JAMAICA is run by two political parties, The Jamaica Labor Party(JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP). Between the two Parties, Jamaica has devolved into a series of balkanized criminal/political enclaves, in some instances impregnable to the rule of law.
At present Jamaican tax-payers are presently on the hook to the tune of 350 million dollars. Money being spent on the Tivoli Gardens Inquiry which will tell us what we already know.
That Tivoli Gardens , like Arnett Gardens, Wilton Gardens, Nanny-ville, Dunkirk, Riverton, and the plethora of other zones of political exclusions were made to germinate and grow because both Political parties wanted it so.
At least I hope that is what will come out of the fishing expedition presently gobbling up scarce resources which could be better spent alleviating the country’s dire poverty and crime problem.
The narrative Jamaica’s bourgeoisie’ used during the 80’s to early 90’s when I served in the police department, was that the police were merely big ignorant men capable of wielding batons. As we got closer to the early 90’s, the narrative shifted slightly because of the lethal way some cops dealt with the country’s violent criminals.
The new narrative was that cops were merely “illiterates” whose only claim to fame was their ability to pull a trigger.
The truth of the matter is that the true reason behind our nation’s burgeoning crime rate has been the refusal of successive Administrations to deal decisively with crime on the one hand, and on the other hand both political parties engaged in an arms-race of sorts to see which party could better arm it’s supporters.
In the middle stood the ill-equipped, poorly trained, poorly paid, politically-neutered police force as the scapegoat.
The rise of the “Don culture” is a direct result of both political parties direct involvement in placing weapons into the hands of the country’s young impressionable youths.
Of course the Police department has had more lackeys than any department should, but the problem Jamaica faces today were created by both political parties.
The long list of murderous psychotic criminals Jamaicans celebrate as “Dons” ‚receive the adulation the rule of law deserves, unfortunately the political elites did not want it that way.
Today after the Tivoli invasion, an invasion necessary for annexation, there are reporting which indicate the Spanish Town PNP affiliate Clans-Man-Criminal Gang extract over 1.5 million Dollars per day in extortion fees from Businesses operating in the old capital.
One reporting indicated National Security Minister Peter Bunting encouraged business operators to install surveillance cameras in their establishments.
Bunting promised that a police post would be re-opened at the bus park in July. It went on to add that it is estimated that based on the number of buses that use the park daily, all of the monies added up is an estimated $1.5 mil. Authorities currently have a number of persons on a watch list, including six (6) wealthy, high-profile persons who are believed to be providing financial support for the extortionists.
That seem to be the extent of the nation’s security apparatus ability to combat what is clearly a serious problem.
This problem will only get more dire the more cash-flush this criminal enterprise become.
Why is the Police Department not using aggressive Intelligence gathering to eliminate once and for all this cancer of extortion?
The police department now has a PhD at it’s helm. The bourgeoisie’ can no longer use “dunceness” to disparage the police, at least not the entire high command.
Why then is there no cohesive effective intelligence ‑based strategy in the works, designed to eradicate the Clans-man Gang from our country?
Is there political pressure on the police to hands-off that criminal gang? Or is the police simply too stupid and inept to seriously tackle this scourge?
Encouraging business owners to install cameras is not a 21st century strategy for this problem , it is an invitation for swift and sudden death.
The Minister by his utterances have displayed a simplistic, almost childlike lack of understanding of what needs to be done to arrest this problem.
Either that, or there is no desire to bring the activities of the Clans-man Gang to a halt