All signs seem to point to National Elections being announced in Jamaica soon. The Island’s Prime Minister who said she was await­ing her Master’s touch to announce the date of the Elections, has since said that her mas­ter has already touched her. If one can set aside the third grade idio­cy of the notion that some­thing as crit­i­cal as Elections can be left up to a sim­ple-mind­ed per­son­’s whim, then we may progress to the con­se­quences of the next poll.

Several major indi­ca­tors have been point­ing to the immi­nence of National elec­tions the least of which is a sched­uled mass ral­ly for Half-Way-Tree Square this Sunday January 31^st. Probably more impor­tant than any­thing the Administration in Kingston says or does, are the com­ments com­ing from American Officials respond­ing to ques­tions from the Jamaican media at the US Embassy in Kingston.

We’re focused on co-oper­a­tion; so as long as we’re actu­al­ly con­tin­u­ing to co-oper­ate, we’ll work with any­body who’ll co-oper­ate with us,” said Juan Gonzalez, deputy assis­tant sec­re­tary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the US State Department.
“We’re com­mit­ted to work­ing with who­ev­er is in pow­er after the next round of elec­tions,” said US Ambassador to Jamaica Luis Moreno.
The Americans most like­ly knew the Election date before the infan­tile head of the Jamaican Government did but that is anoth­er Article.

The more impor­tant issue for the Island going for­ward above all else, is whether the peo­ple are will­ing to con­tin­ue on a path of cor­rup­tion, lack of account­abil­i­ty, gross incom­pe­tence and mis­man­age­ment entrenched in the present People’s National Party (PNP) Administration.
Or change course for the mar­ket style poli­cies of the Opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) if that par­ty can unshack­le itself from the cling­ing residue of Elitism and arrogance.

The fact is that with new IMF dic­tates there will be lay­offs and much more of the bit­ter pills Jamaicans have been forced to swal­low for decades under PNP lead­er­ship. Massive deval­u­a­tion of the local cur­ren­cy will bring con­tin­ued and ever increas­ing pover­ty, forc­ing even more Jamaicans below the pover­ty line .
Crime will go up expo­nen­tial­ly because of the con­tin­ued dete­ri­o­rat­ing eco­nom­ic con­di­tions but also as a result of the Administration’s reluc­tance to sup­port robust law-enforce­ment and it’s con­tin­ued affil­i­a­tions with the crim­i­nal underworld.

Though dif­fi­cult and harm­ful a con­tin­ued rela­tion­ship with the IMF is to Jamaica, a new Labor Party Administration does not have the lux­u­ry of end­ing the rela­tion­ship with the fund with­out dis­as­trous con­se­quences. Jamaica’s over four Billion US Dollar debt to the fund and oth­er lend­ing Agencies does not leave a poten­tial labor par­ty admin­is­tra­tion much option.

So where do we go from here?
A JLP win would mean a con­tin­u­a­tion of the Island’s asso­ci­a­tion with the IMF. There will be lay­offs and pre­sum­ably addi­tion­al deval­u­a­tion of the cur­ren­cy. All of which will instant­ly be blamed on the JLP sup­posed incom­pe­tence. The truth is a PNP vic­to­ry will change none of these events either.

This is the rea­son the PNP will call elec­tions any day now.
They want this elec­tion behind them before these inevitable aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures begin to bite.

The dif­fer­ence in the approach­es between the JLP and PNP in this regard will be a PNP con­tin­u­a­tion of the IMF pro­gram with the , graft , cor­rup­tion, crime and oth­er vices and noth­ing out­side liv­ing hand to mouth as against tak­ing the med­i­cine with a clear plan toward an end-game which weans the Island off the IMF and places it on a path to prosperity.
That does not mean that the JLP does­n’t have it’s own Demons .
The Party will have to learn humil­i­ty. Many in Bustamante and Shearer’s Party are arro­gant and pow­er-hun­gry and should not have any say in state pow­er. Ultimately the peo­ple will have a choice to make this time stay with the sta­tus-quo or vote into pow­er the Opposition with it’s own vices.

I initially felt like brushing aside the ignorant comments FOX analyst Stacey Dash made by merely attaching the label “house Negro” to her. Then I realized the crucial role some house Negroes played in relaying information to the underground railroad which invariably gave thousands a sense of relief if not total freedom.

“I’m an African-American quar­ter­back that may scare a lot of peo­ple because they haven’t seen noth­ing that they can com­pare me to.” — Cam Newton Cam Newton addressed the racial ele­phant in the room on Wednesday. Good for him. And good for us. We need to name it until it stops. Cam was defend­ing him­self against reac­tions to his cel­e­bra­tions specif­i­cal­ly that cap an NFL career of racial dou­ble-stan­dards. In the next 10 days we will debate about all the hate and bla­tant racism (Warren’s Moon’s words) that Cam has received since he stepped into this league. We will rehash the scout­ing report hit jobs, the hits on Cam’s intel­li­gence, and crit­i­cism of his dabs and dances that are more over-the-top than the beloved Lambeau Leap. And we should. But this con­ver­sa­tion must go beyond Cam. We need to dis­sect, scru­ti­nize, and ana­lyze all the white quar­ter­backs in these play­offs with a Super-Cam lens. Let’s start with a whiter 6′5″ quar­ter­back: Carson Palmer. “Retweet this if you picked off Carson Palmer tonight” went the tweet by @RoFlo.

