As the full shame of the Patrick Powell acquittal hits conscientious Jamaicans both at home and abroad, absent the discussion are the voices of the people who made that travesty possible.

The Island’s Commissioner of Police said he is sat­is­fied that his offi­cers did the best job they could as far as the Investigations are con­cerned. He point­ed to the Prosecuting Attorney’s state­ment laud­ing the work of the police.
I long gave up on Commissioner Williams as a cred­i­ble part of the solu­tion required to stem the tide of crime on the Island. To be fair to him how­ev­er this mur­der hap­pened before he became Commissioner of Police.
As a serv­ing mem­ber of the Police depart­ment dur­ing the 80’s to the ear­ly 90’s I under­stood the val­ue of being cre­ative , in many cas­es using noth­ing to cre­ate some­thing. Usually by just allow­ing myself to thing. Oh for the pow­er of the mind.

Nevertheless, this Commissioner of Police has had more than ample time to del­e­gate to one of the sev­er­al Deputy Commissioners or Assistant Commissioners to vet the case to see how it could be strength­ened. Granted of course that they would have had an idea what to do.
The Present Assistant Commissioner of Police who has port­fo­lio for crime Élan Powell and I served togeth­er as young offi­cers. The Constant Spring CIB was one of the best places any young Detective could learn the art of Investigations, work­ing with peo­ple like Rudolph Dwyer , Anthony Hewitt, Garnett Daley, and Noël Asphall.

Neither of these guys by them­selves were com­plete (who is) but hav­ing had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn what they had to impart in total­i­ty was invaluable.
Powell fan­cied him­self a schol­ar of sorts, inso­far as the depart­ment he heads is con­cerned that sense of com­mon sense and just good old fash­ioned inves­tiga­tive tech­niques have not trick­led down. Or to be char­i­ta­ble still remain to be seen.
It real­ly does not require rock­et sci­ence to do a bet­ter job today even with the lack of resources which still plague the department.
If of course the stat­ed goal is to do a bet­ter job.
The idea that Commissioner Williams and the pros­e­cut­ing attor­ney believes they did a great job is exact­ly the prob­lem with what is intrin­si­cal­ly wrong with the system.

In anoth­er few days no one will be talk­ing about the fact that Patrick Powell walked out of a court­room with­out hav­ing to account for the death of Khajeel Mais.
It will be the prover­bial nine day won­der, for many it was expect­ed , after all only the very poor go to Prison in the country.
That is well known to most peo­ple, it is a sig­nif­i­cant dri­ver of crime on the Island.
Politicians on both sides are duplic­i­tous­ly silent, so too is the legal fra­ter­ni­ty. Why you ask ? This is their cre­ation , the polit­i­cal class is quite hap­py to sit tight and wait out this 9 day won­der, soon no one will be talk­ing about this.
After all peo­ple get killed in Jamaica dai­ly , they sim­ply wash the blood away and com­mence set­ting up the sound sys­tems for the wake. Roll out the jerk drums and posi­tion the food carts, mur­der is busi­ness , this is how peo­ple eat.

In fact there are now calls from the dance­hall com­mu­ni­ty for the free­ing of one of their own Vybz Kartel after Patrick Powell was freed. Hey why not ?
I say sim­ply open the prison and jail doors and let every­one out. After all why both­er lock­ing up any­one if the process is going to be selec­tive about who gets prosecuted ?
A total­ly legit­i­mate call from the dance­hall com­mu­ni­ty . If the laws do not apply to one it should not apply to anyone.
The loop­holes in the law which allows a com­plain­ing wit­ness to says one thing in a writ­ten Affidavit, and then recant after being paid off or threat­ened have always been there.
That a wit­ness cru­cial to the pros­e­cu­tion could thumb his nose at the process with­out con­se­quence was always there.
That state­ments are not done using audio and video record­ing devices is beyond mal­prac­tice, it’s malfea­sance . How about this notion that the Police have done all they could mis­ter Commissioner ?
You can record any­thing on a sim­ple smart­phone . I would be hap­py to donate a cou­ple of video cam­eras to enhance the process.

That a mur­der sus­pect could refuse to turn over a poten­tial kill weapon when ordered to do so is out­side the bounds of out­ra­geous it is ulti­mate insanity.
The specifics in the Khajeel Mais Murder case are such that even if Patrick Powell beat the case of mur­der against him (which he should­nt) there is enough which should con­vict him and cause him to spend decades in prison.
♦ Lying to the American Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is a seri­ous crime. Many Americans, includ­ing politi­cians have found them­selves in prison for hav­ing for­got­ten that fact.
♦Refusing to hand over a weapon which forms part of a crim­i­nal Investigation ‚( much less a homi­cide inves­ti­ga­tion) should elic­it a penal­ty of at least ten years in prison.
♦ Any evi­dence of wit­ness tam­per­ing of any kind should elic­it a min­i­mum penal­ty of five years imprisonment.
The dumb politi­cians on both sides of the divide bang on desks while hurl­ing insults and mind­less jokes at each oth­er in the Parliament instead of fix­ing these sim­ple prob­lems. There is a rea­son for their inac­tion , if these loop-holes are plugged some of them would cer­tain­ly be in jail.
They won’t be fixed because the peo­ple are con­tent with their liv­ing con­di­tions. They have resigned them­selves to the idea of sub­sa­ha­ran type exis­tence while telling them­selves they are on the path to a Scandinavian type out­come, replete with the par­lia­men­tary style democ­ra­cy inher­it­ed from the for­mer British colonizers.

There is a cer­tain type of grandiose idio­cy which becomes evi­dent when so many of them are allowed to express them­selves . It gen­er­al­ly leaves some­one like myself an eter­nal opti­mist con­vinced that there is not much hope for a turn­around because too many do not see the need to.
Then there are those who are actu­al­ly aware that the coun­try is in deep trou­ble but are inca­pable of under­stand­ing that the con­cepts they cling to will do noth­ing to fix the problem.
This is what Liberalism has done to a peo­ple . This is the result of social­ist lan­guage which teach­es that peo­ple are enti­tled to things they haven’t earned.
A Utopian con­cept of a com­mu­nal shar­ing of the pro­ceeds of the hard work of oth­ers while oth­ers sim­ply take what they haven’t earned.
That same con­cept has been applied to deal­ing with the exis­ten­tial threat seri­ous crime poses.
The huge cracks in what the Island once thought of as a jus­tice sys­tem has been exposed as a gap­ing chasm. No longer can there be any real plau­si­ble con­tention that there is a jus­tice sys­tem on the Island, with­out evok­ing howls of sar­cas­tic laugh­ter from peo­ple in the know.

I received the news pretty much how news is received today. I picked up my hand held device and it was a trending topic on several social media platforms .
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A dear friend in-boxed me in obvi­ous anger .I told him I would have some­thing to say but not at the moment. Frankly I was stunned ‚sad, dis­ap­point­ed ‚but most of all I was angry.Sure I was angry that any­one who mali­cious­ly and will­ful­ly kill anoth­er human being could walk free from a house of jus­tice with­out con­se­quence, with­out being held to account. Sure I was angry that the par­ents of the mur­dered boy were not even giv­en the dig­ni­ty of the pre­tense that there would be jus­tice for them.

Yes I was angry but I was deeply sad at the sys­tem which had so shame­less­ly and brutish­ly said to the par­ents of Khajeel Mais ” you do not count”.
Every year , hun­dreds of Jamaicans are killed by oth­er Jamaicans .
No the coun­try is not in a declared state of war . But for all intents and pur­pos­es it does not mat­ter because each year in that tiny plot of land one of the world’s most pop­u­lous places, peo­ple turn on each oth­er with brutish mur­der­ous rage and sav­age­ly snuff out each oth­er’s lives with fright­en­ing dispatch.

So what was it which made this one mur­der so dif­fer­ent for me?
Frankly I don’t know , as the father of four boys at the time it pained my heart that any par­ent could lose their child that way.
That a boy rid­ing in a taxi­cab could have his brains blown out and no one arrest­ed seemed a bridge too far.
How could that kind of killing be rec­on­ciled with the catchy nar­ra­tive” jume­ka no prob­lem”?

Even with­in the con­text of the mur­der may­hem and irrec­on­cil­able non­sense of “every­thing irie mon jume­ka nice nu rass “the killing of 17 year-old Khajeel Mais shocked many.
I was stunned that this was not a shoot­ing where no one knew the killer , accord­ing to news reports the dri­ver of the cab and the shoot­er got into a heat­ed exchange after the cab­bie hit the shiny high end sport util­i­ty vehi­cle. Many Jamaicans will tell you that they too would like to shoot a taxi dri­ver as one blog­ger said recent­ly. They are usu­al­ly obnox­ious and rude and quick to threat­en or even fight oth­er motorist. They even fight the police but it just does­n’t seem with­in the realm of nor­mal­cy to sim­ply pull out a gun and start blaz­ing away.

At the time of the shoot­ing I found it odd that the police was so tight lipped about the whole inci­dent. People on the streets knew who the alleged shoot­er was and they named him . Yet the Police depart­ment whose col­lec­tive lips are usu­al­ly greased light­ning had noth­ing to say. This added to the sub­terfuge . Now the peo­ple cre­at­ed their own nar­ra­tive. This was a cover-up !

Stunned by the brazen­ness of the shoot­ing and the del­i­ca­cy with which the police was han­dling the infor­ma­tion I con­clud­ed that the shoot­er was know to them and he was no ordi­nary “dutyy fut bway pon di kana”.
I became per­son­al­ly immersed in want­i­ng to get to the bot­tom of this par­tic­u­lar case and so I cre­at­ed my own Blog on this case alone . I had seen too many instances of injus­tice as a police offi­cer and in the years after I depart­ed the force, it became clear­er by the day that the coun­try was slid­ing deep­er and deep­er into the abyss of anar­chy from which it will not be able to extri­cate itself . Chatt​-​a​-box​.com was born.
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From the begin­ning of the killing of young Khjeel Mais some­thing seemed bla­tant­ly amiss. The police seemed reluc­tant to divulge the name of the shoot­er even though every­one in the streets knew who he was. They also knew that he had fled the Island for the United States . They knew that there were also sup­posed back door deals between his lawyer Patrick Atkinson to have him return to the Island to face charges.

Now lets begin with first under­stand­ing that from the Police ‘s own account­ing Mister Patrick Powell whom they reluc­tant­ly named was a reg­is­tered firearm hold­er. After Powell returned to the juris­dic­tion he was charged.
Now here is where this whole thing revealed for all the world to see that the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem on the Island is real­ly a crim­i­nal’s sys­tem of justice.
The police report­ed that Powell refused to hand over to the inves­ti­gat­ing offi­cers, the kill weapon for test­ing. Let that sink in !!!
Despite this egre­gious dis­re­spect­ful act of thumb­ing his nose at the rule of law Patrick Powell was grant­ed bail in a Kingston crim­i­nal court.

Not only had he fled the juris­dic­tion which is a crit­i­cal com­po­nent for refus­ing bail. He refused to com­ply with the law to sur­ren­der his gun to the police as he should, as a sus­pect under inves­ti­ga­tion for a vio­lent crime in which his weapon was alleged­ly the weapon used in the com­mis­sion of said crime.
From the killing occurred tongues start­ed wag­ging that Powell was a so-called busi­ness­man with con­nec­tions to both polit­i­cal par­ties. More impor­tant­ly the alle­ga­tions were that he placed a call to a well known senior police offi­cer . It was report­ed that there was a meet­ing between Powell and the offi­cer and his gun has not been seen since.

Patrick Powell Will Get A Fair Trial, His Right To A Fair Trial Cannot Be Guaranteed At The Expense Of The Aggrieved Family’s Right To Free Speech In Their Pursuit Of Justice…

Now I would like to believe that if some­one is a reg­is­tered firearm hold­er and he alleged­ly uses that weapon to com­mit a crime he has a duty to turn the weapon over to the police when ordered to do so. I also believe it is also the law that all ammu­ni­tion in his pos­ses­sion, per­son­al or con­struc­tive must forth­with be turned over to inves­ti­ga­tors as well. Then again I have not been a cop for well over two decades.

