We may have to recon­sid­er whether the fourth amend­ment to the con­sti­tu­tion is a real thing or just some­thing on paper.
The United States Supreme Court has so moved the goal­post that police can break into your home and kill you because you have a legal weapon in your home.
The oth­er con­sid­er­a­tion is whether the fourth and the sec­ond amend­ments apply to African-Americans.
The sec­ond amend­ment guar­an­tees the right of the peo­ple to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
The fourth guar­an­tees the right of the peo­ple to be secure in their per­sons, hous­es, papers, and effects, against unrea­son­able search­es and seizures, shall not be violated, …
Hahaha, what malarky?

Here is why these guarantees continue to ring hollow for Black people in America separate and apart from the institutionalized racism that send one person to prison for attempting to register to vote for six years while another who attempted to vote more than once gets probation. And these things continue to happen over and over again.
Guess which of these people are black and which is white?

New details have emerged about a 22-year-old Black man who was fatal­ly shot by Minneapolis police dur­ing the exe­cu­tion of a no-knock war­rant, with police offi­cials con­firm­ing the man was not named in any search warrant.
During a press con­fer­ence on Thursday held by the Minneapolis police depart­ment (MPD), offi­cials con­firmed that Amir Locke, who was shot ear­ly on Wednesday morn­ing dur­ing the search, was not named in any search war­rant car­ried out by MPD police. Locke was shot by the Minneapolis offi­cer Mark Hanneman, accord­ing to city offi­cials and doc­u­ments.
“My son was exe­cut­ed on 2 – 2 of 22,” said Karen Wells, Locke’s moth­er, dur­ing a press con­fer­ence on Friday. “And now his dreams have been destroyed.”
The video of the police shoot­ing, which was also released on Thursday, seemed to con­tra­dict ear­ly claims from police offi­cials that offi­cers had “loud­ly made them­selves known before enter­ing the apart­ment”, where Locke was. The video instead showed offi­cers announc­ing their pres­ence once they were already inside the apartment.
The video released by the Minneapolis police depart­ment shows offi­cers enter­ing the apart­ment unit by unlock­ing the door with a key, shout­ing “police, search war­rant, get on the ground, get on the fuck­ing ground,” as they entered the unit, report­ed Reuters.

I saw a report that a certain Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) told the media that raids were carried out in his area of command by his officers and that the raids were so intense men not on his most-wanted list but still wanted were captured.
The pronouncement came after one of the punks,Damion ‘Devil’ Henry, 21, from Burke Road in Old Harbour, handed himself over to the police yesterday; He is allegedly wanted for murder.(Well, duh), we’ll get back to this point of sarcasm.
(On a side note, a corrupt judge will almost certainly turn him loose in short order).

I have been fol­low­ing the tra­jec­to­ry of vio­lent crimes like every­one else, and I must say, “when trou­ble ketch yu pick­ney shut fit yu.”
The Commissioner of Police, under pres­sure from sev­er­al quar­ters as vio­lent crimes con­tin­ue to esca­late, caught a break in January, and that break has con­tin­ued into February. Many guns were recov­ered by the foot sol­diers, who are the real heroes in the JCF.
Bravo to the men and women of the JCF, the street war­riors who are get­ting action­able intel­li­gence that is bear­ing fruits.
Let me dis­abuse all of you, who, for your own rea­sons, want to attribute the suc­cess­es of the hard-work­ing mem­bers of the force to the hier­ar­chy and, more specif­i­cal­ly, the com­mis­sion­er of police.
Commissioners of police do [not] get or gath­er intel­li­gence; action­able intel­li­gence comes from the low­ly foot sol­diers who ingra­ti­ate them­selves into the com­mu­ni­ties and with mem­bers of the communities.
I am not mad at the Commish for soak­ing up the glo­ry, but let’s put things in perspective.

Having said that, It appears that Commissioner Anderson is a stand-up guy. Some have made the case that as far as com­mis­sion­ers go, he seems to be cut from a dif­fer­ent cloth in that he finds his way out onto the streets and min­gle with his offi­cers. That is indeed a plus, and this writer wish­es to con­grat­u­late the com­mis­sion­er for under­stand­ing the impor­tance of in-touch lead­er­ship in sit­u­a­tions like these.
Now, let’s back­track to the SSPs com­ments that the heat his offi­cers brought caused at least one want­ed man to turn him­self in. Whether those com­ments are just brag­gado­cio, we may nev­er know? Who knows, the man may have decid­ed to turn him­self in based on sev­er­al fac­tors- say,(a) maybe the cops real­ly have noth­ing tan­gi­ble on him, or (b) he knows his high-priced defense lawyer will slip some­thing to the judge, and he will be back on the streets in no time.
Many of you saw the reck­less dri­ver with mul­ti­ple unpaid tick­ets pur­sued and even­tu­al­ly arrest­ed recently.
You also saw how many lives he jeop­ar­dized before he was final­ly col­lared by the cops; well, we were informed that he was grant­ed bail despite the dan­ger he pos­es to the pub­lic. This is the insid­i­ous cor­rup­tion that now exists with­in the Jamaican judiciary.

See the video of that encounter below.

When has bring­ing the heat failed to con­tain crim­i­nals? Who thought the way to treat dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals like those who sum­mar­i­ly exe­cut­ed two Chines busi­ness­peo­ple in Saint Elizabeth was to treat them kindly?
I can tell you who did, Andrew Holness did, even though I believe he is now hav­ing a come-to Jesus-moment, an awak­en­ing, going through a metamorphosis.
I believe he had that moment after the Haitian President was assas­si­nat­ed in his own home. Most of the peo­ple in the oppo­si­tion People’s National Party believe in shield­ing vio­lent crim­i­nals. They have a his­to­ry of doing so from as far back as the 70s when they sent cop-killers to Cuba and onto Canada and the United States.

See the video of the cold-blood­ed mur­der of a Chines couple.

Holness thought these mon­sters could be tamed; he berat­ed the police for going after them with the same ener­gy they com­mit the das­tard­ly acts they com­mit. He talked about not want­i­ng any name-brand cops. Andrew Holness talked about trans­form­ing the JCF; I, too, want a trans­formed JCF, one that can inves­ti­gate, gath­er intel­li­gence, and arrest and pros­e­cute sus­pects. However, Holness and his cabal, includ­ing Bruce Golding and oth­ers, want­ed a cour­tesy corps.
You all recalled that the University Of the West Indies, the so-called intel­lec­tu­al ghet­to, was hap­py to offer to help train cops?
I have been try­ing to find out what hap­pened to that idea, but I haven’t yet con­firmed whether that even­tu­al­ly occurred and how those paper cops turned out.
Let us be seri­ous, polic­ing is not pret­ty; tak­ing down crim­i­nal net­works is not some­thing you try to do for eight hours and then go home; it requires a 24 – 7 oper­a­tion with peo­ple who know what the hell they are doing.
You can keep your paper cops trained by the frauds and fakes up by uwi, and give me a dozen men trained at the Mobile Reserve; we will get it done.

Jamaica start­ed slid­ing into total anar­chy after Seaga left office in 88. After Manley won again and PJ Patterson took over, it was the death knell for Jamaicans peace and tranquility.
Jamaica lost its inno­cence between Patterson, Portia, and Bruce Golding and will nev­er get it back. Corrupt, immoral crim­i­nals run­ning our coun­try favored mur­der­ers over the rule of law, and that is the rea­son our coun­try is stuck in the ran­cid quick­sand of failure.
Two polit­i­cal par­ties, both com­plete­ly inju­ri­ous to the greater good, have dam­aged our coun­try beyond any­thing we could have imag­ined just so that they could steal and plun­der from the nation­al purse with­out a com­pe­tent law-enforce­ment infra­struc­ture to inves­ti­gate and imprison them.
You damn right that bring­ing the heat is the only way to cap­ture, kill, or run those mur­der­ous scum into the sea. I’ve been say­ing it for decades.
Contrary to what the fuck­ing liars up by UWI tells you, those mon­sters only respect force, the awe­some, over­whelm­ing force of the state. You do [not] tie up law enforce­ment resources in stu­pid ZOSOs & SOEs; you prop­er­ly train your offi­cers then give them good intel­li­gence to get the bad guys. That is how it’s done, period.
Anything else is piss­ing in the wind; it comes right back at you.……

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

An intel­li­gence-dri­ven oper­a­tion in Trewlany net­ted 13 guns; the police report­ed Thursday afternoon.
The police report­ed that one man was shot and killed in a con­fronta­tion with offi­cers before the cache of ille­gal weapons was recovered.

The dead man’s iden­ti­ty has not yet been ascer­tained; how­ev­er, the police have removed almost 100 ille­gal guns from the streets since the start of the year.

We have been reliably informed that the Government is considering a gun amnesty. An amnesty would allow criminals in possession of illegal weapons to turn them in, no questions asked, and be paid with tax dollars, upon which they walk away.
It should be understood that people with illegal guns acquire them to commit illegal acts. Using that logic, it is safe to presume that some of those weapons have already been used in violent acts against Jamaicans, and some may even have bodies on them, to borrow a street phrase.

There have been gun amnesties in Jamaica before. They net­ted quite a few weapons to the best of my rec­ol­lec­tion, but there are more ille­gal guns in Jamaica today than when the author­i­ties did those gun buybacks.
Some will argue that regard­less of the num­ber of guns turned in, one less gun on the streets is worth it.
I say no unless we can stop the guns com­ing into the coun­try; buy­ing guns from crim­i­nals only serves to make the gov­ern­ment and tax­pay­ers cus­tomers to the illic­it gun run­ners flood­ing the coun­try with their dead­ly contraband.
This will undoubt­ed­ly fur­ther enrich the gun­run­ners while they con­tin­ue to flood the streets and alley­ways of our coun­try with dan­ger­ous ille­gal weapons. The gov­ern­ment should spend its time writ­ing and pass­ing leg­is­la­tion that removes the abil­i­ty to return vio­lent crim­i­nals onto the streets from the crim­i­nal-lov­ing judges. This means truth in sen­tenc­ing; what­ev­er sen­tence a vio­lent offend­er receives is the sen­tence served unless there are mit­i­gat­ing cir­cum­stances involved in the case.
It also means manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tences for vio­lent crimes, includ­ing dan­ger­ous assaults with weapons and Murder.
The sen­tence must fit the crime to the extent that a poten­tial offend­er is ful­ly aware that no quar­ters will be giv­en if they com­mit a vio­lent offense and are convicted.
We can­not con­tin­ue to have judges insu­lat­ed from the scourge of vio­lent crime and, worse, involved in cor­rupt prac­tices releas­ing con­vict­ed mur­der­ers back onto the streets with slaps on the wrist.
The gov­ern­ment should also be heav­i­ly engaged leg­isla­tive­ly in redo­ing the bail act. A per­son who steals some ack­ee deserves bail; how­ev­er, a killer who goes out and mur­ders some­one is unde­serv­ing of bail.