NEWTON CAN JOIN EXCLUSIVE CLUB IF HE WINS MVP, SUPER BOWL

According to Twitter, Palmer set a new play­off record with 842 inter­cep­tionsagainst the Panthers. Palmer’s unfair social beat­down aside, it seems like eons ago Palmer was get­ting seri­ous MVP con­sid­er­a­tion. Going into the sea­son’s last game, some jour­nal­ists at ESPN and else­where were pick­ing Palmer. A not so quite sci­en­tif­ic ESPN poll of 58,000 fans picked Tom Brady. The diplo­mat­ic Washington Post called it a tie. Can’t we all get along? No. We can’t.

Forget the tech­ni­cal points that 1) No. 2) Cam’s cast of jour­ney­men wide receivers resem­ble Ella Fitzgerald more than Larry Fitzgerald, and 3) the Panthers’ 15 – 1 near-per­fect record is just not per­fect enough. The real MVP debate tragedy is if Cam had Carson’s career, there would be no debate. Cam would have been dri­ven out of the league by 2012 after Palmer post­ed his third straight los­ing sea­son going 12 – 28. Not Cam or any black quar­ter­back can pull off a career come­back like Carson’s… or Alex Smith’s… or Ryan Fitzpatrick’s. No black quar­ter­back in NFL his­to­ry has ever reeked as much as these guys and lived to throw about it. Ever.

For NFL white quar­ter­backs, the “Freedom to Fail” is the whitest trait of all. This post­sea­son may as well be called The White Privilege Playoffs. Cam can be utter­ly amaz­ing, but here is what Cam can’t do:

Cam Can’t Be Carson Palmer

Not off-the-field either. If Cam refused to report to camp after a 4 – 12 sea­son and forced a trade like Carson did with the Bengals, he would be brand­ed a “me-first” diva and pos­si­bly gone from the league. And if one of Cam’s cel­e­bra­tion’s includ­ed Carson’s crotch-taunt­ing moves, then more than one moth­er would be send­ing a “let­ter-to-the-edi­tor” about her now cor­rupt­ed kid. Palmer’s sec­ond chances are par for the course for No. 1 QB picks who are white. Before giv­ing up, Tim Couch received 59 starts before the Browns gave up, and David Carr got a whop­ping 79. Even her­ald­ed No. 2 picks get long looks. Five teams took a chance on Rick Mirer, and all-time bust/​head case Ryan Leaf had four teams sign him before he vol­un­tar­i­ly quit the game.

Cam Can’t Be Alex Smith

Smith, also a for­mer No. 1 pick, has devel­oped into a fine quar­ter­back — far more than a “game man­ag­er.” But he was down­right ter­ri­ble his first five sea­sons (see 51 TD pass­es in 50 starts). Despite near­ly iden­ti­cal sta­tis­tics and a high­er pass­er rat­ing with Smith over his first three years, for­mer No. 1 pick JaMarcus Russell was boot­ed out of the NFL.

After five years Smith’s team record was 19 – 31, almost the oppo­site of Vince Young’s 30 – 17 start­ing record. Young, who has seen his life spi­ral to the depths and was recent­ly arrest­ed in Austin, Texas for a DWI, played in two Pro Bowls, but played only one more sea­son after. Instead of being nur­tured like Smith, Young was benched for the slight­est mis­take by coach Jeff Fisher for Kerry Collins — who went 26 – 50 over his last nine sea­sons. Fisher, who pre­ferred to draft Matt Leinart, remains employed with the Rams despite five straight los­ing sea­sons — unchar­tered waters for African-American coach­es (an arti­cle for anoth­er day).

Whether it be easy jokes about Russell’s “weight” or Young’s “atti­tude,” crit­ics always have “rea­sons” — just nev­er com­par­isons (see ear­ly off-field trou­bles and alco­holism of Collins). The point is, if Cam had per­formed like Smith had the last five years, he would be out of the NFL with no short­age of “rea­sons” from the scouts. It’s all right here from Nolan Nawrocki’s report: “Very disin­gen­u­ous — has a fake smile, comes off as very script­ed and has a self­ish, me-first make­up. Has an enor­mous ego with a sense of enti­tle­ment that con­tin­u­al­ly invites trou­ble and makes him believe he is above the law — does not com­mand respect from team­mates and will always strug­gle to win a lock­er room … Lacks account­abil­i­ty, focus and trust­wor­thi­ness — is not punc­tu­al, seeks short­cuts and sets a bad exam­ple. Immature and has had issues with author­i­ty. Not depend­able.” The book would be closed on Cam like JaMarcus and Vince fol­lowed by: “See — he toooold you about Cam! Now shut up and stop play­ing the race card!”.

