says it will do and deliv­er jus­tice to those so aggrieved.
To hear the tes­ti­mo­ny of fam­i­ly mem­bers who man­age to sur­vive vio­lent crimes, even as their loved ones are not so lucky, is to under­stand the heart rend­ing pain they feel.
“It is a pain which does not dis­si­pate, you sim­ply try to sur­vive it” one woman said to me once.

This makes it more crit­i­cal that our police offi­cers are empow­ered with all the tools they need to go after murderers.
That pros­e­cu­tors under­stand the crit­i­cal nature of their respon­si­bil­i­ties in seek­ing jus­tice on behalf of those whom have been victimized.
It is impor­tant that judges under­stand that as tri­ers of fact they hold immense pow­er. They get to deter­mine whether a tri­al pro­ceeds even though a case may not be airtight.
They should nev­er allow a case to sim­ply be tossed on some tech­ni­cal­i­ty as if the vic­tim is unwor­thy of respect.
Like sur­viv­ing fam­i­ly mem­bers are col­lat­er­al dam­age of a sick soci­ety to be dis­card­ed on the dump heap of” oh well we tried”.
Finally it should be out­side the remit of any gov­ern­ment , much less a sin­gle politi­cian to deter­mine that mur­der cas­es should be tossed from court dock­ets so that those dock­ets may be freed up.

Several years ago I had a back and forth with a Jamaican defense attor­ney on a social media plat­form. She was offend­ed that I wrote about the fact that Lawyers are a huge part of the rea­son cas­es can­not come to a con­clu­sion in the Jamaican crim­i­nal jus­tice system.
She point­ed me to a sur­vey done by none oth­er than some of her cohorts at the you guessed it..
The University of the West Indies (the intel­lec­tu­al ghet­to) which said that cas­es are adjourned large­ly as a result of pros­e­cu­tors ask­ing for more time not defense counsels.
Sure I’m about to accept a sur­vey from a lib­er­al bas­tion of social­ist gob­bledy­gook. One which trains the very same lawyers, and which is basi­cal­ly the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of lib­er­al thought.
Liberal thought which has poi­soned our cul­ture, turn­ing our coun­try into a cesspool of crim­i­nal sanctuary .

The fact of the mat­ter is that lawyers who are unpaid for their ser­vices was the num­ber one rea­son cas­es got stuck in the system.
Does that mean that police and pros­e­cu­tors are not tardy as well ?
Hell no !!!
However as time pro­gressed defense lawyers ask­ing for adjourn­ments so that they can be paid accom­plished the results mount­ing a suc­cess­ful defense would.
Dragging out cas­es was result­ing in dis­missals ‚includ­ing mur­der cas­es. Why risk going to trail if sim­ply ask­ing for adjourn­ment after adjourn­ment was going to be grant­ed and the defen­dant even­tu­al­ly set free?
The strat­e­gy of sim­ply ask­ing for adjourn­ments as a defense strat­e­gy was born.
It is a strat­e­gy which feeds on itself, the more adjourn­ments in the sys­tem the more jammed the bot­tle­neck becomes, the more chaot­ic it becomes.
The more dif­fi­cult it is to get jus­tice through the courts.
The more dif­fi­cult it is to get jus­tice through the courts the more crime increas­es because crim­i­nals are embold­ened into believ­ing that they will nev­er be held to account for their crimes.
Throw anoth­er hur­dle in the way of the police (inde­com) and crime sky­rock­ets out of control.

This is the rea­son it is so offen­sive, the pro­pos­al of Delroy Chuck that courts should sim­ply throw out cas­es that has not been con­clud­ed in five years.
Yes that includes mur­der cases.
Chuck is Jamaica’s Minister of Justice, he sin­gu­lar­ly made the pro­pos­al which he hopes will in his mind, clear up the court dock­ets. At least that’s what he says.
On clos­er scrutiny,if this hair-brain scheme is allowed to become pol­i­cy it would be a water­shed moment for the rule of law in the country.
It would not only see numer­ous mass-mur­der­ers freed on the say-so of a sin­gle indi­vid­ual with­out hav­ing to answer for their crimes.
But more than that it would be a defin­ing moment for the admin­is­tra­tion of jus­tice on the Island . One which would see stalling as a defense strat­e­gy enshrined in our cul­ture if not in actu­al law.