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Failing to do so con­sti­tutes a crime. However Mister Powell was not charged with that crime. We under­stood also that the senior police offi­cer’s house was also searched but the weapon was not found. Whether or not this par­tic­u­lar offi­cer had any part of the grand col­lu­sion of crim­i­nal­i­ty we may nev­er know but the fam­i­ly of Khajeel Mais was bru­tal­ly gang raped by a mali­cious and vis­cous sys­tem of cul­pa­ble criminality.

Here’s why !
The Prosecution’s main wit­ness gave a wit­ness state­ment to police at the time of the shoot­ing . At the time of the shoot­ing I can tell you with­out equiv­o­ca­tion that there would be no rea­son for the wit­ness mis­ter Wayne Wright  the dri­ver of the cab to be under duress when he gave his affi­davit to police.
There was also no rea­son for the police to frame any­one as they were a dis­in­ter­est­ed par­ty mere­ly car­ry­ing out a function.
According to the tes­ti­mo­ny Wayne Wright told police that he knew Patrick Powell o/​c nig­ga Charley for over eight years.
In fact a Jamaica Observer news team also vis­it­ed Wright at his home some­time after the inci­dent and he reit­er­at­ed that he had no idea why Powell decid­ed to shoot at him? He told the news team Powell decid­ed to pay the price for killing the young man.

Much hap­pened after the accused Patrick Powell was charged with mur­der. We do not what , where , when or with whom. What we do know is why?
Patrick Powell decid­ed that he was not going to prison and the sys­tem said hell no you wont go.
Amidst the unjus­ti­fied adjourn­ments with the flim­si­est of rea­sons , with the fam­i­ly cry­ing sim­ply to have their day in court the cased commenced .
No soon­er had it begun that it became patent­ly clear that the sys­tem had col­lud­ed togeth­er. Police. Shooter. Defense-Attorneys. Prosecution-wit­ness. Judge. Prosecutor. Politicians, all wit­ting­ly and unwit­ting­ly, gang-raped the still griev­ing fam­i­ly of the slain schoolboy/.

How could a Judge order the fam­i­ly who uses the only means they had , social media to cry out for jus­tice to cease and desist because the alleged killer’s right to a fair tri­al may be compromised?
The very same court allowed the defense coun­sel to sav­age the char­ac­ter of the vic­tim­ized boy mak­ing him out to be worth­less and unde­serv­ing of the only thing he had, his life.
The pros­e­cu­tion wit­ness became hos­tile to the pros­e­cu­tion, a clear sign that he was either paid or threat­ened to lie or both.
I wrote, declare him a hos­tile wit­ness his state­ment should still stand. They did but then the pros­e­cu­tion told the court they could not over­come the crit­i­cal issue of identification.

There was no prob­lem with iden­ti­fi­ca­tion when he gave his affi­davit to police. The inci­dent did not hap­pen at night . He said he knew the shoot­er for over eight years. Clearly he is lying. But who cares this boy is a nobody. Forget that after he alleged­ly shot the boy he took a flight out of the coun­try. Forget that his reg­is­tered firearm just hap­pen to be unavailable.
It is a grave trav­es­ty that these sim­ple loop­holes could be allowed to impact a clear cut case of mur­der and an alleged guilty mur­der­er walk free.
Sure every­one is mad as hell but where was every­one when some of us were talk­ing about the loopholes .
Why are the laws not updat­ed to make it so that if a Wayne Wright ever changes his state­ment he goes to prison, and the ini­tial state­ment stand in pros­e­cut­ing a Patrick Powell.
Why are the laws not changed to make it so that if a wit­ness to a mur­der is killed before he’s able to tes­ti­fy the accused sees his charged upgrad­ed to death penal­ty status?
Why are mur­der­ers out on bail? Why are we all angry now but we chas­tised those who con­stant­ly beat the drums ask­ing for bet­ter law-mak­ers, bet­ter law-enforce­ment, bet­ter laws, bet­ter judges, bet­ter pros­e­cu­tors, a bet­ter sys­tem of justice.

How can we be angry now when we spent our time talk­ing about word puz­zles and naked ladies . What is dif­fer­ent about Khajeel that makes us feel this wretched sense of deep loss.
Since the death of Khajeel Mais I lost my son he was a good boy . No he was an excel­lent boy, he did not die like Khajeel , but like Khajeel par­ents my son isn’t com­ing back home either.
I am so sor­ry for your loss. I write this with tears in my eyes not because peo­ple do not die every­day. But I cry with you because of what the entire sys­tem col­lud­ed to do to you .
This is a most shame­ful , barefaced and dis­grace­ful smack in the face for a Jamaican fam­i­ly by a sys­tem which is sup­posed to pro­tect them.
If this does not con­vince every­one that the sys­tem needs to be over­turned and built from the ground up I don’t know what will.
PS : The state­ment of the Commissioner of Police Dr Carl Williams after the ver­dict , that the police did all they could is unwor­thy of my time as such I will sim­ply not respond that.

“Welcome to the next Medellin” said a friend to me this morning. We were discussing the murder trial of Patrick Powell playing out in a Kingston courtroom as well as the killing of a man who refused to pay his fare on a bus just this week. Killings are nothing new , in fact it has become so commonplace that there is hardly any response to them anymore. Jamaicans have come to accept death as nothing to be sorrowful about and have moved on to how the culture of killings may be exploited for financial gain .

The Medellin ref­er­ence was jar­ring­ly poignant because it has been a ref­er­ence I have used in speak­ing to what has been allowed to devel­op in Jamaica arguably for decades but which has sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly tak­en shape over the last two decades.

We can have a dis­cus­sion about crime in the abstract . You know, we can look at crime aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly as some like to do from the halls of acad­e­mia , churn­ing out hypothe­ses devel­oped in places far away geo­graph­i­cal­ly or may be right there on the ground but are far removed from reality.
Alternatively we may dis­cuss it prag­mat­i­cal­ly and address the hard truths of what must be done if the direc­tion of the coun­try is to be altered.
Before we do that how­ev­er the crit­i­cal ques­tion of whether or not the desired end game is a crime free coun­try must be answered.

It is fun­da­men­tal that-that ques­tion be placed on the table when­ev­er the ques­tion of crime is being dis­cussed. There is a gen­er­al con­sen­sus among many Jamaicans both at home and in the dias­po­ra that crime is big busi­ness in our coun­try and as such the dif­fi­cult being expe­ri­enced in craft­ing and imple­ment­ing seri­ous anti-crime strat­e­gy may be attrib­uted to that. They point to the mas­sive increase over the years of Security com­pa­nies, funer­al par­lors, and the sec­ondary indus­tries which have sprung up around the mor­bid death culture.

There is much we can point to that has got­ten the Island to the place it is, poised teth­er­ing on the brink of becom­ing a failed state, obvi­ous to all except some liv­ing in it.
One of the great fail­ures of the Jamaican peo­ple has been they they appor­tion respon­si­bil­i­ty for violence.

SCENARIO #1
A man jumps over the wall to some­one’s home to steal some man­goes from a tree laden with ripe fruits in the front yard.
Sure the man is hun­gry we all need sus­te­nance to survive.
Out comes the home­own­er and chal­lenges the offender .
The offend­er takes umbrage and gets into a phys­i­cal con­fronta­tion with the homeowner.
The home­own­er in defense of his life and prop­er­ty pulls a weapon and kills the offender.

THE NARRATIVE
The Media and the ever present crowd which just hap­pen to always be around to wit­ness these events[sic] argues that the man was a good yute who would­n’t hurt a fly.
They demon­strate while dem­a­gogu­ing the home­own­er as a wicked per­son who killed the good yute who was starv­ing and only want some­thing to eat.
The hon­est home­own­er is demo­nized and threat­ened , his life and that of his fam­i­ly is now at risk .
He is forced to flee his home in order to pro­tect his life and that of his family.
His prop­er­ty is tak­en over by thugs.

SCENARIO#2

Same man pass­ing home sees ripened man­goes on tree in front yard.
He is hun­gry so he decides to open the gate . Sure it’s risky but a hun­gry man has to take chances.
He knocks on the grill and the home­own­er comes out onto the verandah/​porch. He tells the home­own­er that he was pass­ing and hav­ing seen the man­goes and being hun­gry he decid­ed to ask for a few mangoes.
The home­own­er sizes him up at first then decides to let him in where he is treat­ed to a meal . before he leaves the home­own­er gives him some mon­ey, allowed him to have some man­goes and offered him the oppor­tu­ni­ty to come and do some work around the house once a week so he can earn a lit­tle money .
He walks away filled, some mon­ey in his pock­et and with some man­goes . Let alone the prospect of a part time job.
But most impor­tant­ly he walked away !

Oh even when this kind home­own­er does all that, the young man turns up for work and is treat­ed well. The home­own­er leaves him in his house when he trav­els abroad .
On his return he brings all kinds of for­eign stuff for him as he does for his family.
Nevertheless the young man nev­er sat­is­fied steals the man’s car. And ulti­mate­ly brings his friend lets him into the house where he kills the homeowner.
The nar­ra­tion above are pure­ly fictional. 
This para­graph isn’t . I can­not tell you how many sit­u­a­tions I attend­ed to in which this syn­op­sis char­ac­ter­ized the sto­ry of mur­der which brought us to that home,.

Much of the prob­lems in our coun­try began because of the cul­tur­al sense that they should not have to ask for any­thing . They should be allowed to take what they want­ed and when chal­lenged sim­ply kill the owner.
Complicit in the cre­ation of that nar­ra­tive was the Media, which for years wit­ting­ly and unwit­ting­ly served as a well lubri­cat­ed con­duit for the anti rule of law nar­ra­tive. Sacrificing Journalism upon the altar of sen­sa­tion­al­ism, in order to receive a few “raaaay” even when they knew that what they were report­ing could not pos­si­bly be true.

They absolute­ly knew that the hun­dreds of wit­ness­es who turned out demon­strat­ing Police bru­tal­i­ty could not have been in the bed­room of John Brown when he was killed at 3;30 in the morn­ing. But jour­nal­is­tic integri­ty nev­er kicked in when they offer them micro­phones to lie , even though they knew they were lying.
Much the same way they pro­filed demon­stra­tors demon­strat­ing police bru­tal­i­ty signs in a case where a bus-dri­ver killed a pas­sen­ger who refused to pay his fare and attacked the dri­ver and con­duc­tor. It nev­er mat­tered to the media that there was no police involved in the shoot­ing they por­trayed it as such anyway.
No jour­nal­is­tic integri­ty. For years the media facil­i­tat­ed this fraud on the coun­try with­out being held accountable.
The Media’s sub­tle injec­tion of the word “alleged­ly” into every sto­ry com­ing from law-enforce­ment, not only aid­ed and encour­aged crime it actu­al­ly embold­ened lead­ing crim­i­nals with­in the grit­ty inner city com­mu­ni­ties to increase and uti­lize the con­cept of pro­fes­sion­al mourn­ers to chal­lenge every police shoot­ing label­ing them executions.

The fall­out from that is a balka­nized police force which under­stood that offi­cers had no sup­port and were on their own . Many good offi­cers left. Those who stayed dropped their hands. Others sim­ply chose to join the criminals.
So how did we real­ly get here?
After 1962 Jamaica was forced to fig­ure things out for itself. Sure there was rem­nants of the old colo­nial past, but as the 70′ stepped in most of the white planters had long exit­ed the stage or had sim­ply died out.
Left in their place were the mulat­toes and the new­ly mint­ed edu­cat­ed blacks. (I like to refer to them as the new neva si cum si)
This band of hyp­ocrites were quite vocif­er­ous against the dic­tates of the colo­nial mas­ters when they were sub­ject­ed to their . However once they became the new back­ra mas­sa they dou­bled down on the very same things they crit­i­cized the Colonial mas­ters about. The taste of pow­er was way too sweet to be let go , who need­ed a nation of laws?
Who need­ed a nation where lead­ers would be the every-man?

