A WHOLE GENERATION HAVE COME OF AGE WHO HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW, THEY WERE TOLD TO DISRESPECT POLICE OFFICERS, PASTORS EVEN THEIR TEACHERS.
SOME IN THE MEDIA EVEN ENCOURAGED THEM TO STONE POLICE STATIONS.

Long before for­mer Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams famous­ly pre­dict­ed that Jamaica would pay dear­ly for the way it was act­ing toward the police, a baby doc­tor had got­ten her clutch­es into Jamaica’s law enforce­ment infra­struc­ture.
She man­aged to con­vince the rul­ing class that the way we police Jamaica was evil, too harsh on dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals and should be dis­card­ed.
Esprit de corps, that (band of broth­er­hood) which binds law enforce­ment into a fra­ter­nal order of love and car­ing for each oth­er, a fam­i­ly away from home where offi­cers depend on each oth­er when the going gets tough.
This is some­thing they do not teach at a pedi­atric school, but it was sold to the coun­try as a [veil of com­plic­i­ty to cov­er up wrongs]. It was derid­ed even though that baby doc­tor was nev­er a part of any mil­i­tary or para-mil­i­tary force and was total­ly igno­rant of what it means to those who serve.
The truth of the mat­ter is that Carolyn Gomez knew noth­ing about polic­ing, esprit de corps, or what it takes to police Jamaica’s unique envi­ron­ment any more than the police knew how to treat col­icky babies.
In fact, the most vocif­er­ous detrac­tors of the police in civ­il soci­ety have nev­er served in any­thing greater than them­selves.
They have giv­en noth­ing in ser­vice to the coun­try, yet they are the most opin­ion­at­ed and crit­i­cal of the police department.

There is no deny­ing that the police share some blame in the way they are treat­ed. By far too many of the men and women of the JCF have betrayed their oaths. Nevertheless, I do believe that what Bruce Golding did will for­ev­er be the water­shed, and a sem­i­nal moment in the his­to­ry of our coun­try.
But it was­n’t just Golding, Portia Simpson Miller and the PNP were all in on it. They all had a vest­ed inter­est in the pro­mul­ga­tion and pro­lif­er­a­tion of the Garrisons which are the foun­da­tions on which their polit­i­cal via­bil­i­ty are built.
The PNP’s rapa­cious desire to gain and keep polit­i­cal pow­er was rivaled only by Bruce Goldings desire to bring the police to heel and INDECOM was born.
Make no mis­take about it, every police agency should have over­sight. Police sim­ply can­not be left to police them­selves.
On the oth­er hand, the police are asked to do a job that is dis­sim­i­lar to every oth­er discipline.

Jamaica takes its cue from the west­ern pow­ers. Our sys­tem of gov­ern­ment is copied from the British Westminister mod­el.
Additionally, many of the nation’s laws do have some sim­i­lar­i­ty to laws in the United States.
In addi­tion to those sim­i­lar­i­ties, Jamaica is a sig­na­to­ry to sev­er­al west­ern world Treaties, thus ren­der­ing the way we do busi­ness not too dis­sim­i­lar as it relates to imple­ment­ing our laws.
As I have said before in oth­er Articles, the des­ig­na­tion of what con­sti­tutes a failed state by the west­ern pow­ers like the United States is the inabil­i­ty of the gov­ern­ment of such states to give a cred­i­ble account­ing of its cit­i­zen­ry.
According to the Global Policy Forum:
Failed states can no longer per­form basic func­tions such as edu­ca­tion, secu­ri­ty, or gov­er­nance, usu­al­ly due to frac­tious vio­lence or extreme pover­ty. Within this pow­er vac­u­um, peo­ple fall vic­tim to com­pet­ing fac­tions and crime, and some­times the United Nations or neigh­bor­ing states inter­vene to pre­vent a human­i­tar­i­an dis­as­ter.
Jamaica is not yet a failed state, but intel­li­gent minds can clear­ly see that we are already deep into some of the char­ac­ter­is­tics of that definition.

Many of our prac­tices are def­er­en­tial to the American’s ways of doing things for bet­ter or for worse.
Ironically what the Jamaican lead­er­ship has con­ve­nient­ly for­got­ten or will­ful­ly left out of it’s pla­gia­riz­ing, is the con­cept known as [qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty]. 
“Qualified immu­ni­ty bal­ances two impor­tant inter­ests — the need to hold pub­lic offi­cials account­able when they exer­cise pow­er irre­spon­si­bly and the need to shield offi­cials from harass­ment, dis­trac­tion, and lia­bil­i­ty when they per­form their duties rea­son­ably.” Pearson v. Callahan.

In oth­er words, Jamaican police offi­cers are asked to risk their lives in a coun­try with one of the high­est kill rates in the world, a vio­lent and abu­sive soci­ety, a large­ly illit­er­ate pop­u­la­tion, poor remu­ner­a­tions, and hor­rif­ic work­ing con­di­tions and no real back­ing from the leg­is­la­ture.
It is with­in that envi­ron­ment that police offi­cers are asked to oper­ate.
Every day could mean death on the job, or God for­bid they chal­lenge a man with a gun, off to jail they go.
Which brings to mind the ques­tion for­mer Detective Chris Porter asks of young mem­bers still serv­ing “why are you still serv­ing in the JCF”?
The Jamaican Government has mort­gaged the secu­ri­ty of the coun­try for the elu­sive and Utopian con­cept of [Human-Rights].
The present com­mis­sion­er of Police, a police Commissioner who once head­ed the three thou­sand man defense force dreams of the day when all police offi­cers are human rights activists.

Unfortunately for every­day Jamaicans who do not own high-pow­ered weapons and large caches of ammu­ni­tion, the force that the com­mis­sion­er star­ry-eyed, dreams of hav­ing, will be of no use to the coun­try.
There can be no guar­an­tee of human rights where there is no peace. The most fun­da­men­tal right each and every per­son has is their God-giv­en right to life.
If the Jamaican state can­not guar­an­tee the cit­i­zens of the coun­try that they won’t be slaugh­tered just by leav­ing their homes, how can the gov­ern­ment guar­an­tee their oth­er rights?
It is that back­ward the­o­ry which won nation­al acclaim for Carolyn Gomez, a snake in the grass who wove her way into the body politic and dis­tort­ed the nation­al nar­ra­tive in a way that a black Jamaican, nev­er could.
This fraud was giv­en a nation­al hon­or, though she was lat­er dis­graced and is now gone from the spot­light.
What remains is the dam­age she was able to do to our coun­try. Make no mis­take about it, Jamaicans are liv­ing in Carolyn Gomez’s Jamaica.
Terrence Williams and Hamish Campbell are derivates of Carolyn Gomez’s work. This is the Jamaica they cre­at­ed in which the pow­ers of the police are tak­en away, and the peo­ple like Sheep are con­vinced that they will be guar­an­teed inalien­able rights.
They nev­er both­ered to tell them that they would be dead right.
The Island’s polit­i­cal lead­ers have ced­ed the pow­er, author­i­ty, and remit of the state to for­eign-fund­ed so-called rights lob­bies, with agen­das anti­thet­i­cal to the well­be­ing of Jamaica. Jamaicans for jus­tice chief among them.
They knew full well that Gomez’s race would give her the lever­age to do what she was able to do.
Unfortunately, for the peo­ple and even the brain-dead politi­cians, they are yet to fig­ure out that Gomes was a plant, specif­i­cal­ly placed there as part of a strat­e­gy to keep Jamaica sub­ju­gat­ed and behold­en to for­eign inter­ests
Demonize the police and cre­ate an envi­ron­ment in which there is no rule of law and con­di­tions are ripe for chaos. There can be no real growth and pros­per­i­ty in a crime-rid­den coun­try. Jamaica is a crime-rid­den coun­try which will con­tin­ue to depend on International Lending insti­tu­tions.
Checkmate.
Gomes would still be there doing dam­age had she not com­mit­ted the car­di­nal sin of intro­duc­ing wards of the state to homo­sex­u­al mate­r­i­al.
They for­got that Jamaicans do not like homosexuality!

Police cor­po­ral Kirk Lawrence report­ed­ly killed his wife this morn­ing at their mat­ri­mo­ni­al home sit­u­at­ed at 34 Jamaica Beach ‚Tower Isle Saint Mary.
Early reports indi­cate that the offi­cer and his wife were engaged in an argu­ment when gun­shots were heard com­ing from the res­i­dence.
The Prospect Police were alert­ed, on the arrival of the police, it is alleged that Corporal Lawrence was seen at the entrance to the residence.

Upon check­ing inside the res­i­dence, the body of Mrs. Lawrence was found with gun­shot wounds.
A voice note attrib­uted to the offi­cer is already in cir­cu­la­tion on social media, in it, a man can be heard giv­ing a rea­son for killing his wife.

This report­ing is still devel­op­ing and have been updat­ed as more infor­ma­tion becomes available.

By now most Jamaicans would have heard about the mil­i­tary-style assault heav­i­ly armed crim­i­nals car­ried out in May Pen Clarendon.
According to ear­ly report­ing, heav­i­ly armed gun­men on a rob­bery spree at around 9:15 am Sunday morn­ing shot and injured two police offi­cers.
Injured is Sergeant David Craddock and Constable Chase Carnegie. Both offi­cers were alleged­ly shot when they encoun­tered the armed mili­tia who were trav­el­ing in two motor­cars.
Early report­ing indi­cates that con­sta­ble Carnegie was shot in the face and right shoul­der, and the Sergeant who was on foot was shot twice in the abdomen and buttocks. 

