If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. (Ashes cold dawg sleep in de.) A dog will sleep in ashes because it’s cold.
(Old Jamaican proverb)..
Contrary to the perverse gibberish you hear about how to deal with criminals from know-it-all Jamaicans, there is only one real way to combat and contain crime on the Island, that is to use a heavy handed approach.
let me just head of the liberal criminal loving bullshit comments !!!
A heavy handed approach will invariably lead to some hurt feelings Simply put, some people will be inconvenienced as the forces of law and order take the streets back from the marauding bands of killers which now control the nations streets and by-ways.
If done in an intelligent and precision-like way, it will be a minimal trade-off for those inconvenienced, as against what exist in the country today.
Delivering a heavy-handed knock out blow to criminals and protecting the civil rights of innocents are not competing interest .
However it requires a non-corrupt police force and a determined population which has decided that enough is enough.
The problem in all of this is that the longer the government remain impotent and shell-shocked on this existential issue, the worse it gets, the more difficult it will be to cauterize, the longer the healing process will be, if at all.
Sometimes Someone Has To Get Blood On Their Hands In Order To Stop The Bleeding…
I swear I will have a screaming fit and pull my hair out if I hear another stupid comparison between Jamaica and Scandinavia.
To compare Jamaica’s crime situation with countries like Finland , Switzerland, or any other country of that region is to compare Jamaica’s economic situation to that of Singapore.
Both comparisons ignore or glosses over fundamental basic facts which differentiates these nations while jumping to their perceived successes. Jamaicans are quick to point to Singapore’s economic model while they conveniently ignore that small nations positions on the rule of law.
They never mention that dealing in drugs brings the death penalty.
They never mention that a simple act of littering will invariably result in a public flogging.
I am not arguing for that kind of punitive environment by a long shot. It does however bear mentioning that the Jamaican model, which is the exact opposite of the Singaporean model is not sustainable for a democratic society.
Jamaicans have always been a freedom loving people .
The struggles of the Maroons against British Colonial tyranny is testament to that fact.
What we have not managed to reconcile in the years since the peaceful sixties and today is that the world has changed, we must change or be swallowed up by the process of change.
The Zebra and the Wildebeest travel across the African Serengeti . Though animals, they fundamentally understand the concept of safety in numbers.
Traveling together does not guarantee that no Zebras will get eaten by the Lions or other predators lying in wait .
But the horns and hooves of the Wildebeest does offer a certain degree of protection from their enemies.
Weak and careless Wildebeest and Zebras are guaranteed to end up on some predators plate but the strategy of both groups does guarantee the survival of both specie .
Outside the cruel and vicious assault of humans of course.
Many years ago while I was a young officer attached to the Constant Spring CIB my work appeared to have ticked off a certain member of one family of criminals who hailed from the Grant’s Pen community. This was pre-Grant’s Pen Police station era.
In the late eighties to early nineties there was no need for another police facility at Grants Pen . We made sure criminals understood who were in charge.
Anyway , word got to me that a certain element said he was going to kill me. Yes, the streets cooperated with us, we made sure of it.
I did not pass the information up the line to the bloated incompetent bureaucracy.
I did not cower in fear.
Neither did I ask the commissioner to issue bulletins on my behalf.
I was a police officer , you threaten my life, I’m coming after you and I did not need an entourage to get you.
That same night myself and one went to find my would be murderer . Yup we knew where to find him, we always knew where they could be found. How else would we contain criminals if we did not know where they slept and copulated?
He was sitting under a streetlight in the Grant’s Pen gully , wearing only a pair of cut-off pants and no shirt. By the time he saw us it was too late he was frozen in place .
As he stood there trembling, piss ran down his legs and snaked it’s way in the dirt meandering along the dried dusty pathway, like the lazy Rio-Cobre river .
Through the incoherent babble coming from his stuttering lips I managed to hear him say people wanted him dead, that why they were telling lies on him.
Never mind that I did not accuse him of anything.
The knowledge that even among his peers his words weren’t private was enough deterrent . We left him standing there, a broken piece of scum in the stench of his own urine .
There was no need to touch him , he understood clearly, he had no hiding place .
Today Cops cower in fear as their leaders issue bulletins about threat levels.
Politicians go on photo-ops as if everything is kosher, while others threaten to bring armed mercenaries to deal with affiliates who do not tow party lines.
In the meantime the dead bodies pile up in Spanish Town and across the Island to Montego Bay.
Of course the country has no need for brand named cops who knew the killers and where they may be found !
The Island needed a more educated crop of politically correct cops, cops who could speak proper English with degrees.
More women dressed in smart skirts and nicely polished shoes , caps cocked to the side .
The officers dressed in white shirts and their khaki skirts looking dapper , no utility belts with gun, handcuffs or baton.
Why would they need those tools of the trade, they are commanders , who needs handcuffs ‚not cops. Why have guns and nightsticks when they have degrees and friends in high places to push them up the ladder?
Remember gazetted officers are not police officers[sic] Most never effected an arrest , never brought a criminal charge against a criminal . But they hold lofty positions from which they utter directives and press releases. It’s a total joke and an absolute waste of taxpayers resources.
Where are the returns on investment?
How could Tesha Miller return from prison in the United States to take command of a politically affiliated criminal murder-for-hire and extortion gang with a competent police force?
How did others like Bulbie Bennett and others do it?
They did it the same way an incompetent corrupt police force and a government of criminals, allowed Anthony Brown George Flash and other cop-killers to leave the country and stay away for years and then return without consequence.
That is why the leader of the political opposition can stand on a stage bereft of ideas and intelligence yet full of confidence that the urban terrorists she controls in her garrison constituency is enough to strike fear in anyone who dare cross her.
It is why the Prime Minister and Government have no clue what to do , neither do they have the courage to say they are helpless as the Island slips deeper and deeper into the abyss of murder and mayhem.
This is the Island where Carolyn Gomes , Terrence Williams, Horace Levy and a band of other criminal coddling elitist leeches dictate public policy on crime.
Has anyone ever heard any member of their families getting killed or raped?
I rest my case.
This is Jamaica .….…..