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.
https://mikebeckles.com/care-prepare-help-security-others-foolishly-live-denial-vulnerability/
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.
https://mikebeckles.com/police-fatal-shootings-down-crime-up-up-up/
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.”