Cowardice Alone, Is Stopping The Government From Hanging The Murderous Scum Destroying Lives…

Police offi­cers, past and present, are detail­ing just how dire the sit­u­a­tion is in Jamaica’s old capi­tol of Spanish Town. One retired Senior Superintendent said, ‘crime is not under con­trol’ in Spanish Town. Really Sherlock? Talk about stat­ing the obvious.
The for­mer senior cop was­n’t done with his ridicu­lous assess­ment; he went on…The (SOE) State of Emergency works, but as soon as the police pack up and move out, and the secu­ri­ty forces move out, all the guys just come back.’
I believe what the for­mer senior cop out­lined is the text­book def­i­n­i­tion of some­thing [not]working. Had it worked it would have solved the prob­lem, nev­er­the­less, I won’t delve too deeply into the naievete of the for­mer senior offi­cers com­ments suf­fic­ing to say that I have a body of work detail­ing why the force has been a fail­ure because of his way of thinking.
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Another offi­cer, a con­sta­ble, said the sit­u­a­tion is quote, ‘tough,’ the young offi­cer opined that if the sit­u­a­tion is not attend­ed to with due dis­patch the secu­ri­ty forces may be forced into a Tivoli Gardens 2.0 type situation.
In the mean­time the police report that they have arrest­ed 82 peo­ple for pos­ses­sion of ille­gal firearm, ammu­ni­tion or both, and seized 59 ille­gal guns in St Catherine, an increase of 28 per cent com­pared to 2021. As at June 15, the St Catherine North Police Division record­ed 70 mur­ders and 51 shoot­ings, increas­es of 52 per cent and 76 per cent, respec­tive­ly when com­pared to the sim­i­lar peri­od in 2021. In the St Catherine South Police Division, 58 mur­ders were record­ed over the peri­od, the same as last year, and 53 shoot­ings were report­ed com­pared to 43 last year, an increase of 20 per cent..’.’

The police are up against it deal­ing with this scourge. A judi­cia­ry that is enam­ored with crim­i­nals. A soci­ety that pre­teneds it is some­thing it is not. An oppo­si­tion polit­i­cal par­ty that is high­ly sup­port­ive of the rights of mur­der­ers over those of ordi­nary Jamaicans. And a gov­ern­ment that is weak-kneed about tak­ing the deci­sive steps nec­es­sary to rein in the out of con­trol judi­cia­ry by remov­ing from their hands the pow­er to turn con­vict­ed crim­i­nals lose with light sen­tences for vio­lent offens­es and on the issue of bail, turn­ing the sys­tem into a turnstyle.
The Government of Prime Minister Andrew Holness [must] take the nec­es­sary steps to ensure that the bleed­ing ends by embark­ing on a series of mea­sures immediately.
(1)The gov­ern­ment must be more proac­tive by estab­lish­ing greater con­trols over the nation’s porous bor­ders with a view to stem­ming the flow of ille­gal weapons and ammu­ni­tion flood­ing the Island.
(2) The gov­ern­ment must move deci­sive­ly to table and pass leg­is­la­tion that removes from the hands of judges the abil­i­ty to hand down ridicu­lous­ly lenient sen­tences to vio­lent offenders.
(3) The Government must move deci­sive­ly to table and pass leg­is­la­tion that pre­vents judges from grant­i­ng bail to vio­lent offend­ers who have com­mit­ted a pri­or vio­lent offence.
(4) The Government must move with alacrity to estab­lish bet­ter inves­tiga­tive capac­i­ties with­ing the nations secu­ri­ty services.
(5) The Government must act deci­sive­ly to estab­lish stronger penal­ties for vio­lent crim­i­nals includ­ing the death penalty.
The Governemnt must act with dis­patch to empow­er the secu­ri­ty forces with bet­ter train­ing , equip­ment, logis­tics, and sup­port struc­tures that will enable them to com­mence bet­ter sur­veil­lance, infil­tra­tion, and ulti­mate­ly the elim­i­na­tion of the crim­i­nal gangs oper­at­ing with impuni­ty on the island.

The Administration can­not afford to wring it’s col­lec­tive hands as the pre­vi­ous admin­is­tra­tion before it did. In fact the for­mer admin­is­tra­tion demon­strat­ed that the par­ty’s pro­cliv­i­ty for advanc­ing the fun­da­men­tal rights of crim­i­nals over that of law ‑abid­ing Jamaicans have been an abject fail­ure. As a con­se­quence the PNP has lost the legit­i­ma­cy to cri­tique any­thing the present admin­is­tra­tion does on the sub­ject. We encour­age the PNP to con­tin­ue to ask for divine inter­ven­tion, in the mean­time I encour­age the present admin­is­tra­tion to pray but also to dopt the mea­sures I outlined.
As I out­lined today on a friend’s social media post on the ques­tion of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in Jamaica as a result of the Pratt Morgan case, a mora­to­ri­um on the death penal­ty was entered into by the Jamaican Government. (Moratorium Definition): a [tem­po­rary] pro­hi­bi­tion of an activity.
Since the 1993 Privy Council rul­ing and the ensu­ing mora­to­ri­um, weak admin­is­tra­tions from both polit­i­cal par­ties have refused to end the silli­ness and resume hang­ing the scum that take inno­cent lives. There is absolute­ly noth­ing stop­ping Jamaica from exer­cis­ing its sov­er­eign­ty by resum­ing hang­ing. As a con­se­quence mur­der­ers are able to oper­ate with­out any fear of consequence.
We know that on the rare occa­sion that they are impris­oned they are able to record albums, drink Hennessey, talk on cell­phones, order hits on whomev­er they chose and live nor­mal lives includ­ing being let out to have rela­tions with women on the outside.
The sys­tem has failed in every regard and the coun­try is head­ing for what obtains in Latin America where the crim­i­nals runs the jails. It may already be worse than we thought, the inmates are run­ning the assylum.

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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.