The Island’s crim­i­nal-lov­ing judges have cow­ard­ly shel­tered under the out­dat­ed bail act for too long. At the same time, they do dam­age by releas­ing vio­lent mur­der­ers on bail, even after they have been arrest­ed on five pre­vi­ous sep­a­rate mur­der charges that have not yet gone to tri­al. In one case, the offend­er even fled the coun­try and was returned by the United States.
We can­not have a coun­try where unelect­ed bureau­crats claim inde­pen­dence while help­ing vio­lent crim­i­nals destroy life and property.
Gun buy-backs, no ques­tions asked, allow mur­der­ers to turn in weapons with bod­ies on them and receive pay­ment for those weapons. Why are Jamaican author­i­ties so dense? Why would they not under­stand that the evi­den­tiary val­ue is for­ev­er lost to inves­ti­ga­tors once they pay for those guns?
I say let them keep those weapons and allow the police to pluck them from their hands, dead or alive, their choice.
The Police com­mis­sion­er claims that he and his team are doing their jobs; it is time that the gov­ern­ment and the worth­less oppo­si­tion par­ty do theirs.
Come togeth­er to draft and pass less crim­i­nal-friend­ly leg­is­la­tion than the laws on the books. We need a coun­try in which gov­ern­ment agents respect human rights; how­ev­er, the con­tin­ued claim that ensur­ing that our secu­ri­ty forces have the tools to deal deci­sive­ly with dan­ger­ous mur­der­ers is tan­ta­mount to vio­la­tion of human rights is a crock full of shit.
The sit­ting Prime Minister once held the same views; he is now in lead­er­ship, and real­i­ty now stares him in the face.
Talking from the side of one’s mouth is dif­fer­ent than gov­ern­ing now, isn’t it?.
No to gun amnesty.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

Kudos to the JCF for get­ting back to intel­li­gence gath­er­ing and cul­ti­vat­ing the assets that pass on crit­i­cal information.
Clearly, it is bear­ing fruits as we saw in January with 88 guns seized, includ­ing 13 rifles and 59 hand­guns, along with an assort­ed range of ammunition.
The police com­mis­sion­er, under pres­sure to pro­duce results, was more than hap­py to parade one of the AK47s recov­ered by offi­cers to the media, and why not? We all need a break from the crit­ics some­times. (smile)

This is one of the weapons of choice of the gun­men that cre­ate may­hem, pain, and death in our soci­ety. It has a 600-rounds-per minute rate of fire. You can get it with a 30‑, 50- or a 100-round mag­a­zine. This weapon, depend­ing on its con­di­tion, goes for any­where between $500,000 and $1 mil­lion, and this weapon and M16s and pis­tols are what we have been seiz­ing. [Recently], we seized six rifles, two shot­guns, and two pis­tols in a very small geo­graph­ic space.” Anderson reported.
The police is fight­ing a los­ing bat­tle-one that is sim­i­lar to using a cup to remove the water from a boat tak­ing ingal­lons per minute. Clearly the num­ber of weapons enter­ing the coun­try far exceeds any­thing the police could do to remove them from the streets.
And so the fight to stop the flow of ille­gal guns into the Island must be con­front­ed on two fronts, (1) intel­li­gence gath­er­ing on the Island and (2) even bet­ter intel­li­gence on the transna­tion­al crim­i­nals in the United States who are send­ing these weapons into the coun­try through the porous ports.

This means that as the United States penal­ized Jamaica and its for­mer car­ri­er Air Jamaica for mar­i­jua­na enter­ing the United States in the 80’s to the 90s, so too must Jamaica insist and demand that there are con­se­quences to the Unietd States for allow­ing the flood of ille­gal guns into Jamaica.
Imagine if the sit­u­a­tion was reversed and Jamaican guns were killing in excess of a thou­sand Americans each year; how long would that have been allowed to continue?
There can­not be two sets of rules for the way coun­tries oper­ate on the inter­na­tion­al stage. Small coun­tries are penal­ized for drugs and even mar­i­jua­na leav­ing their ports in the US while America’s guns kill tens of thou­sands around the globe with no con­se­quence to the United States.
Who cre­at­ed those rules- how can this iniequitous sys­tem con­tin­ue to prevail?

The police com­mis­sion­er told the press;“This is a sym­bol of it — an AK-47. The ille­gal firearms they car­ry are very often used to cre­ate fear, even when they aren’t killing peo­ple. It is the main source of intim­i­da­tion. An exam­ple is Travis Gilman, who was con­vict­ed in 2021 of 11 counts of mur­der and ille­gal pos­ses­sion of firearm. He was sen­tenced to 210 years.“These gun­men and gangs are quite often part of sophis­ti­cat­ed crim­i­nal net­works that have transna­tion­al con­nec­tion and require us to use our man­pow­er, intel­li­gence, tech­nol­o­gy, and our part­ner­ships and oper­a­tional strate­gies to con­front what is essen­tial­ly a crim­i­nal organ­i­sa­tion whose pur­pose is to prof­it from the mis­ery of our society.”
The police chief also made sure that he got a dig in;“I assure Jamaicans that our part of the sys­tem is being worked effec­tive­ly, and we are using a range of oper­a­tional and crime strate­gies to get the results.”
Not sure that it is work­ing as effec­tive­ly as it could, how­ev­er his point was is well taken.
The Government and oppo­si­tion par­ty refus­es to give the police the leg­isla­tive sup­port they need. The judi­cial branch of the gov­ern­ment turn the vio­lent mur­der­ers back onto the streets as soon as the police arrests them.
So Commissioner Anderson is right that the police is work­ing over­time to get the job done but one hand can­not clap.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

The rule of law is the guiding principle on which democracies are built. Fair, equitable, and just laws, their enforcement, and application give confidence to citizens that will be treated fairly; no one is more important than the other.
It is a noble concept, but even those who claim to be the best at formulating such concepts of fairness and justice have failed miserably, not just in the enforcement and application of such laws; they fail at the very conceptual stage because they are unjust, immoral and hateful.

That said, absent God’s laws, we are stuck with the rule of man-made laws as the best sys­tem of gov­ern­ment to date.
Even when the for­mu­la­tion process is exten­sive and exhaus­tive, if the objec­tive of the laws is immoral and nefar­i­ous, the con­se­quences are severe­ly inju­ri­ous to those they are intend­ed to hurt.
For those rea­sons, despite hav­ing more laws than any oth­er nation, the United States falls woe­ful­ly short of being a just and free soci­ety because its laws have gen­er­al­ly been for­mu­lat­ed to exclude seg­ments of the American peo­ple from cer­tain benefits.
Americanbar​.com writes; Even before the United States was a nation, there was talk among colonists that laws should gov­ern a new nation, not indi­vid­u­als, includ­ing kings or queens, as they’d seen in Britain and oth­er coun­tries. One colonist, Thomas Paine, pro­duced a book­let in 1776 called Common Sense, and it became a best­seller by today’s stan­dards. In it, he detailed how, “in America, law is king.”
That rosy assess­ment was not exact­ly true, as the laws were designed not only to be exclu­sion­ary to Black Americans but in many cas­es to be delib­er­ate­ly inju­ri­ous to them.

Joe Biden will get his chance to nom­i­nate his first Justice to the supreme court; not a fan of the supreme court myself because of how much it has got­ten wrong through­out its his­to­ry and how much harm it has brought to Black Americans as a result of its rul­ings. Nonetheless, dur­ing his pres­i­den­tial cam­paign in 2020, Joe Biden was report­ed­ly con­vinced by South Carolina African-American Representative James Clyburn to pledge to nom­i­nate a Black Woman to the high­est court as a means of reviv­ing his fledg­ing, or should I say dying campaign.
Biden even­tu­al­ly did so, and Black Women turned out in droves to give him the win In the Palmetto State, a win that cat­a­pult­ed him into becom­ing the nom­i­nee for his par­ty and beat­ing Donald Trump for the pres­i­den­cy of the United States Of America.
Biden will get a chance to name a jus­tice to the court because cen­trist Stephen Bryer, the old­est jus­tice at 83-years-old has decid­ed to step aside. Whether Breyer decid­ed to retire because of pro­gres­sive pres­sure or he made the deci­sion because of his age, we may nev­er know. However, it may be a safe bet to imag­ine that Breyer was pushed to the door because pro­gres­sives demand­ed that he step aside and allow the pres­i­dent to choose a younger lib­er­al successor.

(1)To under­stand exact­ly why it is cru­cial­ly impor­tant that jus­tice Bryer step aside now, one has to go back to two events that occurred sur­round­ing the nation’s high­est court and how those two events shift­ed the bal­ance of the high­est court arguably for gen­er­a­tions to come. It is also impor­tant to under­stand that when you hear the term “con­ser­v­a­tive” used in the American con­struct, be remind­ed that it irrefutably means “Racist.”
During the pres­i­den­cy of Barack Obama, one of the most conser­v­a­tive Justices on the court passed away. Antonin Scalia’s death would allow Democrat Barack Obama to choose his suc­ces­sor, flip­ping the court’s 5 – 4 con­ser­v­a­tive major­i­ty to a 5 – 4 lib­er­al one.
Scalia died more than ten (10) months before the 2016 pres­i­den­tial elec­tions. Although the pres­i­dent had a right to replace him with his choice for the court, Republican sen­ate major­i­ty leader Mitch Majority declared that the pres­i­dent would not replace Scalia.
Constitutionally the pres­i­dent is empow­ered to nom­i­nate a jurist to the court. The Senate is sup­posed to advise and con­sent-mean­ing hold hear­ings and give the nom­i­nee an up or down vote.
Mitch McConnel cre­at­ed a new rule that it was close to an elec­tion, and so the peo­ple should decide which pres­i­dent selects the next jus­tice to the court.
This was nev­er a rule, just one cre­at­ed by McConnell, and so the seat was held vacant for the bet­ter part of a year. Brack Obama did absolute­ly nothing.

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Donald Trump was elect­ed pres­i­dent in 2016, and he quick­ly nom­i­nat­ed Neil Gorsuch to the Court, main­tain­ing the court’s 5 – 4 con­ser­v­a­tive majority.
Trump would replace mod­er­ate Anthony Kennedy, who abrupt­ly announced his retire­ment in June 2018 with Brett Kavanaugh. Many insist there was some­thing fishy about Kennedy’s retire­ment and sur­mise that Donald Trump held some kind of trump-card (pun intend­ed) over Kennedy that forced his retirement.
Mitch McConnell would lat­er reverse his own rule to ram Amy Coney-Barrett through the process weeks before the 2020 pres­i­den­tial elec­tions slant­i­ng the court dan­ger­ous­ly to the right, which will have dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for the coun­try in lit­er­al­ly every area of life.
Mitch McConnell’s maneu­vers so cor­rupt­ed the process that many now look at the high­est court with a less than a favor­able eye. How the court is ulti­mate­ly viewed may be tame to the true real­i­ty of what hap­pens behind the scenes.

