KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) today began a spe­cial ini­tia­tive to restore order in pub­lic spaces, with spe­cial empha­sis on May Pen in Clarendon, and Linstead and Spanish Town in St Catherine.

In a release a short while ago, the police say the oper­a­tions being con­duct­ed will focus on mar­kets and bus parks and aim to: tar­get peo­ple involved in extor­tion, restore order, reduce con­ges­tion caused by ille­gal vend­ing, ille­gal park­ing and pro­vide a reas­sur­ing pres­ence in the pub­lic spaces. http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​l​a​t​e​s​t​n​e​w​s​/​J​C​F​-​b​e​g​i​n​s​-​s​p​e​c​i​a​l​-​o​p​e​r​a​t​i​o​n​-​t​o​-​r​e​s​t​o​r​e​-​o​r​d​e​r​-​i​n​-​t​o​w​n​s​h​ips

“It is not merely enough to be outraged. It is not merely enough to be saddened at what is happening. It is not merely enough even to weep over what is happening. Outrage calls for action! You gotta do something about it if you’re outraged.”(Fellowship Tabernacle Pastor Merrick Al Miller.)

The occa­sion was the funer­al ser­vice for 17-year-old Calabar High School stu­dent Stephan McLaren who was stabbed to death on New Year’s Day on Hagley Park Road in St Andrew, after leav­ing a party.
It was report­ed that while walk­ing with a group of friends, McLaren stopped along the way indi­cat­ing that he want­ed to urinate.
One of his friends said soon after he rushed to them say­ing he was stabbed.

It becomes almost curi­ous to talk about a sin­gle mur­der in Jamaica with­ing the con­text of the dai­ly mul­ti­ple killings.
The killings are so fre­quent , so fast, and in such num­bers that talk­ing about an indi­vid­ual case makes one seem almost silly.
I am just blown away at the idea that a kid on his way from a par­ty who stopped to uri­nate could be stabbed because some­one believed he had some­thing they want­ed to rob.

Having served a decade in uphold­ing the law on the Island, hav­ing been a voice speak­ing out against the unchecked epi­dem­ic of crime since I left in 91, I am exas­per­at­ed as I know many peo­ple are, about whats happening.
In a no holes barred arti­cle, local jour­nal­ist Ian Boyne expressed sim­i­lar exasperation.
Of course Boyne’s bit­ing nar­ra­tive seemed more direct­ed at the pre­ten­tious know noth­ings and the human rights crowd, than at the killers themselves.

Social media is replete with raw emo­tion­al respons­es from Jamaicans liv­ing, both in the dias­po­ra and at home.
Much of what has changed and has become clear­er, is a dis­tinct thread of anger at the bur­geon­ing cabal of indi­vid­u­als and Organizations which has sprung up in the coun­try pur­port­ing to be defend­ers of human rights.

I am all for human rights , but if I want­ed to be cred­i­ble when I lend my voice to the cause, I believe my pre­oc­cu­pa­tion would be with the indis­crim­i­nate loss of inno­cent lives .
Not about the rights and secu­ri­ty of the killers.
Nevertheless, as is the case with much of what ails Jamaica, bull­shit car­ries the day over commonsense.
Human rights advo­ca­cy in Jamaica is just anoth­er eat a food gravy train and a place to have a mega­phone, con­se­quences be damned.

Hearing the Reverend Al Miller’s state­ments made me cringe however.
It is not mere­ly enough to be out­raged. It is not mere­ly enough to be sad­dened at what is hap­pen­ing. It is not mere­ly enough even to weep over what is hap­pen­ing. Outrage calls for action! You got­ta do some­thing about it if you’re outraged.”

If only we would fol­low our own advice, take due care about our asso­ci­a­tions and motives.
Being good cit­i­zens in our indi­vid­ual capac­i­ties when no one is looking.
Then when we speak to spe­cial cir­cum­stances our words would have greater resonance.
Jamaicans have fall­en in love with mur­der, like much of the world wrong is right and right is wrong.
It should sur­prise no one that sym­pa­thies are with and for the wel­fare of the killers and not with the victims.
A peo­ple blind with igno­rance will for­ev­er reap the whirl­wind of their actions.
America is about to find that out.

Two of the Islands most pop­u­lar dance-hall lumi­nar­ies Rodney Pryce o/​c Bounty-kil­la and Desmond Ballentine o/​c Ninjaman teamed up in an event designed to lift the morale and pay a lit­tle com­pli­ment to the Island’s law-enforce­ment offi­cers recently.

In a ses­sion orga­nized to lift the spir­its of the cops the two, whom many believe are unlike­ly sup­port­ers of law enforce­ment ‚declared that fight­ing crime was every­body’s business.
Speaking at the Jamaican con­fer­ence cen­ter both disc jock­eys paid trib­ute to the police , label­ing them “slaves”, because they did not receive the remu­ner­a­tions they deserve for their work.,
Most impor­tant­ly Ninjaman blast­ed the agency “indecom“for it’s aggres­sive per­se­cu­tion of police offi­cers when they go after killers.

Said Ninjaman:

“I’m com­ing from a bad man point of view. No bad man nuh inna Jamaica again; unuh have a set of crim­i­nals and mur­der­ers deal­ing with. Some peo­ple just tek up gun and turn it on any­one they feel, and if the police catch one of dem and deal wid dem, INDECOM charge dem for it,”.

Said Bounty: “Fighting crime is everybody’s busi­ness and not just the busi­ness of those with direct respon­si­bil­i­ty”.

Neither of these two men are with­out sin.
In fact Ninjaman recent­ly did time in prison ‚and Bountykilla have been arrest­ed I believe more than once for domes­tic abuse of one live in lover or another.
What I find instruc­tive is that these two men, both of whom have con­tributed immense­ly to the pop­u­lar cul­ture, now have the vision and insight to see that the cul­ture is bad­ly flawed.

Dance-hall lyrics are not the rea­son there are so many homi­cides on the Island but they do con­tribute to the so called bad-man culture.
That these two are able to rec­og­nize that law-enforce­ment deserves the sup­port of every sin­gle Jamaican ele­vates them expo­nen­tial­ly in my view over many who pur­port to be educated.

The back­lash against the two by trolls on social media, depicts in real ways the mind­set of Jamaicans when it comes to crime in our country.
Lets be clear, there is noth­ing that these two men could have said, out­side their sup­port for law enforce­ment of course,which would not have elicit­ed tens of thou­sands of blan­ket likes and raves.
But the minute they decide to become good respon­si­ble cit­i­zens , using their plat­forms to save lives, the vil­lage lawyer cock­roach­es are out with smart ass dissent.

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What both­ers me is that these trolls had no prob­lem when Carolyn Cooper had Adijia Palmer (Vybs Kartel )at the University of the West Indies lec­tur­ing stu­dents on the mer­its of dance-hall in our pop­u­lar culture.
Might I remind them that Kartel is now doing a life sen­tence for cap­i­tal murder.
By the strangest real­i­ty Kartel is allowed to con­tin­ue to per­pet­u­ate on the pop cul­ture, the same putrid mur­der music for which he is heav­i­ly responsible.

Lets under­stand some­thing here.
There was a strong argu­ment to be made that the poor boys in the ghet­to are unable to afford the high pow­ered weapons, and un-end­ing sup­ply of ammu­ni­tion they have in their possessions.

That was in the past, Here’s how they make mon­ey today
Murder for hire.
Extortion.
South American cocaine and guns com­ing into Jamaica, a trans­ship­ment hub .
The Haitian con­nec­tion which exchanges Ganja and stolen meat for guns.
The huge amounts of cash com­ing into the Island as a result of the scam­ming trade.
Jamaicans liv­ing in the dias­po­ra send­ing back mon­ey to pur­chase guns and ammunition.
Jamaicans send­ing back guns in bar­rels and every oth­er recep­ta­cle rivals only the inge­nious meth­ods they employ in try­ing to get mar­i­jua­na into the United States and oth­er countries.
These boys have cash.

Those of us who have ever had any­thing to do with law enforce­ment are clear-eyed about the var­i­ous ways guns enter into our country.
So when we ask that there be a mind­set among all of our rea­son­able cit­i­zens regard­ing the crime mon­ster , we must com­mend these dance hall artiste when they step for­ward to lend their voic­es toward the cause of sav­ing lives and our coun­try in the long run.

At the same time we should nev­er lose our focus as it relates to those who active­ly encour­age, fund, and oth­er­wise sup­port crim­i­nal­i­ty in Jamaica even as they live as decent law abid­ing cit­i­zens in oth­er countries.
Their bel­li­cose rhetoric and ham­ster-wheel argu­ments are the same as those who do live in Jamaica who essen­tial­ly encour­age, fund, and oth­er­wise sup­port crim­i­nal­i­ty, but are shield­ed from it’s con­se­quences by virtue of their posi­tions in society.
The oth­er mon­grels only yelp because those in pow­er tell them when to yelp.
Ignore those !!!

Jamaican Media is report­ing that two offi­cers were shot ear­ly this morning.

ST JAMES, Jamaica — Two police offi­cers were shot and injured this morn­ing in St James.

The police con­firmed the inci­dent, which took place about 12:45 am, but declined to give any details, say­ing they have not received any “com­pre­hen­sive report” on the matter.

The two offi­cers are said to be in sta­ble con­di­tion. http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​l​a​t​e​s​t​n​e​w​s​/​T​w​o​-​c​o​p​s​-​s​hot – injured-in-St-James

HANOVER, Jamaica — A man and two chil­dren were last night shot dead in Williamsfield, Hanover while three oth­er peo­ple were injured in the attack. Dead are 34-year-old Hopeton Lee, five-year-old Kimani Johnson and one-year-old Daquan Davidson, all of Williamsfield address­es in Hanover. Police reports are that about 10:45 pm, Lee was at home with his rel­a­tives when armed men entered the premis­es and opened fire hit­ting him. The assailants fled the scene and about 10:50 pm, opened fire on anoth­er house in the com­mu­ni­ty, where Kimani, Daquan and three oth­ers were shot.

The police were sum­moned and on their arrival, all six were tak­en to hos­pi­tal where Lee, Kimani and Daquan were pro­nounced dead, while the oth­er three were admit­ted in seri­ous con­di­tion. The police said no motive has been estab­lished for the incident.

Well you can’t make this up!!!

Out of the mouth of babes and suck­lings hast thou ordained strength because of thine ene­mies, that thou might­est still the ene­my and the avenger.