Now they were the boss­es why would they want a pro­fes­sion­al police force which could hold them accountable?
In fair­ness to them this was not con­fined just to Jamaica or even parts of the caribbean region. Drastic instances of the same abuse of pow­er in parts of Africa after the col­lapse of the British Empire pro­duced dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for the peo­ple out­side the tight spheres of pow­er. Blacks unac­cus­tomed to pow­er and the trap­pings in those nations refused to let go so dic­ta­tor­ships emerged every­where. So too did they appear in Latin and South America and in parts of Asia.

The new­ly mint­ed rul­ing class did not care too much about how many bod­ies piled up in polit­i­cal bat­tles as long as they can nav­i­gate the streets of the city in their ill-got­ten dark­ly tint­ed cars to their lux­u­ri­ous enclaves in the pris­tine set-aside com­mu­ni­ties of Cherry Gardens Norbrook and Jack’s hill.
In Jamaica they main­tained a sem­blance of democ­ra­cy by hold­ing elec­tions but ensur­ing that bal­lot box­es were stuffed with enough votes to guar­an­tee the out­comes they desired.
Not out­right dic­ta­tor­ships but a Dog of a dif­fer­ent name is still a Dog.
As I have said con­sis­tent­ly in this medi­um, the thing which pissed me off the most about being a police offi­cer there for the decade I served was inter­act­ing with the self appoint­ed bourjois‘.
Fake accents and the sense that the peo­ple who lived just down the road in the ghet­tos were “oth­er”.
Nothing made me more nau­seous than them ask­ing me “where were you trained” when I vis­it to deal with their reports ? As if a Jamaican police offi­cer speak­ing eng­lish and not a bro­ken mix of ebon­ics and eng­lish was an outlier.

Remember that Medellin comparison ?
Colombia could have tak­en hold of Pablo Escobar , Carlos Lehder and the mem­bers of the Medellin car­tel long before they got into cocaine pro­duc­tion and export.
They could have tak­en care of the Cali Cartels from the begin­ning when they start­ed set­ting up coca plan­ta­tions and cocaine labs in the jun­gles of Colombia.
In fact Pablo Escobar was an exporter of uncus­tomed elec­tron­ic goods into the coun­try long before he decid­ed to get involved in drugs.
Dirty pub­lic offi­cials above the police tied the hands of the Colombian police and gave infor­ma­tion about indi­vid­ual offi­cers and their fam­i­lies to ordi­nary thugs ‚. Police were forced to look away.

Long before the burn­ing of police sta­tions . Before the mas­sacre of police offi­cers. Long before zones of car­tel exclu­sion for law enforce­ment. Long before the down­ing of air­lines and attacks on the nation’s high­est courts , Colombia could have act­ed against these monsters.
Long before the sense­less killing of tens of thou­sands of inno­cent Colombians, the Colombian Government could have put an end to the shenani­gans of those com­mon thugs.
Because of the inac­tion of the Government . Because of the refusal of the Colombian Government to act for the good of the coun­try. Even if the many, or even the inno­cent can­not grasp it con­cep­tu­al­ly, a nation deserves to have a future, not as a nar­co state, not as a crim­i­nal state.
Many in Colombia were com­plic­it, many were sim­ply trapped,needing a way out.
Many in Jamaica are com­plic­it but as it was in Colombia, so too are many trapped need­ing a way out.

And then came Los Pepes !!!!!
To be continued.….….….….….….…..

Evolving democracies are constantly required to update it’s laws to keep up with the ever changing times.
With the rapid pace of technological advancement, the possibilities the internet offers for law breaking it is particularly important that laws are constantly updated and old outdated ones discarded.
Since Jamaica fancies itself an evolving democracy it is paramount that it comport itself as such . Whether it is doing enough to update it’s old archaic laws is a legitimate subject of debate. As we have seen even when lawmakers do decide to take legislative action , it is generally poorly thought through , devoid of critical empirical data and so the country ends up with bad laws which have devastating negative consequences for the country as has the INDECOM Act.

X6 TRIAL

The tri­al of Patrick Powell has com­menced in a Kingston court­room . Powell is charged with the mur­der of Khajeel Mais a 17 year old Kingston College stu­dent who was rid­ing in a taxi-cab which hit Powell’s sport util­i­ty vehicle .
The infor­ma­tion alleges that Powell embarked from his vehi­cle fir­ing a weapon which killed Mais .
That is the case for the court. The case has been lan­guish­ing since young Mais was killed in 2011.
Thus far Patrick Powell who fled the juris­dic­tion after the shoot­ing is still out on bail.
To date accord­ing to the police, Powell a sup­posed legal firearm hold­er at the time, still has not hand­ed over the kill weapon to the police as is required by law.
Despite hav­ing board­ed a flight and left the coun­try after the shoot­ing ♦ Despite hav­ing stead­fast­ly refused to turn over the kill weapon to the police he was grant­ed bail.
The fam­i­ly was forced to resort to a social media cam­paign just to get the case heard. Of course a judge quick­ly ordered the fam­i­ly to cease and desist from any protest on social media because it may jeop­ar­dize Powell’s right to a fair trial .
You sim­ply can­not make these things up.

Now that the tri­al has final­ly start­ed, the chief wit­ness in the case Wayne Wright the dri­ver of the taxi­cab, has demon­strat­ed in the court­room exact­ly what the fam­i­ly has sus­pect­ed all along.
That despite the protes­ta­tions of Patrick Powell’s lawyers and the acqui­es­cence of the tri­al judge, it is they who are being denied a fair shake in that courtroom.
The chief pros­e­cu­tion wit­ness now absolute­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed, has been open­ly hos­tile to the pros­e­cu­tion , deny­ing that he ever saw who fired into his cab.
Denying that he told the police that he knew the shoot­er Patrick Powell whom he said he knew as “Nigga” for eight years.
The Jamaican media will not say it but I will . Clearly this wit­ness who almost got killed in that shootout was paid off. By whom is the real question .

From my expe­ri­ence as an inves­ti­ga­tor, there is absolute­ly no way that the Police could know that the wit­ness Wayne Wright knew the defen­dant Powell . Subsequently as long as his writ­ten state­ment giv­en to the police is in evi­dence, he stands to be treat­ed as a hos­tile wit­ness by the pros­e­cu­tion. Which I am informed has been done .
Or charge him with per­jury since there is no way that the Police inves­ti­ga­tors could pull Powell’s name out of the 2.8 mil­lion oth­er Jamaicans ‚and name him in the wit­ness state­ment unless being told he was the shoot­er by the wit­ness Wayne Wright.

The jamaican crim­i­nal courts are wont to give aid and com­fort to crim­i­nals even giv­en the most bla­tant and egre­gious instances of wit­ness tam­per­ing. There is every rea­son to believe that once again the scales of jus­tice are being tipped against the fam­i­ly of Khajeel Mais .
There are reme­dies in law to deal with this wit­ness whom clear­ly has been tam­pered with by the defense, or actors act­ing on his behalf.
Clearly the strat­e­gy is to either tam­per with this wit­ness through finan­cial coer­cion, or through intim­i­da­tion and fear.
Either way it is an out­ra­geous assault on the sys­tem of Justice and an affront to the dig­ni­ty and sense of fair­ness for the bereaved family.

Shockingly , because Powell was allowed out on bail even though he refused to turn over his weapon to the police they see this as a way to beat this mur­der case.
This shock­ing yet all too com­mon mis­car­riage of jus­tice began with shod­dy police inves­ti­ga­tion. Undue delay in bring­ing the case. Ridiculous and unwar­rant­ed delays in com­menc­ing the tri­al. An uncon­sti­tu­tion­al gag order by the tri­al judge on the fam­i­ly. Defense coun­sel’s crim­i­nal­iz­ing of the vic­tim . And now a vital pros­e­cu­tion wit­ness lying under oath with impunity.
This is the result of a crim­i­nal­ly com­plic­it jus­tice sys­tem which favors the mur­der­ers and vicious killers over decent law-abid­ing citizens.
This whole fuck­ing apple cart need to be overturned.

I have not agreed with much that Mark Shield the British Transplant who was hired years ago as part of the supposed modernization of the Jamaica Constabulary Force had to say over the years.
Truth be told I do not know Shields , he was brought into the department after I took my own leave. I was not opposed to the insertion of Mark Shields and the other transplants into the department because of their personalities or any other reason except .
I simply believed that we could have sought new ideas from sources who had them and integrate them into our circumstances without the negative white overseer imagery a British transplant inspired.

In the Daily Gleaner of Thursday October 20^th, Shields wrote a poignant let­ter to the Editor in which he laments what he sees as a deficit of will on the part of the Jamaica Constabulary Force to change.
In his let­ter Shields laments what he char­ac­ter­izes as” chal­lenges of weak man­age­ment process­es and a waste of resources for years, but there has not been suf­fi­cient will from with­in the organ­i­sa­tion to change”.
Shields argues Commissioner Carl Williams is doing an effec­tive job under the most dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances. But insists” that until he is sup­port­ed by effec­tive man­age­ment struc­tures at all lev­els of the police ser­vice, his efforts will be futile”.

I dis­agree with his assess­ment that Williams is doing a good job, but I do agree that inef­fec­tive man­age­ment struc­tures at all lev­els are ren­der­ing his efforts futile.
Simply put , the JCF has been top heavy for years. There has been too many Deputy Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners and oth­er top lead­er­ship which were pro­duc­ing noth­ing mea­sur­able in my opin­ion dur­ing my stint and long after I exit­ed, to present day.
A leader leads , part of that lead­er­ship is to set goals and have strict sys­tems of account­abil­i­ty and mech­a­nisms for removal if tar­gets are not rea­son­ably met.
There are method­olo­gies avail­able today which weren’t avail­able to oth­er top tiered lead­ers of the past which can aid in get­ting the Commissioner’s mes­sage out if he believes there are polit­i­cal and oth­er struc­tur­al imped­i­ments to his success.

There are far too many peo­ple in top lead­er­ship posi­tions who are doing noth­ing to reduce crime. As a for­mer Member I have been mak­ing that argu­ment for years .
A police depart­ment can­not exist to pro­mote peo­ple to top posi­tions sim­ply so that they can attain and keep those posi­tions. Shields spoke to that arguing .
“Sadly, the JCF retains beliefs with­in the ranks of its senior offi­cers that they are there to serve them­selves first and the pub­lic some­where after that. The notion of hold­ing a posi­tion with an empha­sis on an indi­vid­u­al’s val­ue and role rather than rank has not changed”.

I absolute­ly con­cur . This par­tic­u­lar per­cep­tion seemed to be the pre­vail­ing nar­ra­tive which exist­ed in the 80’s to ear­ly 90’s when I served . People seemed to believe in attain­ing rank for the sake of attain­ing rank.
This process allowed for offi­cers to rise to top spots with­out the abil­i­ty to do actu­al polic­ing. They attained rank through cur­ry­ing favor , nepo­tism, news car­ry­ing, sleep­ing with the boss, servi­tude to the boss, among oth­er less than mer­i­to­ri­ous means.
Invariably they end up unable to per­form at their rank lev­els because they did not earn those ranks meritoriously.
The unin­tend­ed con­se­quences of this is that peo­ple who entered with the best inten­tions and demon­strat­ed with con­sis­tent effec­tive­ness, best prac­tis­es became demoralized.
Most left the depart­ment. Left in their wake were and are some of the peo­ple who had no clue what they were doing or how to do the job effectively.
The job of polic­ing was left to peo­ple total­ly unpre­pared to a large extent to do the job.
If you can­not do the job you can­not teach peo­ple to do it effec­tive­ly either.

Shields list­ed some rec­om­men­da­tions which this writer has made in this very forum for years. Quote: “There are a few rec­om­men­da­tions of what may be done to change course. None of them are new but mere­ly a regur­gi­ta­tion of ideas put for­ward by myself and oth­ers for over ten-years”:
See rec­om­men­da­tions here:http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​l​e​t​t​e​r​s​/​2​0​1​6​1​0​2​0​/​l​e​t​t​e​r​-​d​a​y​-​j​c​f​-​n​e​e​d​s​-​w​i​l​l​-​w​i​t​h​i​n​-​c​h​a​nge

There is a strain with­in the Jamaican soci­ety which inar­guably has always seen itself above the laws.
It’s one of the issues I have con­sis­tent­ly point­ed to as part of the gar­den sal­ad of issues which has con­tributed to the cul­ture of crime in our country.
This Elitist cadre of peo­ple have always believed that the laws were only applic­a­ble to the low­er class of peo­ple. Some may incor­rect­ly believe that this was or is a col­or thing.
It has not been whol­ly so. Some of the peo­ple who actu­al­ly think that way have far more melanin in their skin than I have yet they bought into a cul­tur­al per­cep­tion which exist­ed and has been left there as a low hang­ing fruit to be utilized.

