Eleven Days Later Police Haven’t Even Interviewed Tesha Miller:Police..

According to Élan Powell Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Crime the police are wait­ing on noto­ri­ous gang­ster Tesha Miller to secure legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion before they ques­tion him.

The same report­ing detailed that Miller was locked up for over a month by Bahamian author­i­ties before he was deport­ed from that country.
Additionally he was deport­ed from the United States a year ear­li­er where he was jailed for a report­ed two years for ille­gal entry.

Now just per­mit me to vent a lit­tle bit here.
I believe fun­da­men­tal­ly in the rule of law, that can­not be overemphasized.
I also believe that the laws must work equal­ly and just­ly for every­one regard­less of their stand­ing in society.
I also believe in the God giv­en right each and every per­son has to human rights and human dignity.
But when it comes to mak­ing a dis­tinc­tion between the rights of crime vic­tims and those who engage in crim­i­nal con­duct, I come down square­ly on the side of the victims.

Not let me has­ten to say that respect­ing the rights of vic­tims and crim­i­nals is not a bina­ry choice, but even with­in the nar­row con­fines of those choic­es I still side with the aggrieved.
Sure Criminals have rights but Jamaica has no busi­ness bog­ging down the process of remov­ing crim­i­nals from the streets by putting in place laws which pre­vents police from inter­view­ing crim­i­nals with­out lawyers present.

For the Record and the moles who are ready to pop up accus­ing me of not respect­ing peo­ple’s rights.
Most major west­ern Nations , includ­ing the United States, Canada and Great Britain will inter­ro­gate crim­i­nals before they actu­al­ly get a lawyer.
There is noth­ing fun­da­men­tal­ly wrong with that , par­tic­u­lar­ly if that arrestee has been read his/​her Miranda rights.

That Miller could have been returned to the coun­try on March 28^th and the Police have not been able to speak to him a full 11 days lat­er speaks to two things.
(1) Jamaica’s crim­i­nal jus­tice laws are far too uppi­ty. A vio­lent devel­op­ing coun­try like Jamaica has no busi­ness plac­ing those imped­i­ments in the way of law enforcement.
(2) With the lack of resources and train­ing fac­ing the JCF the laws were put in place specif­i­cal­ly to keep peo­ple exact­ly like Tesha Miller out of jail.
Why does­n’t the Government assign him a pub­lic defender ?

It’s prob­a­bly safe to say that Powell and his cast of char­ac­ters have next to noth­ing on this scum­bag, they nev­er do .
But nonethe­less it is dif­fi­cult to ignore the fact that Police could be ham­strung to such degree by the very Government which ought to be look­ing out for the pro­tec­tion of the population.

Why is our soci­ety so pre­ten­tious in it’s protes­ta­tions about human rights, when it demon­strates no such par­i­ty in the way it approach­es the fun­da­men­tal rights each and every cit­i­zen has to life?
What’s behind this sick per­vert­ed love affair between Jamaicans and crime?
Is it unfair when we accuse the Government regard­less of polit­i­cal par­ty of col­lu­sion with criminals ?
Are we unfair when we point to the implic­it actions Government take which are aid­ing and abet­ting the bru­tal killings and oth­er crimes plagu­ing the country?
No !!!

There are sim­ply far too many instances where actions tak­en are demon­stra­bly sup­port­ive of and enhances the con­tin­u­ance of wan­ton criminality.
There comes a time when we have to believe the evi­dence and not con­tin­ue to tell our­selves that they mean well.