I was always of the view that if you keep chip­ping away at a moun­tain long enough, giv­en enough time you can chis­el out a tunnel .
A tun­nel leads to light.
For years I have made it a per­son­al cam­paign to speak out using every medi­um I can to bring atten­tion to the seri­ous and exis­ten­tial prob­lem of crime in our country.

I have received much blow-back over the years for stand­ing with the police.
Many dis­missed my unshak­en sup­port for the police as sim­ple loy­al­ty borne out of the fact that I served.
To those I have said repeat­ed­ly ‚” No“It’s not about the fact that I served, it’s because I under­stand that there is no oth­er sit­u­a­tion in which we can have a liv­able coun­try with­out the rue of law.
Which means no mat­ter how flawed our law enforce­ment agen­cies are we stick with them and fix the problems.

Desmond Ballentine (Ninjaman) and Rodney Price (Bounty Killer) are two foun­da­tion dance-hall artiste who came up through the grit­ty streets of Kingston .I do not know Bounty Killa but Ninjaman a prod­uct of the beau­ti­ful parish of saint Mary came to Kingston and resided in the Marl Road com­mu­ni­ty where I lived.
As a Young police offi­cer I met Ninja, I had a small bar on Plantain avenue behind the Old New Yorker fac­to­ry off Waltham Park and Bay Farm Roads.

Every Friday and Saturday I had a lit­tle sound sys­tem play­ing at my lit­tle spot . The sound sys­tem was owned by a Rastafarian gen­tle­man from the area. That is where Ninja cut his teeth as a disc jock­ey long before he became the don-gor­gon.
There is an old Jamaican proverb which says, if fish comes from the bot­tom of the ocean and tell you there are sharks down there you bet­ter believe the fish.,

On the issue of crime and how we deal with it effec­tive­ly Ballentine and Pryce are babies , though they are from the streets, and knows what goes on, these gen­er­al­ly aren’t the peo­ple as per con­ven­tion­al wis­dom, we would look to for advice, hence my “lit­tle child shall lead them scrip­ture verse..
Notwithstanding when peo­ple like the afore­men­tioned two tell us whats going on it behoove us to listen.

At a ses­sion organ­ised to moti­vate mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) yes­ter­day received crime-fight­ing instruc­tions from two of the most unlike­ly indi­vid­u­als that one would expect to see address­ing cops — dance­hall dee­jays Bounty Killer and Ninjaman.(source JamaicaObserver)

Ballentine, in his address, chid­ed the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) for putting what he described as unwar­rant­ed pres­sure on police seek­ing to uphold the law.

“I’m com­ing from a bad man point of view. No bad man nuh inna Jamaica again; unuh have a set of crim­i­nals and mur­der­ers deal­ing with.

Some peo­ple just tek up gun and turn it on any­one they feel, and if the police catch one of dem and deal wid dem, INDECOM charge dem for it,” the artiste, who served three-and-a-half years behind bars, said before turn­ing on the Government.

He called for more resources for JCF mem­bers, whom he described as the country’s “slaves”, argu­ing that they are not ade­quate­ly paid for the work they do.
http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​B​o​u​nty – Ninja-lecture-cops_86875

Let’s start mak­ing the vil­lage raise the child again. Last year was a grue­some year with killings. The police, the sol­diers, the secu­ri­ty forces, they are play­ing their part; we as soci­ety have to play our part as well,” Pryce said.

I rest my case !
Dance-hall artiste are not fools, they know whats going on, they have their ears to the ground. The pow­ers that be in Kingston know that inde­com is bad for the coun­try, many peo­ple have come out and said so.
As some­one who has been ham­mer­ing this home since I first saw the minu­tia of the law, I under­stood it was going to increase crime.

At the risk of sound­ing like a bro­ken record I say again . The( inde­com )act serves the inter­est of a small cabal of pow­er­ful peo­ple on the Island.
It was a gift giv­en to them by Bruce Golding.
The act has many sup­port­ers, those sup­port­ers may be found in two groups. (1) Those who ben­e­fit from it and I have named them in mul­ti­ple pre­vi­ous articles.(2) And a bunch of know noth­ing vil­lage lawyers who can­not see beyond what they are told.
The abil­i­ty to crit­i­cal think was not giv­en to everyone .
Some swal­low every­thing they are told with­out the abil­i­ty to think things through for themselves.

Those sheeple[sic] have to be led , deci­sions have to be made for and despite them , not with them.
The harm the inde­com act con­tin­ue to do is being mea­sured in the blood of too many Jamaicans, some of them inno­cent and undeserving.
It’s time that this law and this creep who head the agency be shown the door.

In response to the killing of six gangland figures recently by the security forces I commended the police and soldiers who valiantly took it to gangsters.
At the same time I questioned comments coming out of the police high command lamenting the loss of the gangsters lives.

Now all life was cre­at­ed by God Almighty , sub­se­quent­ly all life is to be respected.
However ‚when someone(1) takes the life of anoth­er human being, or (2) embark upon a dai­ly life of crime .
That per­son of their own voli­tion, make the deci­sion to place their life in danger.

Lets make it real sim­ple.……
A per­son who decides to jump over Niagara Falls does so on their own volition.
We do not blame the Falls for the death of that indi­vid­ual right? The falls is the falls , you jump you die !!
At the same time there is no need to lament the deceased, he or she made their own choice, and in that case “died with their choice”.
Me, I lament the loss of life of peo­ple who did not make a deci­sion to give up their lives.
That is at the heart of why I became a police offi­cer as a young man in 82.
It is why I con­tin­ue to speak out on behalf of vic­tims of crime, regard­less of who they are.

What are you bab­bling about Mike?… 

Well lets get back to the police and their apol­o­giz­ing for the loss of life>
Is it just me or does it seem like the men and women of the force have a new pep in their steps at the instal­la­tion of a real leader, DCP Novelette Grant, albeit temporarily?
Okay it’s prob­a­bly just me and my excite­ment at Novelette get­ting a shot, no mat­ter how short, to show that she can do the job as well as oth­ers before her if not better.

Nevertheless the Police high com­mand have found it nec­es­sary to keep up the apol­o­gy tour after the appro­pri­ate demise of the six thugs in St James.
In a release the high com­mand asked peo­ple want­ed by police to avoid vio­lent con­fronta­tion with the police.
Acting police com­mis­sion­er Novelette Grant said that “had the deceased peace­ful­ly sur­ren­dered, they would have been arrest­ed and charged with ille­gal pos­ses­sion of firearm and ammunition”.
“Regrettably, they chose to vio­lent­ly con­front the secu­ri­ty forces,” Grant said.

According to Grant, there is an increas­ing pat­tern of vio­lent attacks on the police and mil­i­tary by crim­i­nal sus­pects who, on many occa­sions, have elud­ed cap­ture. Unfortunately, on this occa­sion, those who were embold­ened by these pre­vi­ous instances con­front­ed the secu­ri­ty forces and met their demise. http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​S​u​r​r​e​n​d​e​r​-​p​e​a​c​e​f​u​lly – police-urge-sus­pects-after-gang­sters-killed-in-gun-bat­tle.

The Police are absolute­ly trau­ma­tized by the con­stant and inces­sant haranguing .
The inces­sant bar­rage of crit­i­cisms is sure­ly hav­ing an effect on even the high­est lev­els of the force. Even though offi­cers at the high­est lev­els are not exposed to the dai­ly dan­gers of polic­ing in Jamaica the way street cops are.

The fact that the police high com­mand see it nec­es­sary to con­tin­ue on what I call an “apol­o­gy tour” , for doing exact­ly what the JCF Act empow­ers them to do , is tes­ta­ment to the lev­el of trau­ma the depart­ment has been exposed to, for car­ry­ing out it’s sworn mandate.

Here’s where I dif­fer from Novelette Grant.…

Said Grant.“had the deceased peace­ful­ly sur­ren­dered, they would have been arrest­ed and charged with ille­gal pos­ses­sion of firearm and ammunition”.
“Regrettably, they chose to vio­lent­ly con­front the secu­ri­ty forces.”
My dear act­ing com­mis­sion­er, every per­son on this plan­et knows what the func­tions of the police are.
There are no ambi­gu­i­ties inher­ent or oth­er­wise, which would reg­u­lar­ize or legal­ize, not com­ply­ing with autho­rized agents of the law, much less threat­en­ing their lives.

On that basis alone, there need be no apology!!
If we are to have a coun­try . If we are to have a democ­ra­cy. If we are to have the rule of law. The foun­da­tions of that soci­ety, our soci­ety must respect the rule of law and those who enforce said laws.
You jump over Niagara Falls you die.
You attack the police in the law­ful exe­cu­tion of their duties, much less with weapons of death you die.

The police should nev­er find itself apol­o­giz­ing for doing exact­ly what they are tasked with, and empow­ered to do.
We begin to take back our coun­try street by street, block by block, neigh­bor­hood by neighborhood.
Being a tough and pro­fes­sion­al police depart­ment has noth­ing to do with being dis­re­spect­ful and abusive.
It’s a straw-man lie being fed the pub­lic by the elites who are liv­ing off the pro­ceeds of crime. They are in the media, and these Trolls are intent on using those perch­es to shape the nar­ra­tive to suit their end.

We know who they are.
The tri­al liars, I mean lawyers. The Media elites. The polit­i­cal elites, some of whom can­not get on an air­plane to trav­el abroad because the Americans have yanked their visas,.
I recall being a very tough cop.
I also remem­ber young and old com­ing out to thank me for my work in the Grant’s Pen Gully, Shortwood gul­ly ‚White Hall, and Red Hills slums.
Yup the kiss­es from those old ladies will for­ev­er be in my heart as long as I live, as they thanked me for ensuri ng that they could go about their busi­ness peaceably.
That kind of polic­ing , tough though I was, does not seem to me to have been abu­sive polic­ing, not to those law-abid­ing residents.
Those who want­ed me moved away to anoth­er sta­tion or dead were the peo­ple who were a dan­ger to those communities.

Nowadays there is no short­age of bleed­ing heart char­la­tans who come as sav­iors of the people..
The only lives they care about are the lives of those whom have tak­en mul­ti­ple inno­cent lives.
So to hell with Terrence Williams and indecom.
Tell that lit­tle leech Horace Levy at Jamaicans for Justice to go get a damn job and stop pros­ti­tut­ing as a defend­er as of the poor, we know he is mere­ly eat­ing a food.