And Geno Smith Can’t Be Ryan Fitzpatrick

Okay. Fitzpatrick did­n’t tech­ni­cal­ly make the play­offs, but the Jets were the only win­ning NFL team this year that did­n’t. Their 10 wins, supe­ri­or to two play­off teams, marked the first win­ning sea­son in Ryan’s 10-year career and 33 – 55 record. After an 8 – 8 rook­ie sea­son that saw both flash­es of inex­pe­ri­ence and promise, Smith’s poor sec­ond sea­son has many writ­ing his NFL obit­u­ary. And while I have my own doubts about Smith, it would be nice to see him in an offense with Brandon Marshall — a huge fac­tor in Fitzpatrick’s resur­gence. This off­sea­son Ryan will cash in his “Freedom-to-Fail” for 10 – 12 mil­lion a year. But for­get Smith, even Donovan McNabb’s Hall-of-Fame wor­thy pedi­gree could­n’t get any “Freedom-to-Fail” love. After McNabb request­ed his release from the Vikings in 2011 to sign on with a vet­er­an team, he had no takers.
No Black QB Can Be the Texans’ Brian Hoyer

For NFL QB’s, “undraft­ed” is code for “white.” Hoyer’s abysmal play­off per­for­mance was one for the ages. It requires a coach see­ing your poten­tial that that no one else sees. In Hoyer’s case, he was cut three dif­fer­ent times by the Patriots, Steelers, and Cardinals. Naturally, his for­mer Patriot coach Bill O’Brien gave him a fouth chance to make good, and was reward­ed with four inter­cep­tions and a 15.9 pass­er rat­ing (not a mis­print) in the wild-card round.
Read more here: Cam Newton isn’t afford­ed the free­dom to fail like so many white quar­ter­backs who came before him

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME IN JAMAICA

Police offi­cers in Savanna-La-Mar car­ry­ing out their duties were alleged­ly assault­ed by a Parish Councillor (whom have not been named by the media).
So what we do know is that a PNP Councillor attacked the police who were in the process of remov­ing ven­dors from the streets as they have been man­dat­ed to do by their command.
According to the offi­cer in charge of the Parish David White the no-name Councillor point­ed his fin­gers into the face of offi­cers and assault­ed them
He came on the scene and start­ed ver­bal­ly abus­ing the police, point up his fin­ger in the police face and tell them to low the peo­ple dem,”
White claimed that the Councillor’s actions result­ed in a street brawl neces­si­tat­ing the need for rein­force­ment. He alleges the scum-bag will be charged with assault­ing and obstruction.
Yada , yada , yada,
“We are tak­ing strong actions against him. The Police Federation has been sum­moned, too, because the police were abused and assault­ed by him,”
“The idea was to arrest the coun­cil­lor on the scene and offer him sta­tion bail but it was decid­ed instead to pro­ceed by way of summons”.

Okay after these com­ments I had no fur­ther need to hear what this Superintendent had to say until there is an arrest . First of all why is he sit­ting behind a desk talk­ing about this why is this piece of garbage not found beat­en to pulp and sit­ting his ass in a jail cell?
“Summons” Why should he be sum­moned , why spe­cial priv­i­lege ? The courts will do noth­ing to him so he should have been beat­en to a pulp that’s the way to send a strong mes­sage , not talk about it.
That’s the way to send a mes­sage to these ass-wipes, you do not do it through the courts because the courts are a cesspool of crim­i­nal acquiescence.
This scum com­mit­ted an assault on offi­cers which should be a Felony , only in Jamaica it is a mis­de­meanor, they know it that’s why they do it.
He hin­dered Governmental Administration which ought to be a felony , in Jamaica it’s not , he knows it.
He insti­gat­ed a riot which ought to be a Felony, in Jamaica it’s not, he knows it.
So what should the police do?
Exact your own brand of jus­tice, because as I have said con­sis­tent­ly, the law sand the Criminal courts are more crim­i­nal than courts.
Beat him to a pulp then throw him in jail.
That’s the way to send a mes­sage, not by mak­ing bull­shit pro­nounce­ments. What the hell is the Federation going to do . The Administration in Kingston is a crim­i­nal Enterprise . To pre­tend it’s not is to stick one’s head into the sand and pretend.

This is exact­ly what their leader and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller did in 88 when her band of red T‑shirt motor­cy­cle brig­ands arrived to steal bal­lot box­es from the White Hall Avenue All-age School and real­ized real quick it was not going to hap­pen, dif­fer­ent kind of cops who did not give a shit who was on the oth­er end we would use what­ev­er force nec­es­sary includ­ing lethal force regard­less of the offend­er. , The dif­fer­ence is that the three Cops stand­ing at the gate myself includ­ed, made it known to her it was­n’t going to hap­pen. Rolling and bawl­ing in the streets did not faze us. One step toward the School gate and she and any­one with her would be in cuffs.
George Pang arrived imme­di­ate­ly and took her aside and asked her “wha di f**k unu a du a dead unuh cum up ya fi dead , u nu si say a nu play police dem ya”
The apolo­gies which fol­lowed were effu­sive. The dif­fer­ence was three police offi­cers who were not def­er­en­tial to any­one. We enforced the laws, Period !!!

The top of the stream is dirty the rest is auto­mat­i­cal­ly dirty, you can­not make it right with the crop of crim­i­nals who run the coun­try and so the police must do what they must to enforce the laws until our coun­try is wran­gled from the bunch of crim­i­nals who now run the show.
At the same time I can­not begin to say how dis­gust­ed I am at the Commanding Officer and his comments.
You know what peo­ple respect Superintendent White?
Actions , not words, talk is cheap.….
If the entrenched Garrisons pre­vents a change in our coun­try then it may be time to con­sid­er oth­er means to take back our coun­try from these criminals.