Some of the qual­i­fy­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics for this immu­ni­ty from the rule of law have been edu­ca­tion, polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion and now even own­ing an ille­gal gun has become a qualifier.
The Police for its part has not grown up from it’s infan­cy . By refus­ing to nip cor­rup­tion and incom­pe­tence in the bud it by default cre­at­ed INDECOM , as a force against itself.
By refus­ing to change into a pro­fes­sion­al Agency which can deliv­er the ser­vices for which it is paid it has rel­e­gat­ed itself to being super­vised even more.
This is the rea­son I have said time and again that for the most part the top-tier of the Police depart­ment has been incom­pe­tent and needs to go.
As long as the JCF refus­es to be a grown-up it will for­ev­er be sub­ject to adult super­vi­sion, and not nec­es­sar­i­ly adults who have it’s inter­est at heart .
We have seen what this kind of super­vi­sion looks like.…

“Let us walk hand in hand and help break down the bar­ri­ers in those zones of exclu­sion that cre­ate havens for criminality.”

These inspir­ing words from the 2011 prime minister’s inau­gu­ra­tion speech seem to have been for­got­ten by every­one, even the speaker.

The recent March Pen mas­sacre remind­ed many of sim­i­lar inci­dents that took place on Barnes Avenue in south St Andrew in 2005 and Lauriston in St Catherine in 2011.

“October 5, 2005 is not a date that Randall Brown will for­get. Residents remem­ber the blood-cur­dling screams of his 10-year-old niece, Sasha Brown, as she called out to her neigh­bours for help as fire rav­aged the house she was locked in. The house was shot up and set on fire by masked gun­men. Gerald Brown, 60, his wife Dorcas, 50, and their daugh­ter Janice, 25, were killed along with Sasha.

http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/mobile/news/Massacre-at-Barnes-Avenue — -7-years-on_12707224)

“Church min­is­ter Charmaine Rattray and her 19-year-old daugh­ter were yes­ter­day morn­ing behead­ed by gun­men who invad­ed their Lauriston home.

“The two were attacked just after dawn by the men armed with guns and machetes and who kicked open the door to their home as they slept. The women’s heads were tak­en from the scene by the cul­prits, who had inflict­ed numer­ous chop wounds to the vic­tims’ bodies.

“Residents lis­tened and cow­ered help­less­ly as the women’s hor­ri­fied screams pierced the morning’s silence.” (

http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/mobile/news/Two-women-beheaded_9264403)

“Sombre was the gen­er­al mood yes­ter­day at 7 March Pen Road… where five per­sons, includ­ing three chil­dren, were shot, killed and their homes torched ear­ly last Sunday morning.

“Two of the chil­dren killed, accord­ing to a fam­i­ly mem­ber who request­ed that his name not be used in this sto­ry, were mur­dered exe­cu­tion style. He toldThe Gleaner that the two chil­dren, aged nine and 14 years, were tied up by the hood­lums and then shot.

“ ‘You hear like dem a kick off di gate. When dem kick off di gate, you hear explo­sion, [shots] fir­ing non-stop and a bare peo­ple a scream… All in a mi mind, ‘mi a try come to the scream­ing, but mi couldn’t because it was a lot of them and dem a fire shot.’ ” (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​6​1​0​1​1​/​f​i​e​r​y​-​s​c​r​e​a​m​s​-​k​i​d​s​-​t​i​e​d​-​s​h​o​t​-​1​4​-​y​-​o​-​p​a​r​a​l​y​sed)

We have wit­nessed so many such acts of ter­ror­ism in this sup­pos­ed­ly blessed land that we have become numb. No one even seems to care any­more when even chil­dren get mur­dered in these ‘zones of exclusion’.

We can only judge our politi­cians by what they do and not what they say. In the after­math of the Barnes Avenue inferno

Nationwide radio had a vig­il. Not a sin­gle politi­cian from either side turned up. Not then prime min­is­ter, P J Patterson. Not then Opposition leader, Bruce Golding. Not then min­is­ter for chil­dren affairs, Portia Simpson Miller. Not then area Member of Parliament, Omar Davies.

Reducing crime in Jamaica is going to be an obvi­ous­ly com­plex long-term under­tak­ing. Showing you care about the vic­tims of crime, par­tic­u­lar­ly the chil­dren, is not.

When chil­dren are burned to death and heads chopped off, is it too much to expect our polit­i­cal lead­ers to demon­strate human decen­cy and compassion?

This time around, media pres­sure has forced our elect­ed heads to show some lev­el of con­cern for the fam­i­ly of the vic­tims. Both mum­bled the usu­al, “We must stop these das­tard­ly crim­i­nal acts.” And near­ly a week after the March Pen slaugh­ter, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller actu­al­ly showed up at the site of the mur­ders. The prime min­is­ter has so far only promised that he will vis­it soon.

Andrew Holness has repeat­ed­ly stood before the nation and pro­claimed that “I am dif­fer­ent”. Well, actions speak loud­er than words. So far, his atti­tude towards the mas­sacre of our chil­dren by blood­thirsty crim­i­nals is indis­tin­guish­able from that of his predecessors.

Basic steps could cer­tain­ly reduce the fre­quen­cy of these acts of terrorism.

“ ‘There are law-abid­ing cit­i­zens there, but the bad roads and zinc fence, because of the struc­ture, it har­bours all dif­fer­ent types of peo­ple. It needs to be restruc­tured and organ­ised, and the Government needs to get the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) involved,’ [Bishop Rohan] Edwards said.

“He said that JSIF did work on the main road, but ‘not for the com­mu­ni­ty, like they did for areas like Jones Avenue, Homestead, Central Village and others’.

“ ‘Pull down the zinc fences, the police have a prob­lem patrolling. They need to get atten­tion. Until they do that, it’s going to con­tin­ue to har­bour types of peo­ple that can cre­ate may­hem,’ Edwards said.” (‘Bad March Pen Memories — Recent killings take res­i­dents back to 2000 ‘Black Friday’’ [http://​jamaica​-star​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​6​1​0​1​4​/​b​a​d​-​m​a​r​c​h​-​p​e​n​-​m​e​m​o​r​i​e​s​-​r​e​c​e​n​t​-​k​i​l​l​i​n​g​s​-​t​a​k​e​-​r​e​s​i​d​e​n​t​s​-​b​a​c​k​-​2​0​0​0​-​b​l​a​c​k​-​f​r​i​day])

But no one seems to care enough to start the process.

And so we sit and won­der what Jamaican place name we will hear of next where lit­tle chil­dren are delib­er­ate­ly burnt to death and teenage girls’ heads are chopped off.

kob.​chang@​fontanapharmacy.​com
Story orig­i­nat­ed here: http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​c​o​l​u​m​n​s​/​T​e​r​r​o​r​i​s​m​-​i​n​-​J​a​m​a​i​c​a​_​7​7​372

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A sev­en mem­ber jury of five men and two women has been empan­elled in the tri­al of busi­ness­man Patrick Powell aris­ing from the 2011 shoot­ing death of 17-year-old Kingston College stu­dent Khajeel Mais. Mais’ moth­er, Allana Mais was first to take the wit­ness stand and broke down in tears at the start of her tes­ti­mo­ny. Powell is being tried on two charges of mur­der and one count of shoot­ing with intent. He is accused of mur­der­ing Mais, who was report­ed­ly trav­el­ling in a taxi that col­lid­ed with a BMW X6 motor vehi­cle. It is alleged that the dri­ver of the BMW got out and fired at the car, hit­ting the boy.

Powell is also charged with shoot­ing at taxi dri­ver Wayne Wright with intent to cause harm.

Tanesha Mundle :http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​l​a​t​e​s​t​n​e​w​s​/​-​X​6​M​u​r​d​e​r​T​r​ial – Mother-of-Khajeel-Mais-breaks-down-on-witness-stand

In a few days Jamaica will be immersed in celebration of the creation of a new Museum to celebrate the life and work of Peter Tosh , reggae Icon, celebrated founding member of the famed Bob Marley and the Wailers band.
There will be days of celebration , in attendance will be the Prime Minister the nation’s highest elected official among others.

Several evenings ago I turned on the radio as I was dri­ving home from work and I was pleas­ant­ly impressed with the way Peter Tosh’s daugh­ter acquit­ted her­self as she rep­re­sent­ed her late father. She artic­u­lat­ed her father’s life and work with intel­lect and conviction.

The entire nation will be enthralled as it engages in the cel­e­bra­tion and the fes­tiv­i­ties which fol­low these events , . History will be rewrit­ten and those not in the know will cre­ate their own nar­ra­tives as they seek to bol­ster the already icon­ic image of these celebri­ty icons, ele­vat­ing them to even high­er heights of pagan idolatry.

Even as these events are in the works the mur­ders con­tin­ue unabat­ed , Those who are shield­ed from the killers bul­lets con­tin­ue to use the media to artic­u­late, that their point of view that their way is work­ing , “just trust us they say, we will get it togeth­er you will see”..
But things aren’t get­ting bet­ter. sin­gle mur­ders does­n’t even raise an eye­brow anymore.
This until the next mass exe­cu­tion of anoth­er fam­i­ly. As a good friend told me today,” no one both­ers to talk about mur­ders of indi­vid­u­als any­more, most of the mur­ders aren’t even report­ed anyway”.“Yes wel­come to Jamaica”, he says with abject res­ig­na­tion and dejection.…

No one denies an artiste the acco­lade he or she deserves , whether while he or she lives or posthu­mous­ly. But lets not san­i­tize their image,lets not rewrite their sto­ry to suit some fan­ta­sy we cre­at­ed in our heads in order to advance a fairy-tale nar­ra­tive. Lets tell the whole story.
Not wish­ing for a news cycle to go with­out grasp­ing for the hot glare of the cam­eras in an Article writ­ten to con­tin­ue jus­ti­fy­ing his employ­ment Terrence Williams wrote to the Sheep-le.

“The pro­po­nents claim that police are demo­ti­vat­ed because of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) and that is why they can­not fight crime effec­tive­ly. They do not claim that INDECOM has act­ed ille­gal­ly or unfair­ly; but that the robust over­sight is dele­te­ri­ous to police morale. The com­mis­sion­er of police has con­sis­tent­ly denied that this is so. Indeed, if it were so, it would not speak well of our con­stab­u­lary. If you intend to act law­ful­ly and con­sis­tent with police reg­u­la­tions, over­sight ought not to pre­vent you from doing your work. The right­eous accoun­tant is not hin­dered by the fear of the audi­tor”.

Actually that is not true, .….
Jamaicans are real­ly some­times too pre­oc­cu­pied with their dai­ly lives to see that they are being tak­en advan­tage of , being sold a bill of goods . But there are some of us who do see and since Williams likes the lime­light we shine our own light on him.
So lets speak direct­ly to Williams since he is let­ting us know he is feel­ing the heat from our spotlight.

In fact you have act­ed improp­er­ly and out­side your remit Terrence Williams . Yes you have your cheer­ing sec­tion up in the nose bleed pet­ty sec­tion but we have a front row seat to your shenanigans.
You see Terrence not all of us police offi­cers who left the force were big foot fools as you and your friends like to chan­nel so I will sim­ply place a sin­gle case here to counter your lies.
You see you char­ac­ter­ize your­self as the audi­tor , but me I see myself as the actu­ary .