Tell the entire bunch of Parasites who sit around and crit­i­cize the police but does noth­ing to help to secure the country.
Words are words , actions are what’s important.
Those at the pub­lic defend­er’s office as well , what a waste of tax-pay­ers dollars.
We have a Director of Public Prosecution, that’s the pub­lic defend­er. Any oth­er office which oper­ates as a defend­er of the pub­lic is a dupli­ca­tion which should be dis­band­ed and the funds redi­rect­ed to the real defend­er of the pub­lic the office of the DPP.

If our coun­try is to be bet­ter there need be a full repeal of the inde­com act and the law reauthorized.
As it is it is a crime enhance­ment law which is cost­ing Jamaicans their lives, it must go and so should Terrence Williams.
Lets begin the process of tak­ing back the streets of our cities , towns and villages .
Lets do it the right way.….

The fol­low­ing is a snip­pet of the way real Jamaicans are feel­ing about their com­mu­ni­ties and their coun­try in general.
It is impor­tant that as you watch and lis­ten you appre­ci­ate the pal­pa­ble fear these ordi­nary Jamaicans feel, and the gen­uine con­cern they have about not even appear­ing on cam­era out of fear of reprisal from cronies of the six urban ter­ror­ists who were extin­guished by the secu­ri­ty forces two nights ago.

(cour­tesy of cvm television.)

The Jamaican peo­ple are a decent law abid­ing people.
This writer has spo­ken to this for years, about the good­ness and kind­ness of these people.
I under­stood fun­da­men­tal­ly that the elites who define and dom­i­nate our cul­ture are total­ly uncon­cerned about the peo­ple like the folks in this video.
Ordinary peo­ple are the one’s who allow their sons and daugh­ters to place their lives on the line as police offi­cers and soldiers.

Outside the elit­ist bub­ble , these peo­ple are ordi­nary peo­ple whom have con­tributed much toward the devel­op­ment of our country.
More than any­thing else they have sent their sons and daugh­ters to put them­selves in harms way for all Jamaicans , none more so than their great­est ene­mies who walk the halls of acad­e­mia, sit in the media hous­es and the oth­er places where elit­ism grow and thrive.
These, the above Cross Roads crowd, receive much from our coun­try with­out risk­ing anything.

They are giv­en pow­er­ful posi­tions in Government and the diplo­mat­ic ser­vices, they receive nation­al hon­ors they do not deserve, and haven’t earned.
The elit­ist media and their friends above Cross Roads have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly used the sto­ry line of these, the least pro­duc­tive, most crim­i­nal­ly com­plic­it ele­ments in our coun­try to shape nation­al secu­ri­ty policy.
The peo­ple who give the most, their sons and daugh­ters to die receives noth­ing in return.

The despi­ca­ble per­pet­u­a­tion of the vic­tim-hood men­tal­i­ty has been duti­ful­ly and glee­ful­ly enhanced by the lame stream cheer-lead­ing media which unwit­ting­ly allowed inner city alle­ga­tions of abuse to deter­mine how crime is approached.
This has not only shaped local pol­i­cy but has impact­ed inter­na­tion­al per­cep­tions about local law-enforce­ment practices.
A google search bears that out.

The time has come for real Jamaicans. Real peo­ple like the peo­ple in this video to make it known that they will not tol­er­ate this kind of crim­i­nal­i­ty in their communities.
I will say this again , the vast major­i­ty of the rur­al folks are decent good people.
I call on all Jamaicans in every nook and cran­ny of our beau­ti­ful coun­try to stand against the elites in Kingston.
Tell them where they can go with (inde­com) and Terrence Williams.

For years we warned against the lying char­la­tan Carolyn Gomes’ .
Many accused me of tak­ing the side of police because I am a for­mer police officer.
It was only after they had already bestowed a nation­al hon­or on Gomes that she showed who she tru­ly was.
And what her cam­paign about human rights was tru­ly about.

We have been warn­ing about Terrence Williams for awhile now .
The idea of an over­sight Agency to look at alle­ga­tions of secu­ri­ty forces excess and abuse is a must.
In this day and age there must be safe­guards , checks and bal­ances against state power.
However that check against the pow­er of Government must be bal­anced with the Government’s pri­ma­ry role and pre­rog­a­tive to pro­vide a secure envi­ron­ment for the nation.

It can be done.
It must be done, the two are not mutu­al­ly exclu­sive. and are inex­tri­ca­bly linked.
With that said, our coun­try must move from being a coun­try of men, to becom­ing a coun­try of laws.
This tran­si­tion effec­tive­ly removes the abil­i­ty for lit­tle men with grandiose ideas and over inflat­ed sense of their own impor­tance to cause harm to many.

The silent major­i­ty of Jamaicans want a peace­ful place to live and raise their families .
I call on the Administration to ignore the noise of the Kingston crowd , both those in the ghet­to and those above Cross Roads who enhances, sup­port and defend crim­i­nal­i­ty in our country

The silent major­i­ty of Jamaicans do not sup­port criminals .
The elit­ists do.

Soldiers in a the­ater of war places a lot of trust in the men who lead them into war.
They believe they will be giv­en the kind of lead­er­ship they deserve which allows them the best shot at com­plet­ing their mission.
Well so I’m told by my friends and fam­i­ly mem­bers who actu­al­ly served in the great­est, most lethal mil­i­tary in the his­to­ry of mankind, the United States military.
Right Chris Porter , Copelad Bedward , Haniff Brown and the many oth­er ex-police offi­cers who served with dis­tinc­tion in the US mil­i­tary after leav­ing the Jamaica Constabulary Force?

Policing in dan­ger­ous urban envi­ron­ments require strong lead­er­ship as well, just of a slight­ly dif­fer­ent nature.
Cops who take on the dan­ger­ous job of polic­ing dan­ger­ous Favela In Brazil do their jobs with the knowl­edge that their lead­er­ship stand solid­ly behind their efforts to bring san­i­ty to these oth­er­wise chaot­ic urban slums.
Jamaica , one of the world’s most vio­lent coun­try, with dan­ger­ous urban slums known as Garrisons. is no different.

Police offi­cers go out to do good !
That is the premise from which any dis­cus­sion on polic­ing must commence.
For the cyn­ics who line up to chat and crit­i­cize, I ask , when was the last time you placed your mis­er­able life on the line in defense of others?
So then, if the police go out to do good, and the back up their com­mit­ment by plac­ing their lives on the line for us.
Why would we not sup­port them again?

Nobody wants bad cops , we want our cops account­able like every­one else .
What we should nev­er tol­er­ate is the demo­niz­ing of our pro­tec­tors by peo­ple who are too cow­ard­ly to step up to the plate and do. yet they have every­thing to say.

Welcome to the Commissioner’s chair DCP Novelette Grant a leader.
A cops cop, a woman who signed up to do a job dom­i­nat­ed by men and did it well.
My praise for the Police high com­mand is well.…… There is nev­er any praise for the high com­mand from me .
However, I have great respect and trust in my for­mer col­league Novelette Grant .
Smart as a whip, speaks her mind and is not afraid to stand up for her colleagues.
Something Dr Carl Williams for­got to do.

I knew Novelette Grant from our days at Port Royal her batch of stu­dent con­sta­bles were the very first to grad­u­ate from the Police academy.
Six months lat­er my batch, the first batch to begin train­ing at the acad­e­my , followed .

One of her Former female colleague and friend who entered the academy and graduated with her. had this to say about Novelette Grant.

I was a squad­mate of Novelette Grant we start­ed our ini­tial train­ing in Port Royal and was the first grad­u­at­ed batch out of Twickenham Park called the Jamaica Police Academy. Novelette was our Valedictorian and was the select­ed grad­u­ate, Best at Laws. She was trans­ferred to the rur­al areas where she worked along­side what you would call the grass-root police.
She has always per­sist­ed in qual­i­fy­ing her­self edu­ca­tion­al­ly. She was nev­er one to suck up to the pow­ers that be, but where she saw weak­ness or unfair­ness. Would with intel­li­gence. Speak her mind.

I remem­ber even in train­ing school , her stand­ing up to the feared ““shock­ing” Sgt. Brooks and our drill instruc­tor Ruddy Bailey””. We would always wor­ry once Novelette was. Called to the office Summoned by screw Morgan”” with Ms Frazier behind. Novelette always came back smil­ing. Shrugged and said” the frog is only dead when he is on his back, but as long as i can hop i will croak” Novelette has grown in the ranks.

She went onto the accel­er­at­ed ranks, served as ACP under two Commissioners and as DCP. Under two Commissioner. I dare­say she should be giv­en a fair chance to uti­lize her skills many and var­ied in get­ting the Job done. The fight for our Forces pro­fes­sion­al and impor­tant duty to fight crime and to bring back respect for law and order, giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty, tools, the vehi­cles and finan­cial resources need­ed for their morale.

That is a ring­ing endorse­ment of a col­league if ever there was one. Well said Donna Dell.
As I have stat­ed in this medi­um from time to time the JCF lead­er­ship is weak, feck­less, inef­fec­tu­al, cow­ard­ly, and incompetent.
Those are actu­al­ly the good adjec­tives, the oth­ers .….….don’t ask.
Novelette Grant stands head and shoul­ders above all of the peo­ple in the high com­mand, in her clar­i­ty of focus and her staunch defense of offi­cers on the street.
Jamaica does itself a tremen­dous ser­vice by appoint­ing this qual­i­fied woman to the posi­tion of chief constable.

On a side note :
I hope that the Investigative arm of the police force (whats left of it)understand the wealth of infor­ma­tion which are on these cell phones.
They must secure war­rants and go get these phone records .
The death of these gang mem­bers should nev­er be the end of inves­ti­gat­ing them it should be the beginning .
These guys are killers who use their tele­phones to com­mu­ni­cate with oth­ers. their nefar­i­ous and evil deeds.
Those instru­ments are trea­sure troves of action­able infor­ma­tion which local law rein­force­ment must secure and utilize.
Breaking the backs of these gangs require tough smart policing.
Do it right !!!

Jamaicans woke up to wonderful news Sunday morning January 15^th. It was like back in the days when the police were allowed to go after criminals.
The fatal shooting of six men in an alleged gun battle with members of the security forces in Goodwill, St James was good news indeed.
There will be two types of responses from these killings , wild celebration by people who believe in the rule of law ‚and a load of bullshit from those who benefit from crime and thus support criminality.