Some account­ing by wit­ness­es to the hell this morn­ing revealed that the men entered a Chinese Establishment and ordered every­one to lie face down on the floor ‚they then they demand­ed mon­ey from the oper­a­tors of the estab­lish­ment.
The wit­ness­es attest­ed that while some of the men were inside try­ing to find the mon­ey, their cronies were out­side lay­ing down a bar­rage of cov­er­ing fire at the two police offices. It is any­one’s guess whether it was that sheet of gun­fire that almost took the lives of the two offi­cers.
One of the most fright­en­ing things said by one eye­wit­ness was that the gun­men were not pan­icked or seemed in any hur­ry.
After lay­ing down fire for about 15 min­utes the eye­wit­ness who said he was lay­ing on the floor with oth­er patrons of the super­mar­ket, tells of one gun­man com­ing back into the super­mar­ket and demand­ing more mag­a­zines from his com­pa­tri­ots. After receiv­ing the extra clip he sim­ply went back to lay­ing down fire accord­ing to the eyewitness.

Whether this group of guys was 5 or 10 is imma­te­r­i­al. The fact of the mat­ter is that they were heav­i­ly armed and accord­ing to that eye­wit­ness they were in no hur­ry. The fact that they were in the mid­dle of May Pen Town and there is a Police Station right there in Town, and they did not see the need to wor­ry about the police should be rea­son enough for the police high com­mand and the Political Directorate to wake the fuck up, but not until a group of these mon­sters vis­it a mem­ber of the Government or Political Opposition and exter­mi­nate their whole fam­i­ly will change come.
ZOSO’s and SOE’s are designed to keep the mur­der count down with­out fix­ing the prob­lem. Elections have to be won on both sides, so the safe­ty and secu­ri­ty of law-abid­ing Jamaicans take a back seat to polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy.
Funding has to be had and visas have to be secured, and so no one wants to upset the Americans by enforc­ing the laws and deal­ing with the ter­ror­ists as one friend lamented.

Well, the Americans can fuck off with their fund­ing for all I care. They ensure that no one defies their laws. Their police kill whether assailants have guns or not. Why then would we keep our hands out to a pow­er which secures it’s own, yet tells us we can­not because we are beg­gars?
INDECOM is par­tial­ly fund­ed by out­side ele­ments and I have repeat­ed­ly asked the Government to tell the JAMAICAN peo­ple why those sources are fund­ing INDECOM and not the rule of law?

Under this Administration, the crime strat­e­gy is to put the bod­ies of police and sol­diers between the Militias and their intend­ed tar­gets with a view to sup­press­ing the kill rate.
Through the use of ZOSO’ s and SOE’s the gov­ern­men­t’s hope is to sup­press the mur­der sta­tis­tic with­out actu­al­ly going after the mur­der­ers and killing them or putting them in jail where they belong.
This strat­e­gy is tan­ta­mount to spray­ing a flow­ery per­fumed air fresh­en­er over shit and expect­ing the odor to go away.
But in fact the stench nev­er goes away, it now becomes shit with an arti­fi­cial flow­ery odor.
What the Government is doing is pol­i­tics [101], much the same way that the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion rec­og­nizes what’s hap­pen­ing and is reluc­tant to sup­port the ZOSO’s and SOE’s, but with the same polit­i­cal cal­cu­lus in mind.

At the same time, the min­ions who sup­port the two polit­i­cal par­ties are all over social media giv­ing sup­port to this non­sense and mak­ing excus­es for this affront of an admin­is­tra­tion.
How do we change this par­a­digm when the peo­ple them­selves are so heav­i­ly invest­ed in pol­i­tics to their own detri­ment?
This Administration, like the one before, has not done a damn thing after the débâ­cle that Bruce Golding cre­at­ed by giv­ing the nation the INDECOM Act.
The Opposition PNP is no friend of the rule of law, they have more polit­i­cal gar­risons than the gov­ern­ing JLP. Their polit­i­cal strat­e­gy is root­ed in the igno­rance of the peo­ple and their con­tin­ued depen­dence on state handouts.

The Andrew Holness Government through his jus­tice Minister Delroy Chuck and National Security Minister Horace Chang have tak­en a scalpel to the nation­al secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus of the coun­try under the guise of mod­ern­iz­ing it.
Chuck is work­ing assid­u­ous­ly to toss mur­der cas­es from court Dockets, on the one hand, there­by remov­ing the like­li­hood of mur­der­ers fac­ing jus­tice for their crimes and on the oth­er, fight­ing to have the records of those vio­lent mur­der­ers expunged.
No coun­try expunges the records of vio­lent offend­ers, much less those who have tak­en the lives of others.

While Delroy Chuck is tak­ing a scalpel on the one end, Horace Chang is using a cud­gel on the oth­er by lit­er­al­ly debon­ing the JCF ren­der­ing it total­ly use­less.
How so, you ask?
By dis­man­tling the Mobile Reserve which has been the ver­i­ta­ble back­bone of the nation’s secu­ri­ty for decades.
Make no mis­take about it, regard­less of the intent of the Andrew Holness régime, this will have dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for the coun­try.
For those pay­ing atten­tion, it is already pay­ing div­i­dends, the heav­i­ly armed mili­tias on the Island are high­ly intel­li­gent and they are way ahead of the game.
What this admin­is­tra­tion has done, as has the one before it, is to embark on a cam­paign against the police which is hav­ing dis­as­trous con­se­quences for the coun­try.
Even as I strug­gle to be fair to Holness and his Government, I believe his admin­is­tra­tion is on par with that of PJ Patterson’s as the worst in our nation’s his­to­ry as it relates to the rule of law.

Here is a word of cau­tion to the Prime Minister, lis­ten to me real good. If you believe that you and your cab­i­net are insu­lat­ed and immune to the vio­lence that reg­u­lar Jamaicans are exposed to you are kid­ding your­self.
The only rea­son that they haven’t come for you is that they do not want you.
Yet.….….…..
If they decide that they want you they will come for you and no amount of those poor­ly trained and sup­port­ed police and sol­diers that you have around you will save you.

Real lead­ers lead from in front, they do not watch polls and make deci­sions based on the next elec­tion.
The events of 2010 were warn­ing enough, but as Robert Nesta Marley said quote’, “with the abun­dance of wata di fool ded fi thirst”.
The nation needs to know why this gov­ern­ment has refused to unleash the police on the mur­der­ers and dan­ger­ous mili­tias which are embold­ened and killing at will?
What kind of strat­e­gy it is which tar­gets the police and gives a thumbs up to crim­i­nals?
Is this admin­is­tra­tion act­ing in the best inter­est of the coun­try?
This admin­is­tra­tion must explain to the nation why it hates the police and what it intends to do about the rov­ing mili­tias across the coun­try.
In the mean­time, these two offi­cers may well die, pay­ing the ulti­mate price, while their lead­ers pan­der to the crim­i­nals and their lob­by, instead of sup­port­ing the rule of law.

There is a large num­ber of mer­ci­less killers walk­ing around on the streets of Jamaica. For all intents and pur­pos­es, they are no longer wor­ried about the police.
Technically speak­ing, this Administration has all but neutered the police. In one of the most shame­ful and dis­re­spect­ful dis­plays ever, as it relates to a Governing body and one of its Agencies, this admin­is­tra­tion all but made it clear it did not like the police.
I sin­cere­ly doubt whether that lev­el of dis­re­spect could fly any­where in the world except Jamaica with­out a shut­down of the coun­try and a mas­sive exo­dus from the ser­vice.
Unfortunately, before the Prime Minister and his cabal decid­ed to be out­right dis­dain­ful of the police through their words and deeds (a‑la, glo­ri­fied secu­ri­ty guards), they knew full well that the police would do noth­ing, no mat­ter the dis­re­spect met­ed out to them.

The nation’s police ser­vice is the insti­tu­tion which has the respon­si­bil­i­ty to enforce the laws. The Military is for war. The idea that mem­bers of the Military are dis­ci­plined and there­fore bet­ter suit­ed to do polic­ing is the epit­o­me’ of igno­rance.
And so it fol­lows there­fore that the very ratio­nale for the Militarization of the pub­lic ser­vice is an endeav­or built on a far­ci­cal premise.
The notion that some­how, Jamaica’s mil­i­tary is more dis­ci­plined than the cops plain­ly choos­es to ignore a few real­ly impor­tant facts.
(1) Soldiers (pre­vi­ous­ly) had far few­er inter­ac­tions with mem­bers of the pub­lic as police offi­cers do.
(2) Disciplinary issues between the mem­bers of the Military are han­dled inter­nal­ly.
(3) There are (4) four times as many cops as there are sol­diers, so com­plaints against the police are going to be expo­nen­tial­ly high­er based on those num­bers alone.
(4) Most sol­diers live(d) in under­served com­mu­ni­ties with the crim­i­nals, and are not seen as a threat to their activ­i­ties.
(5) Many sol­diers are active­ly engaged in the crim­i­nal con­duct that civil­ian crim­i­nals are engaged in.
(6) Police offi­cers pre­vi­ous­ly were reluc­tant to arrest mem­bers of the JDF even when they were caught break­ing the laws.
(7) Even when caught, they were gen­er­al­ly turned over to the JDF and things are kept under wraps.
(8) Jamaica is a law­less coun­try deemed to be 84% cor­rupt, cops are not ever going to be pop­u­lar in a coun­try with that degree of cor­rup­tion.
(9) Taken whol­ly, with oth­er char­ac­ter­is­tics, it is under­stand­able that they would have more street creds than the cops.