(2) Liberal jus­tice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s deci­sion not to retire even though her health was fail­ing will be one of the most con­se­quen­tial deci­sions of our lifetime.
Added to the mon­u­men­tal wrong that a sin­gle US sen­a­tor could stop a pres­i­dent from putting his choice of a jurist on the court-and the murky cir­cum­stances under which Anthony Kennedy stepped down allow­ing Donald Trump to place Brett Kavanaugh on the court; Justice Ginsberg’s deci­sion will for­ev­er neg­a­tive­ly impact the country.
On September 18^th, 2020, Ruth Baader Ginsberg died six weeks before the pres­i­den­tial elections.
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell who pre­vi­ous­ly declared that Obama should not replace Antonin Scalia ten (10) months before a pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, imme­di­ate­ly declared that Trump’s pick Amy Coney-Barrett would be quick­ly added to the court, and so they did.
A sin­gle cor­rupt United States Senator was able to sub­vert the process and change the coun­try’s tra­jec­to­ry for generations.
So much for the rule of law when the ones with pow­er who are sup­posed to ensure its equi­table appli­ca­tion are cor­rupt to the core.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

At a time when cops are get­ting shot and killed, police, politi­cians„ and their sup­port­ers in the media blind them­selves to obvi­ous facts when they get on tele­vi­sion and pon­tif­i­cate about why there is an uptick in peo­ple shoot­ing cops.
They gloss over the real rea­sons, blam­ing guns (yes„ if peo­ple do not have guns„ they can­not shoot)„ but they still have the ani­mus in their hearts.
They blame defund­ing the police calls while not men­tion­ing that the calls to defund the police came because of the bla­tant abuse and mur­ders com­mit­ted by police on inno­cent cit­i­zens dai­ly„ result­ing in over 800 dead Americans in 2021 at the hands of police.
They blame the cor­rec­tive mea­sures tak­en by some states like New York which has moved to release some non-vio­lent offend­ers from incarceration.
Even though there is absolute­ly no data sup­port­ing their asser­tions that non-vio­lent drug offend­ers recent­ly released from prison are respon­si­ble for shoot­ing any­one, they still con­tin­ue to prop­a­gate the lie as if it will make it true…
They gloss over the truth with hyp­o­crit­i­cal fanati­cism, ignor­ing the real­i­ty that vio­lence begets vio­lence, or that call­ing it what it is, that a large seg­ment of the cops in the United States are extreme­ly vio­lent thugs who mer­ci­less­ly beat, oth­er­wise abuse and even mur­der peo­ple with­out consequence.

PLEASE READ THIS STORY AND THE EFFORT PUT INTO MAKING THESE KILLERS HEROES IN WHAT WAS A MERCILESS EXECUTION.

Police release video showing 9 officers fatally shoot man on Tennessee interstate

This is not fic­tion but facts; the sto­ry­line is the same every day. January 27^th, 2022 three men were shot at a bar in Bamboo Saint Ann, two fatal­ly. It gen­er­al­ly reads the same: gun­men enter the bar, open fire, and escape.
In Saint James, a 22-year-old man was shot dead in Mount Carey on Friday morn­ing. At about 8:00 am, cit­i­zens heard gun­shots and noti­fied the police, who arrived to find the body of 22-year-old Ronald Barnes on the ground with bul­let wounds to his head and a motor­cy­cle par­tial­ly on top of his body.
In Cross Keys Manchester, a crim­i­nal who the crim­i­nal-lov­ing judges grant­ed bail turned up at the Cross Keys Police sta­tion to report as a con­di­tion of his bail when offi­cers noticed a bulge in the waist of his pants.
And attempt­ed to accost him when he opened fire at officers.
25-year-old Orlando Lee of Blenheim dis­trict, Newport in Manchester, is still on the loose. Of course, the police are beg­ging this piece of scum to turn him­self in. (like that’s going to happen).

Thank your local mag­is­trate or judge for con­tin­u­al­ly turn­ing these mon­sters back onto the streets when offi­cers catch them red­hand­ed with weapons and remove them back onto the streets before the offi­cers can even leave the court buildings.
They are total­ly care­less of who they mur­der, includ­ing police offi­cers, but that seems to be the judges’ inten­tion in our country.
I call on the police fed­er­a­tion to com­pile data on the Island’s crim­i­nal-lov­ing judges to see who the offend­ers are releas­ing these vio­lent gang­sters back onto the streets as soon as the police remove them.
The com­pi­la­tion of that data should include day, date, and time, the offense as well as crimes each offend­er prov­ably com­mit­ted after being grant­ed bail.
This data should then be inces­sant­ly shared with ordi­nary Jamaicans, not the gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties’ fakes and frauds liv­ing uptown.
Maybe then the aver­age Jamaican may be sen­si­tized and even mil­i­ta­rized against the bla­tant and egre­gious crim­i­nal sup­port in the insti­tu­tions that should be pro­tect­ing them.

In Saint Mary, 25-year-old Adrian Lawrence of School Hill Castleton was shot and killed at about 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, January 27^th, after argu­ing with anoth­er man known as “Ricky” over a park­ing spot.
In the mean­time, the police released these names they say are the most want­ed men in the coun­try. I’m unsure why the names are not fol­lowed up with pho­tographs in this day and age when every police offi­cer on patrol has a cell phone or can car­ry a cam­era on patrol to pho­to­graph these crim­i­nals when they are stopped in the streets.
They have no expec­ta­tion of pri­va­cy from being pho­tographed in pub­lic, but the Jamican police have nev­er been accused of think­ing on their feet.

AREA ONE

1. Ricardo Palmar
Alias: Richie
HANOVER
Offence: Murder | Committed August 25, 2017 in Hopewell, Sandy Bay, Hanover
Description: Dark com­plex­ion and about 4ft 5 inch­es tall. He is fat, has a pot bel­ly, shine head and a tat­too on his left hand.
Frequents: Norwood in St, James, Well Lane, Montpellier and Sandy Bay in Hanover

2. Eric Clarke
Alias: Legacy
HANOVER
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted November 11, 2014 in Cash Hill, Hanover
Description: Dreadlocks, slim build, brown com­plex­ion and straight face
Frequents: Cash Hill and Patty Hill in Hanover

3. Vernon Shearer
Alias: Vandam
HANOVER
Offences: Illegal Possession of a firearm, rape, abduc­tion, assault at com­mon law com­mit­ted December 19, 2011 in Rock Spring, Hanover
Description: Dark com­plex­ion, slim build and about 5 feet and 9 inch­es tall
Frequents: March Town, Green Island in Hanover and Negril, Westmoreland

4. Kayon Casselle
Alias: Casper
HANOVER
Offences: Shooting with intent, ille­gal pos­ses­sion of a firearm and rob­bery with aggra­va­tion com­mit­ted on August 30, 2015 in Woodsland, Hanover
Description: Slim build, dark com­plex­ion with low hair­cut, straight nose and small eyes, tat­too of a scor­pi­on on left side of neck and both ears pierced
Frequents: Guava Walk, Unity Hall in St James and Woodsland, Hanover

5. Richardo Robinson
Aliases: Travis, Charma
HANOVER
Offences: Shooting with intent, ille­gal pos­ses­sion of a firearm and rob­bery with aggra­va­tion com­mit­ted August 30, 2015, at Woodsland, Hanover.
Description: Dark com­plex­ion, 5 feet and 6 inch­es tall, black low-cut hair.
Frequents: Guava Walk, Unity Hall in St James and Woodsland, Hanover

6. Nicholas Stephens
HANOVER
Offence: Rape com­mit­ted in Montpellier, Sandy Bay Hanover
Description: Tall, dark, slim build and has low hair cut with head top bald
Frequents: Islington in St Mary, Montpellier and Sandy Bay in Hanover

7. Marvin Strachan
Alias: Jazza
HANOVER
Offence: Rape com­mit­ted in Montpellier, Sandy Bay, Hanover
Description: Dark brown com­plex­ion, broad face, big teeth, medi­um build, plait­ed hair and about 5 feet and 6 inch­es tall.

8. Sheldon Brown
Alias: Gambler
HANOVER
Offence: Wounding intent and rob­bery with aggra­va­tion com­mit­ted on April 4, 2020 in Santoy District, Hanover.
Description: Dark com­plex­ion, dread­locked hair
Frequents: Orange Bay Estate and Santoy District in Hanover

9. Gibar Griffiths
Alias: Weedy
HANOVER
Offence: Shooting with Intent at Camp Road, Hopewell, Hanover
Description: Fair com­plex­ion, slim build and about 5 feet and 9 inch­es tall

10. Omario James
Alias: Kicksa
HANOVER
Offence: Rape on November 11, 2021 in Kew District, Hanover
Description: Five feet and 5 inch­es tall, very slim, short, plait­ed hair, bleached (brown) com­plex­ion, small straight face, straight nose
Frequents: Kew dis­trict, Hopewell, Johnson Town, Bachelors Hall in Hanover

11. Leon Lloyd Reckard
Alias: Brown Dog
HANOVER
Offence: Rape com­mit­ted on January 16, 2010 in Cove, Hanover
Description: Black com­plex­ion, medi­um build, round face and about 5ft inch­es tall
Frequents: Green Island in Hanover and Negril in Westmoreland

12. O’Brien Thomas
HANOVER
Offence: Rape com­mit­ted in 2012
Description: Short, slim build, dark com­plex­ion and low haircut

13. Roy Mitchell
Alias: Laddy, Randy
HANOVER
Offence: Rape and oth­er sex­u­al offences com­mit­ted in April, 2013
Description: Dark com­plex­ion, mus­cu­lar body, left ear pierced and low-cut hair
Frequents: Sections of Kingston and Sandy Bay, Hanover

14. Kenroy Roach
Alias: Ticka
ST JAMES
Offence: Murder of Jermaine Brown com­mit­ted on March 6, 2021 in Hopeton dis­trict, St James
Description: He is of dark com­plex­ion, low-cut hair­style and is about 5 feet and 10 inch­es tall
Frequents: Bethel Town in Westmoreland and Hampton in St James

15. Shaquille Nathaniel Brown
Gang affil­i­at­ed: 1452
ST JAMES
Description: Five feet and 10 inch­es tall, dark com­plex­ion, scar on left cheek
Frequents: Paradise Rowe, Williams Street, Glendevon in the parish of St. James
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on April 18, 2019 on William Street, Montego Bay

16. Nickeelo Lewis
Alias: Kino, Jay, Rich Kid
ST JAMES
Offence: Two counts of mur­der and three counts of shoot­ing with Intent com­mit­ted January 4, 2022 about 8 p.m. in Ocean Heights, Lilliput, St James
Description: About 24 years old, bleached brown com­plex­ion, sports long hair­style, beard­ed face, thick­ly build, 5 feet and 5 inch­es tall
Frequents: Skate Land, Ocean Heights, Grange Pen and Bugs Bunny all in the Lilliput area of St James

17. Kevin White
Alias: Chucky Don
ST JAMES
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on December 17, 2018 in York Bush, Mt Carey, St James
Frequents: York Bush, Carey Village and Mahogany in St James
Description: About 25 years old, about 6 feet tall, slim build, black com­plex­ion, three teardrops tat­too under his right eye, and a tat­too marked “Guck” on his chest
Frequents: York Bush, Carey Village and Mahogany in St James

18. Gerald McNaughton
Alias: Ice, Ice T
ST JAMES
Offence: Murder of Delroy Fisher and wound­ing with intent of Alwin Burchell com­mit­ted on November 2, 2021 about 10:30am at New Road, Providence, Flankers, St James
Description: About 5 feet 10 inch­es tall, dark com­plex­ion, medi­um build with reced­ing hairline
Frequents: Providence, Flankers in St James and Wakefield, Trelawny

19. Andre Hinds
Alias: Bunny
ST JAMES
Offence: Double mur­der of Rojae Jordon Reid and Anothika Wedderburn and wound­ing with intent of Maudlyn Jackson com­mit­ted on November 30, 2020
Associations: Associated with the Delete Squad, Savanna-la-mar.
Frequents: Russia dis­trict, Savanna-la-mar and Auldayr dis­trict, Bluefields, Westmoreland

20. Moses Ramsey
WESTMORELAND
Offence: Two cas­es of shoot­ing with intent and one case of wound­ing with intent
Frequents: Russia District and Burnt Savannah in Savanna-la-mar and Auldayr District Bluefields, Westmoreland

21. Devani Bennett
Alias: Santa
WESTMORELAND
Offence: Murder of Clovis Forrester alias Bredda, com­mit­ted on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, about 6:30 p.m in Auldayr District, Bluefields, Westmoreland.
Associations: Associated with the Delete Squad, Savanna-la-mar and an asso­ciate of Moses Ramsey and Andre Hinds alias Bunny
Frequents: Auldayr District in Bluefields, Westmoreland

22. Kevin Clarke
Alias: Hutch
WESTMORELAND
Offence: Double mur­der com­mit­ted on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, on Barracks Road, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland
Associations: Associated with the Gully Banks Gang.
Frequents: Hudson Street, Gully Banks, Russia, Chantilly, Westmoreland

23. Burton Shearer
Alias: Bop
WESTMORELAND
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on May 12, 2016 at Church Lincoln District in Grange Hill, Westmoreland
Associations: Baby’s moth­er goes by the alias ‘Carole’.
Frequents: Geneva District in Grange Hill, Westmoreland

AREA2

24. Elroy Griffiths
Alias: Greg, Sicky
PORTLAND
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on August 20, 2019 in the Olivere Housing Scheme, Buff Bay, Portland
Description: Light brown com­plex­ion, slim build, sports low-cut hairstyle.
Frequents: Olivere Housing Scheme, Kildare, Canewood in Portland.