A guy I went to High School with tagged me in a social media post yes­ter­day (was­n’t sure why). The post fol­lowed a pic­ture he post­ed of the run-down, dilap­i­dat­ed Post Office build­ing in Guys Hill Saint Catherine where we went to High School.
Guys Hill is tucked away in the cool Hills of Saint Catherine on the bor­ders of Saint Ann and St Mary. Guys Hill – is named after Richard Guy, who it is thought served with Generals Penn and Venables in the con­quest of Jamaica in 1655, and who was grant­ed land there.

I’m not sure what year the Guys Hill post office was built, what I do know is that many of those facil­i­ties were built dur­ing the colo­nial peri­od before Jamaica became an inde­pen­dent nation[sic]. Which sug­gest to me that despite all we know about the Colonial pow­er and it’s many neg­a­tives they built things.
Anyway there were quite a few com­ments about paint­ing the post office. Several well-inten­tioned posters offered up ideas of small dona­tions to paint the place.
I com­ment­ed that the con­di­tion of the facil­i­ty offers every­one an oppor­tu­ni­ty to decide whether our coun­try was pro­gress­ing or regress­ing. After all pre­cious lit­tle has been done to improve these facil­i­ties for the next gen­er­a­tion after they were hand­ed to us by the British.
Upon which the shit hit the fan.

I nev­er real­ized that the rea­son I was tagged was because the orig­i­nal poster believed I could help to bring atten­tion to the sit­u­a­tion, or more like­ly offer up some funds, for what that’s worth. I found out soon enough that nei­ther the orig­i­nal poster nor some of the blog­gers were con­sci­en­tious Jamaicans who want­ed to see sit­u­a­tions improve, but that the group was large­ly a bunch of hyper par­ti­san PNP hack-tivist. [sic]

I was imme­di­ate­ly accused of being neg­a­tive and cam­paign­ing for the oth­er party .
The oth­er party?
I did not even real­ize this was a par­ty polit­i­cal issue, I’m so naïve’ . I was dumb-struck I would have been one of the very first to con­tribute in a small way toward improv­ing the appear­ance of the facil­i­ty. When I com­ment­ed that the cit­i­zens have a right to expect some degree of ser­vice for the tax­es they pay I did not know I could be accused of being against the project.

I fun­da­men­tal­ly believed that all Jamaicans would be as offend­ed as I was that since Independence the black lead­er­ship of our coun­try has sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly failed.
Don’t get me wrong it is high­ly com­mend­able that any cit­i­zen or group of cit­i­zens would want to take it onto them­selves to do what Government failed to do.
What is not kosher is to attack peo­ple who are deter­mined to hold gov­ern­ments respon­si­ble for their failures.

What was con­firmed to we yes­ter­day is what I have always know, Jamaicans are quite will­ing to cut their polit­i­cal par­ty slack regard­less of their failures.
Obviously the polit­i­cal admin­is­tra­tions under­stand this and are hap­py to con­tin­ue the sta­tus quo know­ing the peo­ple are unwill­ing to hold them accountable.

This is the image of the facil­i­ty I used as lit­tle boy in grade school , over forty years lat­er it remains the same. Sure I could ral­ly some friends to paint this thing but would a coat of paint change the cir­cum­stances of the fail­ures inher­ent here laud­able though it would be?
No , so I did not do that, what I per­son­al­ly did was to attack the more sub­stan­tive issues of pro­vid­ing the school it’s very first com­put­er for which they were very grate­ful, even as I con­tin­ue my efforts to help in big­ger ways.

In the mean­time how­ev­er it does not pre­vent me from agi­tat­ing, mil­i­tat­ing, com­plain­ing, urg­ing, and cussing for greater account­abil­i­ty in the Island’s gov­ern­ment and greater bang for the buck of the people.
It is what I did as a teenage school­boy, being a pest and a thorn to the Parish Councillor and the now deceased mem­ber of par­lia­ment E K Powell until they grew tired of me. Those efforts result­ed in the pave­ment of the Bonnett road­ways for the first time in the District’s history .
Additionally Bonnett received elec­tric­i­ty under the rur­al elec­tri­fi­ca­tion pro­gram for the very first time putting our dis­trict on par with Guys Hill and oth­er well known com­mu­ni­ties . Previously no one knew where Bonnett was.

Those efforts though not sole­ly my own, caused rep­re­sen­ta­tives of one par­ty to approach me years lat­er to rep­re­sent that par­ty in rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al pol­i­tics at the local Government lev­el . I polite­ly declined, I was not about to be a part of a club I hat­ed and abhorred.
I was nev­er one to cut peo­ple slack when they have a respon­si­bil­i­ty to per­form and fail to do so.
Placing a coat of paint on crum­bling infra­struc­ture is com­mend­able it shows that the cit­i­zens want things to have a bet­ter appearance.
A bet­ter appear­ance how­ev­er does not negate the crum­bling infra­struc­ture under­neath. It is symp­to­matic of the wider Jamaican soci­ety’s fail­ure to hold the Governing PNP account­able for it’s failures.

As I have writ­ten repeat­ed­ly the PNP is like cot­ton can­dy, to the peo­ple, sweet to the taste , leaves them want­i­ng more, cre­ates a thirst and is ulti­mate­ly bad for their health. A poten­tial coat of paint though com­mend­able does the eyes some good but the greater good is served when those empow­ered to act are held account­able for their actions or lack thereof.
We can ill-afford to cause polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions to blind us to the immense harm which this Government has done to our country.
No amount of paint by a polit­i­cal hack and his friends will cov­er up this fail­ure because elec­tions are imminent.
In that regard I refused to be used in the process of plac­ing lip­stick on a pig .