But the issue is not real­ly about street cred, who is more respect­ed or even who is feared. This is about how the Holness Administration has sum­mar­i­ly decid­ed to mil­i­ta­rize the Island’s pub­lic ser­vices and open­ly humil­i­at­ing and dis­re­spect­ing career police offi­cers.
This has drawn strong con­dem­na­tion from cer­tain sec­tions of the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion. One overzeal­ous per­son likened the Prime Minister to Adolph Hitler, a char­ac­ter­i­za­tion I am sure she regrets, but prob­a­bly lacks the char­ac­ter and humil­i­ty to with­draw, and issue a full-throat­ed apol­o­gy.
Some peo­ple are harsh­ly crit­i­cal of my views on this sub­ject of the Prime, even though my views on the Jamaican Prime Minister are far less caus­tic than those of Crystal Tomlinson of the PNPYO.
Not all of the crit­i­cisms of me as it relates to the Prime Minister come from par­ti­san Laborites. So it would be fool­ish of me to sim­ply brush aside those con­cerns and crit­i­cisms with­out address­ing them head-on.
The Pm is doing a pret­ty good job on the econ­o­my, not so good on the cor­rup­tion front.
That does not mean that he him­self is involved in malfea­sance. Nevertheless, he promised in his inau­gu­ra­tion speech, that there would be zero tol­er­ance for cor­rup­tion in his admin­is­tra­tion. His promis­es have not kept pace with real­i­ty.
As some­one who sup­port­ed his can­di­da­cy, no one is more dis­ap­point­ed at the approach Andrew Holness brought to the Prime Minister’s office on the issue of crime.
Holness’ tone and tenor toward the police and the rule of law have been dis­mis­sive and down­right dis­re­spect­ful. His world-view could only have been shaped at the nation’s largest Institution of high­er learn­ing, a smol­der­ing caul­dron of social­ist antipa­thy toward Conservative val­ues and the rule of law.
So even though Andrew Holness now heads the par­ty of the late greats, Sir Alexander Bustamante’, Sir Donald Burns Sangster, the Honorable Hugh Lawson Shearer, and even Edward Phillip George Seaga, He is a [car­bon cut-out of Bruce Golding], rather than a con­tin­u­a­tion of the Labor Party greats on the rule of law.
Andrew Holness has some ideas of the Labor Party’s past Conservative val­ues, the last of which was evi­dent under Edward Seaga, but he lacks the fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing of what it takes to ful­ly acti­vate those val­ues for the bet­ter­ment of the coun­try and a last­ing peri­od of pros­per­i­ty for the Jamaican people.

Simply put, when it comes to deal­ing with crime, Andrew Holness is a light­weight and an abysmal fail­ure like the PNP Prime Ministers before who walked the very same cor­ri­dors the late (Wilmott Perkins labeled the Intellectual ghet­to).
” We will all soon be dead, unless some­one final­ly ensures that those who kill buck upon some­thing that says no more” a local School Principal laments the death of one of his stu­dents, killed and dumped in bush­es like a piece of garbage.
Instead of fight­ing the mur­der­ers in Jamaica Holness has decid­ed he wants to fight the police.
He start­ed off by spread­ing the nar­ra­tive that if we want to fix crime we must first fix the police.
Then they empow­er antag­o­nist INDECOM’s boss the hyper-par­ti­san Terrence Williams to per­se­cute. This start­ed a both-ends leak in the JCF. (1) they can no longer meet recruit­ment tar­gets, and (2) peo­ple are rac­ing to the exits to find green­er pas­tures in the CARICOM region and beyond.
There is not much they can do to force peo­ple into the JCF but they have darn sure tried to stop them from leav­ing by cre­at­ing new uncon­sti­tu­tion­al poli­cies which crim­i­nal­ize cops who leave with­out giv­ing (6) months advance notice that they intend to leave.
Not only are the bet­ter peo­ple not will­ing to stick around for the non­sense, but they are also now attract­ing can­di­dates who are crim­i­nals.
So the idea of fix­ing the force becomes an abstrac­tion and so they can blame the crime epi­dem­ic on the police. Checkmate .… right?

None of this was nec­es­sary, what was required was a respect­ful approach, begin­ning with pay­ing the offi­cers a liv­ing wage. Creating reten­tive strate­gies which incen­tivize edu­ca­tion, val­or, ser­vice, hon­est and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.
By cre­at­ing a mer­it-based sys­tem which rewards good work and the right atti­tude you begin the process of weed­ing out the dead­wood. Right away you plug the attri­tion dike on the back end, while on the front end hav­ing to hold the gate from assault as the best qual­i­fied, most suit­able can­di­dates would be beat­ing down the doors to enter.
The approach tak­en by this admin­is­tra­tion has increased the chal­lenges to the police, cre­at­ed more law­less­ness and ulti­mate­ly increased crime.
No amount of SOE’s and ZOSO’s can cure this for the gov­ern­ment.
This wrong-head­ed approach influ­enced by Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and the long line of anti-police hate groups roam­ing around on the Island, [some paid with tax­pay­ers funds] will con­tin­ue to increase mur­ders and oth­er vio­lent crimes.
The crim­i­nal under­world is watch­ing and they are lov­ing what is hap­pen­ing, the police no longer present a cred­i­ble threat to their oper­a­tions.
The Government may just come out and say it sup­ports the crim­i­nals because whether it knows it or not it does.

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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 Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has long lamented the shortage or absence of resources to get the job done effectively.

Police Station ‚Constant Spring:

Recently the Force announced it was oper­at­ing with 50% of the resources it needs to get the job done. Having served in the JCF I under­stand the seri­ous­ness of not hav­ing even the most basic resource to do the job.
On the oth­er hand, I was also a wit­ness to the JCF’s lack of man­age­ment, which result­ed in excep­tion­al waste and dupli­ca­tion of efforts, fur­ther com­pli­cat­ing the resource issue.
These waste gen­er­al­ly are clear, first in the qual­i­ty of a por­tion of the Force, there have always been too many offi­cers who should find alter­na­tive employ­ment. This is attrib­ut­able to their lazi­ness, lack of focus, lack of integri­ty, lack of love for the job, lack of com­mit­ment to the cause. There are legit­i­mate argu­ments to be made for a lack of com­mit­ment. I would sim­ply argue that though those argu­ments are legit­i­mate, they are not rea­son enough to be a slack­er. Those opposed to work­ing for the wages, or are offend­ed by oth­er sit­u­a­tions are free to leave.
Then there is the treat­ment of the vehi­cles, which gen­er­al­ly are not suit­ed to Jamaica’s ter­rain, no fault of the Police and sec­ond­ly the round the clock oper­a­tion of the vehi­cles, again this is not some­thing that should rea­son­ably be pinned on the depart­ment, it is attrib­ut­able to the shortage.

The way patrols are done is inef­fec­tive and counter-pro­duc­tive even. This needs a com­plete reassess­ment. On the gen­er­al issue of waste, the same argu­ments may be made about many busi­ness­es and agen­cies in Jamaica and oth­er coun­tries. Jamaica sim­ply can­not afford it. When both sides of the resource issue are con­sid­ered, the truth lies some­where in between the two sides, with a lean­ing toward not near­ly enough of any­thing to do the job. With that said the true test of any man­ag­er or man­age­ment com­pa­ny, is to do the best job pos­si­ble with lim­it­ed resources.

In the American civ­il war between North and South, Union General, Westmoreland com­plained to President Abraham Lincoln about not hav­ing enough Troops to attack the Confederate South, Lincoln replaced Westmoreland with General Ulysses S Grant. We all know that Grant won the war sav­ing and cement­ing the Union and the United States as we know it today. My point is that Jamaica is a poor devel­op­ing coun­try, many peo­ple will chal­lenge me even on the notion of Jamaica being a devel­op­ing coun­try. There will nev­er be enough resource to go around. Neither polit­i­cal par­ty is par­tic­u­lar­ly fond of the rule of law, in fact, some of the peo­ple at the high­est lev­el of Government/​Opposition are crim­i­nals, or at a bare min­i­mum, main­tain crim­i­nal con­tact. They do not want a pro­fes­sion­al com­pe­tent and inde­pen­dent police department. 

Late 1987 I was tem­po­ral­ly trans­ferred to Constant Spring along with three oth­er men, Allen Gauntlet, Keith Skully and O Marston oth­er­wise called (Fat-Ball), Marston was some­what port­ly, hence the moniker. None of us was full trans­ferred in Force Orders from The Mobile Reserve where we were offi­cial­ly sta­tioned, we were sim­ply sent to fill the vac­uüm which was left from the trans­fer of then Detective Sargent Cornwall (big­ga) Ford, a leg­end, who had just been trans­ferred to the Flying Squad, based at the Kingston Central Police compound.

For the record, nev­er let any­one tell you that name brand-cops do noth­ing to bend the crime curve south. Determined crim­i­nals have esca­lat­ed crime, deter­mined cops bend the curve south. 

Throughout our coun­try’s his­to­ry, there have been noto­ri­ous­ly dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals, these men have large­ly gained their noto­ri­ety, through dif­fer­ent means, bru­tal­i­ty, cal­lous­ness, aid­ed and abet­ted by sym­pa­thet­ic mem­bers of the pub­lic, Politics, cor­rupt-cops, the ter­rain of our coun­try, and oth­er means. Conversely we have pro­duced deter­mined cops who knew how to remove crim­i­nals from the streets, Cops like Keith (trin­i­ty) Gardener, Joe Williams, Anthony Hewitt, Altimoth (par­ra) Campbell, Isiah Laing, are some of the more rec­og­niz­able names, of course there are men, and yes Women, Like Hortense Brown, who in many cas­es were just as effec­tive, Dick Hibbert, Ruddy Dwyer, Benjamin, O C Hare, and a long line of valiant sol­diers of urban polic­ing who under­stood our coun­try’s ter­ror­ists and how to deal with them. 

The men and women whom I did not men­tion need not doubt their con­tri­bu­tion to our coun­try’s sta­bil­i­ty, you know your­selves, the point was about the most cel­e­brat­ed, the most well known. I nev­er wore , nei­ther did I ever see a bul­let-proof vest dur­ing my decade of ser­vice from 1982 to 1992, we did not have com­put­ers, we did not even have type-writ­ers, at the Constant Spring CIB which serves some of the most depressed com­mu­ni­ties and some of the most upscale, we did not have a type­writer. I sug­gest­ed to detec­tive Sergeant McInnis that we use col­ored pins and a map of our geo­graph­i­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty to assist us. Different col­or pins rep­re­sent­ed dif­fer­ent types of crimes. Red for mur­der, blue for rapes, green for break-ins, yel­low for shoot­ings and so on. This very sim­ple, unso­phis­ti­cat­ed method, allowed us to see, in real terms, what type of crimes were being com­mit­ted where. Complainants sup­plied us with the when, it made it eas­i­er for us to find the who. I sought and gained per­mis­sion to approach inter­est­ed par­ties oper­at­ing in our precinct, and asked for old dis­card­ed type-writ­ers. Business-peo­ple were more than hap­py to give us usable type-writ­ers and desks, this made the demand from the kha­ki-clad clowns for a tor­rent of paper-work more pos­si­ble. At the time I was at the CIB office, they demand­ed 5 copies of all crimes com­mit­ted in the Parish of St. Thomas, St. Catherine and St. Andrew North, which con­sti­tut­ed Police Area 5. 