25. Devon Brown
Alias: Blender
PORTLAND
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on Monday, September 28, 2020
Description: Slim build, bleached brown com­plex­ion and sports low-cut hairstyle.
Frequents: Nelson Street, Buff Bay, Portland, Buff Bay Town and Brandon Hill, St Mary

26. Maurice Clarke
Alias: Beef
PORTLAND
Offences: Three counts of rape com­mit­ted between September 2021 and Friday November 5, 2021
Description: Medium build, dark com­plex­ion, sports low-cut hair style
Frequents: Manchioneal District, Portland

27. Sadray Travis Burry
Alias: Burry Bwoy
ST MARY
Offence: Murder of Randy Thompson on May 5, 2021 in Friendship District, Islington, St Mary
Description: Light brown com­plex­ion, slim build and about five feet and eight inch­es tall
Frequents: Montego Bay, St James; Basin Hill and Islington, St Mary; Mountain View, St Andrew and Haiti.

28. Jerome Downie
Alias: Dada
ST MARY
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on September 09, 2021 on Post Road in Richmond, St Mary
Description: Dark Brown com­plex­ion, slim build and about five feet and eight inch­es tall.
Frequents: Post Road Richmond St. Mary, Montego Bay, St James and Kingston

29. Damion Hitchman
Alias: Wingie
ST MARY
Offence: Murder of Jason McLean of Tremolsworth in Highgate, St Mary
Description: Dark Brown com­plex­ion, slim build and about five feet eight inch­es tall
Frequents: Tremolsworth, Highgate, St Mary, Phase Two, Seaview Gardens, Kingston

30. J’melle Antwon Hooks
ST MARY
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted about 10:30 a.m on Sunday October 25, 2020 at Heywood Hall, St Mary
Description: Dark brown com­plex­ion, stout build and about five feet nine and inch­es tall.
Frequents: 137 Dandelion Avenue, St Ann’s Bay, St Ann

31. Chinloy Sprncer
Alias: Todo
ST MARY
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on May 31, 2021 in Days Mountain, Oracabessa, St Mary
Description: Light brown com­plex­ion, slim build; about five feet and sev­en inch­es tall and sports a corn row hairstyle
Frequents: Days Mountain, Oracabessa St Mary; Port Antonio, Portland; Claremont, St Ann and May Pen, Clarendon

32. Damion Christopher Boyd
ST MARY
Offence: Wounding with intent com­mit­ted on Sunday, October 11, 2020 at Cudjoe Bridge, Islington, St Mary
Description: Dark brown com­plex­ion, slim build and about five feet and nine inch­es tall. He sports a low-cut hairstyle
Frequents: Barclay’s Town in Gayle, St Mary and Moneague, St Ann

33. Alrick Scott
ST MARY
Offence: Rape com­mit­ted on January 7, 2015 in Bamboo Corner, St Mary
Description: Dark Brown com­plex­ion, slim build and about six feet tall
Frequents: Bamboo Corner, Belfield, Cromwell Land and Highgate in St Mary and May Pen in Clarendon

34. Manton Brown
Alias: Banton
ST CATHERINE
Offences: Murder com­mit­ted on April 27, 2017 along Borelias Boulevard near Gregory Park, Watson Grove; two oth­er counts of mur­der and wound­ing with intent
Description: About 6 feet tall, dark com­plex­ion, slim build
Frequents: Brown’s Town and Sturge Town in St Ann and Linstead in St Catherine
Last known address: Aries Close in Watson Grove, Portmore, St Catherine

35. Brian Forbes
Alias: QQ
ST ANN
Offence: Double mur­der com­mit­ted on Saturday, April 25, 2015 about 4:45 a.m at Drumiliy District, St Ann
Last known address: Drumily District, Claremont
Frequents: Suspect said to be liv­ing in the wild and not at any giv­en location

36. Albert Dyer
Alias: Mojo
ST ANN
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 in Douglas Castle, St Ann
Last known address: Douglas Castle, St Ann
Frequents: Douglas Castle, St Ann

37. Nickoy Cunningham
Alias; Hype
ST ANN
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on Friday, April 08, 2016 at Belle Aire, Runaway Bay, St Ann about 9:30 p.m
Last known address: Belle Aire, Runaway Bay, St Ann
Frequents: The North Coast and Brown’s Town in the parish of St Ann

38. Christopher Brown
ST ANN
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on Friday December 9, 2016 about 8:50 a.m in Steer Town, St Ann
Last known address: Steer Town, St Ann; Princess Street, Kingston; Majestic Gardens, Kingston 11
Frequents: The North Coast and Brown’s Town, St Ann as well as Spanish Town and Kingston

39. Dwayne Christie
Alias: Cojack
ST ANN
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on September 30, 2016 about 4:30 p.m. in Davis Town, Cave Valley, St Ann
Last known address: Davis Town, Cave Valley, St Ann
Frequents: Cave Valley, St Ann and Spaldings, Manchester

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40. Romaine Murray 
Alias: John Tom
CLARENDON
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted April 19, 2019 in Comfort District, Osbourne Store, Clarendon
Frequents: Bucknor, Comfort, Milk River, Osbourne Store, Four Paths in Clarendon
School attend­ed: Osborne Store All-Age

41. Steve Leonard Francis 
CLARENDON
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on July 22, 2019 on Sunset Crescent, Four Paths, Clarendon
Description: About 5 feet and 7 inch­es tall, medi­um build, low-cut hair­style, walks with a limp. Known dia­bet­ic. Has pierced ears.
Last Known Address: Sunset Crescent, Four Paths, Clarendon
Frequents: Bucknor, Comfort, Milk River, Osbourne Store, Four Paths in Clarendon

42. Panif Broomfield 
Alias: Chang
CLARENDON 
Offences: Shooting with intent and rob­bery with aggra­va­tion of a police sergeant com­mit­ted in May Pen, Clarendon |
Description: Brown com­plex­ion, medi­um build, brown eyes, about 6 feet and 4 inch­es tall, scar to low­er right hand and tat­toos on both hands
Last known address: Buzz Rock Effortville, Clarendon

43. Collin Bailey
Alias: Alex or Foodie
CLARENDON 
Offence: Shooting with intent against the police com­mit­ted March 13, 2020 on Bryant’s Crescent, May Pen, Clarendon
Description: Dark com­plex­ion, slim build, is about 5 feet and 7 inch­es tall and sports low-cut hairstyle
Last known address: Bucknor District, May Pen, Clarendon

44. Othniel Andre Smith 
CLARENDON 
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted November 23, 2015 on Lawson Boulevard, Four Paths, Clarendon
Frequents: Four Paths, Clarendon
Last known address: Lawson Boulevard, Four Paths, Clarendon

45. Kertell Marvel Shand 
Alias: Dennis
CLARENDON 
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted August 14, 2016 in Scotts Bottom, Milk River, Clarendon
Description: Rastafarian, brown com­plex­ion, medi­um build and about 5 feet and 7 inch­es tall
Last known address: Scott Bottom District, Milk River, Clarendon

46. Dwayne Butler 
Alias: Tez
CLARENDON 
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted February 03, 2011 on Hazard Drive, May Pen, Clarendon
Description: 5 feet tall, medi­um build and very black
Last known address: Farm-Effortville, Clarendon

47. Alton Gordon 
CLARENDON
Offence: Murder and shoot­ing with intent against the police
Description: Fair com­plex­ion, slim build, big nose and low-cut hair
Last Known Address: Bunkers Hill, Frankfield, Clarendon

48. Sekhomi Bennett 
Alias: Ginger, Sickie
MANCHESTER
Offence: Murder, Shooting with intent and ille­gal pos­ses­sion of a firearm
Gang affil­i­a­tion: Grey Ground Gang
Last known address: Comfort District, Manchester

49. Assagar Martin 
Alias: Asa
MANCHESTER
Offence: Shooting and wound­ing with intent and ille­gal pos­ses­sion of a firearm
Last known address: Highway Drive, Greenvale, and Bellefield in Manchester
Gang affil­i­a­tion: 100 Man/​Gaza Gang

50. Romaine Reid 
MANCHESTER 
Offence: Robbery with aggra­va­tion and ille­gal pos­ses­sion of a firearm
Last known address: Corner Street, Waltham, Manchester

51. Shawane Shamar Rose 
Alias: Bookie
MANCHESTER 
Offence: Murder, shoot­ing and wound­ing with intent and ille­gal pos­ses­sion of a firearm
Last known address: Texas, Top Greenvale, Manchester
Gang affil­i­a­tion: 100 Man/​Gaza Gang

52. Krishna Barrett 
ST ELIZABETH 
Offence: Murder of Isaiah Dixon com­mit­ted July 17, 2021 in Holland District, St Elizabeth
Last known address: Holland District, St Elizabeth
Frequents: Haughton, Lacovia, Santa Cruz in St Elizabeth and Seaview in Kingston

53. Alex Anthony McDonald 
ST ELIZABETH 
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on November 11, 2021 about 8:10 pm on Water Lane, Junction, St Elizabeth
Last known address: Water Lane, Bull Savannah, St Elizabeth
Frequents: Alligator Pond, Todd Town, Port Henderson Plaza, Portmore

54. Eric Campbell 
Alias: Fross
ST ELIZABETH 
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on September 07, 2018 about 12:20 p.m in Fyffes Pen, St Elizabeth
Last known address: Fyffe’s Pen, St Elizabeth
Frequents: Fyffe’s Pen, St Elizabeth

55. Dujon Wright 
Aliases: Dujie or Sojie
ST ELIZABETH 
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on June 8, 2019 in Peacock Heights, New Town, St Elizabeth
Last known address: New Town, St Elizabeth
Frequents: Peacock Heights, New Town Housing Scheme, St Elizabeth and the coun­try of Haiti

AREA 4

56. Jevaugn Ford 
Alias: Jevy
ST ANDREW SOUTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted: August 29, 2019 about 1:30 p.m. in Ferry District, St Andrew
Last known address: Ferry District, St Andrew
Frequents: Linstead, St Catherine

57. Oneil Cunningham 
Alias: Biggs
ST ANDREW SOUTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on June 1, 2017
Last known address: Ferry District, St Andrew
Frequents: Barbican, St Andrew; Portmore and Linstead in St Catherine

58. Shantoney Cardis 
Alias: Chassy or Tywan
ST ANDREW SOUTH
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on November 6, 2017
Last known address: Waltham Park Road, Kingston
Frequents: Union Gardens, Whispers Hotel along Gretna Green Avenue off Waltham Park Road, Harbour View, York Avenue and Mongoose Town