“CRIME WILL GO DOWN THIS YEAR”
So say Deputy Commissioner of Police George Quallo in speak­ing to the Jamaican Media.
Quallo told the Media that the slight decrease in mur­ders last year was attrib­ut­able to the increase of police com­man­ders on the streets.
“From some time last year we have re-ener­gised the man­age­ment struc­ture, and once you re-ener­gise the man­age­ment struc­ture then it fil­ters right down to the last draw­ing man on the ground.”

Huh ?

What does that even mean in the con­text of crime reduc­tion? I am going to assume that the Deputy Commissioner knows some­thing he is not speak­ing to but this state­ment does­n’t jive , at least in my estimation.
If you ener­gize the Management struc­ture, ( what the hell does that even mean) and mur­der begin to trend down­ward the thing to do is to keep re-ener­giz­ing the man­age­ment structure.
Right?
Okay I believe what the(DCP) is telling the Media is some­thing most in-tune cops past and present already knew and some­thing this medi­um have been speak­ing to since it’s inception.
That (1) the Police High Command is bloat­ed. And (2) It has been inef­fec­tive and non-productive .
There I guess I just fig­ured out what re-ener­gize means in that sense, I have to laugh with myself some­times when I try to make sense of the utter­ances of the Police high command.
In the inter­est of real dis­clo­sure I was not a con­formist young police offi­cer , I nev­er liked the peo­ple in com­mand . For the most part I thought most of them were in posi­tions of lead­er­ship based sole­ly on their length of service.
I thought most were ego-mani­a­cal incom­pe­tents. I still do hav­ing left over 24 years ago ..
So there !!!
Now things have changed no one can accuse the larg­er high com­mand of being dunces, how­ev­er the many edu­cat­ed offi­cers who now grace the upper ech­e­lon of the force arguably know pre­cious lit­tle about Law-Enforcement , mod­ern day polic­ing, and the ever-evolv­ing con­cept of polic­ing , not to men­tion tac­ti­cal and inves­tiga­tive policing.
So yes they are able to speak in a way peo­ple were not accus­tomed to hear cops speak but the lan­guage they speak though more gram­mat­i­cal­ly cor­rect , is tech­ni­cal­ly the same gib­ber­ish as before.
It’s essen­tial­ly the same bull-shit in a bet­ter packaging.
That is if you pre­fer lis­ten­ing to bull-shit in bet­ter English as opposed to Patios…

Police can­not guar­an­tee a south­ward trend in seri­ous crimes unless it has a strate­gic plan in place in place. This plan requires a series of things to hap­pen before that trend may be realized.
It is sim­ple non­sen­si­cal gib­ber­ish to sug­gest that because some kha­ki dressed peo­ple are forced to get up off their fat ass­es and be more vis­i­ble to the pub­lic mur­ders have trend­ed downward.
The very same Police high com­mand have told us that many of the mur­ders on the Island are relat­ed to the ongo­ing Lotto-scam which the very police allowed to devel­op into a can­cer which has now metas­ta­sized into some­thing they can­not control.
It would be incred­i­bly inter­est­ing to hear DCP Quallo explain just how these recent­ly ener­gized senior cops have impact­ed these killings.
I want­ed to quip that the only way they could impact those mur­der stats is if they are active­ly involved>(bad joke , I’m sorry).
The oth­er killings are (1) Domestic affairs which require edu­ca­tion those are social issues. Then(2) mur­ders com­mit­ted from Robberies etc.

Homicides com­mit­ted as a by-prod­uct or con­tin­u­a­tion of oth­er felonies like Burglaries, Robberies, Rapes, or even the drug trade are the homi­cides Police are best able to have an impact on. Strategies must be devel­oped around hav­ing a no-non­sense approach to drug-deal­ing , imple­ment­ing strate­gies to pre­vent Burglaries , and Robberies by cur­tail­ing the move­ment of known offenders.
This is where an ener­gized high com­mand could be use­ful by uti­liz­ing the resources it has at it’s dis­pos­al more effectively.
This means hav­ing police patrols sit­ting out­side known hot-spots. Photograph every­one who enter cer­tain know drug spots, it is some­times use­ful that peo­ple know they are being photographed.

Confiscate unreg­is­tered high speed motor­cy­cles. Effectively set up spot checks on the main thor­ough­fares , it is use­ful to have senior offi­cers in com­mand of spot-checks to elim­i­nate the pos­si­bil­i­ty of bribe-taking.
There is much the police can do despite the short­ages and lack of resources. What they should not do is blow hot air up the nation’s backside.
Of course the Government and the Opposition Party has sab­o­taged the police every step of the way . Don’t be fooled the occu­pant of Jamaica House hates the hell out of cops because offi­cers always stood in her ways so she could not have her way as mem­ber of par­lia­ment of a Garrison community.
Of course the Labor Party and it’s friends designed and insti­tut­ed (inde­com) which is to crime what fer­til­iz­er is to plants.
Does the Jamaican police need over­sight ? Hell yes they do , just not (inde­com) as configured,.
Poorly thought out with no con­sid­er­a­tion or input from law enforce­ment bad law which Bruce Golding gave to the Nation to put police in their place.

