Police Federation Claps-back At Terrence Williams Deceit…

PUBLISHER’S NOTE:

The self-appoint­ed elites in Jamaica have always been high­ly offend­ed by the pow­ers of the police. They nev­er rec­on­ciled the idea of peo­ple from the poor­er caste hav­ing the pow­er to restrict their move­ment and free­dom.
If you under­stand that after the nation was hand­ed over to black & mul­la­to rule, the new­ly empow­ered for­mer down­trod­den, instan­ta­neous­ly became the new over­lords, (a new­ly mint­ed Bourjois‘).
Once we rec­on­cile that, we begin to bet­ter under­stand the ani­mos­i­ty between uptown and the police.
The con­sis­tent crit­i­cisms that the JCF was designed by the colo­nial mas­ters to con­trol blacks.
The con­sis­tent harp­ing about how the JCF was designed to sup­press the peo­ple after the Paul Bogle led Morant Bay Rebellion & there­fore anti­thet­i­cal and inher­ent­ly anti-Jamaican. 

That screed has always been based on the fact that the JCF was put togeth­er by the British, & that the pow­ers of the police were con­sis­tent with how polic­ing pow­ers were sup­posed to be autho­rized.
Those pow­ers were anti­thet­i­cal to the rigid caste sys­tem that devel­oped imme­di­ate­ly after the for­mer house slaves became the new [Massas].
The new Massas did not want a group of peas­ants from the under­class hav­ing such pow­ers.
An imme­di­ate crack appeared between those who enforced the rule of law & the new rulers who want­ed a clear under­stand­ing that the young nation’s laws would under no cir­cum­stances apply to them or any­one in their caste.
It is for those pur­pos­es that the unscrupu­lous politi­cians in the coun­try and those oth­ers who believed the laws ought not to apply to them were nev­er com­fort­able with the pow­ers of the police.

The police were instru­men­tal in the for­ma­tion of (INDECOM), The sup­posed Independent Commission Of Investigations, that was formed under the lead­er­ship and with the work of the JLP’s Bruce Golding.
The agency was sup­posed to be an answer to ram­pant Police abuse and acts of crim­i­nal­i­ty, much of which was true there­fore arguably jus­ti­fy­ing the cre­ation of the agency.
However, INDECOM pre­sent­ed to ene­mies of the police a gold­en oppor­tu­ni­ty to sock it to the police, that they had always held in pure and unadul­ter­at­ed contempt.

The Act would be so oner­ous that it would lit­er­al­ly take away the fun­da­men­tal right mem­bers of the force had against self-incrim­i­na­tion.
The framers of the Act knew that the law was bad for the police, they knew that it would ulti­mate­ly be bad for crime in the coun­try as well.
However they did not care, the law offered them the oppor­tu­ni­ty to kick the police in the ass and at the same time give them­selves an exten­sion to con­tin­ue to live their lives as over­lords in the crime-rid­den soci­ety that Jamaica had become.
The poor­er parts of the pop­u­la­tion are always the most vul­ner­a­ble, and also the most gullible. With the unscrupu­lous & com­plic­it media pum­mel­ing them day and night about the evils of the police, the stage was set for the Jamaica that exist today .
A crime-rid­den pseu­do law­less & almost ungovern­able society.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
He is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog chatt​-​a​-box​.com. 
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