The crim­i­nal charges you filed against Deputy Superintendent of Police Jason Anderson was dropped. In your overzeal­ous exu­ber­ance to blovi­ate you charged the Superintendent with dis­charg­ing a firearm with­in 40 yards of a pub­lic road and assault at com­mon law. On December 18, 2013, Anderson alleged­ly dis­charged his firearm unlaw­ful­ly and point­ed it at a com­plainant before search­ing him and anoth­er civil­ian on Caribbean Estates Boulevard.
You Terrence Williams con­duct­ed an Investigation and fraud­u­lent­ly charged the offi­cer. Thankfully there is a super­sed­ing author­i­ty over and above your rapa­cious abuse of pow­er. .
In stop­ping the out­rage the DPP said quote :“It is our con­sid­ered view that the evi­den­tiary mate­r­i­al did not sat­is­fy what is required to mount a viable pros­e­cu­tion and as such there was no rea­son­able prospect of conviction,”

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There is much more Terrence, But I lay this one case down so the world can see that you are a liar . When you push-back under the guise that those opposed to your greedy self serv­ing attack on our police can­not say you act­ed unlaw­ful­ly . Let me say it here , In this sin­gle case I laid out here you act­ed un-law­ful­ly. When you over­step your bounds and sub­ject some­one to the indig­ni­ty of an arrest with­out prop­er evi­dence you are act­ing unlawfully.
What rem­e­dy does Superintendent Anderson have against your overzeal­ous assault on his human rights? How are you dif­fer­ent than the police offi­cers you grand­stand against daily?
Never mind the ille­gal attempts you and your office made and con­tin­ue to make to cajole and entreat young con­sta­bles to lie on their com­rades so you can pad your statistics.
Yes , we hear about them . Officers call and tell us about these under­hand­ed attempts you use to gain trac­tion in your fight against local law-enforcement.

Of course the police need over­sight. Just not you Terrence Williams a blovi­at­ing grand­stand­ing self-serv­ing narcissist.
Your lengthy arti­cle must be seen exact­ly for what it is, a pan­icked attempt to deflect atten­tion from the harm you are caus­ing as the bod­ies pile up . While the Minister of National Security stu­pid­ly sug­gest that he was placed by God in the Security Ministry peo­ple in the know knows that crime will only be dealt with with a heavy hand.

The non­sen­si­cal lie that tough polic­ing did not seri­ous­ly impact the par­a­digm is also laugh­able . Only in a place like Jamaica would you be able to preach such utter bull­shit and not be chased out of Town. Unless one comes to the twist­ed con­clu­sion that 1200 to 1600 report­ed homi­cides annu­al­ly is no dif­fer­ent than 300.
The lying dis­tor­tions you prof­fer are tru­ly the work of a con artiste, which you tru­ly are.

My dear Terrence when you chan­nel Peter Tosh to jus­ti­fy your pro­fes­sion­al exis­tence you once again showed your ass.
Quote: When Peter Tosh sang: “I don’t want no peace; I want equal rights and jus­tice”, I took him to mean that he did not want the kind of ephemer­al “peace” that came from oppres­sive and arbi­trary state agents. Rather than this kind of con­trol, he appealed for the sus­tained order that comes from the uni­form appli­ca­tion of the law and the fair deter­mi­na­tion of dis­putes. Crime threat­ens social order; its solu­tion must be jus­tice”.

I under­stand your desire to attach your­self to the sev­er­al days of cel­e­bra­tion and idol wor­ship which is com­ing as obscene idol wor­shipers gath­er to wor­ship at the feet of anoth­er graven image. Maybe you should acquaint your­self with real Peter Tosh the man who believed that the nation­s’s laws did not apply to him , sim­ply because he said so.
Maybe you should get your ass out of that easy chair and speak to old­er police offi­cers who are now in retire­ment about the Peter Tosh who spoke mil­i­tan­cy but refused to con­form to social order. Yes ask them why he was so vio­lent­ly cut down in the prime of his life.
Ask them why was it that he had so many run-ins with agents of the law.
In your fren­zied attempt to latch onto celebri­ty you once again demon­strat­ed your lack of knowl­edge and your bla­tant attempt at fame.

I did not hear about Peter Tosh, we knew him, we knew his modus operan­di., Dadrick Henry and I were the first two offi­cers at his house on that fate­ful night he was gunned down. We don’t make up stories .
Even though his home was not in our police area we were in Barbarian when we heard the call , Jacks Hill Road is just a stone’s throw from Barbarian square , we were first on scene. We raced to try to save his life despite his life of dis­re­spect for police offi­cers because that’s what police offi­cers do.
Something you would not understand.
But you would­n’t know the dif­fer­ence between a right­eous objec­tor, a sol­dier for social change, over a mil­i­tant unruly “I’ll do what­ev­er I want, fuck the laws”, obliv­i­ous to rules look­ing for a fight .
Because you Terrence Williams are a one-eyed king in a land of the blind.

The Jamaican Bar Association is renew­ing what it calls long­stand­ing con­cerns about the defi­cien­cies in the jus­tice sys­tem and the respon­si­ble exer­cise of free­dom of expression.

The con­cerns coin­cide with this week’s rul­ing by high court judge Lloyd Hibbert for a social media black­out in the so called X6 mur­der case. The judge made the rul­ing after Deborah Martin, the lawyer for accused killer Patrick Powell com­plained that a series of social media com­ments was mak­ing out her client to be guilty.

This after­noon, the bar asso­ci­a­tion would not com­ment on the devel­op­ment in court, say­ing it does not have all the facts. However, the asso­ci­a­tion says there is every rea­son for accused per­sons, par­tic­u­lar­ly those not on bail, as well as the vic­tims’ fam­i­lies, to be aggriev­ed by the delays that rav­age the deliv­ery of justice.

“The con­sti­tu­tion­al right to free­dom of expres­sion, and the right to crit­i­cise our pub­lic insti­tu­tions, belong to us all as cit­i­zens in this demo­c­ra­t­ic soci­ety,” said asso­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Sherry Ann McGregor. The asso­ci­a­tion fur­ther says the fun­da­men­tal right to free­dom of speech can only be cur­tailed to the extent that it prej­u­dices the rights and free­doms of oth­ers. “Although we believe that the pub­lic and vic­tims’ fam­i­lies have the right to speak out about the most unfor­tu­nate delays they expe­ri­ence, we also urge them to be respect­ful in their protests and inter­views and to refrain from mak­ing accu­sa­tions of cor­rup­tion by pub­lic offi­cials in the absence of reli­able evi­dence,” McGregor fur­ther said. She said the wheels of jus­tice often move slow­ly for a vari­ety of rea­sons not­ing that the slow pace of civ­il and crim­i­nal cas­es has been dis­cussed at length in all forms of media and by numer­ous stake­hold­ers, includ­ing the Association.

“Discussing and find­ing solu­tions to these impor­tant issues should always be encour­aged, not sti­fled, with­out play­ing the blame game,” she insist­ed. McGregor has again called for the urgent imple­men­ta­tion of sev­er­al rec­om­men­da­tions made in 2007 by the Professor Barry Chevannes-chaired Jamaican Justice System Reform Task Force. The Bar says it has also pro­posed a short­list of 12 goals to the min­is­ters of jus­tice and finance in December 2014, includ­ing increas­ing the num­ber of judges and sup­port staff and greater reliance and use of avail­able technology.

No, crime is not going to be corralled overnight ! No one is that naïve‘, but the body count is what we have to go by . If the body count is anything to go by clearly we have a problem.

Part of what Opposition Parties do while in Opposition is for­mu­late and means-test poli­cies. Those pol­i­cy posi­tions are then trans­formed into plat­form posi­tions and placed before elec­tors who vote on them.
The old say­ing “elec­tions have con­se­quences” then comes into play, the con­se­quence being that the par­ty elect­ed now have a man­date to enact those pol­i­cy posi­tions into law.

There is a kind of com­mon per­cep­tion that Jamaicans want to live in the crime infest­ed envi­ron­ment in which they are forced to exist.
I dis­agreed when I served as a police offi­cer and I dis­agree today decades after my brief for­ay into law-enforcement.
I have spo­ken on pre­vi­ous occa­sions to the good natured fun lov­ing nature of the Jamaican people.
I have also spo­ken to the many young Jamaican men whom I have met inside and out­side the coun­try and the way they gen­er­al­ly behave far and away from the brutish mon­ster-like killer men­tal­i­ty which slaugh­ter the innocent.

I con­tin­ue to believe that crime in Jamaica thrives on the sim­ple fact that no one has decid­ed, “this stops now”!
The biggest prob­lem for our coun­try is that those young men and women who engage in crim­i­nal con­duct do so with the dis­tinct knowl­edge that they have up to a 93% chance of nev­er ever get­ting caught.
The degen­er­ate bru­tal nature of the crimes they com­mit stems from the fact that they know there are numer­ous agen­cies wit­ting­ly and unwit­ting­ly mil­i­tat­ing on their behalf.
The unfor­tu­nate thing about this par­tic­u­lar group is that some are actu­al­ly tax­pay­er fund­ed, whol­ly or in part.

The jus­tice sys­tem which is sup­posed to stand up for the inter­est of the aggriev­ed is expo­nen­tial­ly more inter­est­ed in pro­tect­ing the inter­est of criminals.
I under­stand these are broad and gen­er­al terms,but I say these truths to give a broad view as to why Jamaicans are bar­ri­cad­ed in their homes not sure if their doors are going to be kicked in result­ing in them going out in a hail of bullets.

The Jamaican crime sit­u­a­tion has been on an upward tra­jec­to­ry since Hugh Lawson Shearer stepped aside as Prime Minister. Since then there has been a step by step climb up the lad­der, each rung rep­re­sent­ing a greater degree of acqui­es­cence not nec­es­sar­i­ly by the Jamaican peo­ple but by a pletho­ra of a spe­cial Interest groups. These groups occu­py spaces in the hal­lowed halls of acad­e­mia through the Pulpits of the many Churches , through some board rooms of the busi­ness sec­tor all the way to the street cor­ners of the ardent gar­risons in Arnett Gardens, Tivoli Gardens and others.

Regular Jamaicans have sim­ply come to this place of accep­tance because they feel they have no choice. When a high court judge tells a griev­ing fam­i­ly unable to get jus­tice for their mur­dered loved one ‚that they can­not speak out because it will endan­ger the rights of the very killer who took the life of their loved one there is a problem.
When a Minister of jus­tice advo­cates for dis­card­ing cas­es stuck in the sys­tem for over five years (includ­ing mur­der cas­es) with­out first fix­ing the root cause of what’s caus­ing the bot­tle­neck the peo­ple are forced to resign them­selves to the notion that they can­not do better,.

There is a rea­son that mur­der is against com­mon law and not a statute.
Murder is not a crime which needs lit­i­gat­ing, from the begin­ning of human exis­tence every­one knew that the unlaw­ful tak­ing of anoth­er human life was unac­cept­able , it was wrong.
There is a rea­son there is no statute of lim­i­ta­tions involved with this crime. This means that there is no cut off date for some­one to be pros­e­cut­ed for the unlaw­ful killing of anoth­er. It is because of the pro­found and far reach­ing nature of the seri­ous­ness of mur­der why soci­eties place no lim­its on how long it will take how far they will go to pros­e­cute murderers.
That is of course with the excep­tion of Jamaica, if Delroy Chuck gets his way.

This makes it impos­si­ble to rec­on­cile that inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized eter­nal pro­to­col , with the views of Delroy Chuck. Shockingly Delroy Church the Island’s Justice Minister is the per­son advo­cat­ing for the dis­missal of cas­es, includ­ing mur­der cas­es which have been stuck in the sys­tem for over five years.