It gen­er­al­ly took hours to record the crimes from St Catherine, a sin­gle detec­tive work­ing the office on any giv­en night would start writ­ing as soon as he entered the office at 8: pm some­times he would still be writ­ing at 9: am when the morn­ing shift arrived and some­times, long after. All of those crimes in detail had to be record­ed by hand and dupli­cat­ed 5 times. I came up with the nov­el idea of car­bon paper, they put the brakes on that com­plain­ing that car­bon cre­at­ed smudges, which ren­dered the doc­u­ment illeg­i­ble, so it was back to writ­ing and writ­ing and writ­ing. One copy for the Commissioner’s Office, one for the Divisional Officer, one for the Area Officer, one for the crime chief. one for the Divisional Detective Inspector. A colos­sal waste of paper and man­pow­er to large­ly sat­is­fy the egos of lazy pompous over­weight dead-woods.

My point in all of this is this. The Commissioner will nev­er have all the resources he needs, what he does have is the infi­nite resource called the brain. Commissioner Ellington must devel­op strate­gies in con­junc­tion with capa­ble offi­cers at his dis­pos­al, to stop the scourge of crime. That will not get done with most of the kha­ki-clad crew he has, most should be retired to save tax-pay­ers mon­ey. Pushing paper, or sit­ting behind a desk is not polic­ing. Most of these peo­ple, some I served with, are more con­cerned with the way a piece of fools-cap paper is fold­ed, so they may write non­sense on it, than how to remove crim­i­nals from the streets. In fact, many of them nev­er arrest­ed any­one, nev­er been to court, but they are career cops, and don’t ever let them hear an explo­sion, Usain Bolt would have to seri­ous­ly strug­gle to keep his world record. No won­der the coun­try is inun­dat­ed with crime, the kha­ki-clad clowns are more cor­rupt, more cor­rod­ed by pol­i­tics than the young men. Money is the only thing which flows upstream.I would be hap­py to sup­ply the Commissioner with a detailed plan, out­lin­ing how to reduce crime by 20 to 30% in the first year. By the time the sec­ond year comes around, crime will begin to take a seri­ous trend downwards. 

In no oth­er coun­try would the right of any­one super­sede the rights of inno­cent minor chil­dren.
Except in Jamaica where a Rastafarian wannabe star’s lies, and assaults the police, destroys pub­lic prop­er­ty yet his posi­tion is sup­port­ed by many in the pub­lic sphere.
In this cesspool of anti-police malig­nan­cy, despite the cred­i­ble state­ments of the chil­dren’s aunt, the police hat­ing trolls still berate the police for doing exact­ly what they are sworn to do.

The inci­dent which occurred recent­ly in which the aunt of two lit­tle boys asked the Gordon Town Police to accom­pa­ny her to a res­i­dence to remove two boys she believed were not being tak­en care of, have once again high­light­ed some old fis­sures with­in the Jamaican soci­ety.
According to local report­ing, Melesha Welsh aunt of the two boys and sis­ter-in-law of Rastafarian Sean McDonald, who goes by the moniker (JahDore) asked the police to accom­pa­ny her to the house to attend and inves­ti­gate reports the chil­dren were not being well cared for.
In syn­op­sis, the chil­dren were removed from the res­i­dence by Ms. Welsh and tak­en to the Gordon Town Police sta­tion upon which Sean McDonald showed up and all hell broke out.

“I regret noth­ing. The kids are not Rastafarian, and they are not even his (bio­log­i­cal) kids. I trimmed them, and fed them, not the police. This is a big pub­lic­i­ty stunt by JahDore, my father is a ras­ta, I respect their tra­di­tions, I would not vio­late that. I made the com­plaint to the police because I love my nephews and they have not been going to school since October last year, and now is May, and it could­n’t con­tin­ue, I don’t want them to grow up dunce and can’t con­tribute to soci­ety.” Ms. Welsh told a local reporter.

“It was a sim­ple mat­ter and we all were at the police sta­tion to dis­cuss it when I saw JahDore kick the offi­cer in his bel­ly and the offi­cer grabbed his foot and thump him in the face. When I saw Jahdore dip to his waist, I grabbed the chil­dren and ran out of the police sta­tion because I feared what would hap­pen next. While out­side, I saw a bar­ber across the road. The kids had a fun­gus in their head, espe­cial­ly the younger one, so I took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to do it, I had to beg the bar­ber to trim him,” said Welsh, who is the sis­ter of JahDore’s spouse, Semela. According to Loopnews.

ISSUE #1

Since the inci­dent occurred, every Tom, Harry, and police-hat­ing Dick have crawled out of the wood­work to seek rel­e­vance by pil­ing on the police for doing exact­ly what they are sworn to do.
If for instance, Ms. Welsh had gone to the Gordon Town Police and asked for help to secure the well­be­ing of two minor chil­dren she believed to be in dan­ger, and the police failed to assist her and harm came to the chil­dren, what would be the posi­tion of the anti-police vil­lage lawyers?
Literally every day, minor chil­dren face grave dan­ger in Jamaica at the hands of rel­a­tives and oth­ers, who are sup­posed to give care and secu­ri­ty to them. That fact is sep­a­rate from the stark real­i­ty of the nation’s atro­cious crime epi­dem­ic, which places inno­cent chil­dren smackdab in the crosshairs of the human vul­tures who prey on the defenseless.

ISSUE#2

The step­fa­ther of the chil­dren a wannabe star is con­sid­ered among the nev­er-end­ing list of untouch­ables in the coun­try which prides itself on its high crime sta­tis­tics.
This low-life actu­al­ly went to the police sta­tion and assault­ed a police offi­cer.
There is an old Jamaican say­ing (ash­es cold dawg sleep in de).
From the mouth of the cred­i­ble wit­ness and aunt to the alleged abused chil­dren Ms. Welsh, quote” It was a sim­ple mat­ter and we all were at the police sta­tion to dis­cuss it when I saw JahDore kick the offi­cer in his bel­ly.“
This police force has cer­tain­ly gone soft and has become a pussy. I make no apol­o­gy for mak­ing this obser­va­tion. This illit­er­ate fool should not be head­ing to the Half-Way-Tree cour­t­house this morn­ing, he should be lying some­where chill­ing.
This is the kind of atmos­phere that the PNP and JLP have cre­at­ed in Jamaica. Not just in the sense that a law-break­er would attack and try to harm a police offi­cer, that comes with the ter­ri­to­ry.
Nevertheless, the gen­er­al across the board dis­re­spect for the rule of law, from the lack of under­stand­ing that the police is duty bound to pro­tect minors, to the con­dem­na­tion and lies by the vil­lage lawyers in the soci­ety and the phys­i­cal attack on the police offi­cers in the sta­tion house is a sear­ing indict­ment on the state of affairs in the country.

ISSUE#3

In most coun­tries, secur­ing the inter­est of chil­dren who may be in dan­ger one way or the oth­er, is of para­mount inter­est.
This is true not just of all state agen­cies, but it is an unwrit­ten under­stand­ing among the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion that we look after our most vul­ner­a­ble.
The shock­ing real­i­ty is that coun­ter­in­tu­itive­ly, in JAMAICA, the great­est con­cern to the peo­ple who are sup­posed to care most about these very vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren is for a fuck­ing Rastafarian who was alleged­ly not tak­ing care of the chil­dren in his care, and psy­chi­cal­ly attacked police offi­cers.
God for­bid that the hair of the chil­dren be cut and they are fed a meal.
Because for this coun­try, hav­ing dirty dread­locks with fun­gus in their head is far more impor­tant than per­son­al hygiene and a good meal.
It is a sick and non­sen­si­cal Orwellian men­tal­i­ty which makes the wrong right, and right wrong which is feed­ing this mas­sive mur­der rate on this once love­ly Island.
It is a place where Convicted dope deal­ers are cel­e­brat­ed and giv­en God-like rev­er­ence, where mur­der­ing scum­bag com­mu­ni­ty thugs are ele­vat­ed and referred to as “DONS’.
A place where Rastafarians who with their col­leagues destroyed per­son­al prop­er­ty and mur­dered respond­ing police offi­cers are giv­en apolo­gies and tax-pay­ers mon­ey to boot.
It is a coun­try in which an entire com­mu­ni­ty thumbed its col­lec­tive nose at the rule of law for decades, opt­ing instead for the lead­er­ship of a com­mon mur­der­er. When the secu­ri­ty forces final­ly annexed that com­mu­ni­ty to the coun­try, those who sur­vived were com­pen­sat­ed for their decades-long sup­port and indul­gence in ille­gal activ­i­ties against the coun­try.
This is what JAMAICA has become.…..

Reports indi­cate that National Security Minister Horace Chang’s vehi­cle was involved in an acci­dent this morn­ing in the vicin­i­ty of Grants Pen Road.
Early reports indi­cate that Chang may have escaped seri­ous injury.
(Developing)

THE GOVERNMENT’S DISRESPECTFUL ATTITUDE AND TONE TOWARD OUR POLICE ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THESE ATTACKS 

At about 12:15am Constable Toddmar Allen of the Mobile Reserve was shot and injured at a Bar in Rollington Town Saint Andrew. He was tak­en to The Kingston Public Hospital where he was pro­nounced dead.
Constable Allen is report­ed to have dri­ven to Ranny’s Bar in the com­mu­ni­ty, went inside and ordered a drink. Whilst sit­ting down two (2) men armed with hand­guns entered the bar and ordered him not to move. 

