Know Nothing Politicians With Big Chat And Not Much Else…

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I wait­ed for it won­der­ing when it was going to come, I knew as night fol­lows day it was just a mat­ter of time before some brave-heart steps to the fore and demand the head of Commissioner Carl Williams on a platter.
And then it hap­pened, July fourth I awoke in a lit­tle hotel room in South Carolina, checked the Jamaican papers as I always do most morn­ings. This morn­ing I had more time on my hands , Aaah the fourth of July , no work for me I closed the lit­tle pat­ty shop and took the fam­i­ly on a Southern Road trip cul­mi­nat­ing in the Palmetto state.

The Observer Article was unmis­take­ably clear Take action or go, sen­a­tor tells police chief .
Government sen­a­tor Charles Sinclair , a for­mer Montego Bay may­or, in a state­ment yes­ter­day, said “It is becom­ing clear­er by the day that the com­mis­sion­er of police is out of his depth” as he has mis­in­ter­pret­ed the pro­pos­al for a state of emer­gency to help reduce crime in St James.“For him to have inter­pret­ed the pro­pos­al to cau­ter­ize the run­away mur­der rate with a state of emer­gency to mean it being the panacea to fix the prob­lem is disin­gen­u­ous to say the least.”

Okay there you have it, that response came after the Commissioner of Police Doctor Carl Williams was report­ed to have reject­ed the idea of a lim­it­ed state of emer­gency as a response to the spate of killings in Montego Bay and it’s envi­rons. Commissioner Williams is report­ed to have said that a state of emer­gency is not a panacea to the crime sit­u­a­tion there, as the prob­lem is social.
The Commissioner cor­rect­ly asked, after the state of Emergency , then what?
If I want to go shoot some­one or rob a busi­ness-place but I learned that the streets are flood­ed with cops , I believe I would stay put until they leave.
A state of emer­gency is a band-aid approach which does noth­ing to sus­tain­ably elim­i­nate crime, it tamps it down for the dura­tion of the exer­cise until the secu­ri­ty offi­cers leave.
The cost ben­e­fit analy­sis weighs heav­i­ly in not hav­ing one, pri­mar­i­ly because it is in-sus­tain­able and prob­a­bly does more harm than good.
They end up trau­ma­tiz­ing res­i­dents when their move­ments are cur­tailed and their pri­va­cy invad­ed. This inevitably has the oppo­site effect and fur­ther alien­ates the police from the com­mu­ni­ties they serve.

CRIME WILL GO DOWN THIS YEAR.….……really?

Let me first say that I have had my share of crit­i­cisms of Commissioner Williams, who by the way is the most qual­i­fied Commissioner of Police any­where in the west­ern Hemisphere . I have from time to time said he can accom­plish much more with what he has if he does a bet­ter job of mak­ing sure his top heavy high com­mand get out of the offices where they make grand pro­nounce­ments and noth­ing to back them up.

I have also stat­ed on sev­er­al occa­sions that he can do a bet­ter job of ensur­ing that his mid­dle man­agers get into the streets and super­vise the young offi­cers , which is a con­fi­dence boost­er to young offi­cers when their super­vi­sors are on scene.
However let it be know that when it comes to crime fight­ing, and police work I am going to toss my lot in with the Commissioner of police over a john­ny-come-late­ly who believes crime must be addressed now, on his demand. I do not know Carl Williams per­son­al­ly but lit­er­al­ly every­one I have spo­ken to, includ­ing peo­ple whose judge­ment I trust have tes­ti­fied to his integri­ty and ded­i­ca­tion to duty.
So before we pro­ceed I want to ask mis­ter Johhny-come-late­ly to match his resume’ on crime fight­ing against that of Carl Williams, Lawyer or not !!!

According to Sinclair A state of emer­gency, accord­ing to Sinclair, would reflect a pol­i­cy deci­sion of Government which facil­i­tates the State giv­ing addi­tion­al pow­ers, resources human and oth­er­wise to the Jamaica Constabulary in the parish to cau­terise the esca­lat­ing mur­ders. “At this moment there is a tremen­dous fear fac­tor in the cit­i­zen­ry; chil­dren are unable to go to school as they are afraid to cross the imag­i­nary bound­aries in com­mu­ni­ties; peo­ple are afraid to go out to church, resource and com­mu­ni­ty cen­tres can­not car­ry on pro­grams as par­tic­i­pants are fear­ful in going out to the events. If it is not police action that restores calm and peace in the first instance and in the short­est pos­si­ble time, I don’t know what else can do so,” he said In sup­port of his posi­tion Sinclair allud­ed to reports out of El Salvador where the mur­der rate was cut by one half in 2015 due to height­ened police activ­i­ty. He went on to say, “I guess to the com­mis­sion­er of police, Jamaica’s cir­cum­stances are dif­fer­ent.”(Jamaicaobservericom)

I fault com­mis­sion­er Williams for not push­ing the pre­vi­ous Government for a leg­isla­tive agen­da which gives him a work­ing shot at accom­plish­ing what some Jamaicans want , safe communities.