That’s it.
The com­ments going for­ward will be clear cut in deter­min­ing the side com­men­ta­tors are on , no mat­ter how they try to couch their argu­ments in gobbledygook.

The secu­ri­ty Forces final­ly decid­ed to say “fuck you” to Terrence Williams and his bunch of scum-bag friends who pro­tect the crim­i­nals on the Island.
They demon­strat­ed that what all for­mer Jamaican Police offi­cers already knew, cops are absolute­ly not afraid of any dirty filthy crim­i­nals.
They are afraid of a Government which is too chick­en-shit to pro­tect them as they go about what they are sworn to do.
This not a crit­i­cism of the Andrew Holness led Government.
Government in this con­text is par­ty neutral.

As usu­al (inde­com) is sup­pos­ed­ly inves­ti­gat­ing the exter­mi­na­tion of the six. My only regret is that every­one in that out­fit was­n’t caught in the cross­fire.
These sce­nar­ios are not the same as shootouts in oth­er coun­tries where a per­son pulls a weapon on an offi­cer and is shot.
These sce­nar­ios have exist­ed for decades in Jamaica and has exac­er­bat­ed now with the huge pro­lif­er­a­tion of semi auto­mat­ic weapons all over the Island.
In oth­er coun­tries the sce­nar­ios which play out in Jamaica dai­ly elic­it mas­sive swat respons­es, and the shoot­ing death of the perpetrators.
The take-away is that Jamaican cops are asked to face heav­i­ly armed killers but are not allowed to appro­pri­ate­ly defend them­selves if the elit­ists con­tin­ue to have their way.

Jamaican Police offi­cers are not con­fronting sane ratio­nal peo­ple who are will­ing to drop their weapons when con­front­ed, they want to kill police officers.
These are ruth­less , mind­less, ani­mals who take tremen­dous plea­sure in killing every­one, includ­ing police.
Strike that .
Particularly police.

What I don’t want to hear from the Police is the non­sense bull­shit that they are sor­ry for the loss of life.
Get over your damn selves already.
The spe­cial inter­ests who sup­port these mass mur­der­ers do not utter a word when police offi­cers are gunned down mercilessly.
Neither of the two state spon­sored anti ‑police enti­ties, (inde­com) and the pub­lic defend­er’s office, nor Jamaicans for Justice and the oth­er despi­ca­ble leech­es who give aid and com­fort to those low life garbage, ever offer a word of com­fort to the fam­i­lies of slain officers.
These crim­i­nals made a deci­sion not to val­ue the lives of oth­ers . They decid­ed not to val­ue their own lives when they opened fire on the police and soldiers .
The secu­ri­ty forces should not be in the busi­ness of apol­o­giz­ing for their loss.
Thats the remit of (inde­com) (jfj) and others.

Novelette Grant strong­ly believes that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is ready to be led by a woman.

Though she is yet to sub­mit her appli­ca­tion for the post of police com­mis­sion­er, adver­tised rough­ly two weeks ago, Grant, who is now act­ing com­mis­sion­er, yes­ter­day declared her inten­tion to apply. The post offi­cial­ly became vacant last Friday, the last day of Dr Carl Williams’ tenure, after he exit­ed the job on ear­ly retire­ment. Yesterday, at a JCF press con­fer­ence held at the Commissioner’s Office, Grant explained why she should take lead­er­ship of the 150-year-old organisation.“What I bring is 35 years of knowl­edge of this organ­i­sa­tion. I think I have an excel­lent under­stand­ing of its work­ings and I think I have an excel­lent under­stand­ing of its fail­ings, too,” Grant said.
See sto­ry here :http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​G​r​a​n​t​-​r​e​a​d​y​-​f​o​r​-​t​h​e​-​t​o​p​-​j​o​b​_​8​6​290

Laws are made to deal with situations at the time. Jamaica’s laws are largely Colonial era laws which have precious little relevance to today’s problems.

More and more the comments someone made to me sometime ago seem relevant to Jamaica’s crime problem. Quote, “Jamaica needs a dictatorship to truly stamp out crime on the Island”.

Now grant­ed I do not nec­es­sar­i­ly agree with that sen­ti­ment , I do wish how­ev­er there was some way to shut the mouths of some of the chat-a-lots who talk a lot about what they either do not know, or their opin­ions should sim­ply be dis­re­gard­ed and discarded.

Yesterday we car­ried Ian Boyne’s Article which appeared in the Sunday Gleaner. In his Article Boyne pro­posed some strin­gent mea­sures which he feels should be adopt­ed as a solu­tion to crime.
I thought it was wor­thy of dis­cus­sion, but I also under­stand that Boyne is a Journalist, not a legal or secu­ri­ty offi­cial. So there is no sur­prise ele­ments of his com­ments would be legal­ly problematic.
At the same time I har­bor a cer­tain degree of dis­dain for those who sup­port the sta­tus quo on the basis that sug­gest­ed fix­es, regard­less of what is sug­gest­ed is either unwork­able or unlawful.
Laws are made to deal with sit­u­a­tions at the time they are made . Jamaica’s laws are large­ly Colonial era laws which have pre­cious lit­tle rel­e­vance to, or impact on, today’s problems.
The broad­er take­away for me from Boyne’s arti­cle is that things are reach­ing crit­i­cal mass. Andrew Holness , the Prime Minister allud­ed to that in a recent speech. He said he sensed that the peo­ple were tired of the killings and want­ed action on crime.

In response to us fea­tur­ing Boyne’s Article a friend who spent years in the police depart­ment opined that Boyne was always crit­i­cal of the police even when it was unwar­rant­ed. He argued that Boyne’s out­burst is rem­i­nis­cent of the mood before the Military and police were forced to annex Tivoli Gardens to the country.
He was adamant that Jamaicans only have some­thing pos­i­tive to say about police offi­cers when their ass­es are in a vice.
Their ass­es are in a vice now…
To his com­ments I said .….….….….….….….….….….Well I said noth­ing because he was exact­ly correct !

Here’s my advice to the pon­tif­i­cat­ing fools who stand in the way of change. Arguing that sug­gest­ed fix­es are “unlaw­ful” is self-serv­ing and should be seen for what it is.
As I said in a pre­vi­ous arti­cle , “you damn fools do real­ize that sim­ply chang­ing the laws strikes down your argu­ments right”?
We dri­ve cars until they are no longer road wor­thy. We wear clothes until they are worn, torn, or we sim­ply tire of them.
So I sim­ply want to point out to you genius elites [sic] , when the laws are no longer serv­ing the pur­pose for which they were intend­ed we change them, whether you like it or not.

After the Morant Bay rebel­lion the Colonial rulers did not sit on their back­sides and hoped there would be no recurrence.
Take this fact or leave it.
They cre­at­ed the Jamaica Constabulary Force ‚which at it’s gen­e­sis was a night­watch­man type force.
Drastic and out­ra­geous you say?
Call it what­ev­er you want, as long as the Colonial mas­ters had con­trol of the Island there were no more unman­age­able uprisings.

If every man, woman, and child in Jamaica had a job mur­ders would still be out of control.
To you who say you “you can’t prove that”.
My response is “prove that it would­n’t be”!
Lack of a jobs has noth­ing to do with murders.
In fact many Jamaicans have this insane propen­si­ty to com­mit crimes. They will tell you they will not take any job that will not allow them to steal. You have all heard it,( “mi lef di jab kaa nu hus­tling nu de de”).

It is an affront to the integri­ty of decent unem­ployed peo­ple to sug­gest that those who com­mit heinous mur­ders do so because they are unemployed.
So like I said yes­ter­day to the vul­tures who fly down on every sug­ges­tion which has seri­ous puni­tive com­po­nents to the crime problem.
Despite your holi­er than thou opin­ions, it is we the peo­ple who have tried it your way . It is we the peo­ple who lis­tened to your self-right­eous bull­shit that ref­or­ma­tion must be the solu­tion with­out a puni­tive response.
It is we the peo­ple who bleed while you sit in your edi­fices of grandeur and pon­tif­i­cate about some­thing you know noth­ing about.
It is we the peo­ple who lis­tened to your grandiose sug­ges­tions that killing mass mur­der­ers does not stop killings.
When was the last time an exe­cut­ed mur­der­er returned to kill again?
Oh wait, spare me the (duppies,)stories .

Since you peo­ple refuse to yield to com­mon sense solu­tions to the Island’s crime problem.
I call on well think­ing Jamaicans who want to live in peace to take action. People who want to send their chil­dren to school with­out fear they will nev­er return take action. People who want to step out with­out the immi­nent threat of mur­der hang­ing over their heads take action.
Since the Government is scared of the elites in high places, it may be time that the elites are not allowed a voice.
It is your chil­dren who are being raped and mur­dered , not theirs, your moth­ers and sis­ters , your sons and fathers , not theirs.
Look at what the Colombian peo­ple did.
It’s your coun­try not theirs alone.….…

Read , com­ment , share.

Ian Boyne’s Article of Sunday January 9^th 2017.

I am tired of writing about crime. I keep saying the same things over and over. The majority of Jamaicans have no need to be convinced of the commonsensical things which I say, but our élite dominates traditional media discourse on the issue, and our politicians are in terror of them the way ordinary citizens are in terror of gunmen.
The politicians don’t have the guts and courage of leadership to take the tough decisions which they need to make to send a signal to criminals because talk-show hosts, articulate, well-spoken defense attorneys and other human rights fundamentalists will clobber them if they dare to act decisively and tough. Every prime minister and minister of national security knows that once he starts talking tough or takes strong action to make life harder for criminals, defense attorneys will be on every talk-show and every prime-time television newscast to make hysterical, histrionic claims of repression and denial of human rights.

Yet our journalists, columnists and civil society activists have the gall to be making calls for the Government to ‘do something now’ and to ‘act decisively’ to deal with crime and to “tame the crime monster. They talk about a whole menu of things which need to be done to fight crime. But examine them carefully. Not one would have any effect on murder today or next week. Listen to their recommendations again and ask, ‘which one would make criminals think twice about killing today?’.
Yes, I agree with all the human rights activists about the social and structural changes which are needed to fight crime sustainably. But what strategies can halt the horrific daily spate of murders? When will we have all the money to effect all the grand social and economic transformation needed to do all the things which the social justice model demands?
What irks me is not that these human rights fundamentalists are stressing the long-term things which need to be done. I have no disagreement with them. My problem is when these same persons harshly criticise the Government for not doing something now, when nothing they are proposing can have any practical effect on crime now. Nothing. Only one bleeding heart columnist has had the honesty to say plainly that there is nothing that can be done right now to halt crime, and we just have to invest the time and resources to get it right.