How does a pub­lic ser­vant, who is sup­posed to rep­re­sent the good guys adopt pol­i­cy posi­tions which are anti­thet­i­cal to the very peo­ple whose inter­est he claim to represent?
The sim­ple answer is that he can’t .
The great­est imped­i­ment to the nation’s progress is the igno­rance of the people.That igno­rance has allowed a total­ly incom­pe­tent and moral­ly bank­rupt polit­i­cal par­ty to lit­er­al­ly run the Island into the ground, leav­ing it tee­ter­ing on the brink of collapse.
If the present Administration is seri­ous about crime it will hire more judges who are not crim­i­nal defense lawyers. Hire more pros­e­cu­tors. Improve the inves­tiga­tive capa­bil­i­ties of the Police depart­ment. Seek help beef­ing up the inves­tiga­tive capa­bil­i­ties from overseas.
Repeal the INDECOM Act , and replace it with a fair­er more ratio­nal law. Unshackle the Police and allow them to go after the killers.
Make it know that there is a zero tol­er­ance pol­i­cy toward crime. Make it known that crim­i­nals will find no refuge any­where in the country.
Provide the secu­ri­ty forces the resources they need to get the job done.
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On the release of Klansman Don Tesha Miller from an American prison I asked what steps were the secu­ri­ty forces tak­ing to ensure that his return will not be a return to the days when he ruled the Klansman Gang?
Needless to say Tesha Miller is alleged­ly once again a major con­trib­u­tor to the mur­der statistics.
Like Donovan Bulbie Miller and oth­ers before and after were allowed to com­mit crimes and pay no price ‚Tesha Miller has returned to the crim­i­nal par­adise that Jamaica has become, and is now report­ed­ly back at mur­der and mayhem.
The high­ly placed who call for throw­ing out mur­der cas­es should be made patent­ly aware that these kinds of poli­cies will not be tol­er­at­ed. Doing the same thing and expect­ing a dif­fer­ent result may be the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of insan­i­ty . Simply put it means you are stupid.
There comes a time when the Prime Minister must come to the real­iza­tion that his pri­ma­ry duty is to secure the nation.
That time is now.….

When Tulsa, Okla. Police Officer Betty Shelby shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man who had his hands in the air, the local dis­trict attor­ney wast­ed lit­tle time in fil­ing charges. The entire ordeal was filmed from a near­by dash cam and from high above the scene in a helicopter.

Crutcher’s fam­i­ly was dev­as­tat­ed, cit­i­zens of Tulsa were out­raged, and peo­ple all over the world were call­ing for jus­tice. Within days, charges were filed, Shelby was placed under arrest, and the case against her is proceeding.

The process has not been entire­ly flaw­less — some thought Shelby was under­charged — but the case, from all appear­ances, has been treat­ed with the obvi­ous urgency it deserves. While what comes next remains to be seen, how Tulsa has han­dled this case thus far is a text­book exam­ple of how police vio­lence, par­tic­u­lar­ly the shoot­ings of unarmed black men, women and chil­dren, should go.

The same can­not be said for vir­tu­al­ly every oth­er major case of police brutality.

Tulsa offi­cer pleads not guilty in killing of Terence Crutcher

We see it hap­pen­ing right now in the July shoot­ing deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Both men were shot and killed by police more than 90 days ago. Both cas­es had eye­wit­ness­es in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty. The entire shoot­ing and after­math of the shoot­ing of Alton Sterling was filmed. The after­math of the shoot­ing of Philando Castile was filmed, but it all unfold­ed with his fiancée and her daugh­ter right there in the car with him.

We’re not talk­ing about a mur­der mys­tery here.

We know who pulled the trig­ger. We know where the weapons are. We know when and where the shoot­ings took place. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-probes-sterling-castile-deaths-article‑1.2829463

In 2011 I began on a journey it was the creation of my Blogs chatt​-​a​-box​.com that journey began because a young man 17-year-old Kingston College student Khajeel Mais was brutally murdered and Authorities in Jamaica took no action.
I decided to speak up even though I had never met young mister Mais nor his family and still haven’t. The circumstances of his death however and the way the case was being handled or better yet not handled revealed a gaping chasm in the way justice is handled on the Island. As a former Police Officer I have spoken out since then , consistently broadening my arguments about the shortcomings and unjust practices within the system.

Young Khajeel Mais was trav­el­ling in a taxi-cab which hit anoth­er vehi­cle , the dri­ver of the vehi­cle opened fire on the Taxi-cab killing Khajeel Mais . The dri­ver of the cab was able to escape and alert authorities.
It was­n’t just the killing which inflamed pas­sions and angered decent well think­ing peo­ple , it was the way the Jamaican police stead­fast­ly refused to reveal the name of the shoot­er who was days lat­er revealed to be Patrick Powell a well con­nect­ed upper Saint Andrew man in his ear­ly fifties.
Only after much out­cry was he arrested.
One of the charges which was even­tu­al­ly laid against Powell was his refusal to turn over the mur­der weapon to the Police.
It was alleged that Powell was a reg­is­tered firearm hold­er, I am assum­ing that his refusal to turn over the kill-weapon made it ille­gal as far as the fil­ing charges were concerned.
Despite this repug­nant death, the Jamaican Criminal Courts sys­tem has still not man­aged to bring this case to a conclusion.

Since the fam­i­ly of Khajeel Mais lost their son, I too have lost my own son albeit under dis-sim­i­lar circumstances,(RIP KKB). The pain I feel can­not be put into words .
At the time of the untime­ly death of Khajeel Mais I was pained to the point it spurred me into action . The action I took was to use my expe­ri­ence as a police offi­cer and turn it into social activism.
In the years which ensued I spoke out against police cor­rup­tion, the lack of sup­port for mod­ern sophis­ti­cat­ed polic­ing and the sub­se­quent yet pre­dictable crim­i­nal­i­ty which emanat­ed as a result.
In the expose I have sought to do over the years I have spo­ken out in no cer­tain terms against the court system,which has exist­ed in a bub­ble free from appro­pri­ate scruti­ny which ought to accom­pa­ny gov­ern­ment agen­cies par­tic­u­lar­ly in a place like Jamaica.

The crim­i­nal courts has unde­served­ly man­aged to stay above the fray while oth­er arms of Government has been held up to ridicule for their lack of pro­fes­sion­al­ism and competence.
The Jamaican peo­ple have always had a sense of def­er­ence toward the bench .
Whether it is deserved is for each and every Jamaican to decide.
One of the things I have spo­ken out against has been that def­er­ence . Not because I believe we should not be def­er­en­tial to our courts and it’s noble man­date to be rea­son­able and just arbiter of facts, but because I fun­da­men­tal­ly believe the Jamaican courts have been any­thing but that.

Despite the pas­sage of almost five years ‚the Mais Family has still not been able to receive jus­tice from the Jamaican courts.
As a result of the tar­di­ness, inac­tion, and lack of jus­tice the fam­i­ly has been forced to turn to Social Media to air their con­cern at the lack of justice.
Shockingly defense lawyers are now com­plain­ing to the tri­al judge that their client mis­ter Powell will not be able to get a fair tri­al in the courts because of the out­rage on social media.

AIN’T THAT A BITCH…

The Judge hear­ing the case Lloyd Hibbert has since ordered the fam­i­ly to desist from post­ing mate­r­i­al on social media per­tain­ing to the trial.
Ain’t that a BITCH.
If the court had done it’s job in the first place instead of set­ting the case back sev­er­al times argu­ing it did­n’t have court­room space this would not have happened.
A clear cut mur­der case still unre­solved after five years is the fault of the court and not the family’s.
What gall and temerity ?
This Judge has some nerve , there is not a sin­gle per­son on the Island of Jamaica who has not heard about this case. If they have they have an opin­ion one way or the other.
The idea that this judge would acqui­esce to the argu­ments of Defense coun­sel on the flim­sy grounds that their client can­not receive a fair tri­al is stunning.

What author­i­ty does Lloyd Hibbert have to make an order pre­vent­ing the fam­i­ly of Khajeel Mais from post­ing on social media about their pain and anger at this lack of jus­tice , unless of course they are mate­r­i­al wit­ness­es in the case?
Does he have con­sti­tu­tion­al author­i­ty to con­trol free speech ?
That is the issue. I vig­or­ous­ly encour­age the fam­i­ly to resist this attempt to take away their God giv­en right to speak out about the ram­pant injus­tice against their fam­i­ly under the flim­sy guise being used by this judge.

AN UNEQUIVOCAL ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH UNDER THE GUISE OF PROTECTING A POTENTIAL JURY POOL

Deborah Martin said that the defence was alarmed at the family’s behav­iour and com­plained that the family’s “exten­sive tirade that is going on in social media sug­gests that Powell is guilty”. Hibbert instruct­ed that no fur­ther mate­ri­als be post­ed on social media about the case while warn­ing that any­thing done to unfair­ly influ­ence a tri­bunal is tan­ta­mount to con­tempt of court. Hibbert said he was dis­turbed by some of the com­ments which were high­ly crit­i­cal of the jus­tice sys­tem.
This shock­ing load of bile is what I have been speak­ing out about for years since I left law-enforcement.
It is a poor­ly dis­guised attempt to get the fam­i­ly to shut up in light of the fam­i­ly’s out­rage at the inac­tion of the courts to do it’s job.
This order by this judge is a shock­ing dis­play of ille­gal and immoral alliance between bench and bar in an unright­eous alliance against justice .

Every Jamaican not taint­ed by cor­rup­tion and crime must con­demn this for what it is. A clear and unequiv­o­cal attempt to use the courts to bul­ly vic­tims of crime while col­lud­ing to free alleged murderers.
This fam­i­ly should not be cowed by Lloyd Hibbert or Patrick Powell’s defense team.
Every per­son charged with a crime is enti­tled to a fair and just tri­al. Nowhere are those rights more real­ized than Jamaica. Prosecutors have to present air­tight cas­es to get a con­vic­tion in even the most clear cut cases.
This is not because of vig­i­lance on the part of the judi­cia­ry , far from it. It is exact­ly because of the lib­er­al­ism and close rela­tion­ships between Bench and the Defense bar.

Every case pros­e­cut­ed in the courts has to be proven beyond a rea­son­able doubt. In Jamaica it has to be proven beyond that.
Patrick Powell will get a fair tri­al, his right to a fair tri­al can­not be guar­an­teed at the expense of the aggriev­ed fam­i­ly’s right to free speech in their pur­suit of justice.
This judge is way out of line.
This is an ille­gal order which can­not stand a con­sti­tu­tion­al smell test. The court can­not be allowed to con­tin­ue run­ning pass-pro­tec­tion for crim­i­nals with­out consequence.

For me it’s sad, I have no choice but to sit and watch like other shocked observers at the spectacle which is the wanton loss of life in Jamaica. Young children slaughtered along with their parents yet it does not evoke any anger or outrage.
It has become par for the course, another day of life or more like another day of living at death’s door in Jamaica.

I have con­sis­tent­ly said I do not speak to the killers nor their sup­port­ers who tell us peo­ple are dying every­where. I have said before that by your state­ments we know who you are . So feel free to ignore what I have to say.
To the filthy dirty crim­i­nals who have also infil­trat­ed the Police depart­ment , I say to you as well you are a dis­grace. You are an affront to dig­ni­ty . You are a liar and a deceiv­er to the oath you took to defend the con­sti­tu­tion and uphold the laws of our country.
To you dirty cops I say your day is coming.…

NOW…,

As the Government looks on seem­ing­ly help­less and the Opposition par­ty leader pay lip ser­vice to the pan­dem­ic of ruth­less mur­ders , we are shocked at what seem to be a nev­er end­ing litany of killings and with no one held accountable.
Just yes­ter­day two police offi­cers were shot and injured as they fell vic­tim to crim­i­nals who tried to rob a pas­sen­ger bus in Kingston.
Hell no, it’s not the first time cops are get­ting shot , Jamaican police have been get­ting shot for years . I should know, more than twen­ty five years ago I found that out first hand.
It was bad when we were fight­ing crime naked with one hand tied behind our backs, it’s worse now that police are naked with both hands tied behind their backs, and added weight drag­ging them down.
No they are not guilt­less, they must take some of the blame for that.

According to Jamaicagleaner​.com....
Details have emerged about the shoot­ing of two police­men along Spanish Town Road in St Andrew last night.Communication Officer with the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, says one of the cops was shot dur­ing a rob­bery of a pub­lic pas­sen­ger bus. Superintendent Lindsay says the police­man and oth­er pas­sen­gers were held up and robbed by men armed with guns. According to her, the police­man, who was robbed, chal­lenged the rob­bers and he was shot. She says a police team that was near­by rushed to the scene to help and they were fired on by the armed rob­bers. Superintendent Lindsay says one of the cops in the team was shot and injured. She says two of the rob­bers are in police cus­tody and the injured police­men are still being treated. 

