Jumeka Nice Nu Raas; Just Don’t Look Under The Rug.……

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Yesterday I wrote on the continued transformation of terrorism internationally and even by local criminals when they are allowed to operate in spaces they shouldn’t and in ways they ought not be allowed.
To some degree it may reasonably be said that when it comes to local or home grown criminals who would terrorize the innocent, some degree of political correctness have actually allowed the growth and brazenness of these criminals.
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It’s impor­tant to under­stand that we will most like­ly nev­er live as free peo­ple in soci­eties which are free from crime any­time soon .
I believe we are faced with two choic­es going for­ward (1) being free cit­i­zens of this plan­et who help in our own secu­ri­ty by doing what we can per­son­al­ly to ensure that crim­i­nal behav­ior is not allowed to devel­op in our homes , our com­mu­ni­ties and in our countries.
Or (2) peo­ple suc­cumb to strict reg­i­ment­ed gov­ern­men­tal con­trol of our lives , ced­ing all free­doms to states in which we live .
I would argue that ced­ing free­doms to Government is prob­a­bly where we are head­ed as a specie. We have all giv­en up mas­sive chunks of our indi­vid­ual lib­er­ties since the events of September 11th 2001 .
Ironically since then ‚despite con­tin­ued ero­sion of our rights and priv­i­leges we have not attained the secu­ri­ty we seek , If fact we have become expo­nen­tial­ly less safe.

Regardless of where we live we are affect­ed by events which tran­spired on that morn­ing in 2001 . Air trav­el has lit­er­al­ly become and exer­cise in debase­ment. We are sub­ject­ed to being herd­ed togeth­er in lines, forced to deal with police dogs sniff­ing our per­sons and our per­son­al belong­ings. People we don’t know are allowed to grope and fon­dle us to their sat­is­fac­tion just so that we can get on a flight crammed togeth­er like sar­dines with oth­ers who have like­wise sur­ren­dered their dig­ni­ties. As I inti­mat­ed yes­ter­day this is the new nor­mal for the fore­see­able future , these con­di­tions are not about to sub­side or go away. The way things used to be ‚sim­ply used to be .……They are no more.

During the 1980’s to ear­ly 1990’s I was a law enforce­ment offi­cer in Jamaica dur­ing my tenure which began in 1982 and end­ed in 1991 the coun­try was awash in ille­gal guns . Most of the weapon­ry we faced then were M16 assault rifles, the AR 15’s and a slew of semi-auto­mat­ic hand­guns. Intelligence sug­gest­ed then that many of those weapons were dumped on the island by American drug run­ners who flew light air­craft from Florida to the Island on Ganja runs. It was rumored that much of the cocaine which del­uged our streets at the time also came into the island that way.

Despite work­ing with lit­er­al­ly no, sup­port, equip­ment, or oth­er resources the hard work and resilience of Jamaican police offi­cers man­aged to put a siz­able dent into the drug trade. Unfortunately many also suc­cumbed to the lure of easy dirty mon­ey. The sheer mass of weapon­ry which was in the hands of crim­i­nals at that time was sig­nif­i­cant­ly less that it is today over two decades later.
With the excep­tion of the tremen­dous loss of life lead­ing up to the gen­er­al elec­tions of 1980 , mur­ders and oth­er crimes com­mit­ted with the use of firearms were high but for the most part the hard work­ing mem­bers of the JCF kept a lid on things. I believe many Jamaicans would be pre­pared to go back to 300 plus homi­cides annu­al­ly as com­pared to the over 1200 the Island aver­ages annu­al­ly today.
Crime does not increase by 300% between the ear­ly 90′ and present day with­out atten­dant fac­tors dri­ving it’s growth.
Whether or not the nation wants to con­cede that the rel­a­tive­ly safe­ty it enjoyed was a result of the no non­sense approach police took in going after crim­i­nals does not change the fact that we were reg­is­ter­ing around 300 homi­cides annu­al­ly as a result of that strategy.

The many offi­cers in the NYPD with whom I spoke con­fessed that by the time the show­er posse , span­glers and oth­er Jamaican crim­i­nal enter­pris­es came to their atten­tion they were already well estab­lished from the east coast of the United States to California and as far away as Alaska. They were also large­ly oper­at­ing in coun­tries like Great Britain and Canada .
Law enforce­ment offi­cials in the United States said it was­n’t the drug deal­ing which star­tled them as much as the lev­el of vio­lence Jamaican gang­sters employed in an attempt to dri­ve fear into their adversaries.
They also found out in no uncer­tain terms that the lev­el of respect they received from American crim­i­nals who gen­er­al­ly avoid­ed killing cops did not extend to Jamaican criminals.
Jamaicans have no com­punc­tion about killing police offi­cers and they did. The dif­fer­ence is that when they did they brought down the wrath and pow­er of the entire American gov­ern­ment on their heads.
It would not be busi­ness as usu­al in the United States when they killed police offi­cers as it is in Jamaica where they are cod­dled, loved and adored.
They would not be released on bail because some lit­tle anti-police judge decides to turn them loose.

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Today when I speak to police offi­cers in Jamaica they tell me they are not get­ting involved as there is no rea­son to .
Criminals open­ly brag that INDECOM pro­tects them from the police . Visitors to the Island speak of men walk­ing around with guns as if they have not a care in the world .
This is what Jamaica has come to, but if you are walk­ing around in the gan­ja fog, just had some jerk chick­en or pork , or enjoyed a drink of our world renowned white rum none of this mat­ter to you.
Because con­trary to the mas­sive and uncon­strained blood-let­ting, “Jumeka nice nu rass.”