These are the kinds of actions being pro­posed and tak­en in their sup­posed fight against crime. The (inde­com) act being anoth­er such instance.
None of these pro­pos­als will do any­thing to improve the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, con­verse­ly they are assured to make a real­ly bad sit­u­a­tion even more critical.
This is what hap­pens when you have sys­tem where a sin­gle indi­vid­ual, with­out debate or con­sen­sus can make deci­sions and those deci­sions are allowed to change an entire country.
The impact is even more dev­as­tat­ing when the per­son mak­ing the pro­pos­al has zero inter­est in actu­al­ly reduc­ing crime but have their own per­son­al agendas.

Two want­ed men are among 23 peo­ple arrest­ed Monday as the police seized sev­en ille­gal firearms and over 200 rounds of ammu­ni­tion in sep­a­rate inci­dents. A 21-year-old man was killed in one instance. In the first inci­dent, which occurred in St James, a police/​military oper­a­tion was con­duct­ed on Peddlers Lane in Mount Salem, when two firearms and 150 rounds of assort­ed ammu­ni­tion were seized. Reports are that between hours of 4:00 am and 2:00 pm, dur­ing the search of a premis­es police seized two firearms:

• One Colt .45 pis­tol with six. 45 rounds of ammu­ni­tion and
• One Taurus .40 pis­tol with eleven .40 rounds of ammunition.

The law­men con­tin­ued their oper­a­tion and the search of an open lot in the area result­ed in the fol­low­ing rounds of ammu­ni­tion being found:

• Forty-four .44mm rounds
• Forty-five 12-gauge rounds
• Forty-five 7.62 mm rounds

Eighteen peo­ple, to include want­ed per­son Oniel Clarke oth­er­wise called ‘Goatie,’ were tak­en into custody.

In the sec­ond inci­dent which occurred in March Town, Green Island, Hanover, law­men were con­duct­ing spe­cial oper­a­tions about 6:00 am, when a red and black knap­sack was found. It con­tained six 5.56 car­tridges, twen­ty-four .45 car­tridges and eleven 9mm cartridges.

Five men were tak­en into cus­tody in rela­tion to this seizure.

The suc­cess of the law­men con­tin­ued when anoth­er want­ed man was arrest­ed and a Colt Commander .45 Semi-Automatic Pistol with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing nine rounds of ammu­ni­tion seized on Homestead Road in Rollington Town, Kingston 2.

Reports from the Elletson Road Police are that about mid­day, a team of offi­cers searched premis­es in the area when the firearm and ammu­ni­tion were seized and one of Kingston Eastern’s most want­ed men.

He is Paul Cassanova oth­er­wise called ‘Pablo’, 30-year-old of Bayshore Park, Harbour View, Kingston 17.

In August Town, Kingston 7, police were busy con­duct­ing oper­a­tions in the Jungle 12 area when the search of a premis­es revealed one Glock 19 pis­tol. No one was arrest­ed in con­nec­tion with this seizure.

Then, 21-year-old Jarvis Ramsey was shot dead dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with the police and one Taurus 9mm pis­tol along with eight 9mm rounds of ammu­ni­tion seized on Ramsey Road, Kingston 13 about 6:05 pm.

This inci­dent has been report­ed to the Inspectorate of Constabulary (IOC) and the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM).

The momen­tum con­tin­ued, lead­ing to the seizure of one AK-47 rifle along with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing twelve 7.62 rounds of ammu­ni­tion, one M‑16 rifle, eigh­teen 5.56 rounds of ammu­ni­tion and a M16 mag­a­zine on Escarpment Road, August Town in Kingston 7. One man was tak­en into cus­tody for ques­tion­ing in rela­tion to the seizure.

The police are renew­ing their appeal to mem­bers of the pub­lic to tell what they know in order to assist in the cre­ation of safer com­mu­ni­ties. They can con­tact Crime stop at 311, police 119 emer­gency num­ber, the near­est police sta­tion or via the stay alert app.
Read more here : http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/2‑wanted-men-arrested

Problems do not fix themselves , if ever there are going to be solutions to our problems those solutions are going to have to come from within us . Not from divine intervention, luck, or any other cosmic force we conjure up in our minds.
It is important to say I do believe there is a powerful force which created the Universe the Galaxies and all that’s outside the scope and sphere of our understanding and knowledge.