Now the peo­ple who fol­low what I have to say on the sub­ject of crime knows quite well that I have con­sis­tent­ly and unabashed­ly advo­cat­ed that mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force shoul­der their arms in this fight against the Island’s murderers.
What I did not say was that they shoul­der arms when they are attacked. Every good police offi­cer must ensure that they pro­tect their fam­i­lies and themselves.
Either this insane fever of crim­i­nal sup­port breaks or the coun­try slide fur­ther into insan­i­ty. There is time,all offi­cers have to do is sit tight.
I do not encour­age this action because I am opposed to exter­mi­nat­ing vicious mur­der­ers from among us. I say this because the laws crim­i­nal­izes cops for doing their job on one hand and empow­ers crim­i­nals on the other.

The pow­er that be, knows what to do to end this pan­dem­ic of murder.
How do I know this ?
Because they cre­at­ed the con­di­tions which made it possible !
It was no acci­dent that they removed the idea of super cops who knew where the crim­i­nals ate, slept and copulated.
It was no acci­dent that they cre­at­ed anoth­er police agency (INDECOM) to crip­ple and cor­ral law enforce­ment , (which by the way has no pow­er to inves­ti­gate them).
It was no acci­dent that both polit­i­cal par­ties balka­nized the Island into gar­risons from which their Dons wield pow­er and con­trol out­side the pow­er and scope of the nation’s law enforce­ment agen­cy’s control.
It’s was no acci­dent that the Administration in Kingston, past and present, has cozied up with and col­lud­ed with Jamaicans For Justice, Families Against State Terrorism , among oth­ers, while police offi­cers who face the mind­less killers are left on their own, exposed to crim­i­nal indict­ment even when the do every­thing by the book.

I have repeat­ed­ly said that the fact that police killing of crim­i­nals have gone down has noth­ing to do with INDECOM’ s vig­i­lance. It has every­thing to do with the fact that cops are not will­ing to be crim­i­nal­ized for engag­ing crim­i­nals. Why should they?
When cops do not engage with crim­i­nals they do not shoot criminals.
When Cops are mind­ful of finan­cial ruin and crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion they are hes­i­tant and they get shot by criminals.
When cops do not engage every­one gets killed includ­ing babies.
It fol­lows sim­ply that when police offi­cers engage mind­less killers who are heav­i­ly armed they have to use com­men­su­rate force. I have been say­ing this for years crim­i­nals get shot when police engage them and they resist.
These ass­wipes do not care about life, not yours not mine, as such, those who empow­er them , those who sup­port them, those who mil­i­tate on their behalf should be treat­ed with the same degree of con­tempt that they are treated.

There will be much more blood­shed because the mur­der­ers are embold­ened . They open­ly post caches of weapons on social media with their entire pro­file and noth­ing is done about it.
Jamaica is a fuck­ing small Island, lets cut to the chase. It does not require a bunch of fan­cy experts to fix this shit.
I am ter­ri­bly tired of hear­ing all of the con­vo­lut­ed mum­bo jum­bo shit com­ing out of the mouths of the shit-heads who talk about crime from behind com­put­er key­boards as if they are writ­ing a term paper of a doc­tor­al thesis..
This is a fuck­ing war which requires war­riors who are unafraid to go where these fuck­ing crim­i­nals are and appre­hend them .
If they resist then fuck­ing kill them.
Period !!!!
There is no pret­ty way to put that.
Killers who kill inno­cent chil­dren in blood-lust deranged assaults are inca­pable of under­stand­ing any­thing but bullets.

The Prime Minister knows this Portia knows this and Terrence Williams knows it. But Terrence Williams does not give a shit about the loss of life as long as he makes a name for him­self on the pile of dead babies.
Andrew Holness can in no way claim that he could­n’t do any­thing about it, he is now the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence .
The first order of busi­ness is to pro­tect the lives of inno­cent peo­ple . None so more than the very old, the very young, and those inca­pable of defend­ing themselves.
Enough with the talk­ing, there comes a time when some­one has to get blood on their hands in order to stop the bleeding.

As the nation’s murder rate contine to gallop toward what could be unprecedented amounts of dead Jamaicans this year the security forces are trying to do the best they can.
They are placing their bodies between the marauding gunmen running around with the most sophisticated high powered weapons and the Jamaican people many of whom are totally undeserving of the risks they take.
It’s important that as the calls go out for a limited state of emergency we recognize that those calling for it from certain sectors of the country are only doing so because their bottom line is being threatened. Their concerns are not based on the loss of life but on the potential loss of dollars.

As more and more Jamaicans brave­ly raise their heads amidst the con­stant bar­rage of igno­rant bark­ing and obfus­ca­tion in sup­port of INDECOM, sup­port­ers of the irra­tional ‚poor­ly thought-out law are get­ting more des­per­ate as they seek to find legit­i­ma­cy for this irra­tional crim­i­nal sup­port­ing law.
Amidst the noise is a TRUMPIAN[sic] refusal on the part of the Island’s most stri­dent anti-police sup­port­ers to see facts as facts .
An Orwellian refusal to face the bleak real­i­ty that this bad law and it’s lead­er­ship’s media whor­ing is embold­en­ing the Island’s killers.

As we look on in hor­ror at the unchecked mur­der and may­hem, the streets reduced to wild west shootouts with­out fear of the police it becomes clear by the day that those who stand in stub­born oppo­si­tion to facts are indeed part of the problem.
At some point in time dur­ing this dis­course we have to begin the unsa­vory task of extrap­o­lat­ing from the smoke-screen and igno­rant push-back that many Jamaicans who pass as decent peo­ple are sup­port­ers of criminals.
This is true of Jamaicans both at home and abroad.

I can­not imag­ine any­one who would rea­son­ably be opposed to police oversight .
As a Jamaican who love my coun­try, not because of what I can derive from it but because I have already giv­en to it I sup­port over­sight of the Police department.
Oversight how­ev­er can­not be adver­sar­i­al to the point that offi­cers are exposed to finan­cial ruin , the loss of their careers, or being set up by man­u­fac­tured wit­ness­es which invari­ably lands them in prison.

This is not about just sup­port of police which we must do in a demo­c­ra­t­ic safe soci­ety. It is about the future direc­tion of the country,.
Will we stand silent­ly by and allow those who would ben­e­fit from a failed crim­i­nal state to shout us down.
For my part I will not spend a sin­gle minute of my time mak­ing a dis­tinc­tion between the false par­al­lel of stand­ing up for the rule of law and cor­rup­tion in the police department.

I stand with the rule of law because there is a bina­ry choice between sid­ing with the rule of law and our police officers(even in their imper­fec­tion) and sup­port­ing the maraud­ing killers who are killing with impuni­ty with­out consequence.
The choice is clear , either one sup­port the police, and con­tin­ue to demand a real fix of the depart­ment or we throw our sup­port behind the killers in the old adage of join­ing them because we can­not beat them.

Every sec­ond wast­ed talk­ing about oth­er things allows the mur­der­ous killers to be more estab­lished , more emboldened.
There is strong well arrayed oppo­si­tion to Jamaica ever becom­ing a coun­try of laws.
They are not who you think they are , they are pow­er­ful, they are monied, and they wield incred­i­ble polit­i­cal power.
They do not all stand on the cor­ner Guinness under one armpit , pants down their back­sides crush­ing weed in their palm.
Many of them are dressed in suits , they live in upscale neigh­bor­hoods and you refer to them as sir and look up to them as leaders.

Lord knows the Jamaican police need over­sight like pret­ty much every police depart­ment any­where. Placing the pow­er of life and death in the hands of any human being must be sub­ject to rig­or­ous scruti­ny . Yet those who risk life and limb for our safe­ty deserve every bit of sup­port we can give and they deserve cer­tain lat­i­tude to do the job we ask them to do.

This is the rea­son I have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly called for the repeal of the INDECOM act.
Re-Debating every aspect of the act then reau­tho­riz­ing a bet­ter law which pro­tects police from friv­o­lous pros­e­cu­tion. A bet­ter law which inves­ti­gates impar­tial­ly and with­out ran­cor abus­es of pow­er by mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces will ulti­mate­ly result in a regen­er­a­tion of trust between decent law-abid­ing cit­i­zens and their police.
In that Law should be civ­il reme­dies for mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces who have been wrong­ful­ly accused.
In that law should be clear crim­i­nal penal­ties for those who would seek to wrong­ful­ly incrim­i­nate hard work­ing officers.

http://www.japarliament.gov.jm/attachments/341_The%20Independent%20Commission%20of%20Investigation%20Act,%202010,.pdf

The INDECOM Act is a knee-jerk law thrown togeth­er to bring police to heel with zero con­sid­er­a­tion for the hard work­ing police offi­cers and mem­bers of the Island’s mil­i­tary who brave all for the country.
What kind of coun­try shows no respect for mem­bers of it’s secu­ri­ty forces but gives a National hon­or to a lying agi­ta­tor who open­ly sup­port and defend crime syn­di­cates and flood kinder­garten and grade schools with homo­sex­u­al porno­graph­ic literature?

This is an exis­ten­tial fight. Jamaicans bury their heads to their own detri­ment. For those of you who are able to see through the smoke and obfus­ca­tion, events of 2010 in which mer­ce­nar­ies chal­lenged the state will be a cake-walk com­pared to what’s to come if exist­ing trends are allowed to remain.
There are many who are quite sat­is­fied with things the way they are .
Sorry to say it but pigs will not argue about mud , and Vultures are not offend­ed by stench of rot­ting carcasses.
You decide.

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The head­lines in the Jamaica DailyGleaner this morn­ing spoke vol­umes today Thursday September 29^th.
♦ Support grow­ing for lim­it­ed state of emergency.
♦Cops con­fi­dent in war against MoBay thugs — We have a lot of assets, but there could always be more, says Commish.
♦Montague: We are reap­ing the whirl­wind — Security min­is­ter cites social decay as he out­lines response to St James violence.
♦Last Chance’ — Stakeholders Warn Of Business, Tourism Fallout If Crime Not Curbed Next Month.
♦Queen Ifrica’s Grim Picture Of Montego Bay.
♦Editorial | Attack The Emergency With Emergency.
♦Devon Dick| Visit from a gunman?
♦Letter Of The Day | Stop The Speeches And Start Hunting.

These were the leads on the dig­i­tal ver­sion of the Daily Gleaner . Remarkably as the crim­i­nals push the enve­lope of what they can get away with the dither­ing and the sense of pre­tence continues.
Front and cen­ter to the debate of the exis­ten­tial threat faced by the nation and the ever slid­ing scale of what’s accept­able, is the talk about rights.

I fun­da­men­tal­ly respect the right of each and every one of those peo­ple to be dead right.
To those peo­ple, each and every one of you I do not advo­cate for you , I do not assume to speak on your behalf.
Now to the silent major­i­ty of ordi­nary Jamaicans like my fam­i­ly mem­bers and friends who have no con­nec­tion to crim­i­nals and their nefar­i­ous activ­i­ties I share your pain.
For the fam­i­lies of the police offi­cers and mem­bers of our nation’s mil­i­tary who are not involved in crim­i­nal­i­ty , I share your pain.
There is noth­ing I could pos­si­bly tell you that you do not already know. Nevertheless it is still impor­tant that you be remind­ed that you have the pow­er in your hands .How you uti­lize that pow­er is up to you.

Over the years you have seen the lev­el of crime in our coun­try grad­u­al­ly esca­late on a con­tin­u­ous upward tra­jec­to­ry . What you have not seen is a less­ing of those levels.
Regardless of what your polit­i­cal or oth­er lead­ers tell you, crime is not get­ting better.
The goal-post is being con­tin­u­al­ly moved on the lev­els of crim­i­nal con­duct. The Envelope is being pushed on what the crim­i­nal under­world is allowed to get away with.
Simply put, your elect­ed lead­ers , your busi­ness lead­ers, and even some of your reli­gious lead­ers are lying to you.
Political lead­ers are still putting guns into the hands of the young people.
Political lead­ers have turned their backs and allowed guns and ammu­ni­tion to flood the Island through Haiti and oth­er points of ori­gin with­out lift­ing a fin­ger to do any­thing about it.