I respect that kind of forthright admission. He does not annoy me. But it is those who are writing editorials, columns and who are on talk shows demanding that Government ‘do something about this crime now!’ whose reasoning repels me. The only anti-crime measures which can have an immediate effect on crime deterrence must involve some curtailment of civil liberties enjoyed in normal times. We are not in normal times.
It seems that that is dawning on our prime minister. In his new year’s message he said something very significant. I just hope he has the courage to carry it through, after the predictable voices in the defense bar get on early morning, mid-morning, afternoon and night-time talk-shows and newscasts to blast him.
He said: “I believe the Jamaican people are now prepared and expectant of firm and decisive action in breaking the neck of the crime monster once and for all.”

Mr Prime Minister, they have been ready for a long, long time. It is our élite which has not been ready, using sophistry and obfuscation to escape the crystal clear conclusions: We are at war with criminals and we have to craft anti-crime strategies to fit that war.

The prime minister has now told us that, “I have been around the country and everywhere I go the cry is the same, deal with the criminals. I no longer detect an ambivalence.” There was never any ambivalence with the people, Mr Prime Minister. The problem is with our élite, who are as out of touch with the people’s everyday realities as the American élite was with working class and grassroots people in in their country, resulting in that shock defeat to their Democratic candidate.
Our traditional media, like the American traditional media, are out of touch with grassroots fears, concerns and views. These ordinary Jamaicans are seen as just ‘panicking’, after ‘revenge’ and not being sophisticated or enlightened enough to understand the intricacies of human rights issues.
We have a prime minister who is social media savvy and who is directly in touch with multiple tens of thousands of people through those platforms. His thinking is not just influenced by what traditional media discourse is. While I know he remains sensitive to that, he is acutely aware of a broader constituency; a constituency whose interests don’t converge with those of the defense bar.

I was happy to hear the prime minister announce that “we will be creating the legislative environment to support the establishment of the rule of law in communities where it is absent and to separate criminals from communities they have captured.” He went on to say: “We will be creating under this framework, zones where the security forces and other Government agencies will be able to conduct special long-term operations in high crime areas, including extensive searches for guns and contraband.” Excellent!
Expect to hear defense lawyers on every talk show and to see editorials and columns inveighing in Manichean terms about an approaching Apocalypse and the end of democracy and human rights in Jamaica. If the prime minister is not prepared to press ahead despite that; if he displays the fear which has crippled others from decisive, tough action, he will back away from whatever he announces as soon as he does.
The power of the media/​defense bar élite has to be resisted. The courage of Andrew Holness’ leadership will be severely tested on this issue of security. Peter Bunting used to boast about how curfews had declined under his watch. There must be more curfews, searches and detentions in areas of high criminality. Certain people who nobody dares testify against and who can afford the highest-priced criminal lawyers must be taken off the streets and detained. You could say until you are blue that it is because my children will not be scraped up. That diversionary argument won’t detain me.

People in inner-city communities know that there are certain criminals who are well-known but whom nobody can testify against in a court of law. These guys can hire the best attorneys to defend them or to get them on bail where they can kill more people.
Let them and their attorneys protest; let all the editorial writers, columnists and commentators come out in unison against the measures you are coming with, prime minister, have the guts to implement them in the interest of Jamaica and its future. Don’t be intimidated by élite lawyers with uptown diction and impeccable media connections. The people are not listening to them. The people know better. They don’t have safe uptown houses . The prime minister said in his new year’s address that he was confident that this year “will be the breakthrough year in bringing the crime monster under control, while respecting the human rights of every citizen” . I am for respecting human rights. I am not calling for extra-judicial killings or police abuses.
But I am calling for locking down certain communities, locking away certain known crime perpetrators; going into homes without search warrants and stopping vehicles on the road. Curtail some of my civil liberties in the interest of all. You can’t have human rights if there is not a viable state. We cannot allow Jamaica to become a failed state and to let our prospects for economic growth evaporate before our eyes because our politicians and chattering classes are cowards. Enough is enough!
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Thanks Ian Boyne. I have always believed that ulti­mate­ly things will come to a boil, that soon­er or lat­er peo­ple’s eyes will be opened to the neg­a­tive con­se­quences of crime on their lives .
More and more non-police Jamaicans are com­ing to that crit­i­cal mass and it’s encouraging.

For years I have writ­ten and writ­ten and writ­ten about this sem­i­nal issue.
For years I have spo­ken to the fact that there are a bunch of self-appoint­ed Elites who shape pub­lic per­cep­tion about what is done about crime.
For years I point­ed out to the Jamaican peo­ple who actu­al­ly suf­fer from crime , that it is them and their fam­i­ly mem­bers whom are the vic­tims of crime.
I spoke specif­i­cal­ly about where they may be found , I char­ac­ter­ized them as those who live above Cross-Roads. But that does not ade­quate­ly describe where they may be found. They are in the media hous­es,(move yu toe Boyne) they can be found in the Island’s Bar asso­ci­a­tion, (the crim­i­nal lawyers who sur­vive from crime).They are at the University of the West Indies,(Mutty Perkins labeled it the intel­lec­tu­al ghet­to).The Norman Manley law school being the epic-cen­ter of the indoc­tri­na­tion, as well as the over­all cam­pus which has always been a ground-zero of left­ist ideology.

These soci­etal vul­tures are mas­ter pontificates.
They carved out a place for them­selves which effec­tive­ly posi­tions them­selves as moral supe­ri­ors. They under­stand that pover­ty and bad gov­er­nance breeds crime.
The per­fect envi­ron­ment for them to operate.
Taking the sides of crim­i­nals secures them in their abil­i­ties to make a liv­ing from the blood-shed,while shield­ing them from the blood-let­ting as a result of the stance they take.

The trail lawyers were always under­stood to be just an uptick above the vul­tures which tear the car­cass from the corpse of the inno­cent slaugh­tered on the Serengeti.
They like the Vultures are quite con­tent to wait on the lions/​lionesses , after which they swoop down to pick up the pieces left over by the killers.
It the new breed of Vultures, (jankru) which have tak­en over the narrative.
Those whom have dri­ven fear into Politicians, and police , pre­vent­ing them from doing what must be done to reclaim the streets from the mind­less killers.

IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG AS WE EXPECTED

We knew it would­n’t be long before these local jankru, I’m sor­ry vul­tures swooped down as they are wont to do when­ev­er any­one dare step up in a away which will dis­rupt their food..
The ink on Boyne’s Article had­n’t dried before they swooped down.
In case you are won­der­ing who they are, here is what appeared in the Gleaner on Monday morn­ing , the very next day.

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Courtesy of the dai­ly Gleaner.

Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry, a defence lawyer and human-rights activist, says the proposal by influential journalist Ian Boyne for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to curtail the rights of Jamaicans to address crime should be rejected for its ‘unlawfulness’. Boyne, in his column in The Sunday Gleaner yesterday, branded rights advocates, defence lawyers, and members of the media as elites “who harshly criticise the Government for not doing something now when nothing they are proposing can have any practical effect on crime now”.

“I am calling for locking down certain communities, locking away certain known crime perpetrators; going into homes without search warrants and stopping vehicles on the road. Curtail some of my civil liberties in the interest of all. You can’t have human rights if there is not a viable State,” he wrote, urging Holness to ‘resist’ efforts to undermine plans to address the crime problem this year. However, Harrison Henry said those suggestions should be rejected. “Mr Boyne’s aim is for the reduction of crime, and that is laudable. The methods he has prescribed, however, have already been tried, tested and proved not to work. So let us not forget that Tivoli Gardens incursion in 2010.”

She argued that some of the old methods included the Suppression of Crime Act of 1974 that was repealed in 1993 after yielding little results except for the alleged abuses of citizens’ rights. Tied to that is the creation of various special police units over the years that earned the wrath of rights campaigners for their actions. “At the risk of being regarded by Boyne as one of the human-rights fundamentalists, what we’re saying is that crime-fighting measures will not succeed if people’s rights are disregarded. Crime is a societal problem and it cannot be solved without the full involvement of communities.”

Jamaican authorities are struggling to contain crime, particularly murders — the key indicator. About 1,350 people were murdered last year, 11 per cent more than 2015. That’s a rate of about 45 homicides per 100,000 of the population. Rights campaigner Horace Levy said the figure is high, but the “nonsense” proposed by Boyne will not do anything to address the problem. “It simply has not worked. For decades, we’ve been doing that. It’s absolute rubbish! Absolute rubbish!” Levy said. “And, we in the civil society, and I’m sure the Jamaican Bar Association, will also be involved in it, will fight any attempt to bring back this business of barging into peoples’ houses without search warrants and limiting their right to bail. I’m disappointed in Boyne because he usually writes good sense,” added Levy, the executive director of Jamaicans for Justice.

On the issue of searching houses without warrants, Patrick Atkinson, defence lawyer and former attorney general, said Boyne should volunteer his house first. “I would like them to start by going in and locking down his community, and stop and search his car, and going into his house without a warrant. Since he’s willing to do that, let them start there,” he said. “It is just a recycled diatribe that occurs every time that there is a crime spike. When you have these spikes in crimes, they call on police to stop it. They call on lawyers to be silent. They feel it necessary to dismiss lawyers by referring to them as high-priced lawyers, as if that is some kind of a crime. They don’t speak about high-priced doctors or high-priced journalists. If you’re a lawyer, nobody has a clue what your fees are and that people somehow, by hiring lawyers, it facilitates them committing crime. It is all nonsense.

“To stop crime is really not the police’s job,” said Atkinson. “The police are there primarily to go and investigate crimes that have been committed.” His successor in the attorney general’s chambers, Marlene Malahoo-Forte, renewed the debate about rights and crime last May when she told the Parliament that “fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed to Jamaicans may have to be abrogated, abridged or infringed” to address crime. Holness noted in his New Year’s Day message that legislative changes were coming, but gave no specifics. The public defender, meanwhile, said her office was prepared to fight any unlawful proposal.