Whatever that force , irre­spec­tive of the name one has for him/​her/​it , that force is it, that which we rev­er­ence as God. It is that force which cre­at­ed us, which also empow­ered us to do for our­selves that which we so waste­ful­ly spend so much of our time on our knees beg­ging him to fix.
I always fan­cied myself a prag­ma­tist . I believe every last word of the foregone.
Things oth­ers acquire and take for grant­ed I have always had to work dou­bly hard for, even so, some of those most basic things were not guar­an­teed. It was nev­er for want of prayer either, I came from a fam­i­ly of pray­ing peo­ple. Church for us was manda­to­ry no ques­tions asked.

As I read the Bible myself I learned that what­ev­er I want­ed out of life I was going to have to go get on my own.
I looked at the Biblical sto­ries of the mir­a­cles Jesus wrought, and I found a com­mon thread .
That thread was that what­ev­er mir­a­cle he wrought the recipient/​s of said miracle/​s had to be a part of the mir­a­cle. They had to par­tic­i­pate in the mir­a­cle, they weren’t allowed to sim­ply sit and be hand­ed the reward.
From his very first mir­a­cle . John 2 vs ⁷ Jesus said to the ser­vants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. ⁸ Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the mas­ter of the ban­quet.”

The rest is well known , heal­ing a man of the dread­ed lep­rosy he told him, “go show thy­self to the Priest’. The priest was the cer­ti­fy­ing author­i­ty , only they could allow cured lep­ers back into society.
“Pick up thy bed and walk ” after heal­ing a man lame from birth.
To the man born blind , John 9, Jesus spat on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes. 7 Then He told him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
Liter­al­ly every sin­gle mirac­u­lous work was done through faith and obe­di­ence by the recipient/​s . So I learned pret­ty ear­ly that yes I would pray , rec­og­niz­ing God as the source of my strength, but rec­og­niz­ing that ‑that strength was already in me .
I not sure whether not hav­ing a moth­er or father grow­ing up was respon­si­ble for my hard nosed prag­mat­ic approach to life, or it was sim­ply a recog­ni­tion that prob­lems not fixed ear­ly only gets worse, they nev­er fix themselves.

That tiny sapling , soft and pli­ant could eas­i­ly be uproot­ed with a lit­tle tug or no effort at all. Left there long enough remov­ing it requires an Axe and or much more.
I spoke about this approach which I brought to policing.
Remove a sin­gle guy sell­ing weed and you don’t have to deal with fights for turf, com­mu­ni­ties rav­aged by more seri­ous drugs, thefts and rob­beries to sup­port habits , mur­ders from turf wars and com­mu­ni­ties dec­i­mat­ed by drugs and violence.
Just move the first guy..
And oh… the ever con­stant “well it’s nev­er that easy” .
Actually it is …

It gets hard because we con­vince our­selves that the things which needs doing are hard. What that does is make them hard­er, because not only does inac­tion embold­ens those who are pre­dis­posed to doing wrong , it solid­i­fies the prob­lems they create.
As I said to a friend just today there is a rea­son that peo­ple sur­ren­der to bullies.
Fear !!!
Fear that the bul­ly will hit hard­er if they fight back. Ironically fight­ing back may indeed get one beat­en , but it actu­al­ly dis­cour­ages the bul­ly from mess­ing with you, ulti­mate­ly the bul­ly wants to con­trol through fear not through hav­ing to fight.
Criminals who prey on the defense­less counts on their fear. That fear embold­ens them to push the enve­lope fur­ther and further .
The fear with­ing the pop­u­lace is an empow­er­ing com­po­nent in the suc­cess of the crim­i­nal underworld.
The refusal and hand-wring­ing which char­ac­ter­izes Jamaica’s crime prob­lem is exact­ly what the crim­i­nals want.