59. Albert Mitchell 
Alias: Ballie
ST ANDREW SOUTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on November 2, 2021
Gang Affiliation: Unruly Gang
Frequents: Henley Road, Varma Road, Riverton City and Olympic Way

60. Raheem Brown
Alias: Berger
ST ANDREW SOUTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on the March 30, 2019
Gang Affiliation: Crescent Road Gang (Rat Bat)
Last known address: Crescent Road, Kingston

61. Everton McDonald 
Alias: Eva
KINGSTON CENTRAL
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on November 3, 2020
Description: Dark brown com­plex­ion, medi­um build, 6 feet tall, tat­toos on left breast, shoul­der, and right hand (scor­pi­on)
Last known address: 52 East Street, Kingston

62. Shawniel Mae 
KINGSTON CENTRAL
Offence: Shooting with intent against the police com­mit­ted on August 17, 2021
Gang affil­i­a­tion: Genocide Gang
Last known address: 40 Laws Street, Kingston

63. David Fowler 
Alias: Okro Slime, Hot Head
KINGSTON CENTRAL
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on January 18, 2019
Last known address: 33 Love Lane, Kingston
Frequents: Half-Way Tree, Kingston

64: Mervin Henry 
Alias: Biggy
KINGSTON CENTRAL
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on January 23, 2016
Last known address: 28 Georges Lane, Kingston
Gang affil­i­a­tion: George’s Lane Gang

65. Shanrick Shevaughn Nugent 
Alias: Dan Dan
KINGSTON CENTRAL
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on July 26, 2014
Last known address: August Town, Kingston
Gang affil­i­a­tion: Fleet Street Gang

66. Kevin Cole 
Alias: Kevman
KINGSTON EAST
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on Sunday, October 3, 2021
Last known address: 17 Glasspole Avenue, Rockfort Kingston 2
Frequents: St George’s Road, Kingston

67. Jordan Henry 
Alias: Jack
KINGSTON EAST
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on March 6, 2019
Last known address: Bower Bank and Kingston Central
Frequents: Allman Town, Kingston

68. Andre Robinson 
Alias: Kemmy
KINGSTON EAST
Offence: Wounding with intent on January 15, 2021
Last known address: William Street; Rae Town, Kingston 16
Frequents: 29 Chancery Lane, Kingston

69. Paul Waite 
Alias: Poppy
KINGSTON EAST
Offences: Murder and wound­ing with intent com­mit­ted on January 2, 2021
Last known address: 4 Glasspole Avenue, Kingston
Frequents: 22 Harbour Road, Kingston

70. Marlon Stephenson 
Alias: Finger Blacks
KINGSTON EAST
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on January 17, 2020
Last known address: 20 Hyslop Avenue, Rockfort, Kingston 2
Frequents: Bayshore Park, Harbour View, Kingston

71. Richard Higgins 
Alias: Bob
KINGSTON EAST
Offence: Shooting with intent against the police com­mit­ted on October 15, 2020 along Wellington Street in the vicin­i­ty of Sligo Street Kingston 16.
Last known address: 3 Wellington Street, Kingston 16
Frequents: Jarrett Lane Kingston 2, George’s Lane, Central Kingston and Cloverly Road

72. Oshane Morris 
Alias: Chucky
ST ANDREW CENTRAL
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on December 15, 2012 at 5 Swallowfield Road
Last known address: 1a Bottom River, August Town Kingston 7
Gang affil­i­a­tion: Vietnam Gang

73. Alexander Webb 
Alias: Puppet
ST ANDREW CENTRAL
Offence: Shooting com­mit­ted on June 18, 2013 along Nanny Boulevard in the vicin­i­ty of Mooretown Way, Nannyville
Last known address: 4 Moretown Way, Nannyville Gardens, Kingston 3
Frequents: Crossroads, Mountain View, Stadium Gardens in St Andrew

74. Jordon Henry 
ST ANDREW CENTRAL
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on June 30, 2019 about 4:30 a.m. along Lady Musgrave Road in the vicin­i­ty of premis­es #26 Kingston 5
Last known address: 48 Marverley Avenue, Kingston 10
Frequents: Waterfront, down­town Kingston, Waltham Park Road, New Kingston

75. Daunte Sutherland 
Alias: Ash Boy
ST ANDREW CENTRAL
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on March 21, 2021 along Dallas Road, Tavern, Kingston 6, St Andrew
Last known address: 146 Bedward Gardens, Kingston 7

76. Jermaine Smith 
Alias: Kartel, Gazaman, Worm
ST ANDREW NORTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on February 22, 2019 in Golden Spring Road, St, Andrew
Description: Bleached brown com­plex­ion, 6 feet and 2 inch­es tall, slim build, tat­too of a lizard and a skull in mid­dle of chest
Frequents: Golden Spring, Lime Edge, Mount James

77. Kemar Graham 
ST ANDREW NORTH
Offences: Murder com­mit­ted on July 22

Offences: Murder com­mit­ted on July 22, 2009 at Boone Hall District, St Andrew
Description: Black com­plex­ion, about 5 feet and 11 inch­es tall, sports low hair­cut, small face
Frequents: Boone Hall, Arthur Leon Drive, Golden Spring.
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78. Kevin Fletcher
Alias: Tippy
ST CATHERINE NORTH
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on May 29, 2021 at Barry Main Road, Bog Walk, St Catherine
Description: Dark com­plex­ion, round face, about five feet and ten inch­es tall.
Frequents: Victoria District, Linstead, Ewarton and Springvale in St Catherine and Brown’s Town in St Ann

79. Shamar O’connor
Alias: Zum
ST CATHERINE NORTH
Offence: Wounding with intent com­mit­ted on February 2, 2018 in Palm Cross, Treadways, Linstead, St Catherine
Description: About 6 feet tall, medi­um build, light com­plex­ion which appear to be from skin bleach­ing, straight face, broad nose, thick lips, big mouth and corn­row hairstyle.
Frequents: Ocho Rios, St Ann; Portmore, St Catherine; Treadways, Linstead, St Catherine; St Mary.

80. Andy Parkinson
ST CATHERINE NORTH
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on July 9, 2019 at McCooks Pen, Spanish Town, St Catherine
Description: Dark com­plex­ion, stout build, 5 feet tall, straight face, dark lips, twist­ed hair, about 22 years old, lots of liv­er spot on body.
Frequents: McCooks Pen, Spanish Town, St Catherine

81. Alvin Messam
Alias: Kevin
ST CATHERINE NORTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on April 28, 2018 on White Water Boulevard in Spanish Town, St Catherine
Description: Over 5 feet 6 inch­es tall, slim build, dread­locked hair­style, straight face, pierced ears.
Frequents: Tawes Pen, Ellerslie Pen, Williams Lane, Bobby Lane, Spanish Town Market

82. Junior Brown
ST CATHERINE NORTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on April 15, 2020 in Spring Vale District, Bog Walk, St Catherine
Description: Brown com­plex­ion, medi­um build, oval-shaped face
Frequents: Greendale, St Catherine; Manchester

83. Marlon Barnett
Alias: Shortman, Jamo
ST CATHERINE SOUTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on February 14, 2014 at Lot #163 Vivaldy Ave, Caymanas Gardens, Site D, Gregory Park
Description: Suspect now sports a Rastafarian hair­style and is of bleached brown complexion
Frequents: West Kingston

84. Stokely Collings
Alias: Peppa
ST CATHERINE SOUTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on March 15, 2013 in Zambia, Central Village, St Catherine
Description: Short, medi­um build, beard­ed and with lots of hair on head, brown com­plex­ion, seems to be in his 30s.
Last known address­es: Sam Sharpe Square, St James; Windsor Heights, Central Village, St Catherine

85.Barington Campbell
Alias: Coolie, Jason
ST CATHERINE SOUTH
Offence: Shooting with intent com­mit­ted on February 5, 2021 along Central Road, Spaulding Gardens, Central Village, St Catherine
Description: Long hair, ear­ly 20s, light complexion.
Last known address: Welder of Central Road, Big Lane, Central Village, St Catherine

86. Sheldon Wright
Alias: Bwoy
ST CATHERINE SOUTH
Offence: Murder com­mit­ted on October 28, 2020 on Manley Lane, Naggo Head, Portmore, St Catherine
Description: Dark com­plex­ion, slim build about, 5 feet and 7 inch­es tall, high forehead
Last known address: 441 Spanish Town Road, Kingston 11

87. Nesta Morrison
Alias: Bigga
ST THOMAS
Offence: Shooting with intent in rela­tion to police personnel
Last known address: Review Pen and Tank Weld Hill, Ten Miles Bull Bay, St Thomas
Frequents: 10 Miles Bull Bay, St Thomas; Harbour View, St Andrew, down­town Kingston

88. Gowayne Williams
Aliases: Chris, Nanu
ST THOMAS
Offences: Murder and wound­ing with intent
Last known address: Yallahs, St Thomas
Frequents: Truro dis­trict, Westmoreland

The secu­ri­ty forces con­duct­ed a tar­get­ed Raid at Artwell Drive, Pitfour, Granville, St. James between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm in search of ille­gal firearms, ammu­ni­tion, and lot­tery scam paraphernalia.
Targeted for appre­hen­sion were Jason Gentles (Ratty) and Blacks.
Five (5) Dwelling hous­es were searched. (3) Three firearms were recov­ered at the back of an old foul coop.
One Glock pis­tol with ser­i­al num­ber erased with one mag­a­zine affixed con­tain­ing (8) eight rounds 9 mm cartridges
One American Tactical Omni hybrid M16 rifle ser­i­al num­ber NS166074 with one mul­ti-cal­iber mag­a­zine (PMag) con­tain­ing 22 5.56 mm cartridges
One Sig Pro pis­tol ser­i­al num­ber SP0017501 with one mag­a­zine affixed con­tain­ing (10) ten .40 car­tridges, (2) two addi­tion­al Glock mag­a­zines, and one Browning mag­a­zine were also found along with eight lot­to-lead sheets, one bal­lis­tic vest, (6) six pairs reg­is­tra­tion plates. Seven per­sons were arrest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find, they are:

1. Rasi Hyde o/​c Blacks age 27 yrs Labourer of Norwood Gardens and Lot 43 Artwell Drive, Pitfour, Granville, St. James.
2. Brandon Campbell o/​c Ratty age 20 yrs Landscaper of Lot 43 Artwell Drive, Pitfour, Granville St. James and Westmoreland.
3. Sanchez Campbell o/​c Tommy age 26 yrs Shop Operator of Maroon Town, St. James
4. Richard Wright o/​c Bomb Head age 25 yrs Labourer of Tucker, Granville, St. James
5. Nickelia Authurs age 23 yrs Store Clerk of Tucker, Granville, St. James
6. Camille Bailey age 29 yrs Hairdresser of Chambers Drive, Granville, St. James
7. Georgette Mckenzie, age 27 yrs Security Officer of Lot 43 Artwell Drive, Pitfour, Granville, St. James.

Intelligence-based polic­ing is still the best form of polic­ing. A police depart­ment that does not have good intel­li­gence assets is oper­at­ing in the dark in today’s environment.
Recent weapons recov­ery by a spe­cial­ized branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force demon­strates, at least to this for­mer cop who thrived on intel­li­gence sup­plied by trust­ing assets that peo­ple are still will­ing to pro­vide infor­ma­tion to cops they can trust.

