In another shocking and outrageous incident that highlights the lawlessness in Jamaica, a minibus driver whom the police reported had 120 outstanding traffic tickets crashed into the back of vehicles on Constant Spring Road in St. Andred on Tuesday morning, snarling traffic for hours.
The commissioner of police, Anthony Anderson, is incensed, but he should not bother sending up his blood pressure. Jamaica is satisfied with being the murder capital of the world and the lawlessness capital of the world, so he should not be dismayed that the laws are so weak and feckless that a man with 120 unpaid traffic tickets was driving passengers and not in jail.
Between the criminal-loving excuses for what passes for judges and the weak laws, it is a perfect brew that makes Jamaica the wild west of the world where anything goes.
Nothing in the law gives the police the power to arrest offenders like these and place them in jail. Nothing makes it mandatory that they go to prison due to being scofflaws or preventing them from acquiring and holding a driver’s license.
The reason for this is that the lazy, good-for-nothing punks, 63 in the lower house and the appointees in the upper chamber, are the same bunch of asswipes that allow this débâcle to persist.
Accidents do happen; there is, however, a marked difference between an accident and a crash. A traffic accident is an event that occurs when the driver does not contribute to the vent, like a slipper road resulting in a spinout, and the driver was not speeding, driving under the influence, on his phone, or doing anything that is in contravention of the Road Traffic laws.
On the other hand, a crash occurs when drivers engage in any or all of the aforementioned activities in contravention of Road Traffic laws and ends up creating an outcome like the one above.
This is what lawlessness looks like.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.