Bloody the bul­ly’s nose and watch the dif­fer­ence. Yes brute force is an answer to crime , it is the only lan­guage these mur­der­ers understand.
It is fol­ly to believe they fear get­ting arrest­ed and brought before a court of law . It is even more laugh­able that any­one would believe the vis­cous mur­der­ers in Jamaica wor­ry about being held account­able by the crim­i­nal enhance­ment sys­tem which exist in our country.
The Judges , pros­e­cut­ing attor­neys , defense attor­neys and police all have vest­ed inter­est in crime or are them­selves active­ly involved in crim­i­nal con­duct. It is a sim­ple incon­ve­nient truth that not many want to hear unfortunately.
How many times have you heard the say­ing that “killing crim­i­nals is not a deterrent” .
Have you ever seen a dead crim­i­nal return to kill any­one else?
Well I guess killing is a deter­rent then , isn’t it ?
Of course it is to that one.

Oh one more thing, Peter did pull out his word and cut the ear off the guard who came to take Jesus Christ away from the gar­den of Gethsemane.
Please don’t preach to me that Jesus replaced the ear. I know that. The fact that Peter car­ried a sword even in the com­pa­ny of the pious Savior is far more sig­nif­i­cant to me than that Jesus replaced a sev­ered ear.

In recent tes­ti­mo­ny before the Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) DCP Novelette Grant tes­ti­fied that “Whenever a police offi­cer is called upon to account in a court of law, that police offi­cer has to find the legal fees up front and then ask for reim­burse­ment at the end of the process.”
However, when police per­son­nel appear before INDECOM for a hear­ing and take an attor­ney, there is no mech­a­nism in place for reim­burse­ment at the pre­lim­i­nary stage. “This is what the police are say­ing, that this cost is so high on them that if they were to be cit­ed to go before a court, they would have already been broke before they actu­al­ly have any­thing to answer in a court of law”.

The (inde­com) Act A Reckless Law Which Kills Citizens And Police Officers Alike…

DCP Hinds. who pre­vi­ous­ly tes­ti­fied before the com­mit­tee argued then that the major issue the (JCF has is with the com­mis­sion­er of INDECOM. They can’t come to any agree­ment that is going to bind INDECOM unless he (Williams) agrees to it, Hinds told the committee.
The com­mis­sion­er of INDECOM Terrence Williams , in his usu­al arro­gant above being ques­tioned stance brushed off DCP Hind’s com­ments claim­ing “DCP Hinds did not play any sig­nif­i­cant part in the pro­to­col arrange­ments, so he found it sur­pris­ing that he could make adverse remarks… DCP Hinds’ claim is unfound­ed Williams asserted.
In brush­ing aside the con­cerns of Novelette Grant ‚Williams blames the Police high com­mand , the Parliament and every­one else for not set­ting aside monies as remu­ner­a­tion when these inci­dents occurred.
There is a per­cep­tion that mem­bers of the con­stab­u­lary are unwill­ing to account; that’s far from the truth. If you make the process oner­ous, then peo­ple start to weigh whether or not they can afford that process,” argued DCP Grant.

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DCP Hinds had accused Williams of hold­ing up the sign­ing off of a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing (MOU) on agreed pro­to­cols between the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and INDECOM.
Williams ridiculed the need for a medi­a­tor between INDECOM and the JCF in the sign­ing of a MOU which would sup­pos­ed­ly smooth out a work­ing relationship.
In heap­ing scorn on the sug­ges­tion that he was a prob­lem Terrence Williams argued that there was ami­ca­ble com­mu­ni­ca­tion between him­self and Carl Williams the Police Commissioner , but it was the police Commissioner who had not signed off on the MOU.
“I don’t think there is a need for any medi­a­tor between our­selves and the JCF… we are already dis­cussing these things (pro­to­cols); these things are being implemented .”
Williams in play­ing the role of judge , jury, and exe­cu­tion­er. Not only has he stepped out­side his bounds as the com­mis­sion­er of an over­sight body in the way he han­dles those func­tions he is giv­en , he tells the Parliamentary com­mit­tee what it should and should­n’t do.