It was embar­rass­ing to hear Fitz Bailey, one of the senior lead­ers of the force, speak­ing to the dis­cov­ery of the firearms, talk­ing about winning[back] the trust of the Jamaican people.
Despite the con­stant harangu­ing by the morons in the dance hall indus­try who con­tin­ue to incite mur­der on any­one who dares give infor­ma­tion to the police, the Jamaican peo­ple have nev­er wavered in giv­ing crit­i­cal intel­li­gence to offi­cers they can [trust].
That word trust should be auto­mat­ic when we speak of police offi­cers, but far too often, some mem­bers of the force have squan­dered that trust, mak­ing the agen­cy’s job expo­nen­tial­ly more difficult.
People nev­er wavered in giv­ing infor­ma­tion to offi­cers who have earned that trust. Stationed at Mobile Reserve, I was able to get intel­li­gence that yield­ed a loaded M16 Rifle in a ceil­ing in Greenwich Farm.
Trust pro­vid­ed me with live intel­li­gence, lead­ing me to an armed gang­ster who want­ed me dead. Trust enabled me to remove dozens of crim­i­nals from the streets each month.
See the video here in the link below.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=481127340266781&external_log_id=33fc5ce5-a9e8-4b38-be24-2275b1e717bb&q=deputy%20commissioner%20of%20police%20fitz%20bailey%20speaks%20after%20weapons%20were%20recovered%20at%20national%20stadium%20east

Yesterday while this oper­a­tion was ongo­ing, I wrote an arti­cle direct­ed to the pow­ers that be on the Island. The arti­cle was the usu­al apo­lit­i­cal, high­ly crit­i­cal dia­tribe one would expect from me.
Yes, it pains my heart to see what a few hun­dred lit­tle punk-clowns are allowed to do to an entire coun­try while the lead­ers twid­dle their thumbs.
See the arti­cle below.
https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​g​o​v​e​r​n​m​e​n​t​-​s​i​t​s​-​o​n​-​i​t​s​-​a​s​s​-​a​n​d​-​d​o​e​s​-​a​b​s​o​l​u​t​e​l​y​-​n​o​t​h​i​n​g​-​t​o​-​e​x​t​e​r​m​i​n​a​t​e​-​m​u​r​d​e​r​o​u​s​-​g​a​n​gs/

At the time of pub­li­ca­tion, I had no idea that the Stadium oper­a­tion was ongo­ing, yield­ing eight ille­gal weapons and an assort­ment of ille­gal ammunition.
In the sug­ges­tions part of my arti­cle, I laid out some strate­gies that I know will yield results, includ­ing the following.
(Marshall assets of the Jamaica Defense Force have a few pla­toons of the JDF come over the back of the moun­tain (speak­ing of back bush), and seal off any escape back up the moun­tain. When those assets are in place, rapid­ly seal off the area from moun­tain view avenue to the south, Rockfort to the east, and upper Mountain View Avenue to the west, then slow­ly and delib­er­ate­ly squeeze the cir­cle toward the middle.
Once the area is sealed, police and sol­diers with dogs and bull­doz­ers tear down all unoc­cu­pied build­ings. Remove all zinc fences and find the guns and the shoot­ers, mov­ing inch by inch).
It is ratio­nal to imag­ine that guns have to be hid­den some­where; why has the gov­ern­ment not empow­ered the secu­ri­ty forces to go into these under­served com­mu­ni­ties and turn up every­thing until the guns are all recovered?

I sug­gest­ed that the secu­ri­ty forces build out that strat­e­gy once that oper­a­tion was com­plet­ed. Guaranteed that strat­e­gy would reduce mur­ders by 50% with­in the first three months and see a drop off of anoth­er 20% over time as the secu­ri­ty forces take back the com­mu­ni­ties. It hap­pened when Tivoli Gardens was annexed to Jamaica.

Tying up huge num­bers of police and sol­diers in com­mu­ni­ties to stand by the side of the road in sup­posed (ZOSOs) Zones of Special Operations and (SOEs) States of Emergencies is a retard­ed strat­e­gy. It is the same as apply­ing pret­ty wall­pa­per to old rot­ten walls.
It allows the per­son paper­ing the walls (the gov­ern­ment) the illu­so­ry effect of doing some­thing with­out actu­al­ly address­ing the prob­lem. Those who defend SOESs & ZOSOs, regard­less of their sta­tion, head of the army, or head of the force, no excep­tions, are just as retard­ed and duplic­i­tous as the government.
Go into the com­mu­ni­ties, tear down the zinc fences, and occu­py the space; that is how you stop this non­sense. You can­not police the coun­try from inside the stationhouse.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

At about 10:15 pm on January 21^st, a motorist dri­ving along the North-South Highway head­ing into Kingston alert­ed JDF per­son­nel in a ser­vice vehi­cle that occu­pants of a vehi­cle dumped the body of some­one from the vehicle.
The JDF per­son­nel led by a Captain inter­cept­ed a sil­ver Nissan Sylphy reg. 0972 GR is owned by Carnegie Motors with two men aboard.

One sus­pect gave his name as Okeif Brooks, a busi­ness­man of 425 Dove Place, Innswood Village DOB, March 9, 1985.
The oth­er sus­pect gave his name as Shekime Richards, tat­too artist of Featherbed Lane, Spanish Town, St. Catherine.
The sus­pec­t’s Nissan motor­car was searched by police, who arrived some­time later.

A Taurus revolver ser­i­al num­ber ZXH 2100035 was found on the floor of the car in the left front pas­sen­ger area, as also blood in the car.
An uniden­ti­fied body of a male was also dis­cov­ered about two kilo­me­ters from where the sus­pects were inter­cept­ed on the south­bound side.

Not to wor­ry, though, the two sus­pects will be out on bail soon­er than you can say peter-pat­ter. Jamaica’s judges have tak­en it upon them­selves to grant bail to all kinds of vio­lent gang­sters, includ­ing mur­der­ers. So expect these two to be out on bail soon, if they aren’t already out.

Nobody elect­ed Jamaica’s Judges; there­fore, their claim to inde­pen­dence is based on noth­ing more than a desire to be unac­count­able. There is a prob­lem; how­ev­er, as long as you are paid with pub­lic dol­lars, you must com­port your­self with the dic­tates of the terms of your employment.
I dare say that where that is con­cerned, Jamaica’s judges have been a colos­sal fail­ure and an inte­gral part of the nation’s crime pandemic.
For decades Police offi­cers and crime vic­tims have com­plained about the lax­i­ty and sense of non­cha­lance the Island’s judges approach deal­ing with vio­lent crim­i­nals before them, except for a few.
In many cas­es, they are bla­tant­ly hos­tile and dis­re­spect­ful to pros­e­cu­tors and police offi­cers while falling over them­selves to be def­er­en­tial to defense lawyers and their crim­i­nal clients.
Defense attor­neys like KD Knight, Churchill Neita, Bert Samuels, George Soutar, and oth­ers would behave as if they were the judges with­out con­se­quences or rebuke. Knight, Neita, and a few oth­ers were known to half stand with one boot­ed leg on the seat where they ought to be sit­ting while address­ing the judge.
I have nev­er seen a rebuke of their behav­ior, but God for­bid that a pros­e­cut­ing attor­ney makes a mis­take, or worse, a police offi­cer is late regard­less of the circumstance.……

The issue of Judges act­ing out­side the scope of their author­i­ty has been well doc­u­ment­ed. Today our once beau­ti­ful and peace­ful coun­try has been reduced to one of the top mur­der cap­i­tals of the world with the direct assis­tance of judges who believe they have the author­i­ty to cir­cum­vent the will of the peo­ple and their elect­ed officials.
The obsti­na­cy and igno­rance of many Jamaican peo­ple have allowed this prac­tice to con­tin­ue to the point that our coun­try is now tee­ter­ing on the brink of becom­ing a failed state.
Judges hand­ing down sus­pend­ed sen­tences with not a day in jail for crim­i­nals con­vict­ed of hav­ing unli­censed ille­gal guns and ammu­ni­tion in their posi­tion. Five and sev­en years sen­tences for mur­der, twelve years for a dou­ble mur­der­er with the option to receive parole in ten years.
These are failed social­ist prac­tices pro­grammed into these mis­guid­ed morons at the Norman Manley Law school and the oth­er left­ist insti­tu­tions scat­tered around the Caribbean.
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Lensley Wolfe was a judge at the gun court while I was serv­ing. Wolfe would lat­er go on to become chief jus­tice. (for what that’s worth. I was an act­ing cor­po­ral attached to CIB at Constant Spring.
As one of the offi­cers who was proac­tive in remov­ing crim­i­nals from the streets, my sched­ule was exhaustive.
Back then, CIB offi­cers’ life was expo­nen­tial­ly dif­fer­ent from that of uni­formed offi­cers. So my day start­ed at the office at 7.45 am. We worked through the day until 1:00 pm; we then got a break to go home, change, and be back at work by 6:00 pm the same day. We would work from 6:00 pm through the night until 8:00 am the next day.
If you worked at CIB back then, it was almost assured that you would have one or more court cas­es that would neces­si­tate your going home to show­er, grab a cup of cof­fee and be in court after that long work shift.
One morn­ing, hav­ing done the overnight sce­nario I out­lined, I dashed home, took a show­er, and got dressed; I had a case in the Gun court and a new one in the Half Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court (RM)…
Be remind­ed that I should be head­ing to bed ( we were not being paid extra for this work); we did it out of love for the job.
I got to Half Way Tree, hand­ed in the charg­ing Information to the clerk of courts, and informed her that I had a case in the high­er court that takes prece­dent over the RM court.
Again, all of these trav­els were in my pri­vate motor­car, for which I was not com­pen­sat­ed. I arrived at the Gun Court about ten min­utes after 10:00 am; the court start­ed at ten.
I believe I arrived at the gun Court no more than five min­utes after my case involv­ing my shot­ta was called.
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I was unaware that Lensley Wolfe had a grudge against me for what I am still in the dark to this day, and he cer­tain­ly will not be speak­ing to any­one any­time soon…
Wolfe attacked me imme­di­ate­ly after I walked into the court­room; he began berat­ing me for being late with­out the decen­cy or intel­li­gence of under­stand­ing that a front­line crime fight­er will have a legit­i­mate rea­son for being late that the court [must] respect.
He told me, “you mis­sa Beckles gwan like yu a bad man but yu don’t come to my court late” on and on he went on.
(Obviously bear­ing a grudge against me because I was unre­lent­ing in tak­ing gang­sters off the streets).
I could tell he felt pret­ty good about him­self because he rel­ished dis­re­spect­ing fool­ish police offi­cers who were afraid of his mouth.
When he fin­ished run­ning his mouth, I asked him, “are you done”? But I was­n’t done; I told him he had pow­ers only in that court­room, nowhere else, and that I had the pow­er to adjourn his court, ren­der­ing him pow­er­less. I also remind­ed him that my pow­ers extend­ed to every cor­ner of Jamaica and twelve [12] miles out to sea. I duti­ful­ly remind­ed him he had no pow­er to cur­tail my power.
That angered him, so he went on, “when I talk, you can go to your fed­er­a­tion” I laughed in his face and remind­ed him that I had zero inter­est in the police Federation to fight my bat­tles but that his stat­ed ani­mus against me which was on record would go a far way in my case to the Privy Council.
That shut him up fast; he nev­er uttered anoth­er syl­la­ble out­side the case I had before him. Police offi­cers from all over the coun­try called to con­grat­u­late me for doing what far too many were too pissed- scared to do.
The only time I saw Lensley Wolfe was at the Constant Spring Police Station, where he had shown up to renew his gun license. Yes, that is how gun licens­es were renewed in the ear­ly 90s. Walking down a cor­ri­dor, he saw me and imme­di­ate­ly turned around and dashed into an office.
I nev­er saw his ugly mug again until I left the force in 91.
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I see police offi­cers allow­ing them­selves to be dis­re­spect­ed by these char­la­tans who are more respect­ful of the gang­sters than hard­work­ing law enforce­ment officers.
As a young offi­cer then, I can attest that no judge dared be remote­ly dis­re­spect­ful to me, and I would not be dis­re­spect­ful to them. Most of these lit­tle bureau­crats have a bloat­ed sense of impor­tance and lit­tle recog­ni­tion that the pow­er they wield has been giv­en to them by the peo­ple they are hurt­ing with their actions…
I want­ed to lay this ques­tion to rest because the titles, ‘mi lord” ‘& ‘your hon­or,’ seem to have gone to the head of some of these clowns.
It is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the vot­ers to vote out politi­cians who refuse to act on their behalf. It is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the vot­ers to sweep from pow­er those who refuse to act to pro­tect the nation and replace them with oth­ers who com­mit to fix­ing the lax laws that allow this pro­tract­ed vio­lence in our country.
If they do not do what they com­mit­ted to, vote them out until real lead­ers are found.
The laws in our coun­try are a joke. They pose zero deter­rent effect to would-be crim­i­nals; in addi­tion, the Judges return the most vio­lent crim­i­nals to the street using the archa­ic argu­ments that bail is not sup­posed to be used as punishment.
It is time that the peo­ple remove any gov­ern­ment that refus­es to pro­tect them with strong laws that deter criminals.
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FIXES

