Leftist Elites Have Won The War For Jamaica’s Future

Jamaica’s author­i­ties have grave­ly erred by suc­cumb­ing to the loud and mis­guid­ed rhetoric of far-left anti-police reac­tionar­ies. These indi­vid­u­als, cloak­ing their agen­das in the lan­guage of social jus­tice, have long mil­i­tat­ed for “soft” laws and lenien­cy that embold­en crim­i­nals while dis­man­tling the deter­rents that once kept vio­lence at bay. The trag­ic result is a nation where police offi­cers are gunned down with impuni­ty, their killers rev­el­ing in cel­e­bra­tion, and a jus­tice sys­tem that is increas­ing­ly com­plic­it in this descent into lawlessness.

The People’s National Party (PNP) bears sig­nif­i­cant his­tor­i­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty for this cri­sis. Under the guise of cham­pi­oning the poor, the PNP has con­sis­tent­ly aligned itself with crim­i­nal ele­ments, exploit­ing them as a polit­i­cal strat­e­gy. For decades, the par­ty has care­ful­ly cul­ti­vat­ed a nar­ra­tive of faux con­cern for mar­gin­al­ized com­mu­ni­ties while using these same com­mu­ni­ties as a breed­ing ground for vio­lence and intim­i­da­tion to secure votes. This cyn­i­cal exploita­tion has done noth­ing to alle­vi­ate pover­ty or empow­er the vul­ner­a­ble. Instead, it has cre­at­ed a cul­ture in which crim­i­nal­i­ty is tol­er­at­ed, if not open­ly cel­e­brat­ed, while gen­uine law enforce­ment is under­mined at every turn.

The cur­rent Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) admin­is­tra­tion has fared lit­tle bet­ter. While it osten­si­bly rejects the PNP’s pro-crim­i­nal lega­cy, it has failed to draw a deci­sive line of demar­ca­tion between itself and its oppo­si­tion on the issue of crime. The JLP’s inac­tion has per­pet­u­at­ed a cul­ture of weak gov­er­nance, where the state is unwill­ing or unable to stand up to both vio­lent offend­ers and the élite enablers who roman­ti­cize them. The line sep­a­rat­ing jus­tice from chaos has blurred, leav­ing a void where once the rule of law prevailed.

Two or three decades ago, such brazen­ness as the mur­der of police offi­cers would have been unthink­able. Perpetrators would have been swift­ly brought to jus­tice, serv­ing as a stark warn­ing to oth­ers. Today, how­ev­er, Jamaica has degen­er­at­ed into a soci­ety where crim­i­nal­i­ty is nor­mal­ized. Far-left elites — lawyers, aca­d­e­mics, and even polit­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives — have worked tire­less­ly to erode pub­lic con­fi­dence in law enforce­ment, all while empow­er­ing crim­i­nals. Their rhetoric has borne bit­ter fruit: a Jamaica where the killers of police offi­cers, the lat­est being Corporal Christopher Smith of the Kingston Western Division, drink and cel­e­brate with impuni­ty, mock­ing the very con­cept of justice.
The police high com­mand, a prod­uct of new-age polic­ing, has zero con­cepts of how to attack the killers who roam the streets, and nei­ther does its sup­port­ing cast of men and women who serve under it. Frankly, they make me sick.
Press brief­in­gs promis­ing thor­ough probes into the deaths of police offi­cers are not worth the paper they are writ­ten on. There was a time when we brought cop-killers to jus­tice or brought jus­tice to them; their choice.

This is not the Jamaica that once stood firm against vio­lence and law­less­ness. The cur­rent state of affairs reflects the tri­umph of a dan­ger­ous ide­ol­o­gy that pri­or­i­tizes the rights of crim­i­nals over the safe­ty of cit­i­zens and the jus­tice sys­tem’s integri­ty. Until Jamaica’s lead­ers reject the influ­ence of far-left reac­tionar­ies, dis­man­tle the net­works of crim­i­nal enablers, and restore account­abil­i­ty to both offend­ers and the elites who shield them, the island’s descent into anar­chy will con­tin­ue unabated.
It is time for Jamaica to reclaim its lega­cy of law and order — not mere­ly as a polit­i­cal talk­ing point but as a foun­da­tion­al prin­ci­ple. The lives of police offi­cers and the safe­ty of all Jamaicans depend on it.