Shortly after, three explo­sions were heard.
Constable Allen report­ed­ly ran to the Rollington Town Police Station where he fired one shot and col­lapsed at the gate. He was rushed to Hospital by the police, but was pro­nounced dead from gun­shot wounds to the back and chest. His Glock pis­tol was retrieved by the police.

OBSERVATION

This young offi­cer’s killing may be ran­dom or it may not be. There is no deny­ing that the police have done tremen­dous harm to them­selves by the activ­i­ties they have involved them­selves in.
Nevertheless, for the most part, these young men and women are inno­cent of any of the Force’s bag­gage.
They deserve the sup­port of the cit­i­zen­ry and they damn sure deserve respect and sup­port from the Government.
They stepped for­ward to serve when many their age are engaged in the destruc­tion of the coun­try. And for that alone I sup­port them.
Unfortunately, the polit­i­cal infra­struc­ture, com­pris­ing both polit­i­cal par­ties as well as some sec­tions of civ­il soci­ety and the media, has done incal­cu­la­ble harm to not just the rule of law, but have set up these young peo­ple to die at the hands of the cow­ard­ly crim­i­nals in our coun­try. Make no mis­take about it, the dis­re­spect and dis­dain showed the police by Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his lack­ey Horace Chang is con­tribut­ing to this attack on our police offi­cers.
No mem­ber of the PNP should take com­fort in my state­ments, the PNP is equal­ly com­plic­it as the JLP in this con­se­quen­tial broad­side against law enforce­ment in our country.

Mark my words, Jamaica will rue the day that this Administration decid­ed to dis­man­tle the Mobile Reserve over an inci­dent which is still in the ear­ly stages of an inves­ti­ga­tion.
This clear­ly demon­strates that this Administration want­ed to take this action before, know­ing full well that the Mobile Reserve is the back­bone of the force, the last bas­tion of a depart­ment which has stood firm against the tyran­ny of vio­lent crimes polit­i­cal and oth­er­wise.
This move must be seen as a clear and unequiv­o­cal capit­u­la­tion of the peo­ple’s right to secu­ri­ty and safe­ty to Terrence Williams, Hamish Campbell and the crim­i­nal rights lob­by and the com­plic­it media in our coun­try.
Every Jamaican must now be pre­pared to defend them­selves, as this Government has clear­ly decid­ed that that is not some­thing it cares about.

The Jamaican Government under the lead­er­ship of Andrew Holness and National Security Minister Horace Chang with the full sup­port of the Opposition PNP has done their lev­el best to set up the police to fail.
As I said in a pre­vi­ous Article I was con­fi­dent that there was a real back sto­ry to the Chedwin Park shoot­ing last Sunday Morning involv­ing some police offi­cers who were sup­pos­ed­ly on sus­pen­sion.
Nevertheless, as it regards the dis­man­tling of the Mobile Reserve this Administration is estab­lish­ing an indeli­ble set of foot­prints which clear­ly demon­strates that it has scant to zero regards for the Police Department.
This Political par­ty and Government will rue the day it decid­ed to embark on this process.
It will be a water­shed moment in our nation’s his­to­ry.
It will effec­tive­ly mean that the Government with the Opposition par­ty has tak­en the final steps to dis­man­tle the JCF and ren­der the Jamaican peo­ple defense­less against the Island’s criminal. 

I made it quite clear that I thought that the inci­dent on Sunday morn­ing had a deep­er back sto­ry and so now, it is becom­ing evi­dent that there is much more to this sto­ry, than have been report­ed or prob­a­bly will ever be reported.

The real sto­ry is being whis­pered in the streets. Front and cen­ter are the mil­lion dol­lar ques­tion:
(1) The types of spent shells alleged­ly recov­ered at the scene are incon­sis­tent with the type of weapons that the alleged good-cop shoot­er would have.
(2) Was the so-called hero cop real­ly there offi­cial­ly, or was he there as a body­guard to the so-called “DON” who was killed that morn­ing?
(3) Why has ACP Bent been sent on leave to facil­i­tate the probe, if there isn’t some­thing deeply sin­is­ter going on?
(4) Were the police offi­cers involved, real­ly on Suspension, and if not why?
(5) If they were sup­posed to be on sus­pen­sion and they weren’t, what type of mis­sion were they on which involved the killing of a “DON”, facil­i­tat­ed by JCF assets?
(6) Who is behind the hit as it has been rumored to be?
(7) Who paid for the hit on the so-called “Don”.

It is now up to the Commissioner of Police and step for­ward and answer these ques­tions, because if the offi­cers were in ser­vice to their coun­try through coun­ter­mea­sures they should not be demo­nized and their names dragged in the mud.
If they are the crim­i­nals some said they are, no effort should be spared to fol­low the evi­dence to the top and ensure that the full force of the law applies.
However, crim­i­nals play by no rules. Every suc­cess­ful coun­try has been forced to devel­op strate­gies which give law-abid­ing cit­i­zens the upper hand.
As Jamaicans, we pre­tend to be bright but much of what we do is talk with­out a real under­stand­ing of what it takes to main­tain a ful­ly func­tion­al and sta­ble soci­ety.
Simply put, as long as the coun­try con­tin­ues to pro­ceed on the track it’s on with the present crop of lead­ers, the nation will inch ever so clos­er to becom­ing a ful­ly fledged failed state.
If the offi­cers were serv­ing their coun­try we need to know. If they were mer­ce­nar­ies car­ry­ing out hits we need to know under whose instruc­tions and who is behind their actions.

THOSE WHO HATE THE POLICE ARE GLEEFUL, THIS INCIDENT WILL FOREVER BE A REFERENCE POINT FOR THE ANTI-POLICE LOBBY

If you are in the major­i­ty of those who hate the rule of law in Jamaica, events of the last cou­ple of days for you, must be like the time a crack addict takes that very first hit.
Naturally, it should come as no sur­prise that the cock­roach­es opposed to the police are beside them­selves with glee.
On either side of the micro­phone they are lin­ing up to give and con­duct inter­views and to pon­tif­i­cate, all in an effort to say we told you so.

Even as the gun­fire residue sub­sides some­what, the truth sur­round­ing exact­ly what occurred ear­ly Sunday morn­ing in Chedwin Park St. Catherine remains opaque and murky.
The total­i­ty of what occurred seems to sug­gest mur­der, hero­ism, reck­less­ness, stu­pid­i­ty, incom­pe­tence and a whole host of oth­er Adjectives.
In all of the fore­gone, there is noth­ing which could remote­ly be con­strued to be help­ful to the Police Department or the rule of law in our coun­try.
Tragically, it is in this very sad state of affairs, that a vast plu­ral­i­ty of cer­tain sec­tor of the soci­ety will find the great­est glee. Rest assured that as events unfold those who speak the loud­est and are more vis­i­ble front and cen­ter will not be patri­ots but self-serv­ing anti-Jamaica dem­a­gogues look­ing to improve their own stand­ing using the unfor­tu­nate inci­dent as justification.

At the cen­ter of this event, is how could police offi­cers who were pulled from front-line duties be in pos­ses­sion of a ser­vice vehi­cle?
I lis­tened to a Radio inter­view giv­en by Deputy Commissioner of Police with respon­si­bil­i­ty for Crime, Fitz Bailey, to a glee­ful Cliff Hughes and was less than impressed with Bailey’s respons­es to the sali­vat­ing Hughes’ ques­tions.
Bailey could not give an account­ing as to the con­di­tions under which the sup­pos­ed­ly (on sus­pen­sion offi­cers were in pos­ses­sion of a ser­vice vehi­cle).
That is under­stand­able, even though there are rum­blings that the offi­cers weren’t real­ly on sus­pen­sion but were pulled from front-line duties.
None of which makes sense. If they were off front-line duties how could they be in pos­ses­sion of a depart­ment vehi­cle?
The periph­er­al ques­tions about log­book and police lights in the vehi­cle are moot as those are require­ments for unmarked police vehicles. 

Fitz Bailey was unable to artic­u­late these rather sim­ple respons­es in a coher­ent and com­mand­ing man­ner.
As for the offi­cers hav­ing retained pos­ses­sion of their ser­vice weapons even though they were sup­posed to be off front-line duties/​on sus­pen­sion, is a non-sequitur.
Those ques­tions have no rela­tion­ship to the facts of this inci­dent and do not belong in the series of events to be con­sid­ered from a law ‑enforce­ment per­spec­tive.
Police offi­cers charged with offens­es while on duty are still enti­tled to the pre­sump­tion of inno­cence. In Jamaica, lit­er­al­ly one of the most vio­lent mur­der­ous coun­tries in the world it would be a con­spir­a­cy to have them mur­dered was their ser­vice weapons to be tak­en from them.
Fitz Bailey made none of those asser­tions in defense of the Department, because he was too pissed scared in the face of the ques­tions from the sali­vat­ing Hughes who seemed to be hav­ing a limp-dick ejac­u­la­tion at the turn of events involv­ing those officers.

Bailey was, how­ev­er, emphat­ic that the so-called brave offi­cer who took on the three cops who were clear­ly car­ry­ing out a hit, was not guard­ing any Man/​Don. He argued the cop was there in an offi­cial capac­i­ty which went through the JCF’s chain of com­mand in a pro­gram which would see the pro­mot­er pay the JCF and the offi­cer would be paid for his off duty work.
We will be mak­ing an offi­cial request to the police high com­mand to release that doc­u­men­ta­tion, as there is infor­ma­tion in the pub­lic space which does not sup­port that line of rea­son­ing.
The reg­u­lar Vultures are out with their sharp­ened knives already carv­ing up the deceased cop and those who sur­vived.
Hamish Campbell and Terrence Williams and the oth­er bot­tom-feed­ers a‑la Cliff Hughes are hav­ing a field day goug­ing them­selves on the pub­lic­i­ty from this event.