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Williams how­ev­er was just get­ting start­ed, he told the com­mit­tee it should not pay any atten­tion to any anec­do­tal claims that the police are not report­ing to crime scenes out of fear of the wrath of INDECOM.
He argued if police offi­cers are shirk­ing their duties, then this is a seri­ous mat­ter that should be report­ed to INDECOM for action.
He said the police com­mis­sion­er has been asked to sub­mit reports of these occur­rences to INDECOM by November 2.
I have to laugh really,this is a very seri­ous mat­ter which is caus­ing lives , what will it take for them to fire this narcissist.
When was this with­in the remit of INDECOM ?

Terrence Williams Not About Investigating Dirty Cops But About Self Promotion, Grandstanding, And Smear.…

Being a for­mer cop I am par­tial to police offi­cers , I am also con­ver­sant of and def­er­en­tial to the chal­lenges they face , as such I am cha­grined by the illog­i­cal unin­formed notion that good cops need not fear pros­e­cu­tion if they are doing their jobs in accor­dance with the laws.
Policing is a chal­leng­ing endeav­or , in Jamaica it is almost a sui­ci­dal undertaking.
It is easy to make such claims igno­rant of the trap that the INDECOM Act is to polic­ing peri­od. This with­out an offi­cer step­ping out­side of the laws in the exe­cu­tion of his duties.

As such the tes­ti­mo­ny of for­mer chief of Defense staff of the Jamaica Defense Force Major General Antony Anderson was par­tic­u­lar­ly crit­i­cal. Anderson, as this writer has done since the incep­tion of the Act, said that leg­is­la­tion from oth­er juris­dic­tions, which Jamaica referred to in the craft­ing of the INDECOM Act, includes pro­vi­sions for over­sight bod­ies to gain the trust and con­fi­dence of the pub­lic and the agen­cies which they are overseeing.
Anderson stat­ed that this was­n’t even part of the dis­cus­sion when the law was being crafted.
“That is what has been miss­ing from the way we have been doing this here. When that philo­soph­i­cal posi­tion is not there, then there is no need to take any action to make the police con­fi­dent that they are going to be dealt with fair­ly, or any­one else. As long as it match­es the let­ter of the law, that’s good enough. Unfortunately, it is peo­ple we are deal­ing with and the peo­ple who are being over­seen are peo­ple who go out every day and risk their lives to pro­tect oth­er people.”

So why was that com­po­nent miss­ing when the law was being craft­ed? Why are they just now speak­ing out about this? I have writ­ten dozens of arti­cles on this very sub­ject detail­ing that very point.
Was it that the law-mak­ers are inept, poor­ly equipped to craft good leg­is­la­tion , incompetent ?
Or is it that they did not care about the con­cerns of the police and to a less­er extent the Military and cor­rec­tion­al services ?
No one in their right mind could want police to have crate blanche to do as they please. In fact INDECOM was cre­at­ed because of abuse and mis­con­duct of the police and military.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Novelette Grant allud­ed to the fact that offi­cers have no prob­lem with over­sight. Good cops under­stand that over­sight absolves them of smear and wrong­ful and con­coct­ed alle­ga­tions of impropriety.

Literally every young offi­cer I have per­son­al­ly spo­ken to who have left the depart­ment or are still serv­ing has said exact­ly that.
This makes Terrence Williams’ argu­ments more scur­rilous, disin­gen­u­ous and self-serving.
The fact is that more and more Jamaicans are rec­og­niz­ing that this law is indeed extreme­ly bad for police offi­cers, bad for the Jamaican cit­i­zen­ry and bad for crime reduc­tion on the Island.
Many includ­ing for­mer MP Damion Crawford and oth­er nota­bles have spo­ken out as I have about it.
To date this has basi­cal­ly fall­en on deaf ears, despite mem­bers of the PAAC itself being forced to con­front this atro­cious piece of leg­is­la­tion and its failings.