The Jamaican Government seems to be fix­at­ed in a state of dor­man­cy on the issue of crime. The admin­is­tra­tion believes that the killers will stop killing if it says and does noth­ing. So it says and does nothing.
I write his arti­cle with zero empa­thy for the Prime Minister and the sit­u­a­tion he finds him­self in.
Let me be clear; I total­ly under­stand that the young Prime Minister would come to the job of Prime Minister with a desire to trans­form the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Hell, If I were in his shoes, the trans­for­ma­tion would have been dra­mat­i­cal­ly different.
The dif­fer­ence with my approach as opposed to his ‑is that I would trans­form the force, and the mem­bers would know that it was for their good and ben­e­fit, and so would the nation.
Unfortunately, Andrew Holness alien­at­ed the police in words and deeds even as he ele­vat­ed INDECOM and bleed­ing-heart bot­tom feed­ers who claim to be human rights activists.
The sad irony with those bot­tom feed­ers is that they nev­er have a sin­gle thing to say when inno­cent Jamaicans are mur­dered, not even when lit­tle boys have their throats slashed.
Last Year, 1,463 mur­ders were report­ed to the police, who long lost the fight against vio­lent crim­i­nals. Homicides went up in most police divi­sions across the Island, and if the past is pro­logue, this year will be even more bloody.

The Police Force need­ed over­sight, and it had over­sight. However, the intro­duc­tion of a new Agency, the Independent Commission of Investigations, INDECOM, could not have been cre­at­ed at a worse time.
This writer warned that even though the police force was deeply cor­rupt and was get­ting even more so, tying the hands of the police was not the answer, par­tic­u­lar­ly when hard­ened first-world crim­i­nals were being deport­ed back to Jamaica in droves from sev­er­al countries.
Not only was INDECOM untime­ly, but the new­ly mint­ed Commissioner was also unnec­es­sar­i­ly con­fronta­tion­al and antag­o­nis­tic toward the police.
The antag­o­nism com­ing from the Government, the human rights bot­tom feed­ers, INDECOM, along with the influx of depor­tees, cre­at­ed the per­fect storm for crime to thrive on the Island.
Everyone want­ed in on the act, so the judges joined the fray-releas­ing gun con­victs back onto the streets, often with probation.
It became the norm there­after for mur­der con­victs to receive twelve and ten-year sen­tences even for com­mit­ting mul­ti­ple homicides.
In the mad­ness of anti-police mele, crim­i­nals were con­sol­i­dat­ing and expand­ing their mur­der­ous empire all across the length and breadth of the Island.
They have sup­port­ers in Gordon House, in the high­est ech­e­lons of the Island’s judi­cia­ry, and the most sophis­ti­cat­ed com­mu­ni­ties for all intents and pur­pos­es.
Crime has become inex­tri­ca­bly inter­twined into the coun­try’s pop­u­lar cul­ture that nei­ther polit­i­cal par­ty has a clue how to dis­man­tle the crim­i­nal gangs.
I ques­tion whether either polit­i­cal par­ty wants this cav­al­cade of killings to stop.

For the aver­age Jamaican who would like peace and secu­ri­ty, their chances of hav­ing either lies in a visa and get­ting the hell away because nei­ther polit­i­cal par­ty intends to take the steps nec­es­sary to end the killings.
Lobbyists for crim­i­nals parad­ing as human rights agen­cies and indi­vid­u­als have more sway over anti-crime leg­is­la­tion than law-abid­ing Jamaicans.
It real­ly is not hard, manda­to­ry min­i­mum sen­tences of 25 with or with­out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of parole for mur­der depend­ing on the cir­cum­stances of the case.
Caught with an ille­gal gun, min­i­mum ten years impris­on­ment. Release the police to go after the killers unfet­tered and bring them in dead or alive, their choice.
Jamaica can­not con­tin­ue to have a nation­al secu­ri­ty pol­i­cy based on crim­i­nals’ rights. We need a vic­tim-cen­tered anti-crime strat­e­gy any­thing else is blow­ing smoke up the col­lec­tive ass­es of the Jamaican people.
For decades dance hall was allowed to set the stage in how the pub­lic inter­act­ed with law enforce­ment. Police offi­cers were labeled police boys, Babylon boys, pussy­holes, and the aver­age Jamaican were told that inform­ers must die.
The cumu­la­tive effect of that over the last four decades or so has been a Jamaica that has very lit­tle respect for the rule of law or those who enforce the laws.
So spare me just a lit­tle sar­casm if I do not give a shit about the croc­o­dile tears com­ing from that fra­ter­ni­ty on the sub­ject of mur­ders in Jamaica.
Andrew Holness start­ed with a botanist as nation­al secu­ri­ty min­is­ter; today, we have a med­ical doc­tor in that job and a sol­dier doing the work of a top cop. Those appoint­ments should not engen­der any con­fi­dence in the admin­is­tra­tion to get the job done. At the very least, we need peo­ple in those posi­tions who know want the hell it takes to get the job done.
None of that mat­ters as much as the refusal of the JLP admin­is­tra­tion and the PNP oppo­si­tion to pass laws that send a clear mes­sage that we will not tol­er­ate any more of this shit.
Laws that remove from the dirty judges remit the abil­i­ty to turn vio­lent crim­i­nals loose as soon as they are found guilty.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

’ve read the cur­rent report­ing regard­ing Jason Walker and Lt. (Jeffrey) Hash and as much detail as has been released in The Fayetteville Observer. As a gun enthu­si­ast and a CCW per­mit hold­er who has vol­un­tar­i­ly under­gone almost 200 hours of self-paid train­ing, I have one ques­tion. Walker was beat­ing on a wind­shield with a wiper. Is this threat con­sid­ered deadly?

In all of my train­ing, there is one under­ly­ing rule imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the four rules of gun safe­ty. Do not shoot an unarmed per­son. In order to con­sid­er shoot­ing any­one, you must rea­son­ably believe your own life or another’s is in imme­di­ate dan­ger. In oth­er words, some­one attack­ing you with any sort of weapon, includ­ing in some cas­es their hands, may be con­sid­ered a threat to your life.

Granted there will always be gray areas that hope­ful­ly are fair­ly inves­ti­gat­ed after a shoot­ing event that reveals the assailant could have caused death. That may be a dis­cus­sion for anoth­er time. My imme­di­ate ques­tion involves Lt. Hash and Jason Walker. As has been report­ed, Walker was on Lt. Hash’s hood and was beat­ing on Hash’s wind­shield with a wiper blade. In my world that’s pret­ty vio­lent, scary at some point, even-out-of-con­trol on Walker’s part. But not dead­ly, not yet. Crazy, yes, but not dead­ly. If I’m to under­stand cor­rect­ly, Hash was still inside his vehi­cle and had many less-lethal options to regain con­trol of the event. As report­ed, Hash left his vehi­cle and shot Walker. At this point, Walker was not a dead­ly threat. Angry, act­ing out, ver­bal­ly and/​or phys­i­cal­ly abu­sive pos­si­bly. But not dead­ly. If those are the cir­cum­stances there is yet one more impor­tant question.

Why would Lt. Hash not be as respon­si­ble for the out­come as I would be? Put me in that dri­ver’s seat, and I know I’m going to jail sim­ply because I’m not a Law Enforcement Officer. I would be charged, have to spend thou­sands on defense, and prob­a­bly con­vict­ed. Because at that point my life was not threat­ened. I would have had a lot of oth­er options to mit­i­gate the prob­lem that do not involve my gun. Even if I’m not found guilty, my life will be ruined in every con­ceiv­able way. Hopefully, this hor­ri­ble event will be sort­ed out in a trans­par­ent man­ner. I’ll be watch­ing closely.

This arti­cle orig­i­nal­ly appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: Letter: Pro-gun Fayetteville read­er asks if a wind­shield wiper is a dead­ly threat

Who did not know that the new policy which demands that cops intervene to stop their criminal colleagues from assaulting civilians would run into issues like these?

Parents who try to be friends with their chil­dren with­out the appro­pri­ate dis­ci­pline find out real fast that they do as they please and are nev­er friends with them.
Governments that acqui­esce to the prin­ci­ple of ‘any­thing goes’ find out real fast that peo­ple with a bent for flout­ing laws will do so indis­crim­i­nate­ly when allowed to do so.
It begins with what appears to be mun­dane and insignif­i­cant things-but they have vast con­se­quences for how the cit­i­zens of any coun­try respond to rules.
For exam­ple, on my recent trip to Jamaica, I was stunned that there was zero police traf­fic enforce­ment. The police have all but ced­ed the streets to the unruly drivers.
Taxis, bus­es, and pri­vate motor vehi­cles over­take on the left, on the right, around cor­ners, up hills, irre­spec­tive of road mark­ings against such behavior.
Cars, bus­es, and mini­vans have col­ored head­lights, some blue, some red, some amber, and some blink­ing, cre­at­ing immense con­fu­sion to motorists not used to the dif­fer­ent col­ored blink­ing head­lights. All of this added to the mad­den­ing cir­cus of con­fu­sion and chaos.

How can any­one con­vince me that these prac­tices can­not be out­lawed in a sin­gle day’s sit­ting of the Parliament? Which would effec­tive­ly allow the police to remove these scofflaws from the streets?
The sad real­i­ty is that there is no desire from those entrust­ed with the safe­ty and secu­ri­ty of the nation. Either they have no idea how to rein in the mad­ness, or they are too afraid to take the nec­es­sary steps to cor­rect these basic issues.
On the one hand, the gov­ern­ment is too timid to take the bold steps, while the oppo­si­tion par­ty rel­ish­es in the chaos, hop­ing to ride it back to power.
If the gov­ern­ment can­not bring san­i­ty to the streets through strong enforce­ment, how can the Jamaican peo­ple have any hope that there will be a return to any appear­ance of nor­mal­cy as far as the wan­ton mur­ders are concerned?
I trav­eled the Edward Seaga Highway quite a bit on my recent trip. The post­ed speed lim­it is gen­er­al­ly 80 kilo­me­ters along the high­way, with a few exceptions.
Drivers flew by me at speeds in excess of 140 kilo­me­ters with no con­cern that they would be apprehended.
On two occa­sions, I saw a police high­way patrol unit, and of course, they offered zero deter­rent to the madness.
The offi­cers were parked and out of the patrol vehi­cle chat­ting as the traf­fic whizzed by them at break­neck speed.