Do not be fooled about what is hap­pen­ing even in the tourism sec­tor there is only an out­cry when their bot­tom-line is imperiled.
The steps being tak­en sup­pos­ed­ly in your inter­est are designed to pla­cate you rather than to solve the problems.
Your polit­i­cal lead­ers have no inten­tion of solv­ing crime in Jamaica . Look at the pro­lif­ic rise and expan­sion of the gar­risons in our coun­try, ask your­selves whether the PNP or the JLP is inter­est­ed in solv­ing the crime Problem in our country.
I point you to a Devon Dick Column in Thursday’s Daily Gleaner , read and decide for yourselves.

Crime is big busi­ness in our coun­try , it is, and has been ger­mane to who gets elect­ed to polit­i­cal office for decades. Business lead­ers from top to bot­tom bring in con­tra­band and stiff the coun­try of much need­ed revenue.
The Customs depart­ment has been a cesspool of graft , theft, and cor­rup­tion for decades. Lowly cus­tom offi­cers have owned some of the most pres­ti­gious homes and dri­ven lux­u­ry cars on their stipend salaries. No one both­ered to demand to know from what sources are those rev­enues derived. Jamaicans return­ing to the Island knows quite well where they get the mon­ey from.
Governments of both polit­i­cal par­ties com­mit the most egre­gious frauds and acts of cor­rup­tion, sub­ject­ing yet unborn gen­er­a­tions to lives of debt and impoverishment.
In response to your out­cry they empow­er a Contractor General law but gave the office no pow­er to pros­e­cute them. The con­trac­tor gen­er­al can bark all he wants, your thiev­ing politi­cians laugh with total dis­dain know­ing full well they are untouchable..

Literally every Government agency is a bureau­crat­ic cesspool of graft and extor­tion and a maze-like morass of incom­pe­tence . The RJD, Motor vehi­cle depart­ment. Passport depart­ment, every­thing depends on indi­vid­u­als abil­i­ty to pay or more appro­pri­ate­ly their abil­i­ty to be extorted.
No pub­lic sec­tor depart­ment is free from Corruption, Nepotism, and Extortion.
None !!!!
As such, lit­er­al­ly every pri­vate sec­tor enti­ty, every non gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tion has been taint­ed to some degree with the cor­ro­sive taint of graft , theft, and corruption.
What did you , all of you expect was going to hap­pen to your police department?
Did you think for a moment they would be the only pub­lic sec­tor work­ers untouched by the corruption?
Did you real­ly believe they cre­at­ed INDECOM to root out police cor­rup­tion? Or are you now rec­og­niz­ing that it was just anoth­er attempt at hol­low­ing out the already inef­fec­tu­al police department?
Look at the num­bers of cor­rupt cops suc­ces­sive Commissioners of police have root­ed out on their own, using the tools they have at their disposal.
Examine the num­bers of dirty cops the CCRB removed while they were the pri­ma­ry over­sight author­i­ty along with the depart­men­t’s own inter­nal mechanisms.
Now jux­ta­pose those num­bers with what INDECOM has accom­plished com­men­su­rate with it’s sup­posed mandate.

By INDECOM’s own admis­sion most of the cas­es it has sup­pos­ed­ly inves­ti­gat­ed result­ed in a con­clu­sion that offi­cers act­ed properly.
A cur­so­ry cost ben­e­fit analy­sis shows that resources used to fund INDECOM and the Public defend­er’s office could be bet­ter used to fund and improve the police’s inves­tiga­tive capabilities.
Which would reveal who the major orga­nized crime fig­ures are.
The major crime lead­ers in our coun­try to a large degree are indis­tin­guish­able from the major polit­i­cal play­ers in both polit­i­cal parties.
Therein ladies and gen­tle­men is the crux of your problem.

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MISTER PRIME MINISTER IT IS NOT OUTSIDE YOUR POWER, FIRE TERRENCE WILLIAMS AND SAVE THE LIVES OF THE INNOCENT JAMAICANS BEING MURDERED.
THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS NOW !!!

The single most topical issue dominating the news in Jamaica is crime. It has become such a grave concern that it now dominates all the news cycles and the media stories literally.
The single most oft-used term this writer has used to describe the fuel to the Island’s crime situation is the decision-makers’ pretentious nature.

Today we learned that a new tac­ti­cal police unit would be head­ing to Montego Bay to work toward elim­i­nat­ing the main per­pe­tra­tors of vio­lence in the crime-rav­aged city, accord­ing to the police.
Not exact­ly sure why this infor­ma­tion would be giv­en to crim­i­nals, how­ev­er accord­ing to the police hier­ar­chy, this team is dif­fer­ent from the oth­er for­ma­tions that are on the ground work­ing with the mil­i­tary to restore law and order to the city.
The police high com­mand announced, “This team has not hit the road since the 2010 oper­a­tion in west Kingston, and it has been giv­en the duty to tar­get the ‘big fishes”.
If my mem­o­ry serves me well, I believe the last time these police offi­cers were called on to risk life and limb for our coun­try, Portia Simpson Miller brought David Simmons from Barbados to dem­a­gogue, dis­re­spect, demean and seek to incrim­i­nate them.

Most impor­tant­ly, when the Nation finds itself engulfed in a pick­le, it turns to the police and mil­i­tary to bail it out from the clutch­es of the maraud­ing gang­sters while the Elitist deci­sion-mak­ers and oth­er shit for brains, sit in their gat­ed com­mu­ni­ties and pon­tif­i­cate about alleged breach­es of human rights.
Just yes­ter­day, there was a con­sta­ble in the news who clear­ly seemed to be hav­ing men­tal issues. According to the media, the offi­cer attempt­ed to jump from a build­ing in the town of Mandeville.

Shockingly, yet not sur­pris­ing­ly, the com­mand­ing offi­cer for the parish, Superintendent Vendolyn Cameron-Powell, in response to the inci­dent, respond­ed that the obvi­ous­ly dis­traught con­sta­ble is “known to cre­ate excite­ment when he becomes dissatisfied.”
It’s tough to grasp that any super­vi­sor in this day and age would be this crass, uncar­ing, or unlearned. However, it does not sur­prise me one bit; this is why I have had noth­ing but utter dis­dain for this police depart­men­t’s hierarchy.
However, that was not all; she went to cement fur­ther her own dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion and lack of fit­ness for the job she holds.
Quote: “He is not suit­able to car­ry out the duties and respon­si­bil­i­ties of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. “He is not a fit can­di­date for (this) kind of job.”

Once again, the Jamaican state is in a ter­ri­ble state.
Once again, the Jamaican state has mem­bers of the mil­i­tary and the police force, putting their lives on the line in defense of the nation while oth­ers are in their beds at night.
Once again, the Police and the sol­diers go in and give all for their coun­try. They do not ask for much, and they are giv­en nothing.
Neither the Prime Minister nor the Leader of the Opposition nor any of the talk­ing heads in either of the polit­i­cal par­ties have moved to give the police the cov­er and the guar­an­tees they need to go in and do the job they are asked to do.

Just Yesterday, I spoke direct­ly to the Jamaican Prime Minister in this very medi­um. I implored him to be great, like Hugh Lawson Shearer the great Labor Party Prime Minister who stepped up to the plate when duty called. He did so to ensure that our nation was guar­an­teed the secu­ri­ty it need­ed and our coun­try was bet­ter for it.
The great­est imped­i­ment to crime-fight­ing in Jamaica is not the crim­i­nals who pull the trig­ger; it is the peo­ple who ben­e­fit from crime. Criminal Lawyers, and those who ben­e­fit from the pletho­ra of fringe groups who are sup­pos­ed­ly in the busi­ness of look­ing out for human rights abus­es.

National secu­ri­ty is the num­ber one pri­or­i­ty of any Government. Only in secure envi­ron­ments are the oth­er func­tions of gov­ern­ment best realized.
Once again, anoth­er Jamaican Administration is lean­ing heav­i­ly on the nation’s secu­ri­ty forces for its own survival.
Yet the Administration has not offered a sin­gle guar­an­tee to these brave, unselfish men and women who risk their lives. They get no guar­an­tees that they won’t be per­se­cut­ed and hound­ed to the point of los­ing their san­i­ty because of a tax­pay­er-fund­ed agency.

Remarkable, the com­mis­sion­er of Police, Dr. Carl Williams, is now awak­en­ing from his slum­ber and rec­og­niz­ing what I have said since the begin­ning of the INDECOM law. Speaking to Jamaican Media, the timid Williams echoed what he heard from his own offi­cers that they were unwill­ing to engage because of Terrence Williams’s persecution.

“I went out to St James on the week­end, and the police offi­cers told me that they have an excel­lent rela­tion­ship with the local INDECOM offi­cers, but the prob­lem is what is direct­ed from INDECOM headquarters.”
“We are not daunt­ed, because this is a call­ing and not just a job. We have tak­en an oath to make sure the safe­ty and secu­ri­ty of the peo­ple of Jamaica, and we go out to work every day to do just that, INDECOM or no INDECOM,” Williams stat­ed.

This medi­um takes great pride in call­ing out com­mis­sion­er Williams and is proud that he is seem­ing­ly begin­ning to get some guts.
Officers on the ground have repeat­ed­ly com­plained to this writer. They have con­firmed to Jamaican media their fear of doing their jobs only to be per­se­cut­ed for years, los­ing their careers, and end­ing up in finan­cial ruin…

“If that police­man is sus­pend­ed, he gets no pay; if he’s inter­dict­ed, a por­tion of his salary is cut,” police­men tell the media.
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Simply put, Terrence Williams must be fired for crime to be addressed as it should be. He is an ego-mani­a­cal nar­cis­sist who is being allowed to sin­gle-hand­ed­ly enhance the deaths of hun­dreds of Jamaicans to sat­is­fy his ego while cre­at­ing a name for him­self, at the expense of tax­pay­ers — this along with a hor­rif­ic crim­i­nal empow­er­ment law.
No sin­gle per­son should be allowed this lev­el of pow­er in a democ­ra­cy. No per­son should head any agency which is answer­able to no one.
This obser­va­tion is not unique to this writer; oth­er Jamaicans have spo­ken out about this, includ­ing Damion Crawford, Peter Bunting and others.
This fias­co has to come to an end.
Thus far in the parish of Saint James, over two hun­dred peo­ple have lost their lives. The Prime Minister, the Honorable Andrew Holness can­not pre­tend that he has­n’t heard. He can­not pre­tend he does not see the numbers.
Consequently, for every per­son who is killed because the secu­ri­ty forces are too scared for their legal secu­ri­ty to go after the killers, the Prime Minister must take respon­si­bil­i­ty for their spilled blood.
Unless there are enough guar­an­tees giv­en to police and sol­diers going into that war zone by this gov­ern­ment, that they will not become vic­tims of ego-mani­a­cal and nar­cis­sis­tic witch hunts.
Guarantees that they will not be scape­goats and maligned after they have silenced the guns of the Island’s urban mer­ce­nar­ies as they were after 2010.
Then my advice to each mem­ber of the secu­ri­ty forces is “shoul­der arms.”

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A spe­cial police tac­ti­cal team has been deployed to Montego Bay, St James with a man­date to tar­get the main per­pe­tra­tors of vio­lence in the crime-rav­aged city.

“This team has not hit the road since the 2010 oper­a­tion in west Kingston and it has been giv­en the duty to tar­get the ‘big fish­es’ who are the ones with the mon­ey to buy the high-priced, high-pow­ered weapons which we are see­ing in the hands of the crim­i­nals,” a senior police offi­cer told The Gleaner a short while ago. “This team is dif­fer­ent from the oth­er for­ma­tions that are on the ground work­ing with the mil­i­tary to restore law and order to the city. The team is going to get the major play­ers,” added the cop. Police Commissioner Dr Carl Williams is slat­ed to tour some of the more crime-rav­aged com­mu­ni­ties in and around Montego Bay today before host­ing a media brief­ing where he is expect­ed to announce addi­tion­al plans to reduce the mur­ders in St James. http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​6​0​9​2​8​/​j​u​s​t​-​s​p​e​c​i​a​l​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​t​a​c​t​i​c​a​l​-​t​e​a​m​-​d​e​p​l​o​y​e​d​-​c​r​i​m​e​-​p​l​a​g​u​e​d​-​m​o​bay