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Crime in Jamaica has been on an upward tra­jec­to­ry for decades. This is due to socio-eco­nom­ic con­di­tions among oth­er things, how­ev­er no sin­gle fac­tor has nur­tured and fer­til­ized crime as the crim­i­nal com­plic­i­ty of the Jamaican polit­i­cal class.
They can com­mis­sion all the stud­ies they can pay for out of the com­mu­nist lean­ing University of the West Indies and the far left lean­ing aca­d­e­mics there, crime will con­tin­ue to climb and the bod­ies will con­tin­ue to pile up until police offi­cers are allowed to go after crim­i­nals with the full author­i­ty of the state and its full citizenry.
In 2015 crime increased 20% over the pre­ced­ing year . 2015 saw 1192 homi­cides report­ed to author­i­ties as against 1005 in 2014.
Think for a minute about 1192 dead bod­ies laid out side by side, then take a sec­ond to assim­i­late the fact these were liv­ing breath­ing friends , neigh­bors and fam­i­ly members .
Then under­stand that at the very min­i­mum some of those mur­dered vic­tims could have been alive , but for the nar­cis­sism of a sin­gle ego-mani­a­cal lit­tle man who was giv­en too much pow­er he was not equipped to han­dle and should nev­er have had in the first place.
How dumb are these PAAC members ?
Or are they?There are many ways police offi­cers can make a state­ment with­out endan­ger­ing them­selves their liveli­hood , their sol­ven­cy and their freedoms.
DCP grant spoke to the fact that crim­i­nals taunt police offi­cers on patrol , telling them INDECOM has their backs.
That is true the INDECOM act does sup­port and enable crime .
The lit­tle man who heads it is an all facil­i­ta­tor of crim­i­nal­i­ty on the Island.

In the mean­time I will con­tin­ue to sup­port offi­cers who turn on their sirens and dri­ve real slow when there are calls of shots fired.
Officers should make sure that by the time they get there whomev­er was shoot­ing are long gone.
Do the paper work and file them.
This is not a fight the police should be wag­ing. Law enforce­ment is sim­ply enforc­ing laws. If enforc­ing the laws become oner­ous or places the inter­est of offi­cers at risks then they must exer­cise com­mon sense and look out for their own self-interest.
This is a fight for law abid­ing Jamaicans to wage against the brain-dead moron­ic leg­is­la­tors. Police offi­cers sim­ply need to use their heads and stay out of the fray ,
Do not pur­sue any­one with a gun do not do any­thing which could result in the need for lethal force.
In time some­thing will give , it’s their call not that of the police .
This coun­try is a crim­i­nal par­adise and it is slid­ing pre­cip­i­tous­ly close to becom­ing a failed state.
In the mean­time those in charge are pranc­ing around like the emper­or in his none exis­tent new clothes.

Jamaica Police report they confiscated 590 illegal weapons in eleven months . The latest incident being, five pistols found in a car at the Vineyard Toll Plaza in St Catherine.

I salute my long time friend and for­mer col­league Senior Superintendent Colin Pinnock for his con­tin­ued, relent­less and ded­i­cat­ed ser­vice to our country.
Colin Pinnock was a fine cor­po­ral and sergeant back in the day when he served at the Red Hills Police sta­tion and I served at Constant Spring.
It is no sur­prise to see Colin Pinnock still fea­tured in rid­ding the coun­try of dan­ger­ous weapons over two and a half decades after I stepped aside.
During our time we removed many ille­gal weapons from the streets and arrest­ed numer­ous criminals.
To date Colin Pinnock con­tin­ue to give exem­plary ser­vice to our country.
This medi­um wish­es to rec­og­nize him and oth­er good and decent offi­cers who con­tin­ue to serve our coun­try in a thank­less capac­i­ty with­out ran­cor or complaint.

According to the Jamaica Observer the Police report­ed that they have removed more than 7,000 rounds of ammu­ni­tion from the streets so far this year as well.
There can nev­er be an account­ing of how many lives are saved as a result of these seizures .
For their part the Jamaican police includ­ing Colin Pinnock , will nev­er be thanked for the work they do , for a pop­u­la­tion gross­ly une­d­u­cat­ed on this issue, and a polit­i­cal lead­er­ship hap­py to exploit that igno­rance, it is easy to miss the enor­mi­ty of these statistics.

Whats appalling is that while the police are risk­ing life and limb the Island’s piece of shit jus­tice min­is­ter Delroy Chuck a long­time police hater gives speech­es laud­ing the work of INDECOM.

