Crime In Jamaica Can Only Be Dealt With If We Are Prepared To Overturn The Apple Cart.

It’s almost impos­si­ble to keep up with the killings in Jamaica these days, there are sim­ply too many killings on a dai­ly basis for one to come to grips with them so we relate to only those with extreme shock value.
We don’t both­er pay­ing atten­tion to the body dis­cov­ered with chop wounds in bush­es, or the woman found in a gul­ly raped and mur­dered. Neither are we con­cerned about the body of a man dis­cov­ered with gun­shot wounds in cane fields . Those we don’t both­er to count. Those are par for the course. For those killings we cre­ate a men­tal dis­con­nect and we men­tal­ly move on.

We have desen­si­tized our­selves to the num­ber of mur­ders on the Island despite the dis­tinct like­li­hood of one get­ting gunned down based on the sheer vol­ume of killings and the small­ness of the space in which they occur.
Staying alive in Jamaica has become an ardu­ous dai­ly challenge.
Law abid­ing Jamaicans have large­ly resigned them­selves to the like­ly real­i­ty they will die by the gun if not today then some­time in the not too dis­tant future.
Jamaica did not get to this place overnight it took decades to get there and it cer­tain­ly will not change overnight.

For decades Jamaicans have sub­con­scious­ly built their homes and dec­o­rat­ed them with ornate iron­work- grill fortifications.
It was an uncon­scious state of met­al sur­ren­der to the forces of evil and may­hem. It said if I die I would pre­fer not to die in my home and cer­tain­ly not while I sleep.
Unfortunately that tac­it and unwit­ting agree­ment with the pur­vey­ors of mur­der did not pre­clude them from the vicious blood­lust of the Island’s killer, they sim­ply ripped the grill apart and vis­it death and destruc­tion anyway.

The truth is that the for­ti­fi­ca­tions would be worth­while if there was a capa­ble and com­pe­tent Police depart­ment capa­ble of respond­ing with­in sec­onds of receiv­ing dis­tress calls.
Nevertheless in the mur­der cul­ture of Jamaica none of it makes sense because in the end one has to brave the dan­gers of step­ping out­side their home where the pos­si­bil­i­ty of get­ting gunned down is one in 30.000.
Thus far this year over a thou­sand peo­ple have been report­ed mur­dered. This num­ber is in no way cred­i­ble when con­sid­ered against the many peo­ple who sim­ply dis­s­a­pear and are nev­er seen again.

The Government and the Police ratio­nal­ize the may­hem by seek­ing to con­sole the nation and the world with plat­i­tudes . They argue that the bulk of the mur­dered vic­tims are con­nect­ed with the lot­to scam trade which is rife on the Island.
As if those lives are disposable.
What we have learned over the years is that the “lot­to-scam” devel­oped on the Island because many of the chief oper­a­tives were and still are mem­bers of the rul­ing People’s National Party Administration.
It has now metas­ta­sized into a much larg­er prob­lem involv­ing peo­ple from all walks of life includ­ing Police, cler­gy and Jamaicans from all walks of life.

The pop­u­lar cul­ture now treat this scourge which attacks the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty of aged for­eign­ers as a nec­es­sary evil . Some with­in the Administration have called for those ben­e­fit­ting from it to spend some of the ill-got­ten pro­ceeds on education.
In oth­er words they want the pro­ceeds of crime spent on edu­cat­ing young­sters . Despite the fact that the illic­it gains ought to be con­fis­cat­ed and if pos­si­ble returned to their right­ful own­ers or at worse spent putting those involved in jail.
It’s a regres­sive rea­son­ing which makes sense to Administration offi­cials many of whom are involved or oth­er­wise believe the word “edu­ca­tion” jus­ti­fies the tak­ing of prop­er­ty from the old and vul­ner­a­ble and giv­ing it to the poor.
It is a kind of Robin-Hood men­tal­i­ty which finds com­fort and fer­tile soil only in a place like Jamaica and cer­tain­ly among the warped think­ing of Jamaicans.