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These are not the only entrenched crim­i­nal sup­port­ing peo­ple on the Island. Neither are the Organizations they rep­re­sent the total­i­ty of the myr­i­ad insti­tu­tions which does so. Some are even tax-pay­er fund­ed ‚yet active­ly engages in and enhances crime on the Island.
This has been par for the course in the over 50 years since the British hand­ed the coun­try after 1962.

I’m glad Ian Boyne used term “ELITES” to describe them, he sim­ply for­get to add “wannabe”.
Criminal lawyers live off crime. Human rights peo­ple eat a food off alle­ga­tions of state abuse. The very office of pub­lic defend­er is a con­tra­dic­tion, it should be scrapped , the pub­lic defend­er’s office is actu­al­ly the DPP. What has that lit­tle creep Levy done out­side leech­ing and mooching? In what oth­er coun­try out­side the worlds num­ber one crim­i­nal par­adise Jamaica, would these despi­ca­ble mis­cre­ants even have a say in nation­al secu­ri­ty policy?

Two issues arise when­ev­er these vul­tures open their despi­ca­ble pie-holes.
(1) They demo­nize any­one who dis­agree with their views, and can­on­ize those with whom they agree.
(2) They nat­u­ral­ly default to using the word “unlaw­ful”, as soon as there is a sug­ges­tion to get tough with criminals.
We know these peo­ple are leech­es , we know they are parasites .
What these damn fools do not real­ize is that all that is need­ed, is to change the laws and what they per­ceive to be unlaw­ful now becomes lawful.

How dumb do they think the aver­age peo­ple are?
In Jamaica there two groups of peo­ple , there are decent good peo­ple who are vic­tim­ized by crime then there are the crim­i­nals and their cabal of sup­port­ers which include these jankru Elitists.

The peo­ple of Colombia rose up against crime, they chose not to become a narco-state.
They rose up against Pablo Escobar, the Medellin car­tel and the Cali Cartel.
But they also rose up on those who for years sup­port­ed the criminals .
That time is fast approach­ing in Jamaica.
There are some in Jamaica who must receive vis­i­ta­tions if our coun­try is to improve .
Our coun­try must move from a crim­i­nal sup­port­ing state con­trolled by Liberal talk­ing heads. In order to get there some of these” jankrus” who feed off the car­cass of our coun­try­men must be removed.

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War had lit­er­al­ly been declared on Jamaica by the crim­i­nal ele­ments in the peri­od just before May 24, 2010 when the secu­ri­ty forces con­duct­ed what they said was a nec­es­sary oper­a­tion in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston.

Many Jamaicans will remem­ber that before the May 24, 2010 oper­a­tion, per­son­nel at the Denham Town Police Station were attacked by gun­men, that heav­i­ly armed crim­i­nals from across Jamaica had assem­bled in Tivoli; that these crim­i­nals had bar­ri­cad­ed and for­ti­fied Tivoli Gardens; that women had marched dressed in immac­u­late white clothes stat­ing emphat­i­cal­ly that they would die for their leader Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, that the Darling Street and Hanna Town police sta­tions had been razed and that two police offi­cers were bru­tal­ly slain on Sunday May 23 on Mountain View Avenue in St Andrew Eastern.

The after­math of the secu­ri­ty forces oper­a­tion saw over 60 peo­ple being killed and, after some­time, Coke was even­tu­al­ly cap­tured and then extra­dit­ed to the United States to stand tri­al on a num­ber of charges. He was found guilty and is now serv­ing time in a US prison.

A Commission of Enquiry head­ed by for­mer Barbados Attorney General Sir David Simmons, with Professor Anthony Harriott and retired Supreme Court Justice Hazel Harris as the oth­er two com­mis­sion­ers, was estab­lished to assess events lead­ing to events dur­ing the secu­ri­ty forces’ oper­a­tion, events after the oper­a­tion, and to make rec­om­men­da­tions. The com­mis­sion­ers heard tes­ti­mo­ny from vic­tims, the police, the army, var­i­ous spe­cial­ists, and in the end made three major rec­om­men­da­tions: one — that an apol­o­gy be made to the Tivoli Gardens com­mu­ni­ty; two — spe­cial pay­ments be made to affect­ed mem­bers of Tivoli Gardens; and three — that known gar­risons be de-gar­risoned over time.

I’ve thought long and hard about what process would effec­tive­ly dis­rupt the safe­ty net which allows Jamaican politi­cians to be arrogant,non-productive and crim­i­nal even.
In some demo­c­ra­t­ic coun­tries well orches­trat­ed grass-roots cam­paigns are able to dis­lodge politi­cians who are lying snivel­ing, self-serv­ing snakes like 99.99% of those in Jamaica.

In the United States this is becom­ing less and less pos­si­ble because of the process of ger­ry­man­der­ing. This process essen­tial­ly redraws con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts to include vot­ers loy­al to the par­ty with con­trol of the Congress.
The result is con­gres­sion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tives who are intran­si­gent in their refusal to do the nation’s busi­ness, giv­ing them cov­er to pur­sue their own agendas.
Ultimately vot­ers lose their voic­es in this process and are sub­ject­ed to the dic­tates of their polit­i­cal party.
It is sim­i­lar to the cre­ation of gar­risons in Jamaica in which peo­ple loy­al to the two polit­i­cal par­ties are giv­en free homes and much more free­bies in return for their life­long alle­giance, depend­ing on which is in power.
It’s a form of slav­ish servi­tude which strips peo­ple of their voic­es and ulti­mate­ly their dignity.

JAMAICA

How does one expose politi­cians for the lying decep­tive frauds they are when the peo­ple who elect­ed them to office have reduced them­selves to mere sheep to be herd­ed by the very same politicians?

Such is the state of our beloved Jamaica, there is no appeal­ing to the peo­ple’s intel­lect, there is no alert­ing the mass­es to the dan­gers inher­ent in the trust they place in the hands of politicians.
Some nations have checks and bal­ances which offers a degree of pro­tec­tion against some abuse by politi­cians, Jamaica is not one such country.

It’s extreme­ly dif­fi­cult to con­vince a peo­ple whom are deemed to be 84% cor­rupt that their Government of either polit­i­cal par­ty, is not act­ing in their best interest.
It’s lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble to con­vince them that crime is ulti­mate­ly a destruc­tive force in their lives when they eat and live from the pro­ceeds of crime.
How do you tell them that the very laws which are sup­pos­ed­ly designed for their pro­tec­tion are designed by peo­ple who are sup­port­ers of mur­der­ers and pur­vey­ors of seri­ous crimes, and in some case are active­ly com­mit­ting crimes themselves?

Politicians of both polit­i­cal par­ties have found a will­ing com­pli­ant scape­goat for their trans­gres­sions, that scape­goat is known as the police high command.
Whether it was thir­ty years ago or today, Whether they were pro­mot­ed to senior ranks through long ser­vice, news-car­ry­ing, sleep­ing up the ranks, being yard boys, etc . Or through mer­i­to­ri­ous ser­vice and edu­ca­tion, their cow­ardice is the very same pal­pa­ble cowardice.

They allow them­selves to be used as tem­plates, barom­e­ter for whats wrong in the coun­try by both polit­i­cal par­ties. They accept drinks and pats on the back and look the oth­er way while politi­cians com­mit all kinds of crimes with­out accountability.
Ask your­selves this question.
Why have the American Government revoked the visas of some politi­cians, essen­tial­ly pre­vent­ing them from enter­ing the United States?
A coun­try which believes in the rule of law gets the rule of law . Countries with eth­i­cal lead­ers can­not have bad police depart­ments because they ensure there are safe­guards in place to trip up bad offi­cers and pro­tect good ones.
They ensures that the law applies to each and every cit­i­zen and not just the poor­er class.

Corruption is rife in the coun­try, at the high­est lev­els of the Government cor­rup­tion is the rule, not the exception.
That explain the rea­son why they tie the hands of the police while pre­tend­ing to care about human rights.
Please do not talk to me about human rights abuse by police. A gov­ern­ment which cares about peo­ple puts in place the req­ui­site frame­work for an effi­cient police depart­ment which is pro­fes­sion­al , car­ing and competent.
That’s how the cen­tral issue of basic pro­tec­tion of human rights is guaranteed.
Not by tying the hands of police and empow­er­ing criminals.

Human rights are guar­an­teed when we mod­ern­ize our law enforce­ment agen­cies and ensure that the rule of law is sacrosanct.
Placing the rights of crim­i­nals over that of their vic­tims is stu­pid or inher­ent­ly calculative.
I am inclined to believe the lat­ter is true in my country.
To hell with the dead vic­tims , let us ensure that no one place a scratch on the mur­der­ing scums when they are caught.
Minister Montague you say a lot of sil­ly things , God bless you , I believe your heart is in the right place even if you have no idea where that place is.
In your zeal to ensure that “crim­i­nals run weh“please con­sult your col­league Delroy Chuck, and oth­ers , then ask the mem­bers on the Opposition bench­es whether they share your dream that crim­i­nals should run weh?

You see Minister Montague, there­in lies the prob­lem. Because in the high­est places of our coun­try, Jamaica’s crim­i­nals have entrenched allies.
And that’s a real problem.
We under­stand some indict­ments are com­ing in that Caricell débâcle,we also under­stand some visas have already been tak­en away.
Maybe more is to come stay tuned.

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Excerpts of Robert Montague’s statements made at the Annual Devotional Exercise staged by the constabulary at the Police Commissioner’s Office.

“Whoever is the next com­mis­sion­er, and who­ev­er is the next assis­tant com­mis­sion­er will have to sign a con­tract with per­for­mance stan­dards and timelines.”
“Every mem­ber going for­ward now who is going to the high com­mand [will] have to sign a con­tract. You have to resign from your reg­u­lar ser­vice and sign a con­tract, or don’t take the pro­mo­tion, so you have a choice.”
“As the min­is­ter, I am held account­able by the pub­lic of Jamaica,” he said, adding that the police com­mis­sion­er is the per­son who has oper­a­tional respon­si­bil­i­ty for deal­ing with crime, “so he or she has to come to the table with a plan”.
“We don’t hear that over 700 men and women in the force have a first degree, we don’t hear that 320 serv­ing men and women have a master’s degree, some have two. We don’t hear that five mem­bers of the force are cur­rent­ly writ­ing their dis­ser­ta­tion for PhDs, and we don’t hear that 20 mem­bers are attor­neys-at-law, and then they tell me that there is nobody com­pe­tent in the force to lead? Run wey wid dat!”
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IF YOU UNDERSTAND ACCOUNTABILITY AND PERFORMANCE YOU MUST BE STUNNED BY THIS.