Now let it be under­stood this is an indi­vid­ual who nev­er appre­ci­at­ed the work police do. He has nev­er missed an oppor­tu­ni­ty to stick it to police .
In his most recent faux pas he laud­ed the work of the agency tasked with over­see­ing alle­ga­tions of police misconduct.
Said Chuck ” The reduc­tion seen in fatal shoot­ings by the police must be applaud­ed, as last year police shoot­ing fell below the 100 mark for the first time in decades. “The pub­lic can have con­fi­dence in the pres­ence of an inde­pen­dent over­sight body, with suf­fi­cient teeth to dis­cour­age mis­be­hav­ior and human rights abuse by agents of the State.”

What he did not speak to is what the Commissioner of INDECOM anoth­er anti-police dem­a­gogue has­n’t ‚and can­not speak to, because if they did the peo­ple would demand an instant repeal of the INDECOM Act.
That is that the dras­tic reduc­tion in police fatal shoot­ings has zero to do with any­thing INDECOM has done pos­i­tive­ly, unless the objec­tive is to save the lives of dan­ger­ous murderers.
This writer does not for one moment believe that this is not exact­ly what Delroy Chuck wants.

For the rest of ordi­nary Jamaicans who do not have the ben­e­fit of liv­ing in gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties with coun­try club style ten­nis courts and swim­ming pools the specter of immi­nent death is nev­er far away.
These Jamaicans whom are forced to dial 119 and wait and wait and wait before help arrives , if ever , do not have police pro­tec­tors assigned to them.

In the United States the Attorney General heads the Justice Department . The Justice Department over­seas Agencies like the FBI and oth­ers the AG is the Nations high­est Law ‑enforce­ment offi­cer , not the Nations anti-police agitator.

According to the Jamaica Constabulary Force(JCF) Jamaica expe­ri­enced at least 1,192 slay­ings in 2015, a rough­ly 20 per­cent increase from the pre­vi­ous year. There were 1,005 killings in 2014.
Jamaica had about 45 slay­ings per 100,000 peo­ple in 2015, keep­ing it ranked among the most vio­lent coun­tries in the world. In recent years, the UN list­ed the island as hav­ing the world’s sixth-worst homi­cide rate. The World Bank ranked Jamaica in the top five in 2013.
By com­par­i­son, Chicago, which has rough­ly the same pop­u­la­tion as Jamaica at 2.7 mil­lion, had 468 killings in 2015.

This year the killings con­tin­ue on a mer­ry clip with no end in sight . Since tak­ing office the new admin­is­tra­tion has done noth­ing on crime wor­thy of note out­side of the following.
(1) The new­ly appoint­ed attor­ney General Marlene Malahoo Forte chid­ing the police like lit­tle kids, that abus­es would not be tol­er­at­ed by her in her St James con­stituen­cy . St James is the mur­der parish on the Island.
(2) The Minister of National Security telling police offi­cers to wear con­doms as too many of them are end­ing up in court in child sup­port cases.
(3) Delroy Chuck Justice Minister call­ing for a purge of the court dock­ets , which would toss out all cas­es includ­ing mur­der cas­es which has been in the sys­tem over (5) five years.
(4) Delroy Chuck call­ing for more pow­er in the hands of his friend and col­league Terrence Williams of INDECOM to ham­strung the Island’s law-enforce­ment efforts.
(5) Delroy Chuck laud­ing the work INDECOM is doing.

No one knows what the final mur­der fig­ures will be by years end . What is obvi­ous is that the Islands Justice min­is­ter does not care about that . What he cares about is that the cha­rade is maintained .
Said Chuck, “the estab­lish­ment of INDECOM was intend­ed to bring Jamaica in com­pli­ance with var­i­ous inter­na­tion­al legal stan­dards, which, togeth­er, con­sti­tute an inter­na­tion­al frame­work of fun­da­men­tal safe­guards to pro­tect against abuses”..

Oh sure who cares about these duty fut peo­ple being killed?  This char­la­tan has police escort.
I call on his police escort to walk away and leave him to his own devices, as ordi­nary Jamaicans are left to face the music.
The bub­ble of police pro­tec­tion they are giv­en has cre­at­ed a sense of invin­ci­bil­i­ty and elit­ism in these low lives . It has allowed them to ignore the Islands dete­ri­o­rat­ing crime sit­u­a­tion and most impor­tant­ly allowed them to dis­re­spect law-enforcement.
Its time for them to face the music with­out the police pro­tec­tion they take for granted.