(1)Since these police offi­cers were sup­posed to be on suspension/​off front-line duties It would be inter­est­ing to learn, just how is it pos­si­ble that they had pos­ses­sion of a police ser­vice vehi­cle?
(2) If they were indeed charged with mur­der as we are led to believe, then they would have been placed on sus­pen­sion, as has been cus­tom­ary, if they weren’t, who made the deci­sion not to, and why?
(3) As the pres­sure mounts, regard­less of the truth behind this inci­dent, these three offi­cers will be tossed under the bus by the cow­ard­ly police high com­mand as the Vultures cir­cles ever so clos­er, ready to tear the flesh from the car­cass of this inci­dent.
(4) Critically, it appears that the three offi­cers, did not return fire on their col­league. It seems to me that three against one would be odds in their favor dur­ing that encounter.
However, it appears that after alleged­ly shoot­ing the “DON, “their sole intent was to make good their escape, not hurt a col­league.
Regardless of what one thinks about them killing that indi­vid­ual, it begs the ques­tion, why would they have gone to assas­si­nate him and on whose orders?
The fact that they did not return fire on their col­league seemed to sug­gest that they had no inten­tion of harm­ing him.
How could they have got­ten access to force assets, unless high­er-ups in the depart­ment had a hand in this sor­did affair?

If there is a counter-intel­li­gence mis­sion in which these men were involved in root­ing out cer­tain ele­ments in the soci­ety using unortho­dox means, it can­not be that after they have act­ed in ser­vice to their coun­try they are left, hung out to dry, by an incom­pe­tent high-com­mand.
Since no one is pre­pared to ask these per­ti­nent ques­tions I have decid­ed to do so.
There are a lot of unan­swered ques­tions, more than there are answers and we know that hard­ly any­thing is ever done in a cohe­sive man­ner in our coun­try.
I believe there is a back sto­ry to this sto­ry and if there is, the least the police high com­mand could do is have a coher­ent and believ­able set of answers ready for when events like these occur as they are bound to.

Some of the images which emerged from a vio­lent con­fronta­tion in Saint Catherine yes­ter­day.
Information reach­ing us is sketchy thus far, as a result, we are unable at this time to ver­i­fy what exact­ly occurred.
What we have learned is that the inci­dent involved Police offi­cers, one of whom has died.
We believe what we have learned so far is not the whole sto­ry and heroes may turn to vil­lains before this is all over.

Preliminary indi­ca­tions are that an off duty police offi­cer wit­nessed three of his col­leagues who are on sus­pen­sion kill a man at a dance at Chedwin Park in Saint Catherine ear­ly Sunday morn­ing.
Even as that offi­cer is being hailed as a hero in some quar­ters, we are not so sure as there have been rather con­flict­ing events reach­ing us regard­ing this incident.

According to local media report­ing, one of the alleged rogue cops was killed in the con­fronta­tion while two oth­ers were appre­hend­ed.
There is report­ing that two of the alleged killer cops were already fac­ing mur­der charges and were out on bail.
This Medium has con­sis­tent­ly argued that there is no ratio­nal argu­ment to be made for releas­ing mur­der sus­pects on bail if the soci­ety has an inter­est in reduc­ing crime and improv­ing the rule of law.

We have also main­tained that the Government’s ham­string­ing of the police by the oner­ous and overzeal­ous over­sight would result in a chill­ing effect on law enforce­ment.
This would force out good career offi­cers who did not sign up to go to prison for hon­or­ing their oaths and would inex­orably end up open­ing up the force to more peo­ple with nefar­i­ous intent.
Well, sad to say we are at that place but they will nev­er acknowl­edge these truths.
Because to acknowl­edge them would mean hav­ing to say we made a mis­take and tak­ing reme­di­al action and they are far too arro­gant to do that.

One of the most dis­tress­ing issues plagu­ing Jamaica with­in the broad­er crime epi­dem­ic, is the sex­u­al abuse and mur­der of lit­tle girls, young girls, and women over­all.
The sex­u­al abuse of women has always been a prob­lem in our coun­try, like in oth­er coun­tries.
Nevertheless, Jamaica has not kept pace as it relates to the behav­ior of far too many Jamaican men.
Grabbing, ogling, unwant­ed-touch­ing, harass­ment, and gen­er­al dis­re­spect of women in pub­lic spaces is ram­pant. Some men seem to believe that women are theirs to own and abuse.

Over the years, despite the mas­sive advance­ment women have made through edu­ca­tion, which has pro­pelled them to the high­est offices in the coun­try, the aver­age woman on the street, and in our com­mu­ni­ties, are forced to endure demean­ing behav­ior and sex­u­al harass­ment and assault from men.
This writer has con­sis­tent­ly spo­ken to what I saw as an inevitable back­lash against women for their tac­it and con­spir­a­to­r­i­al sup­port for our crim­i­nal male.
Not just that, but I have argued that in many cas­es the women have been the cat­a­lyst in the ille­gal actions of their men.
I argued repeat­ed­ly, that the blood­lust of the men would even­tu­al­ly turn around on our women.
I take no plea­sure today, in see­ing those pre­dic­tions become man­i­fest on our women and girls.

Notwithstanding the fore­gone, the dis­ap­pear­ance of our women and girls, and in some cas­es lit­tle babies, is indeed a tragedy.
From the police report­ing, in many cas­es, before these young women are mer­ci­less­ly slaugh­tered, they are mer­ci­less­ly raped.
And so today I mere­ly want­ed to draw your atten­tion to [the fraud­u­lence of those who say they stand for Human Rights].
Day after day the news is the same, young girls dis­ap­pear, found dead.
Sometimes we learn that these girls are not real­ly killed but are report­ed miss­ing by moth­ers and fathers who send them away from the so-called [DONS] who would sex­u­al­ly abuse them. Even so, the very instances where the dis­ap­pear­ance is [con­coct­ed] for the pro­tec­tion of young ladies, it speaks to the very dan­ger in which they find them­selves, vic­tims of men who are sup­posed to pro­tect them.
Nevertheless, the inci­dents of sex­u­al abuse and mur­der of our women and girls are aston­ish­ing, to say the least.

The body of eight-year-old Shantae Skyers was dis­cov­ered in the Sterling Castle Heights area of Red Hills, St Andrew, yes­ter­day.
This pre­cious lit­tle girl was killed and dis­card­ed as if she was thrash, as if she was noth­ing.
This eight-year-old child is not by any stretch an iso­lat­ed case. If we wish to be hon­est we have an epi­dem­ic on our hands.
The killing of women and chil­dren is in no way any less egre­gious than the killing of men and boys, but we are con­di­tioned to believe that under no con­di­tions would women and chil­dren become vic­tims of war.
Yes, we are at war, if you believe we are not at war you are not pay­ing atten­tion.
The tragedy today is that women and chil­dren are no longer immune or pro­tect­ed from these maraud­ing ani­mals who take life. They care noth­ing about who they kill, life to them is dis­pos­able. Yet the Government and oppo­si­tion Party goes over­board to design laws which pro­tect, rather than pun­ish these mon­sters.
There is no hon­or among thieves.

And so, as the soci­ety con­tin­ues to degrade, the very same prin­ci­ples which set up that fraud­u­lent sys­tem, con­tin­ue on the path of those same prin­ci­ples.
Like a lone voice in the wilder­ness, I have tried to warn the nation that the most impor­tant right a per­son has is the right to life.
It fol­lows, there­fore, that if we present our­selves in defense of the rights of our fel­low man, yet remain silent on the instances of the most egre­gious assaults on the life of our most vul­ner­a­ble cit­i­zens, we are wolves in sheep cloth­ing, char­la­tans, liars and most of all frauds.

Where is Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ)? Where is Jamaica Council for Human Rights (JCHR))? Where are Families Against State Terrorism(FAST)? Where is Horace Levy? Where is the litany of oth­er Parasitical Crustaceans which attach them­selves to the body politic, pre­tend­ing to be guardians of the peo­ple’s rights?
The sad real­i­ty is that they do not care about the death of our peo­ple.
They do not care about the killing of our chil­dren. What they care about is to carve out a place for them­selves, where they can con­tin­ue to build resent­ment against the rule of law for their own rel­e­vance, and for their for­eign han­dlers.
But the Jamaican peo­ple are too far into the decep­tion of idol­a­try, deca­dence, and deprav­i­ty to real­ize that the for­eign pow­ers which fund these groups are only con­cerned with their con­tin­ued men­tal and eco­nom­ic enslavement. 

EVERY JAMAICAN LOOKING TO LIVE OUTSIDE THE CARIBBEAN REGION HAVE TO GIVE BIO-METRICS TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS OF THE COUNTRY THEY WISH TO LIVE IN.
THEY NEVER COMPLAIN, WHY COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT ASKING THE SAME OF THEM?

In a unan­i­mous deci­sion, Jamaica’s Supreme Court struck down the
National Identification and Registration Act (NIDS) , which has been a source of debate and much con­tention since it was first insti­tut­ed.
In a suit brought by the People’s National Party’s General Secretary Julian Robinson on behalf of him­self, his con­stituents in St Andrew South East, and the mem­bers of the PNP, Robinson argued that the law was unconstitutional.

In explain­ing the deci­sion of the court, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes said: “It is the court’s deci­sion for the law to be struck down in its entire­ty because those aspects which did not infringe on the Constitutional rights of cit­i­zens were not enough to stand alone”. 
Justice Sykes went on: “The manda­to­ry require­ment of NIDS for per­sons to sub­mit bio­met­ric infor­ma­tion is indeed a vio­la­tion of the right to pri­va­cy, which is stip­u­lat­ed by the Constitution”.