You are prob­a­bly as stunned as I am at this statement.
On the face of it the idea of a poten­tial com­mis­sion­er of police com­ing to the job with­out a crime fight­ing strat­e­gy of his/​her own is absolute­ly stunning.

It is shock­ing at least to me, that a poten­tial can­di­date for the Nations top cop would be hired with­out a strate­gic plan on how to deal com­pre­hen­sive­ly with crime.

So what was the cri­te­ria for hir­ing pre­vi­ous com­mis­sion­ers of police?
Additionally, what were the pre­req­ui­sites for pro­mot­ing peo­ple to senior lead­er­ship posi­tions , out­side the nor­mal, nepo­tism, friends, yard-boys, sleep­ing with the boss, news-car­ry­ing, long ser­vice, yes men/​women etc?
For years I made the case that the so-called police high com­mand is large­ly an over-bloat­ed use­less bureau­cra­cy with no clear per­for­mance standards.
I believe the Minister’s state­ments bore that out succinctly.

For years after leav­ing the Police depart­ment I have writ­ten exten­sive­ly on best prac­tices which I believed, and still do, should enhance the process of good lead­er­ship in the JCF and good polic­ing on the streets.
It is utter­ly dis­heart­en­ing to me , to now hear that there was­n’t even a strate­gic vision by pre­vi­ous com­mis­sion­ers of police.
At least by inference.

At the risk of flog­ging a dead horse I must divest the esteemed Minister of National Security of the notion that peo­ple with PhD ‘s and mul­ti­ple grad­u­ate degrees trans­late into good cops.
Education is absolute­ly great, but a cop must want to be a cop, not a lawyer or any­thing else. People hav­ing grad­u­ate degrees does not nat­u­ral­ly trans­late into good lead­ers , much less good cops.
It may only mean they can’t find oth­er voca­tions in Jamaica’s lim­it­ed work environment.

One has to assume that a com­mis­sion­er of police who comes to the job with­out his own crime fight­ing plan will not be effec­tive exe­cut­ing some­one else’s plan , a plan he does not believe in, or more shock­ing­ly, a plan which does not exist.
There is an old say­ing “if you don’t know where you are going you are already there”.
PhD’s and oth­er degrees are not panaceas for effec­tive­ly deal­ing with the Island’s crime prob­lem. If they were, the prob­lem would have been fixed with the hir­ing of Carl Williams.

As I have stat­ed repeat­ed­ly in this medi­um, Former NYPD com­mis­sion­er William Bratton is a tem­plate of effec­tive cop/​commissioner.
He nev­er had a degree, through­out his career he did mul­ti­ple cours­es ger­mane to his cho­sen profession.
He was a beat cop who start­ed out on the streets of Boston Massachusetts.
He was a cop’s cop , a man who want­ed to be a cop. Not a cop who want­ed to be a Dr or Lawyer.
Sure these are noble parts of the puz­zle , but being a good police offi­cer does not hinge on any of that.
Jamaica needs good police offi­cers, good mid­dle man­agers, and a good com­mis­sion­er of police who under­stands Jamaica’s unique polic­ing complexities.
Not a Commissioner and a cadre of fan­cy dressed wall-flow­ers who nev­er made an arrest but use their posi­tions to make life dif­fi­cult for their juniors instead of pro­vid­ing men­tor-ship and leadership.

Jamaica’s crime prob­lem can­not and will not be solved by the police alone.
Government and civ­il soci­ety can­not hide like cow­ards from the part they too must play in solv­ing this puzzle.
Norman Manley once said “there can be no real vic­to­ry with­out a few bro­ken skulls” .
Jamaicans will inevitably come to real­ize that you first secure and ren­der a scene safe before you care for casualties.
Yes we must be mind­ful of human rights abus­es , but we can nev­er suc­cess­ful­ly do so unless we neu­tral­ize those who would do harm to the innocent.
I am not sug­gest­ing that cit­i­zens rights be sac­ri­ficed on the altar of crime fight­ing. The two are cer­tain­ly not mutu­al­ly exclusive.
I am mere­ly sug­gest­ing that if the nation is seri­ous about the exis­ten­tial threat crime pos­es , its loy­al­ties ought to lie with the police depart­ment, flawed though it is.
It will be a work in progress, Jamaicans must real­ize that it is the dirty cor­rupt Governments they tol­er­at­ed for decades which led to cor­rup­tion in the police department.
Jamaica will have sig­nif­i­cant­ly less crime when the peo­ple allow them­selves to be gov­erned by the rule of law and not the rule of the jungle.
It’s all in their hands.

Since the creation of (indecom)the supposed independent commission of investigations which is tasked with investigating alleged improprieties by members of the police , military and correctional department I have been in opposition to it because it is fundamentally flawed.

Over the years I have writ­ten more about this than any oth­er sub­ject mat­ter impact­ing the Island of Jamaica.
No one is naïve enough to believe that the afore­men­tioned Government agen­cies do not need to be prop­er­ly monitored.
What I have con­sis­tent­ly said is that these agen­cies are the three agen­cies staffed by the aver­age per­son com­ing from the rur­al parish­es. In oth­er words these offi­cers are from the poor­er dark­er class of Jamaicans . They are being scape­goat­ed to cov­er up for the incred­i­ble cor­rup­tion and fail­ings of the Island’s two polit­i­cal par­ties which are mere­ly two crim­i­nal gangs.

No one can deny that mem­bers of all three branch­es of the secu­ri­ty forces have done immea­sur­able harm to their respec­tive agen­cies. It is equal­ly unde­ni­able that by their actions they cre­at­ed the need for oversight.
What can­not be laid at their feet is the gross incom­pe­tence and cal­lous dis­re­gard with which the elit­ists design­ers of the (inde­com act) went about draft­ing a bill that they knew would be dis­as­trous to mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces.

It would be a stretch to assume that those elit­ist archi­tects of the law had the intel­lec­tu­al capac­i­ty which would have allowed them to fore­see the unin­tend­ed con­se­quences the law would have on the lives of inno­cent Jamaicans.
Unfortunately for Jamaicans they end­ed up with a law which is so destruc­tive that major crimes includ­ing homi­cides has gone through the roof.
I hate to sound cav­a­lier in my char­ac­ter­i­za­tion , each sta­tis­tic is a human life lost.
Unfortunately for the police they have seen a marked increase in assaults on their per­sons to include lethal assaults.
The end result of the (inde­com) fias­co is that the elit­ist who run the apple cart has proven their point. There is a marked decrease in police shootings.

There is no deny­ing that . Officers are well aware that the law is pro­tec­tive of crim­i­nals. They are also aware that the intent of the law was exact­ly to ren­der them impo­tent in the exe­cu­tion of their duties. They are not clue­less to the fact that the crim­i­nals are in Gordon House , more so than down in grass yard.
What the Government and (inde­com) tells you though is that the law is work­ing . The ques­tion is “work­ing for whom”? The police, not total­ly dumb have sim­ply refused to be hauled before a crim­i­nal sup­port­ing agency , to be maligned and incrim­i­nat­ed by a Napoleonic egomaniac.
An ego­ma­ni­ac who want­ed a high court job but did not get one. An ego­ma­ni­ac who want­ed to be DPP but did not get that job either.
So his crony Bruce Golding , sup­port­ed by Seaga, James Robertson,Portia Simpson Miller, Delroy Chuck and a bunch of oth­ers came up with the (inde­com) débâcle.

The fact that these crea­tures sup­port­ed the law should send a seri­ous shiv­er down the spines of decent law abid­ing Jamaicans, not cause them to feel comforted.
What they will nev­er do is attest, much less admit, to the fact that less crim­i­nals are get­ting killed by police while more inno­cent Jamaicans are get­ting killed by criminals.
So when the Jamaican Government of either side tell you that (inde­com) is a suc­cess believe them, just under­stand that they are telling you that the lives of the blood­thirsty killers are more valu­able than yours.
If you fail to rec­og­nize that, then you are more stu­pid than they think you are.

Years ago peo­ple rose up en-mass dur­ing Barack Obama’s first term when he sug­gest­ed that Americans earn­ing half a mil­lion dol­lars or more should pay a lit­tle more in taxes.
The T‑Party was born, peo­ple came out in the mid-west­ern region of the coun­try , lit­er­al­ly with pitch forks and guns to protest the President’s pro­pos­al. Experts revealed that the medi­an income in those areas was around forty thou­sand dol­lars annually.
Not a sin­gle per­son earn­ing the half a mil­lion dol­lar was out there demon­strat­ing, it was the poor peo­ple out mil­i­tat­ing against their own self interest.
Yes kin­da like the coal-min­ers who vot­ed Trump and now are pet­ri­fied of los­ing their Obama care.
They nev­er even knew or both­ered to find out who was behind the T‑party façade.
Funding the T‑Party are two of the rich­est men in America, Charles and his broth­er David Koch , mul­ti bil­lion­aire own­ers of Koch Industries. Men who called them­selves Libertarians but are rather greedy Industrialists who do not mind destroy­ing the plan­et so they can stack up zeros on their bank accounts while pay­ing work­ers next to noth­ing for their labor.

Its nev­er the so called upper class who are being mur­dered in the streets, its nev­er they who are being mur­dered in their homes.
Terrence Williams and (indecom)are about the pro­tec­tion of the sta­tus quo.
When was the last time you heard one of the elit­ist get­ting shot?
Yet it is always the poor­er class mil­i­tat­ing for these shack­les on police.
You know why?
Because poor peo­ple believe in crime , they see crime as a means to an end they fig­ure they can ben­e­fit from crime regard­less of the consequences.
Unfortunately they nev­er stop to think that ulti­mate­ly crime dimin­ish­es and impov­er­ish­es all except a select few.

So now the Island’s clue­less Minister of nation­al secu­ri­ty dis­clos­es that the sug­gest­ed and much antic­i­pat­ed Memorandum Of Understanding which is sup­posed to alle­vi­ate the con­cerns of the secu­ri­ty forces will be signed as a part­ing gift to out­go­ing com­mis­sion­er of police Carl Williams.