Crime in Jamaica can be con­tained even with the efforts of the Administration to ham­per law-enforce­ment. It can be reduced with police doing policing.
I under­stand that they have not passed new effec­tive laws to put seri­ous offend­ers in prison and keep them there.
I under­stand that the Criminal courts are more crim­i­nal than they are courts by their lib­er­al acts.
I under­stand the depart­ment does not have ade­quate resources to get the job done but you cops serv­ing now should see what we had over two decades ago.
A cohe­sive strat­e­gy with clear­ly defined goals and a path to achiev­ing them through sus­tained atten­tion to detail is how Jamaica’s mur­der num­bers will come down and stay down.
No amount of bang-gut kha­ki-clad-clowns on the streets will.

The scene is set Ocho Rios Jamaica , Traffic Police offi­cers decides to arrest a sub­ject alleged to be a bus conductor.They do not shoot the sub­ject they use non-lethal means, in this instance pep­per spray to sub­due a bel­liger­ent, resist­ing , non-coöper­a­tive subject .
Policing one ‑o-one right ?
No!
He should be hand­cuffed with his hands behind his back. The ever present crowd of know it all which just hap­pen to gath­er, always default toward sup­port­ing the crim­i­nal being arrest­ed. The ever present cries of Police abuse , and the non­sen­si­cal com­plaints of “a wah dem a arres di poor man fah”?
If you have to ask maybe you should mind your damn busi­ness and if not you should ask at the per­il of an arrest for Obstruction.
How about that officers?
The laws does not have much puni­tive teeth but you have the laws use them .
Arrest these jack­ass­es who refus­es to move or active­ly hin­ders Governmental administration
Never mind that over 1200 of them had their brains blown out in the year 2015 by crim­i­nals and their per­pet­u­al bitch­ing and cry­ing for bet­ter policing.
They do not want crim­i­nals shot.
They don’t want crim­i­nals hit with batons.
They don’t want crim­i­nals pep­per sprayed.
Regardless of the vio­lence of the per­son being arrested.
Maybe they don’t get to have a say , how about going about your jobs deci­sive­ly officers?
This leaves ratio­nal peo­ple to con­clude that for the most part Jamaicans are pret­ty much crim­i­nal sup­port­ing peo­ple with shit for brains.
Seriously !!!
Previously cops would sim­ply have shot the resist­ing sub­ject , in many cas­es they had no choice, Jamaican crim­i­nals are vio­lent­ly aggres­sive, they have no com­punc­tion about inflict­ing psy­chi­cal harm and death on police offi­cers , both in and out of uniform.
Officers some­times gen­er­al­ly had no non-lethal means of sub­du­ing suspects.
The Government sim­ply did not sup­ply any . Those with pre­dis­posed notions of break­ing the laws and test­ing police were gen­er­al­ly of the mind­set that they would not be shot. They gam­bled on the fact that they would assault offi­cers and sim­ply walk away.
Well in many cas­es the tales of cops beat­en to a pulp are many and var­ied in bars and oth­er gath­er­ing places.
However some who made that tac­ti­cal gam­ble are not around to par­take in the glo­ry of telling those tales and wal­low­ing in the glow of ado­ra­tion from their friends.
They are in anoth­er place.

Now pic­ture that the Jamaican police are scared shit-less because the Government is filled with crim­i­nals and crim­i­nal associates.
In addi­tion to that they have a pletho­ra of anti-police groups whose jobs it is to agi­tate and mil­i­tate against Police . This is noth­ing new this is the way things always have been in Jamaica.
The Police have done a ter­ri­ble job of recruit­ing and main­tain cred­i­ble offi­cers in the depart­ment. True this start­ed when the big-foot offi­cers used their posi­tions as per­son­al fief­doms to sti­fle and harangue tal­ent­ed young peo­ple who want­ed to make polic­ing their career.
When you jux­ta­pose that with tar­di­ness in the mid ‑man­age­ment of the force it is no sur­prise that the police became cor­rupt and the nation con­tin­ue to expe­ri­ence astro­nom­i­cal rise in crime.
The force is far from what it could be but con­trary to what for­mer Commissioner Owen Ellington and his suc­ces­sor want the pub­lic to believe the prob­lem with­in the force is not the fault of the young peo­ple com­ing into the depart­ment and under 5 years service.

Young peo­ple can­not cor­rupt a sys­tem which has the prop­er pro­ce­dures in place to weed out or pre­vent their entry in the first place.
It is disin­gen­u­ous to per­pet­u­ate the myth that the force is being made bad by young recruits. It is the fail­ure of the senior man­age­ment of the force which places the force in this predicament.
Lets face it, shit flows down-stream. When a team per­forms poor­ly it’s not the team which gets fired, the coach­ing staff has to go.
Whatever ails the team is the fault of those who man­age the team. You do not build a house from the rafters down , you build from the foun­da­tion up.
Commissioner Carl Williams and his offi­cer corp would have the nation believe the prob­lem he faces may be laid at the feet of the brave young peo­ple who step for­ward to take the risk of pro­tect­ing the public .
He ought to be ashamed of him­self. The offi­cers of the depart­ment are demor­al­ized and demo­ti­vat­ed because the Commissioner of police and the senior offi­cer corp has not stood up for them.

