The rampant murder in Jamaica is so severe that making mention of a particular case or writing about a single instance seem discriminatory and unmindful of the fact that the taking of each and every life is the same in God’s sight.
No life is more important than the other , as a former street cop I know this all too well , I saw the dead bodies in the slums and I saw them in the upscale neighborhoods of upper upper Saint Andrew.
Despite my policy of not treating any death as more important than another, I sometimes break with that tradition to speak specifically on a particular killing not because the particular decedent/s life is more valuable than that of others but because of the circumstances of their individual demise.
There is much talk regarding the complexities of the Island’s crime situation . If you listen to the Police Commissioner you would walk away with a shrug, because you would be utterly convinced that the only people who are being killed on the Island are people engaged in the lotto-scam.
Whether or not the people being murdered are lotto-scammers and their affiliates would certainly not change the fact that the Island is experiencing astronomically high homicide rates which places it at or near the top of the world’s most murderous nations.
Using the metric I previously outlined those killing should offer no comfort to anyone seriously plugged into whats happening on the Island as it relates to crime.
A dead lotto-scammer is a dead Jamaican, a dead gang member is a dead Jamaican. We should see the parsing of deaths, ” because of this or because of that” as a sign that they have no answers for the existing problems. Or they have the answers but their hands are tied.
The Jamaican people have the answer to crime they obstinately refuse to use it .They have allowed a small sub-set of people to tell them how murderers are to be treated.
(1) You can’t hang them ! Privy Council…
(2) You can shoot them ! (phalanx of human rights eat a food-ers)
(3) Police cannot shoot them! INDECOM , also see #2
(4) Can’t jail them for life and throw the keys away! Trial lawyers and other bleeding hearts.
Hug them up, Yaaaaa.…
As a former police officer I have seen first hand the consequence of crime on our country . If you decide to look at the killings as the Police high command has done and remove the gang killings and those supposedly associated with the lotto-scam you may extrapolate from the remainder of those statistics that the sector taking the brunt of the killings is the small business sector.
In may cases , (according to my sources ) those murders are a direct result of the rampant extortion racket on the Island .
On the other hand many of the people who pass as legitimate business people are actually heavily involved in serious crimes, as I wrote just last week.
Over the last two to three decades over thirty thousand Jamaicans have been murdered by some estimates . It is important that those statistics are digested in the context that the Island is not engaged in a civil war, and that the population is only 2.8 million.
On Monday night two more Jamaicans lost their lives in a hail of gunfire . According to Police Fifty-eight-year-old Andrew Davis and 50-year-old Helen McGoo were shot multiple times as they sat inside their car, just after closing their bill payment and lottery ticket business about 7:45 pm. The two were approached by a gunman who opened fire at them. They were rushed to the hospital where they were pronounced dead. The police has ruled out robbery as a motive as nothing was taken from the couple.
Jamaica’s crime problem invariably will get far worse before it gets better. As long as the Nation’s legislation and law-enforcement is heavily influenced by Criminal trail-lawyers, bleeding heart criminal sympathizers and the socialist intelligentsia which has it’s head so far up it’s own ass it cannot smell the shit.
The problem of crime will not be fixed because many law-makers double as defense lawyers, who actively defend murderous criminals then walk into the Nation’s parliament to debate laws. If we are to fix the crime problem we must throw out the entire shit-house and not just the shit.
Jamaica is a country where some of the people in politics on both sides of the political divide are actively engaged in criminal conduct.
As long as the Island’s justice system is populated with Judges , prosecutors and defense lawyers who came from the same leftist bastion in Mona St Andrew crime will continue. As long as the Jamaican people allow a select few to decide what is right for them while they who decide live in gated communities which are adequately policed and protected by armed private security companies blood will continue to stain the sidewalks and street corners.
Ordinary Jamaicans must prepare to come out with their water-hoses and push brooms and continue to wash away the blood and the brain matter of their loved ones from the pavements and street corners across the Island.
Ask yourselves why they refuse to fix the police department? Placing a PhD at the head of a decrepit paper tiger is not modernizing the police department.
Creating an antagonistic anti-police agency to fight with the police must be seen for the smoke-screen it is. If the police cannot do it’s job because of low morale and persecution the political class has free rein to continue to raid the public coffers unchecked ‚who is to hold them accountable?
The police service cannot be a real police service unless it is free from the shackles of political control, political dictates, political manipulation regardless of what you are told.
When the political class and those who live above Cross-Roads are locked away in jail for their crimes it will be time for us to say we are making progress as a nation.
Until then they are blowing smoke up your ass.