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On the oth­er hand I sup­port his view that a lim­it­ed state of emer­gency will not have the effect suf­fer­ing Jamaicans expect it to have.
As I said ear­li­er the neg­a­tives are sure to out­weigh any pos­i­tive which could poten­tial­ly be gained from a state of emergency ..
The police have con­sis­tent­ly said that the upsurge of vio­lent crime in the west­ern parish­es may be attrib­uted to the infa­mous lot­to scam­ming which has become a tremen­dous source of income for a seg­ment of the crim­i­nal under­world on the Island.
Not only has it enabled those who were pre­vi­ous­ly engaged to be flush with cash it has attract­ed a huge sud-set of vio­lent crim­i­nals who also want in on the action.
This is where Commissioner Williams and the high com­mand as well as the fed­er­a­tion should have pushed for tough leg­is­la­tion to go after scam­mers tying them togeth­er as a crim­i­nal enterprise.
Go after them that way and they will be run­ning away from being asso­ci­at­ed with any­one involved .

Additionally there is word that mem­bers of the police depart­ment are involved in the scam, some­thing which would not sur­prise me.
The fact that the police depart­ment can bare­ly find itself out of a brown paper bag makes it lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble for the affect­ed areas to see a reduc­tion in crime any­time soon.
Since Charles Sinclair has been a for­mer Mayor and now a Government Senator I would like to see what his per­son­al leg­isla­tive accom­plish­ments are, you know beyond big chat. What has he pro­posed either as may­or or sen­a­tor which has been adopt­ed legislatively ?
It would be fool­ish for any­one to believe that as a crim­i­nal lawyer and a politi­cian he does not have infor­ma­tion which could aid the police in their crime fight­ing efforts.
What steps has he tak­en to do his civic duty by say­ing some­thing when he sees something?

Many Jamaican Lawyers Are Not Above Board, They Should Not Expect To Get Special Treatment When They Break The Laws…

Is he mad at the Commissioner of Police for his fac­tu­al and unequiv­o­cal state­ments that a state of Emergency will not solve the prob­lem or is he mad because the Commissioner called out busi­ness peo­ple who are active­ly engaged in the lot­to scam.….….?
Pigs have a ten­den­cy to squeal when they get hit !!!
They can­not have it both ways , giv­ing the com­mis­sion­er of police bas­ket to car­ry water and then crit­i­ciz­ing him when the water spills out.
It makes politi­cians and polit­i­cal hacks look good when they get out front of the news and place them­selves in front of cam­eras but ask them what are the solu­tions and they have no clue.
Big words designed to impress their friends will not do a damn thing to end this scourge of crim­i­nal­i­ty and may­hem sweep­ing the Island.
Charles Sinclair has nev­er been a friend of the police so no one is sur­prised at his posi­tion. Grandstanding is what many of these mem­bers of the par­ty love to engage in.

A spade is a spade polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion be damned , Jamaica over party.

Any per­son who believes plac­ing some police and sol­diers in a com­mu­ni­ty will stop crime is a light­weight and a damn fool.
Crime has to be tack­led from Gordon House not 103-Old-Hope Road and cer­tain­ly not from a blow-hard politi­cian who does­n’t know his head from his ass.
Crime must be tack­led in a three-tiered-way, they know how to do it I believe but I doubt they want to do it , too many pow­er­ful and impor­tant peo­ple are mak­ing big mon­ey from crime on the Island.

The United States Government cre­at­ed the Rico Statute to com­bat the scourge of the Sicilian Mafia or what was known as La Cosa Nostra.
Prior to the Rico Statute which inves­ti­gat­ed , pros­e­cut­ed and incar­cer­at­ed mem­bers of New York’s Bonano, Genovese, Gambino, the Luchese and the Newark-based DeCavalcantes fam­i­lies the most author­i­ties could get mem­bers on were tax eva­sion charges.

The Feds changed the game and as Mob expert Jerry Capeci, who writes the “Gang Land” col­umn for the New York Sun, looks at the state of the four oth­er clans in the city’s infa­mous Five Families, plus the Newark-based DeCavalcantes. All have book­mak­ing, loan-shark­ing, and extor­tion rack­ets. The Genovese fam­i­ly and, to a less­er degree, the Luchese fam­i­ly (like the Gambinos) also have viable labor-rack­e­teer­ing endeav­ors that let them invest and laun­der their ill-got­ten gains in “legit­i­mate” indus­tries. Every clan has declined of late, some more than others.

Holness Should Give Gammon A Talking-to , Maybe Show Him The Door.…

Lotto scam­ming is small pota­toes com­pared to what the Mafia were doing yet no one talks about the Sicilian mafia in the United States as a force as it exist­ed years ago . Back then the streets of New York City, Newark New Jersey, Las Vegas Nevada and Chicago ran with blood from the wan­ton killings by mafia hoodlums.
Cities like Chicago still face an uphill task with gang shoot­ings, most­ly by African-American hood­lums but despite hav­ing the same pop­u­la­tion as Jamaica Chicago only records about 450 homi­cides com­pared to Jamaica’s over 1200.

There Is Need For Popular Mobilisation Against Crime

Three strikes laws placed many who would flaunt the laws away for life, though not per­fect , those laws allowed cit­i­zens to take their neigh­bor­hoods back from mur­der­ous crim­i­nals who pushed the enve­lope to see just how much they would be allowed to get away with.
Jamaican crim­i­nals are heads and shoul­ders above the police and politi­cians . They know they are favored over the police and they are exploit­ing that for all it’s worth.
There is much we can crit­i­cize the police and Commissioner Williams for , this is not it. Some of these politi­cians who are now open­ing their pie-holes and cry­ing are the most anti-police dem­a­gogues around.
Don’t come cry­ing to Commissioner Williams about gun­men it was not Carl Williams who cre­at­ed INDECOM and placed a polit­i­cal ego-mani­a­cal nar­cis­sist in charge to per­se­cute police..
Look into the mir­ror before you all begin to point fin­gers you hypocrites.