The Commissioner has not stood up to (inde­com) as that Agency push­es to gain more and more pow­er toward it’s end what­ev­er that end is.
In the face of inces­sant adver­sar­i­al agi­ta­tion against the force by (inde­com) and Terrence Williams , nei­ther Commissioner Williams, the senior offi­cer’s Association nor the Police Federation has thrown down the gaunt­let mak­ing it known they will not be pushed around.
The mis­take they made was to fill the depart­ment with very well edu­cat­ed peo­ple which on the face of it is not a bad thing , only they are not police offi­cers. They wear Police Uniform and say things which sound like polic­ing but they aren’t cops.
Cops are a spe­cial breed .……Many of the kha­ki-clad brigade are using the depart­ment as a means to a pay­check . Nothing more, many have nev­er made an arrest, nev­er pre­sent­ed a case to be pros­e­cut­ed but they have com­mands and are dic­tat­ing to street cops.
It’s utter and total bull-shit. Period.
You don’t make a pig a chris­t­ian by plac­ing it in a church , you turn the church into a pig-pen.
The police depart­ment has always had smart and tal­ent­ed peo­ple with­in it’s ranks , that is where the oppor­tu­ni­ties should have been pre­sent­ed to those peo­ple to emerge for high­er lead­er­ship in a non-cor­rupt , non-nepo­tis­tic way.
If lead­er­ship comes from the rank in a holis­tic way the pos­si­bil­i­ty of resent­ment, ani­mos­i­ty and dis­en­chant­ment is great­ly reduced.

ENGINE OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING
(1) Of course the offi­cers at the head of the force today are smart qual­i­fied peo­ple but do they know much about crime-man­age­ment, crim­i­nal jus­tice, lead­er­ship , crim­i­nal investigations ?
The crime fig­ures cer­tain­ly does not reflect it.
The Police Department is now an Agency for social engi­neer­ing. It now boasts a senior offi­cer ‑corp which has more degrees that arguably any devel­oped coun­try police depart­ment per capita.
In fact the JCF is adver­tis­ing it’s var­ied tal­ent pool on social media , Lawyers, Teacher’s , Refrigeration tech­ni­cians , etc, etc, but who the hell is catch­ing the criminals?
A man alleged­ly kills two cops a month ago and the police hier­ar­chy offered up a mil­lion dol­lars in reward mon­ey , thus far there has been no tak­ers, that sum has been increased to 1.5 mil­lion still no tak­ers and the cop-killer is still out there .
Before this fias­co of a force emerged we went out and either brought cop killers to jus­tice or brought jus­tice to them , their choice.
When a cop got killed we knew who the killers were through our net­work of infor­mants. These scum were in a hur­ry to have their crim­i­nal lawyers and their mom­mas pas­tor bring them in before we got to them.
Today they don’t give a rat’s ass .

(2) Then there is the issue of wom­en’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the force. Lets be real women have served in the police depart­ment and has done a ter­rif­ic job. No one should seek to negate that sac­ri­fice. No one should try to min­i­mize the efforts of those brave women some of whom have paid the ulti­mate price in ser­vice to country.

The nation and the police hier­ar­chy has not done near­ly enough to pre­pare these brave women to serve and be equal part­ners in ser­vice when they step out on the mean streets of any Jamaican city, town or hamlet.
The year is 2016 police offi­cers can­not wear skirts and be effec­tive in deal­ing with bel­liger­ent ever increas­ing­ly vio­lent criminals .
As crim­i­nals con­tin­ue to resist arrest , offi­cers will be forced more and more to take them to the ground and be engaged in rough strug­gles to place them in handcuffs.
Too many Jamaican female offi­cers in this regard are win­dow dress­ing, a lux­u­ry their male coun­ter­parts can ill afford.

Whenever I speak on this sub­ject there are peo­ple who tell me that train­ing is good. Well they aren’t, offi­cers have peo­ple stand­ing so close in encoun­ters where they are deal­ing with aggres­sive crim­i­nals a bystander can sim­ply grab one of the offi­cers weapons and cause sig­nif­i­cant harm to officers.
Prisoners are not hand­cuffed with their hands behind their backs.
Officers do not act deci­sive­ly which leaves the impres­sion they are inca­pable, uncer­tain or both.
That’s a lack or weak­ness in their training.
Mister Commissioner it’s nev­er the peo­ple you com­mand . The prob­lem rests with you and your senior offi­cers who are unable to get the job done.
Stop demo­niz­ing the young offi­cers who have to inter­face with the crim­i­nal sup­port­ing pub­lic while you sit in your air-con­di­tioned officers.

Jada Pinkett Smith has exer­cised her right to sit out the Oscars this year, in fact Jada said she won’t even watch . Mrs Smith made her deci­sion along with oth­ers like Filmmaker Spike Lee who are upset at the lack of recog­ni­tion by the Academy, of films fea­tur­ing Black Actors for the sec­ond year in a row.
Will Smith has come out in sup­port of his wife’s posi­tion and as is to be expect­ed this has start­ed tongues wag­ging regard­ing the valid­i­ty of their actions.
British Actress Charlotte Rampling has opined that all the talk of an Oscars white­wash is actu­al­ly anti-white. “It is racist to whites,” Rampling told Europe 1. “One can nev­er real­ly know, but per­haps the black actors did not deserve to make the final list.”