Said Montague: “We are mov­ing to com­plete the MoU with INDECOM and the JCF and I want to have it signed before the sixth, in hon­or of Dr Carl Williams. That is my going away gift to him.”
“Understand clear­ly that INDECOM is part of the leg­isla­tive frame­work of the land. It is a stand­ing com­mis­sion of Parliament, it is not going any­where. So don’t do any­thing bad, you have noth­ing to fear.”
The nerve of this buf­foon !!!

So even though the details of this sup­posed MoU has not yet been made pub­lic we are told that lawyers will be pro­vid­ed for offi­cers hav­ing to deal with (inde­com), big whoopie !!!
You are still at risk of being per­se­cut­ed for doing your job but we will add anoth­er lay­er of our friends to this eat-a-food débâ­cle.
In essence your ass may still go to jail for shoot­ing the punk shoot­ing at you but at least we pro­vid­ed you with a third rate legal defender.

The fact that the Government, or whomev­er, the select par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee which over­sees the (inde­com) débâ­cle agreed that there is a need for a MoU is proof that what I have stat­ed over the years is exact­ly cor­rect. What offi­cers still serv­ing has said is exact­ly correct.
Here’s the facts which they will nev­er tell you or concede.
(1) A poten­tial MoU is a con­ces­sion that the law is inher­ent­ly flawed.
(2) Hearing of the prob­lems as out­lined by DCP Novelette Grant awhile back, one mem­ber of the par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee hear­ing tes­ti­monies argued ‚“maybe the prob­lems (inde­com) pos­es can­not be fixed with a Memorandum of understanding”.
(3)If there is an intel­li­gent assess­ment which con­cludes that there needs to be a bridge between the two agen­cies. And if the con­clu­sions are that at the bare min­i­mum there needs to be a fix , albeit an insuf­fi­cient MoU ‚why not con­cede that the law was not ade­quate­ly dis­cussed , debat­ed , and craft­ed before enactment?
(4) And in lieu of the fore­gone, why not pass a law repeal­ing the (inde­com act) then get down to the busi­ness of redo­ing the act?
Only this time cre­ate a law which serves the pur­pose of pro­tect­ing inno­cent cit­i­zens from state abuse while allow­ing our law-enforce­ment agen­cies to do their jobs with­out the specter of prison hang­ing over their heads?

A Memorandum of Understanding is not a fix to a bad law, it will not encour­age a sin­gle cop to go after a man with a gun and risk get­ting shot while risk­ing prison for doing what he swore to do.
Neither will it pre­vent a sin­gle embold­ened crim­i­nal from rethink­ing his mur­der­ous ways.
So whats the point of a MoU?
I’ll tell you, it is an appease­ment smoke-screen, intend­ed to re-com­mit offi­cers to expos­ing them­selves to per­se­cu­tion for going after crim­i­nals with no change in the law, but offers up the per­cep­tion of cov­er to cops which is mere­ly a mirage.
One which says we won’t change this bad law but when you get indict­ed by it we will pro­vide you with a third rate lawyer who does­n’t give a shit about you.
Sure bad cops should be pros­e­cut­ed, what we do not need is the per­se­cu­tion of good police officers.

The rank and file of the police depart­ment must reject this affront to their intel­lect even before they see it .
It will retain the dia­bol­i­cal (inde­com act) while blow­ing smoke up their ass­es when they get indicted.
The law is inher­ent­ly bad , repeal it, no more lives needs being lost because peo­ple are too arro­gant to say we fucked up.

Excerpts from the speech Deputy Commissioner of Police Novelette Grant gave to worshipers at the Boulevard Baptist Church in St Andrew.

“Please, don’t look to me to cre­ate the world in sev­en days. I nev­er claimed to have that pow­er … . And I will not be work­ing any mir­a­cles, except that mir­a­cle comes from the peo­ple of Jamaica to renew their hearts and their minds and atti­tudes to become our broth­er’s keep­er in the truest sense of the word, by fol­low­ing the exam­ple of the Samaritan,” Grant told wor­shipers at the Boulevard Baptist Church in St Andrew.

“As we see the pos­si­bil­i­ties of 2017, stand with your nation [and] pray for renew­al of spir­it in our­selves and in our broth­ers and sis­ters and let our lights shine, please, in cul­ti­vat­ing an atti­tude of grat­i­tude,”.

“I am com­mend­ing to you, though, that you prac­tice show­ing appre­ci­a­tion for those who serve, for those who pro­tect, and for the ulti­mate sac­ri­fice that they are asked to make on our behalf and for the fam­i­lies who sup­port them, who enable them; because this was Christmas and many of us were nev­er able to be with our fam­i­lies. We were out. On Christmas Day, I was out, and they were, work­ing, work­ing, work­ing, and all they get is cuss, cuss, cuss. So can you tell them ‘thanks’ when you see them, and encour­age them?”

I thought I would high­light these excerpts because Novelette Grant and I were at the Police train­ing Academy at the same time, even though she entered and grad­u­at­ed a few months before the batch of which I was a member.
I am thrilled that a female is being con­sid­ered , even though she will not be the first woman to ever act as com­mis­sion­er of police.
More impor­tant­ly than any­thing else,Novelette Grant spoke to the sac­ri­fice, the chal­lenges offi­cers face dai­ly and the ulti­mate sac­ri­fice they some­times make.

I may be wrong , but to the best of my rec­ol­lec­tion this is the first time I have heard a senior mem­ber of the police high com­mand speak defin­i­tive­ly and explic­it­ly to those chal­lenges and plac­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty in the hands of the Jamaican peo­ple for their own security.
Novelette Grant is an accom­plished police offi­cer, I believe she should be seri­ous­ly con­sid­ered for the role in which she will be thrust.
If Andrew Holness has come to his sens­es and is final­ly pre­pared to take action against the Island killers it is impor­tant that the par­lia­ment get to work lay­ing out a leg­isla­tive frame­work for tak­ing back the streets from the heav­i­ly armed and fear­less killers who con­trol them.

Key to retak­ing our coun­try from the gangs is a repeal of the (inde­com act).
This law has been a colos­sal fail­ure except to empow­er and embold­en crim­i­nals, and feed the ego of a sin­gle indi­vid­ual whose inten­tions are to build a name for himself .
Sure the police must have appro­pri­ate over­sight. But that over­sight can­not be an antag­o­nis­tic encounter which ties the hands of police and kills their morale.
The Act should be repealed and redone the cor­rect way.

The police needs good and fair over­sight. They need prop­er and ade­quate pay and ben­e­fits. More impor­tant­ly they need leg­isla­tive sup­port , which must include judges and pros­e­cu­tors who are on the right side of the rule of law.
This means remov­ing from the hands of these crim­i­nal-friend­ly judges dis­cre­tion in sen­tenc­ing, regard­less of their howls of protest.
If there is ever going to be change in how crim­i­nals behave they can­not have allies on the bench.
Police offi­cers have long com­plained about this prob­lem from a gen­er­a­tion ago . Today it is expo­nen­tial­ly worse than it was in the 80’s and 90’s.

The courts have become a joke, the judges are far more friend­ly to the mass mur­der­ers than they are with the police and that has got to end.
The police high com­mand is also over-bloat­ed. Half of the senior corp of the Constabulary does noth­ing to earn their pay.
They should find oth­er means to make a living.
Wearing a police uni­form with­out car­ry­ing out the func­tions of an offi­cer does not make one a cop.
It’s time to cut out much of the deadwood.

Before the inception of the (indecom) act. people of questionable characters , murderers, rapists, and other dangerous criminals were killed in confrontations with police.

A SOCIETY WHICH NO LONGER GRIEVE THE DEAD..

Jamaica has since made the deci­sion that it will go the route of a failed state in which the Island is divid­ed into enclaves con­trolled by gangs who trade in guns, drugs , mur­der for hire, extor­tion and lot­to scamming.

Funerals have since tak­en over as a means for peo­ple to survive.
Grave dig­gers make good mon­ey as they are kept busy keep­ing up with the demand for their services.

Bands and sound-sys­tems make mon­ey as they are con­tract­ed to play at wakes , known local­ly as set-ups.

Funeral par­lors make a killing from the macabre cul­ture of death. Word is that some of the own­ers of these estab­lish­ments actu­al con­tribute to the kill-cul­ture as a means of enhanc­ing their bot­tom lines.

Jerk ven­dors and oth­ers sell­ing every­thing imag­in­able adorn the envi­rons of the home in which a descen­dant lived.

The tra­di­tion­al norm of griev­ing the deceased is replaced with a car­ni­val like atmos­phere of deca­dent cel­e­bra­tion and money-making.

In order for this cul­ture of killing to get to this the police had to be ren­dered impotent.
Both polit­i­cal par­ties saw to that through the cre­ation of con­trol, manip­u­la­tion, inter­fer­ence, and over­lay­ing of over­sight it has used to tie the hands of the police.

The pub­lic, nev­er one sold on the rule of law has tak­en on the gris­ly accep­tance of eat­ing and drink­ing from the pro­ceeds of the dead whose blood lay splat­tered on lit­er­al­ly every square yard of the Island’s vil­lages and towns.

So now the police have stopped active­ly engag­ing these blood­thirsty killers because they have no desire to be pur­sued by a lunatic with too much pow­er intent on incrim­i­nat­ing them.
Why should they?
And the peo­ple cheer for the exis­tence of (inde­com), because in a twist­ed way when the police exter­mi­nate the blood thirsty demons who kill the inno­cents busi­ness is bad for the funer­al direc­tor, the sound sys­tem man, the jerk ven­dor, the bands­men, the hand­cart ven­dors and the grave diggers.
Children have to go to school, these peo­ple all depend on the kill cul­ture to survive.
In a way it is a macabre way for a coun­try to devour itself with­out real­iz­ing it.

Sure today is for that per­son but tomor­row it will be some­one else and ulti­mate­ly you!
None of this mat­ters in this crime infest­ed crim­i­nal paradise.
Death is good busi­ness and (inde­com) ensures that the killing of the inno­cent will con­tin­ue . People have to eat.

This year so far over 1300 peo­ple have been mur­dered on this tiny Island of 4411 square miles and 2.8 mil­lion people.
The peo­ple at the top crow like the true vul­tures they are at the dra­mat­ic less­en­ing of mur­der­ers who meet their just deserts at the hand of the police.
But they are deaf­en­ing­ly silent at the over 1300 killed by the demon­ic blood­thirsty gangsters.
Of course (inde­com) is a rag­ing success»>