HOW DID JAMAICA GET TO THIS?
Well inten­tioned People Jamaicans and oth­ers, have asked me how did the once beau­ti­ful Island get to this ?
On every occa­sion I answer “the Island is still beau­ti­ful, the peo­ple are the problem”
The peo­ple are opin­ion­at­ed , igno­rant and in most cas­es hell-bent on giv­ing their opin­ions on things they haven’t both­ered to study or acquaint them­selves with.
Everyone has opin­ions on every­thing they know noth­ing about.
That’s a seri­ous prob­lem. We dis­agree not because we have facts in sup­port of our posi­tion but sim­ply for the sake of being disagreeable.
Some seem to rel­ish try­ing to impress oth­ers they are smart. Unfortunately we end up with a coun­try that is now a crim­i­nal paradise.

So when I answer peo­ple’s ques­tions on my coun­try’s crime prob­lem I tell them there are a lot of morons who are inform­ing the debate.
I tell them there is no seri­ous com­mit­ment to the rule of law.
I tell them we are a nation of intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged monday-morning-quarterbacks.
I tell them we pon­tif­i­cate and we grand­stand because we are a nation full of shit.
Yes I also tell them we are a nation which glo­ri­fies crim­i­nals and hate police offi­cers and the rule of law because we are too stu­pid and full of shit to under­stand the val­ue of a sta­ble society .

I explain to them that we have a Government and a polit­i­cal sys­tem which sur­vives and thrives on crime.
That yes politi­cians encour­age crime as a way of life while they pil­fer pub­lic funds and fat­ten their wallets.
I take pains to explain to them that the Government look the oth­er way because it is inher­ent­ly cor­rupt and that it allows crim­i­nal­i­ty as an escape valve for those in the coun­try who have crim­i­nal inten­tions and to cov­er it’s own incompetence.
I explain that our police is under­staffed , under­paid, under-equipped, under-trained ‚under­paid and unappreciated.
Nevertheless I tell those who will lis­ten that the police lead­er­ship is incom­pe­tent, mis­guid­ed, afraid and basi­cal­ly no help to the offi­cers who need their sup­port in the streets.
I explain that young offi­cers are not prop­er­ly super­vised , they are basi­cal­ly unaware of their pow­ers and thus they are hes­i­tant and con­fused , some­thing which is not lost on the Island’s grow­ing crim­i­nal fraternity.

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When I dis­cuss our nation’s crime sit­u­a­tion with oth­ers they ask why is crime such a thriv­ing busi­ness with the police unable to do any­thing about it ? I tell them the above and I also tell them that rather than fix those prob­lems the Government dou­bles down by throw­ing it’s sup­port behind anoth­er lay­er of bureau­cra­cy which feeds the ego of some but does noth­ing to stop seri­ous crime on the island. When they ask what I mean?
I explain that the empha­sis is not on elim­i­nat­ing crime it is about mak­ing sure the police can­not appro­pri­ate­ly go after criminals.
So in many cas­es the police does­n’t anymore.
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Criminals are embold­ened the more we go after police who have to deal with them. It requires a del­i­cate bal­ance of ensur­ing that our police offi­cers show fideli­ty to the laws they are sworn to uphold while they tena­cious­ly go after those who make con­scious deci­sions to cause harm to others.
As we strive to hold our offi­cers account­able we must bal­ance that desire with an unre­lent­ing sup­port of them as they root out the most vicious vile crea­tures from among us.
Our soci­eties depend on it.
In Jamaica some of the edu­cat­ed spend their time show­ing just how great they are at observ­ing the let­ter and the spir­it of the law , usu­al­ly all their efforts in that regard are expend­ed set­ting vicious killers free.
If crime in Jamaica is ever to be seri­ous­ly tack­led the entire apple cart must be overturned.
Any yes it may mean cut­ting off the head of the snake.