Well it cer­tain­ly takes a with­ered up old bene­fac­tor of a life­time of white priv­i­lege to know what racism is , does­n’t it?
Most dis­turb­ing, yet total­ly not sur­pris­ing is the response from for­mer Fresh Prince Actor Janet Hubert. Hubert played Will’s ini­tial aunt Viv on the sit­com “The fresh prince of Belair” .
Janet Hubert is report­ed to har­bor lin­ger­ing ani­mos­i­ty toward Will Smith for being forced out of the hit sit­com and replaced with Daphne Maxwell Reid.
Hubert took to the inter­net in a home made video blast­ing the Smiths on January 18^th.
Quote, “People are dying. Our boys are being shot left and right. People are starv­ing. People are try­ing to pay bills,”. “And you’re talk­ing about some motherf**king

actors and Oscars. And it just ain’t that deep.”
Hubert claimed that her rant had noth­ing to do with sour grapes but if you have to say it ain’t about sour grapes .…..
It prob­a­bly is sour grapes.
That aside why is it that when­ev­er a Black per­son stand up in defense of their core belief the very first per­son to attack is anoth­er black person?
I mean does miss Hubert even under­stand the optics of this ? Or are we always too pre­oc­cu­pied with our own cir­cum­stances sub­se­quent­ly we mis­place our anger by lash­ing out at the very peo­ple who are try­ing to do some­thing about the sys­tem­at­ic and entrenched prob­lems of race in America?
After all try­ing to save a crit­ter with a leg caught in a trap does not insu­late the sav­ior from a bite from that critter.
A crit­ter remain a crit­ter regard­less of what you do for it.

In a classy response to Ms Hubert’s intem­per­ate out­burst Jada Pinkett Smith said her boy­cott of the Feb. 28 award show “isn’t real­ly about the Oscars.”
“Considering that Alabama had its high­est recruit­ment for the KKK for Martin Luther King’s birth­day, I hope that we as African Americans can find a way to get along and step together,” .
“This whole Oscar con­tro­ver­sy isn’t real­ly about the Oscars. Really, in my plea to ask all com­mu­ni­ties and peo­ple of col­or to take back our pow­er is so that we can use it in all sec­tors of our com­mu­ni­ty, and right now, specif­i­cal­ly with African-American peo­ple, we have some very seri­ous issues that I think we as a peo­ple have to move togeth­er on.” “I’m hop­ing we can find ways to step togeth­er in this instead of find­ing ways to fight each oth­er. I got love for everybody.

I sup­port Will and his wife for stand­ing on the courage of their con­vic­tions. Conversely Miss Hubert’s response is more in line with what ene­mies of our race wants to see ‚. Not just the fight­ing among our­selves , but the crass unin­tel­li­gent ghet­to char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of each oth­er which usu­al­ly has it’s Genesis in some­thing far deep­er or which has no rela­tion­ship to her juve­nile out­burst. Speaking out against injus­tice in the Oscars is not divorced from oth­er injus­tices of which miss Hubert her­self speaks .
It is not a zero sum game . They are all inex­tri­ca­bly linked . Black peo­ple are quite con­ver­sant that the two issues are not mutu­al­ly exclusive.
We are quite capa­ble of walk­ing and chew­ing gum as miss Hubert seem unable to understand.

There are some things which sim­ply defy logic .
Sarah Palin blames her son’s trou­bles with the law on, you guessed it .….
President Obama !!!
Palin’s son who was arrest­ed on domes­tic abuse charges , blames his arrest on what she char­ac­ter­izes as the President not tak­ing care of vet­er­ans return­ing from Iraq.
Pardon me please but the fact that we are talk­ing about a total idiot like Sarah Palin speaks vol­umes about all of us includ­ing the writer.

In char­ac­ter­is­tic dis­joint­ed ram­ble Palin speak­ing to an Iowa crowd as she endorsed Donald Trump said
“He is the mas­ter of the art of the deal,” Palin said. “He is the one who would know what to negotiate”.“He is from the pri­vate sec­tor, not a politi­cian,” “Can I get a hal­lelu­jah? He knows how to lead the charge. So troops hang in there, he’s on the way.”“ Are you ready for a leader that will com­mand our troops and go kick ISIS’ ass,”? 

Set aside the fact that we are talk­ing about this incon­se­quen­tial hate-mon­ger, here are a few things we should remem­ber while she crit­i­cizes and blames the President for.
(1)Palin sup­port­ed Bush’s ille­gal war in Iraq.
(2) President Obama did not.
(3) President Obama end­ed that war did this lunatic even know President Obama end­ed the war . The very same war she bliss­ful­ly but igno­rant­ly sup­port­ed and is all jol­ly about celebrating?
Here’s the Irony , while she was talk­ing about vet­er­ans return­ing from war with mal­adies she was in the same breath beg­ging for anoth­er war. Are you ready for a leader that will com­mand our troops and go kick ISIS’ ass,”?
I mean we knew she was dumb but real­ly , how dumb is this nincompoop?

While Sarah Palin palls around with fel­low right-wing hate-mon­ger Donald Trump, her daugh­ter con­tin­ue to have out of wed­lock chil­dren and her son is get­ting arrested.
Maybe she should spend some time look­ing after her fam­i­ly and less time being a hater.
I believe that’s a good place for her to start.
Sheesh I did not even know that this idiot was still around..