This issue should not be viewed as a win for any polit­i­cal par­ty. Nevertheless, it is incon­ceiv­able that in light of Jamaican’s pro­cliv­i­ty to see cru­cial issues through green or orange lens­es, it will be viewed as a polit­i­cal vic­to­ry by those who did not want it.
Never mind that many who do not want it can hard­ly artic­u­late why they have a prob­lem with the idea of a nation­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion data­base..
It is rather tempt­ing to talk about the PNP’s con­stant pop­ulist stance which is seri­ous­ly get­ting in the way of the nation’s advance­ment.
Likewise, it is just as tempt­ing to delve into the JLP’s habit of cre­at­ing leg­is­la­tion which tends to do more harm than good, even though the orig­i­nal intent of the leg­is­la­tion may have been right­eous. (see the INDECOM Act.)

If we allow our­selves to avoid the default polit­i­cal fall­back on these issues we can take a look at the rea­sons these meth­ods are rel­e­vant today even though they may not have Constitutional cov­er.
The Jamaican Constitution was craft­ed at a time when none of the issues affect­ing the Island today were present, par­tic­u­lar­ly on the crime front.
As such it is crit­i­cal that there either be amend­ments to the Constitution which allows the coun­try to keep up with the way the world is going or be left on the incon­se­quen­tial garbage-heap where failed states go to die.
This writer has no prob­lem with the deci­sion of the court. The court is tasked with deci­pher­ing exact­ly what is in the con­sti­tu­tion and how cas­es which come before it stand up to con­sti­tu­tion­al scruti­ny.
I believe that is exact­ly what the learned Justice Byran Sykes and his col­leagues did in arriv­ing at this unan­i­mous deci­sion.
Neither do I have any quar­rel with the peti­tion­ers of the court al ‑la Julian Robinson et al, out­side of the cumu­la­tive pile of cir­cum­stan­tial evi­dence which has become the PNP’s [modus- operan­di], as it relates to being obstruc­tion­ist in the fight against dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals.
It fol­lows that the Administration in office must forth­with brush this rebuke aside and pro­ceed with a nation­al edu­ca­tion cam­paign to bring cit­i­zens up to speed on the ways a nation­al Identification data­base is ben­e­fi­cial to and nec­es­sary for their pro­tec­tion.
At the same time, it must also seek to get a Constitutional amend­ment through the par­lia­ment where the Opposition PNP par­ty has decid­ed­ly staked out a stance that it will be an imped­i­ment and a hin­drance to any strat­e­gy aimed at deal­ing effec­tive­ly with the nation’s crime prob­lem.
It is also impor­tant that peo­ple yap­ping about their oppo­si­tion to a National iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Database do under­stand the ram­i­fi­ca­tions and con­se­quences of not hav­ing one. 

A National Identification sys­tem is a must for all Nations for all intents and pur­pos­es.
Here’s why.
If a nation does not know its cit­i­zens, it can­not give an account­ing of their actions„ what crimes they have com­mit­ted, if any.
As such, any account­ing, vis-a-vis police records for visas and green card is use­less and will not be viewed with any degree of def­er­ence. When a nation can­not be trust­ed to give an accu­rate account­ing of its cit­i­zens, that coun­try is deemed a failed state.
So now, every­one is unable to trav­el or engage in com­merce out­side the coun­try. This is not where the world is com­ing from it is where the world is going. This set­back is only a tem­po­rary block on the road. The PNP is an agent of oppo­si­tion to progress in Jamaica and so the present admin­is­tra­tion should through the par­lia­ment pur­sue a con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment, if not a reword­ing of the present piece of leg­is­la­tion before the courts. Ultimately, the Parliament is con­sti­tut­ed of the people’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives and that is where the pow­er lies.
Frankly, I have called for a new con­sti­tu­tion for years.
Now may be the time !!!!!!!!

Residents of the Mountain View com­mu­ni­ty of East Kingston were left stunned after a near sim­i­lar event as the one on Waltham Park Road yes­ter­day, in which a Corrections offi­cer killed his estranged wife and then him­self, played out in their community.

According to the police, a man known only as “Suddy” used a rock to blud­geon his com­mon-law wife’s head, believ­ing she was dead he then hung him­self.
Neighbors told police the cou­ple was qui­et peo­ple who were not a both­er to any­one. They expressed shock that the deceased could have car­ried out such an act.
On the arrival of the police, the elder­ly woman was found lying in a pool of blood but still alive.
She was rushed to the hos­pi­tal where she is in seri­ous to crit­i­cal condition.

Neighbors told police the man did not hear or see very well and would some­times walk into light-posts.
They allege that the woman moved out of a house they shared and he would vis­it her where she stayed occa­sion­al­ly to help with house­hold chores and pro­vide finan­cial sup­port to her. According to neigh­bors, he could be heard yelling before the inci­dent,” after 19 years yu nuh want me”?
She report­ed­ly had planned on leav­ing him.

In the hus­tle and bus­tle of ear­ly morn­ing Kingston, a cor­rec­tions offi­cer took the life of his estranged wife, 42-year-old Rouleene Clarke-Gowans, also a cor­rec­tion­al offi­cer, as she head­ed to work.
Patrick Gowans, this morn­ing shot and killed his ex-wife in front of their 12-year-old daugh­ter who has been left trau­ma­tized accord­ing to local media.

“For years now, she and the man have prob­lems, prob­lems in the sense that him keep on beat­ing her, draw him gun on her,” said Horace Copeland, half-broth­er to Clarke Gowans, who sought to give com­fort to griev­ing fam­i­ly and friends gath­ered at the house near Woodpecker Avenue, Kingston 11, mid-morn­ing.
Copeland said he had long warned his sis­ter to break off rela­tions with Gowans, who he described as a ser­i­al abuser.
He said that he was so incensed that his sis­ter had secret­ly got mar­ried to​Gowans that he refused to speak with her for a few years.“Them hide and go mar­ried. Me did vex!” said Copeland. “I don’t go to their house, I don’t deal with her. ‘You a go make the man kill you!’” he said, recount­ing the mul­ti­ple warn­ings he gave Clarke Gowans.

In the mean­time, the fam­i­ly is also trau­ma­tized by the stark images being cir­cu­lat­ed of the crime scene before the arrival of police.
They are appeal­ing to the sen­si­bil­i­ties of those who post the grue­some images on social media sites not to con­tin­ue doing so out of respect.
We have opt­ed to hon­or those request by not includ­ing those images in our reporting.

According to recent crow­ing from Errol Chattoo, the direc­tor of com­plaints for INDECOM’s Western Regional office, police fatal shoot­ings are down this year com­pared to the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od last year.
Responding to local media Chattoo remarked:
“We have seen a sig­nif­i­cant decrease in police fatal shoot­ings across west­ern Jamaica between 2017 and 2018,” said Chattoo, in pro­vid­ing the fig­ures out­lin­ing the com­par­i­son. “When one looks at St James, where 28 civil­ians were fatal­ly shot in 2017, we had 17 less in 2018, as the num­ber dropped to 11.“
Inspired by the num­bers, Chattoo said that INDECOM wants the police to be cog­nizant of how they use force, as the orga­ni­za­tion is com­mit­ted to con­tin­u­ing their push to encour­age pro­fes­sion­al behavior.

Even though the INDECOM mouth­piece did not direct­ly take cred­it for the low­er police shoot­ings, I believe we all know that their aim is to see low, to non-exis­tent police shoot­ings, crim­i­nals killing cit­i­zens does not mat­ter.
Set that aside for a minute and we can under­stand clear­ly that the few­er inci­dents in which police are forced into the use of lethal force may read­i­ly be attrib­ut­able to the fact that dur­ing the time stip­u­lat­ed the ZOSO was in effect.
Lower across the board crime num­bers sup­port the fore­gone.
Those facts missed both the local Gleaner and the police watch­dog group, or it was­n’t worth men­tion­ing in their report­ing.
See report­ing here:
http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​l​e​a​d​-​s​t​o​r​i​e​s​/​2​0​1​9​0​1​1​6​/​d​e​a​d​l​y​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​s​h​o​o​t​i​n​g​s​-​d​o​w​n​-​o​u​t​-​w​e​s​t​-​i​n​d​e​com.

More recent report­ing this month shows a con­tin­ued drop in police shoot­ing of civil­ians, accord­ing to the [Gleaner] Statistics from the Jamaica Constabulary Force show that 21 civil­ians were killed by police per­son­nel between January 1 and April 6, 2019. This is 12 few­er cas­es when com­pared to the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od last year. There has, how­ev­er, been an increase in the num­ber of peo­ple killed by licensed firearm hold­ers. A total of six per­sons were fatal­ly shot, five more when com­pared with the same peri­od in 2018. And two per­sons were killed by secu­ri­ty guards. Meanwhile, the fig­ures indi­cate that there was a fall in the num­ber of per­sons arrest­ed by the police dur­ing the peri­od. The sta­tis­tics show that a total of 3350 arrests were made com­pared with the 3807 record­ed in 2018. The major­i­ty of the arrests, 287 cas­es, were for breach­es in the Firearms Act.

In that report­ing, there is a direct cause for alarm if you are a law-abid­ing cit­i­zen.
(1) Police are engag­ing few­er armed crim­i­nals.
(2) Licensed Firearm hold­ers seem to be pressed into defend­ing them­selves and oth­ers as there seems to be a drop off in police engage­ments.
(3) Police have arrest­ed few­er peo­ple for the peri­od this year against the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od the pre­vi­ous year.
(4) Frighteningly, the major­i­ty of the arrests, 287 cas­es, were for breach­es of the Firearms Act.
(5) At the same time, there has been no let­up in the num­ber of vio­lent assaults and mur­ders as well as sus­tained mil­i­tary-styled oper­a­tions car­ried out by heav­i­ly armed thugs across the Island.
Just yes­ter­day five peo­ple were shot, two fatal­ly, on Tower Avenue in Olympic Gardens, St Andrew. Twelve hun­dred and eighty-sev­en (1,287) mur­ders were record­ed last year, this meansJamaica has a homi­cide rate of approx­i­mate­ly 47 per 100,000.
The shock­ing real­i­ty of this is that Jamaicas mur­der rate is almost three times high­er than the aver­age for Latin America and the Caribbean, which has the high­est homi­cide rate glob­al­ly of 16 per 100,000 of the population.

