Country Scapegoats Cops/​ignore Politicians And Judges Who Enable Criminals….

I sound the alarm that there are judges who are not on the right side of the law. Police do very good investigations only to have criminal coddling judges turn criminals loose.
(Hello, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes)

A Jamaican judge recent­ly imposed a sen­tence of six years in prison at hard labor on Jeffrey Campbell, a St Catherine man who plead­ed guilty to two counts of manslaugh­ter for the stab­bing deaths of 80-year-old return­ing res­i­dent Winnifred Williams and her 58-year-old son, Michael Williams. A Jamaican judge imposed recent­ly imposed.
The Islands Justice Minister, Delroy Chuck (an advo­cate for vio­lent mur­der­ers), defend­ed the judge’s slap on the wrist, argu­ing the fol­low­ing.
“The six-year sen­tence imposed by the judge, cou­pled with the four and a half years Campbell spent in cus­tody await­ing tri­al, meant that the con­vict­ed killer will serve a total of 10 and a half years for the crimes”.
“Therefore, the sen­tence imposed is with­in the range of sen­tences that would nor­mal­ly be imposed for manslaugh­ter. This is not an unusu­al sen­tence for manslaugh­ter.”

Before address­ing this crim­i­nal sup­port­ing embar­rass­ment pos­ing as a min­is­ter of jus­tice, first, let me say that the gen­er­al out­cry from the pub­lic is not ridicu­lous.
What is crazy is that the sys­tem designed by Delroy Chuck would have the pow­er to ignore the pain and grief of those who lost their loved ones while kow­tow­ing to the nation’s most vio­lent mon­sters.
There is an old Jamaican say­ing that where there is smoke, there is fire. So it is not exact­ly a mys­tery why the crim­i­nal cod­dling Delroy Chuck would rush to the defense of this pathet­ic judge.
As a mat­ter of fact, what Delroy Chuck has done is pave the way for the most vio­lent mur­der­ers to receive a slap on the wrist. All they have to do is take respon­si­bil­i­ty for their actions.
The stark real­i­ty is that Delroy Chuck’s con­tention that quote:” There is val­ue in not “impos­ing a sen­tence that is most severe and at the harsh­est lev­el” at times, “because per­sons who plead guilty have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reform and go straight,” is a bunch of horse manure.
These killers are not plead­ing guilty because they have any inten­tion of going straight. They are doing so because they want to take advan­tage of the 50% off the already light sen­tence they would have received on con­vic­tion.
To the crim­i­nal-lov­ing Delroy Chuck, this end jus­ti­fies the means, his brand of jus­tice cares noth­ing about the vic­tims and their fam­i­lies, or the trau­ma these killers leave in the com­mu­ni­ties.
Which leaves us to ask, what is Delroy Chuck get­ting out of free­ing these mon­sters back onto the streets?

A recent report revealed that a 16-year-old boy molest­ed anoth­er boy sex­u­al­ly; he was arrest­ed by the police and was prompt­ly returned to the streets by the bro­ken sys­tem.
Last week the teen sociopath sex­u­al­ly assault­ed a four-year-old boy, then cut that baby’s penis off then, stabbed him repeat­ed­ly, and left him to die like a piece of garbage.
Had the sys­tem dealt ade­quate­ly with this mon­ster in the mak­ing, had the sicko pos­ing as a judge done the due dili­gence, that mon­ster would not have brought that pain to a lit­tle child.
What kind of soci­ety are we cre­at­ing when we allow dou­ble mur­der­ers to get out and con­tin­ue with their lives after only a few years in prison?
I’ll tell you; it is a soci­ety called Jamaica where the gov­ern­men­t’s focus is on the idea that reha­bil­i­tat­ing vio­lent mur­der­ers is a more appro­pri­ate course of action than secur­ing the soci­ety from their preda­to­ry prac­tices.
The onus is on con­vict­ed mur­der­ers to prove to soci­ety that they have changed their ways and are deserv­ing of a sec­ond chance into soci­ety.
It is not incum­bent on the soci­ety to make it easy for con­vict­ed mur­der­ers to get out of prison and then hope they will not return to killing inno­cent peo­ple.
The bro­ken sys­tem of jus­tice in Jamaica favors both the PNP and JLP, which togeth­er cre­at­ed it to ensure that their mem­bers see no jail time for their own crim­i­nal activ­i­ties.
For years the jus­tice sys­tem has been left to decay under the PNP even as its mem­bers pil­laged the pub­lic cof­fers. The JLP is now at the tiller, and they, too, are engaged in theft, graft, and all kinds of cor­rup­tion, even if not to the lev­els that the PNP has been.
What is rep­re­hen­si­ble is that there are moron­ic peo­ple on both sides of the polit­i­cal divide who (engage in what about-ism) on this sub­ject. Your side did, it so my side is enti­tled to do too.
Giving mur­der­ers half-off sen­tences which were way too mild, to begin with, is a real­ly bad idea. It may have some favor in Jamaica because the coun­try is fast becom­ing a hang­out for mur­der­ers and oth­er transna­tion­al crim­i­nals.
Every Jamaican who claims to love Jamaica should be alarmed at what is hap­pen­ing in the name of jus­tice by a sin­gle indi­vid­ual, Delroy Chuck.

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