On the night before Christmas Eve, I was in Ochi Rios square, and it was the same mad­ness, one police vehi­cle parked on main street with blue lights flashing.
I was curi­ous why the offi­cers had their lights flash­ing. As my car drew clos­er, I real­ized that both offi­cers were on their cell phones chat­ting casu­al­ly as if they had no care in the world.
The flash­ing lights were the deter­rent effect I imag­ined. I drove on by and mind­ed my business.
Preliminary report­ing sug­gests that the coun­try end­ed 2021 with 1,463 mur­ders.
That num­ber does not include those killed and dumped that the police have no clue about, and it also does not include peo­ple shot or oth­er­wise wound­ed who die at a lat­er time from those injures.
Nevertheless, the 1463 num­ber rep­re­sents an aver­age of 4.008 Jamaican mur­dered dai­ly. In sim­ple terms, Jamaica con­tin­ues to be one of the most dan­ger­ous places on earth to live.
Last year saw homi­cides increase in most police divi­sions by as much as 60% in some cas­es. The Government’s strat­e­gy of SOEs and ZOSO’s has had lit­tle or no mea­sur­able effect on vio­lent crimes. There is real­ly no ben­e­fit in say­ing we told them it wouldn’t.
Nevertheless, the Opposition par­ty’s crim­i­nal sup­port­ing intran­si­gence has pre­cious lit­tle to do with prin­ci­ple or that they have bet­ter ideas. The oppo­si­tion’s refusal to sup­port the exten­sion of the SOEs and ZOSOs is all about being part of the crime enhance­ment cabal that includes the judges and the crim­i­nal rights loud­mouths that are destroy­ing Jamaica.

The oppo­si­tion par­ty has zero com­punc­tion about see­ing the coun­try burned to the ground, and they are quite hap­py to gov­ern over the ash­es. Having access to the peo­ple’s mon­ey has always been the sin­gu­lar focus of the oppo­si­tion party.
However, the PNP is not in pow­er now, and it is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the admin­is­tra­tion in pow­er to govern.
It is not governing.
It has­n’t looked out­side the box, so the killings con­tin­ue unabat­ed. If they can’t fix the chaos on the roads, how would I expect them to attend to the vio­lent crime pandemic?

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

It is bad enough that the tools avail­able to the police are sub­stan­dard, that they are forced to buy their own uni­forms (real uni­forms), that the pay is shit­ty, on and on and on.
I under­stand that the court sys­tem func­tions as an aid to vio­lent crim­i­nals by turn­ing them loose on bail and appeals and con­tin­u­ing to dis­re­spect the hard-work­ing offi­cers when they haul the mur­der­ers before them to face justice.
The behav­ior of judges is once again a sore point that both the police fed­er­a­tion and the police offi­cers asso­ci­a­tion must act on immediately.
Policing is a noble and respectable pro­fes­sion; police offi­cers should [not] allow crim­i­nal-lov­ing Jamaican judges an inch to dis­re­spect them in the courts. Police have immense pow­ers; learn your pow­er to stop the dis­re­spect­ful com­ments and actions of the crim­i­nals who dis­re­spect you to cur­ry favor with criminals.
They will tell you they are uphold­ing the judi­cia­ry’s integri­ty; they are not; they are sup­port­ing criminals.

That said, there should be no cir­cum­stances under which a pris­on­er walks out of a police lock­up. This is an issue that con­tin­ues to occur repeat­ed­ly, and it has been hap­pen­ing for decades.
Poor man­age­ment at the divi­sion­al lev­el, com­man­ders fail­ure to apply the appro­pri­ate lev­els of lead­er­ship and over­sight. This, how­ev­er, comes from the top, where the top-tier of the force stum­ble from cri­sis to cri­sis with­out devel­op­ing new poli­cies and pro­to­cols to pre­vent these events from occur­ring again.

Instead, when pris­on­ers walk out of police lock­ups, the con­sta­bles and cor­po­rals are pun­ished with­out a full top-down review to deter­mine what hap­pened to ensure it does not hap­pen again.
This is some­thing Deputy Commissioners of police should be work­ing on; they are the most senior offi­cers in the Department. However, if these most senior peo­ple have no expe­ri­ence in actu­al polic­ing but were fast-tracked to the posi­tions they hold because they earned a degree or kissed some ass­es, we have the same prob­lem in the depart­ment as we have in the judiciary.

The Freeport Police sta­tion in Montego Bay is not an old facil­i­ty by any stretch of the imag­i­na­tion, and it is not a facil­i­ty that some guys can saw through a met­al bar and escape in a back alley.
That some­one could walk out of a facil­i­ty like the Freeport police lock­up and poten­tial­ly kill a wit­ness against him is inexcusable…
The police must main­tain its stan­dard in doing its best to pro­tect the Jamaican peo­ple. It is up to the judges to turn killers loose onto the Jamaican soci­ety to shoot and decap­i­tate inno­cent citizens.
Come on, JCF, you are bet­ter than that.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.

You can pack­age a dead Rat in a box, wrap the box in pret­ty Christmas wrap­ping paper, then place a pret­ty bow on it, but in the box is still the corpse of a dead Rat that will even­tu­al­ly smell up the damn place.
The idea of SOEs and ZOSOs as a per­ma­nent crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy is as stu­pid and retard­ed as the peo­ple whose ideas they are.
Throwing groups of sol­diers and police into so-called hotspots to show that crime will go down in that area while ignor­ing and refus­ing to acknowl­edge the rise of vio­lence in oth­er areas is both duplic­i­tous and dangerous.
This is not rock­et sci­ence; drop a huge rock into a small pool, it dis­places some of the water from the pool. The dis­placed water does not cease to exist; it exists in a dif­fer­ent place. So are crim­i­nals dis­placed by the secu­ri­ty forces not forced out of their activ­i­ties; they move their oper­a­tions to oth­er areas.
The vio­lent crime data com­ing from the same police depart­ment sup­ports this irrefutable fact.
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Since the Island’s (“so-called inde­pen­dence”), both polit­i­cal par­ties have played pol­i­tics with nation­al secu­ri­ty when in pow­er; they play the same child­ish and dan­ger­ous games with nation­al secu­ri­ty when in opposition.
This has not stopped; the present admin­is­tra­tion unable and unwill­ing to take the nec­es­sary steps to stop the slide into total law­less­ness, still plays pol­i­tics with the SOEs & ZOSOs, hop­ing to pull the wool over the peo­ple’s eyes.
The oppo­si­tion par­ty des­per­ate to gain pow­er plays the same dan­ger­ous games.
In the mean­time, the dead Rat stinks to high heav­en- Gangsters open­ly play war games, putting on dis­play for all to see the awe­some arse­nal they have at their disposal.
And while we are at it, might I add that this year’s mur­der sta­tis­tics have already sur­passed last year’s grue­some total, yet the Government still mad­den­ing­ly talks about the suc­cess­es of ZOSOs & SOEs.
Incompetent and clue­less, com­plic­it and acqui­es­cent, or both, you decide.
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The failed strat­e­gy of ZOSOs & SOEs can be quan­ti­fied in the irrefutable facts I laid out. Ultimately, the admin­is­tra­tion’s go-to strat­e­gy does not reduce crime over­all, burns out the secu­ri­ty forces, and infringes in a bur­den­some way on the rights of inno­cent Jamaicans for far too long.
But there are also expo­nen­tial­ly more unseen neg­a­tives that com­pe­tent secu­ri­ty strate­gists [must] fore­see and plan to offset.
It must reg­is­ter in the minds of the nation’s lead­ers, for christ’s sake, that sol­diers at check­points on a small Island of 2.8 mil­lion peo­ple are not nor­mal. It is a dystopi­an night­mare that allows politi­cians to con­tin­ue to lie to the peo­ple to remain in power.
In a recent arti­cle, I spoke to the qual­i­ty of lead­er­ship at the high­est lev­els of the nation’s secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus; sec­ond rate.
I spoke to the mem­bers of the police high com­mand, includ­ing the Commissioner of police, hold­ing a pan­el dis­cus­sion at which top com­man­ders of the JCF spoke of the virtues of ZOSOs & SOEs. I point­ed out that I was not the least bit sur­prised that the police high com­mand was par­rot­ing the gov­ern­men­t’s talk­ing points. Conversely, I would be sur­prised if they had grown a back­bone and cho­sen not to.

Ultimately it is up to the head of the Police and Military to exe­cute the Government’s National Security Strategy. With that in mind, I will not fault the Government direct­ly for what hap­pened to a young sol­dier of the Jamaica Defense Force at a check­point last week.
Jamaica Defense Force Private Jermaine Rose was hit at a check­point that was obvi­ous­ly manned by him, and anoth­er sol­dier, the dri­ver of the vehi­cle that broke both his legs, among oth­er seri­ous injuries in Greenwood Saint James, left him bedrid­den today.
The 29-year-old told the media from his bed at JDF Headquarters Up Park Camp that they heard gun­shots on the night of the inci­dent while he and his col­leagues were on duty some­time after mid­night. The two sol­diers decid­ed to check the vehi­cles that were passing.
He recount­ed, “at around 12:30 [am], we saw four cars approach­ing the check­point and we tried to slow them down, and they stopped for a sec­ond and then dem tek time approach the check­point…, and then they were dri­ving cross and cross in the road,” recount­ed the Tower Hill, St Andrew resident.“They (the cars) tried to hit down one of my col­leagues first, and he jumped out the road, and just as I was about to jump [out of the road], a car hit me and broke my two feet and dis­lo­cat­ed my right hand,” he said. According to Rose, the vehi­cle’s impact on his body result­ed in him being flung in the air and land­ing on the side­walk. The car did not stop.

Under what plau­si­ble sce­nario could secu­ri­ty plan­ners place young men and women into volatile sit­u­a­tions like these with­out the prop­er sup­port struc­ture to ensure that this could not hap­pen and the offend­er is not imme­di­ate­ly apprehended?
Police work is inher­ent­ly dangerous,-yes police work, that’s what the sol­diers were out there doing with­out police training.
Common sense dic­tates that if there are check­points, there must be ade­quate resources, i.e., enough offi­cers with assets and vehi­cles ready for any offend­er who would try to breach the checkpoint.
The idea of a check­point only makes sense if those man­ning them can enforce every aspect of those checkpoints.
Assuming that the motorists had some­thing to do with the shots the sol­diers heard, what incen­tive would they have to stop and be searched and arrest­ed at a sad-sack check­point manned by a cou­ple of sol­diers on foot?
In a coun­try of laws, the lead­ers who placed the lives of these young peo­ple in that sit­u­a­tion would have been sub­ject to an inquiry and brought up on charges.
We know that this will be shrugged away by the polit­i­cal lead­ers as noth­ing to be alarmed about; how­ev­er, if the events hap­pen­ing in our coun­try do not alarm the Jamaican peo­ple, I have no idea what will.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.