So in the excite­ment of win­ning elec­tions to solid­i­fy pow­er or to set an agen­da to retake pow­er when the green and orange col­ors are back in the clos­ets the dark sta­tis­tics remain the same and are get­ting worse.
At the same time, pro­tract­ed gun­bat­tles rage in Kingston 11 between what is report­ed to be gang­sters from 35 Lane in what the street said is revenge for the shoot­ing of Oney British.
In online audio of some of the shoot­ing which went on for sev­er­al min­utes, the hor­ri­fy­ing bar­rage of high-pow­ered weapons-fire was almost sur­re­al, as res­i­dents cow­ered in fear and angst.
These are the scenes all across the Island yet the focus is on low­er police shoot­ing data.

Jamaica’s lead­ers con­tin­ue to delude them­selves and lie to oth­ers over­seas that the Island is safe when the reverse is true. Crime is out of con­trol but they will tell you that crime is trend­ing down.
Not true!
Violent crimes are run­ning ram­pant, heav­i­ly armed thugs attack and kill whomev­er they will, when­ev­er they want.
They have an end­less sup­ply of weapons and ammu­ni­tion while in some cas­es entire police sta­tions do not have enough ammu­ni­tion to arm offi­cers going out on duty.


http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​l​e​a​d​-​s​t​o​r​i​e​s​/​2​0​1​9​0​4​0​9​/​m​u​r​d​e​r​s​-​a​l​m​o​s​t​-​d​o​u​b​l​e​-​s​t​-​j​a​m​e​s​-​c​o​p​s​-​c​o​n​f​i​d​e​n​t​-​t​h​e​y​-​c​a​n​-​a​r​r​est

Police sta­tions have no vehi­cle and in cas­es where a vehi­cle exist, the fire­pow­er of the gang­sters are expo­nen­tial­ly supe­ri­or to any­thing the police could muster. Added to that offi­cers are under immense stress and strain if they engage the maraud­ing gang­sters even after they have killed inno­cent cit­i­zens.
Such is the real­i­ty in Jamaica, and police offi­cers are not allowed to speak out to the media and cer­tain­ly, they are not allowed to speak out on social media.
It is shock­ing, what’s occur­ring on the island, as the focus which ought to be on enforc­ing the laws are con­cen­trat­ed on pro­tect­ing the rights and inter­est of mur­der­ous thugs.
The faux-com­mis­sion­er of police, who nev­er did a minute polic­ing in his life, dreams of the day when all police offi­cers will be human rights agents.
Not hav­ing the ben­e­fit of ever being a police offi­cer. Not hav­ing had the ben­e­fit of actu­al­ly don­ning a police offi­cer’s uni­form, (not an unearned cos­tume). Not ever hav­ing the con­vic­tion which draws a real police offi­cer into ser­vice, Antony Anderson lacks the wis­dom and the knowl­edge, that before offi­cers took the oath to serve, they were already human rights activist.
That is what draws real offi­cers to serve, the call to stand up for those who can­not defend them­selves.
The desire to stand up to the bul­ly. The desire to stand between those who are pow­er­less and those who are pow­er­ful and arrogant.

When the chief law-enforce­ment offi­cer is igno­rant of these ideals, it is no won­der that crim­i­nals con­tin­ue their mur­der­ous ram­page.
When our police offi­cers are reduced to win­dow- dress­ing, de-autho­rized and demo­ti­vat­ed from act­ing in defense of the nation’s laws, the sit­u­a­tion is only going to get worse.
While the Nation’s lead­ers and elites focus on build­ing a police force of pat­sies with past­ed on smiles in the place of a real police force, crim­i­nals con­sol­i­dat­ed their pow­er bases and build out their sup­port struc­ture and geo­graph­i­cal spheres of influ­ence using ter­ror, fear, and coher­sion.
They open­ly dis­play high-pow­ered weapons on social media with­out fear of pros­e­cu­tion because with INDECOM and the Governemnt on the back of the police who will stand in their way?
Welcom to Jamaica the land of Kartel and Buju, both con­vict­ed felons, both wild­ly pop­u­lar role models.

“What’s going on in Montego Bay can­not be dealt with using nor­mal Policing mea­sures”.
“We need enhanced secu­ri­ty mea­sures.”
(Horace Chang, Minister of National Security)

Panicking much!
Let me just say that this guy should be nowhere close to National secu­ri­ty, but since we are talk­ing about Jamaica where its stan­dard pro­ce­dure for the Fox to guard the hen-house, it is also okay for the inmates to run the asy­lum.
Of course, what is hap­pen­ing in Montego Bay does not require nor­mal polic­ing mea­sures.
It has­n’t been that way for many years, but isn’t just Montego Bay, it is all across the Island.
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Imagine tes­ti­mo­ny com­ing to light in the Uchence Wilson Gang tri­al, that gang­sters went to rob a home in sleepy and serene Guys Hill where I attend­ed High school.
And that one gang­ster was shot by the police in the process, yet a Medical Doctor prac­tic­ing med­i­cine in the parish of Manchester asked for a quar­ter of a mil­lion dol­lars to remove the bul­let with­out alert­ing the Police.
According to the report­ing, the doc­tor received $90.000 to remove the bul­let and the police was none the wis­er.
When the major pon­tif­i­ca­tors in Jamaica get on their high hors­es to talk about cor­rup­tion, as if its a police only prob­lem, we try to shine a light on these well-respect­ed crim­i­nals in the soci­ety who are doing far worse than col­lect­ing lunch mon­ey because they are hun­gry.
These doc­tors know that the rea­son that gang mem­bers come to them instead of going to a hos­pi­tal is that for all intents and pur­pos­es they have been involved in crim­i­nal activ­i­ties.
They know full well that they like­ly killed one or more inno­cent per­sons in the process of com­mit­ting oth­er crim­i­nal acts.
Yet they patch them up and turn them loose on the soci­ety once again.
We can talk about the fear they have for their own lives if they do not com­ply with these gang­sters demands.
I’m pre­pared to counter with the fact that (a) how do the gang­sters know which doc­tor to go to across sev­er­al parish­es, unless they know these doc­tors are dirty and (b) if the gang­sters wished to, they could sim­ply force the doc­tor to per­form the pro­ce­dure with­out pay­ing one dime, then kill him. They don’t have to pay if they chose not to.
It fol­lows there­fore that these doc­tors are wlling par­tic­i­pants in the cul­ture of crime which has been plagu­ing the coun­try for decades.
They have been on the fore­front.
As police offi­cers, we knew that cer­tain doc­tors were there ready and wait­ing unscrupu­lous­ly, to patch up any mur­der­er for a price.

Despite these unscrupu­lous acts, these sick bas­tards will tell you they have tak­en a Hippocratic oath to do no harm.
That they have tak­en an oath to adhere to med­ical con­fi­den­tial­i­ty. What they won’t say is that those very same Hippocratic oaths bind them to also com­mit to non-malef­i­cence.
This across the board cor­rup­tion has been at the heart of the nations crime cul­ture. It enables those who pull the trig­ger off-ramps when they would have been oth­er­wise stuck on the free­way wait­ing for law enforce­ment to find them.
When Criminals are able to source under­ground hos­pi­tal and life-sav­ing med­ical ser­vice, after they them­selves have just robbed and mur­dered inno­cent cit­i­zens, it makes the job of the police dou­bly dif­fi­cult.
It is this lucra­tive under­ground econ­o­my which caus­es those in the high­est offices to be vehe­ment­ly opposed to the police.
It is this vehe­mence which makes police offi­cers say “to hell with it why am I both­er­ing myself”?

The pro­lif­er­a­tion and expan­sion of the cul­ture of vio­lence in our coun­try will not be reme­died with more laws. Certainly not the watered down types they have man­aged to pass to blow smoke up the col­lec­tive ass of the nation to make it seem they are doing some­thing about crime.
The two polit­i­cal par­ties have huge com­mu­ni­ties which are ben­e­fit­ing from crime. INDECOM and the pro­lif­er­a­tion of so-called human rights lob­by is proof that nei­ther polit­i­cal par­ty wants an end to the sta­tus quo, it works just fine for their inter­est.
Change in Jamaica requires that there is [a come to Jesus recog­ni­tion]. Jamaica is the only coun­try which spends its ener­gy wor­ry­ing about the rights of mur­der­ers and Rapists over the plight of law-abid­ing cit­i­zens.
It requires that the Prime Minister and his par­ty and Peter Phillips and his par­ty, decide to stop shield­ing crim­i­nals and com­mit to the full sup­port of the police as the depart­ments is allowed to go after the gangs and pull them up from the root.
The com­ments of Chang are cor­rect. Normal polic­ing can­not apply, these thugs are blood­thirsty mur­der­ers who play by no one’s rules.
ZOSO and SOE’s are not the way to erad­i­cate this scourge, more laws will do noth­ing as long as police going after these killers are crim­i­nal­ized for doing their jobs.
As long as the empha­sis is on the rights of crim­i­nals and not on that of inno­cent cit­i­zens, expect this dis­as­ter to con­tin­ue.
Andrew Holness’ attempt at social engi­neer­ing fol­lowed the PNP’s attempt at social engi­neer­ing.
Both have failed. We need to get back to allow­ing police to do their jobs with­out the specter of prison hang­ing over their heads, it is what suc­cess­ful coun­tries do.

These two men were report­ed­ly killed on Barnett Street in Montego Bay Saint James tonight.
The infor­ma­tion is still sketchy, we will update this post as more infor­ma­tion becomes available.

The lat­est update we have on this dou­ble mur­der is that the two men were walk­ing along Barnett Street at about 5:00 pm when they were pounced upon by assailants who shot them and dis­s­a­peared.
Neither men have been iden­ti­fied so far.