Police Shootings Down/​Gangsters Control The Streets.…

According to recent crow­ing from Errol Chattoo, the direc­tor of com­plaints for INDECOM’s Western Regional office, police fatal shoot­ings are down this year com­pared to the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od last year.
Responding to local media Chattoo remarked:
“We have seen a sig­nif­i­cant decrease in police fatal shoot­ings across west­ern Jamaica between 2017 and 2018,” said Chattoo, in pro­vid­ing the fig­ures out­lin­ing the com­par­i­son. “When one looks at St James, where 28 civil­ians were fatal­ly shot in 2017, we had 17 less in 2018, as the num­ber dropped to 11.“
Inspired by the num­bers, Chattoo said that INDECOM wants the police to be cog­nizant of how they use force, as the orga­ni­za­tion is com­mit­ted to con­tin­u­ing their push to encour­age pro­fes­sion­al behavior.

Even though the INDECOM mouth­piece did not direct­ly take cred­it for the low­er police shoot­ings, I believe we all know that their aim is to see low, to non-exis­tent police shoot­ings, crim­i­nals killing cit­i­zens does not mat­ter.
Set that aside for a minute and we can under­stand clear­ly that the few­er inci­dents in which police are forced into the use of lethal force may read­i­ly be attrib­ut­able to the fact that dur­ing the time stip­u­lat­ed the ZOSO was in effect.
Lower across the board crime num­bers sup­port the fore­gone.
Those facts missed both the local Gleaner and the police watch­dog group, or it was­n’t worth men­tion­ing in their report­ing.
See report­ing here:
http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​l​e​a​d​-​s​t​o​r​i​e​s​/​2​0​1​9​0​1​1​6​/​d​e​a​d​l​y​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​s​h​o​o​t​i​n​g​s​-​d​o​w​n​-​o​u​t​-​w​e​s​t​-​i​n​d​e​com.

More recent report­ing this month shows a con­tin­ued drop in police shoot­ing of civil­ians, accord­ing to the [Gleaner] Statistics from the Jamaica Constabulary Force show that 21 civil­ians were killed by police per­son­nel between January 1 and April 6, 2019. This is 12 few­er cas­es when com­pared to the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od last year. There has, how­ev­er, been an increase in the num­ber of peo­ple killed by licensed firearm hold­ers. A total of six per­sons were fatal­ly shot, five more when com­pared with the same peri­od in 2018. And two per­sons were killed by secu­ri­ty guards. Meanwhile, the fig­ures indi­cate that there was a fall in the num­ber of per­sons arrest­ed by the police dur­ing the peri­od. The sta­tis­tics show that a total of 3350 arrests were made com­pared with the 3807 record­ed in 2018. The major­i­ty of the arrests, 287 cas­es, were for breach­es in the Firearms Act.

In that report­ing, there is a direct cause for alarm if you are a law-abid­ing cit­i­zen.
(1) Police are engag­ing few­er armed crim­i­nals.
(2) Licensed Firearm hold­ers seem to be pressed into defend­ing them­selves and oth­ers as there seems to be a drop off in police engage­ments.
(3) Police have arrest­ed few­er peo­ple for the peri­od this year against the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od the pre­vi­ous year.
(4) Frighteningly, the major­i­ty of the arrests, 287 cas­es, were for breach­es of the Firearms Act.
(5) At the same time, there has been no let­up in the num­ber of vio­lent assaults and mur­ders as well as sus­tained mil­i­tary-styled oper­a­tions car­ried out by heav­i­ly armed thugs across the Island.
Just yes­ter­day five peo­ple were shot, two fatal­ly, on Tower Avenue in Olympic Gardens, St Andrew. Twelve hun­dred and eighty-sev­en (1,287) mur­ders were record­ed last year, this meansJamaica has a homi­cide rate of approx­i­mate­ly 47 per 100,000.
The shock­ing real­i­ty of this is that Jamaicas mur­der rate is almost three times high­er than the aver­age for Latin America and the Caribbean, which has the high­est homi­cide rate glob­al­ly of 16 per 100,000 of the population.

So in the excite­ment of win­ning elec­tions to solid­i­fy pow­er or to set an agen­da to retake pow­er when the green and orange col­ors are back in the clos­ets the dark sta­tis­tics remain the same and are get­ting worse.
At the same time, pro­tract­ed gun­bat­tles rage in Kingston 11 between what is report­ed to be gang­sters from 35 Lane in what the street said is revenge for the shoot­ing of Oney British.
In online audio of some of the shoot­ing which went on for sev­er­al min­utes, the hor­ri­fy­ing bar­rage of high-pow­ered weapons-fire was almost sur­re­al, as res­i­dents cow­ered in fear and angst.
These are the scenes all across the Island yet the focus is on low­er police shoot­ing data.

Jamaica’s lead­ers con­tin­ue to delude them­selves and lie to oth­ers over­seas that the Island is safe when the reverse is true. Crime is out of con­trol but they will tell you that crime is trend­ing down.
Not true!
Violent crimes are run­ning ram­pant, heav­i­ly armed thugs attack and kill whomev­er they will, when­ev­er they want.
They have an end­less sup­ply of weapons and ammu­ni­tion while in some cas­es entire police sta­tions do not have enough ammu­ni­tion to arm offi­cers going out on duty.


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Police sta­tions have no vehi­cle and in cas­es where a vehi­cle exist, the fire­pow­er of the gang­sters are expo­nen­tial­ly supe­ri­or to any­thing the police could muster. Added to that offi­cers are under immense stress and strain if they engage the maraud­ing gang­sters even after they have killed inno­cent cit­i­zens.
Such is the real­i­ty in Jamaica, and police offi­cers are not allowed to speak out to the media and cer­tain­ly, they are not allowed to speak out on social media.
It is shock­ing, what’s occur­ring on the island, as the focus which ought to be on enforc­ing the laws are con­cen­trat­ed on pro­tect­ing the rights and inter­est of mur­der­ous thugs.
The faux-com­mis­sion­er of police, who nev­er did a minute polic­ing in his life, dreams of the day when all police offi­cers will be human rights agents.
Not hav­ing the ben­e­fit of ever being a police offi­cer. Not hav­ing had the ben­e­fit of actu­al­ly don­ning a police offi­cer’s uni­form, (not an unearned cos­tume). Not ever hav­ing the con­vic­tion which draws a real police offi­cer into ser­vice, Antony Anderson lacks the wis­dom and the knowl­edge, that before offi­cers took the oath to serve, they were already human rights activist.
That is what draws real offi­cers to serve, the call to stand up for those who can­not defend them­selves.
The desire to stand up to the bul­ly. The desire to stand between those who are pow­er­less and those who are pow­er­ful and arrogant.

When the chief law-enforce­ment offi­cer is igno­rant of these ideals, it is no won­der that crim­i­nals con­tin­ue their mur­der­ous ram­page.
When our police offi­cers are reduced to win­dow- dress­ing, de-autho­rized and demo­ti­vat­ed from act­ing in defense of the nation’s laws, the sit­u­a­tion is only going to get worse.
While the Nation’s lead­ers and elites focus on build­ing a police force of pat­sies with past­ed on smiles in the place of a real police force, crim­i­nals con­sol­i­dat­ed their pow­er bases and build out their sup­port struc­ture and geo­graph­i­cal spheres of influ­ence using ter­ror, fear, and coher­sion.
They open­ly dis­play high-pow­ered weapons on social media with­out fear of pros­e­cu­tion because with INDECOM and the Governemnt on the back of the police who will stand in their way?
Welcom to Jamaica the land of Kartel and Buju, both con­vict­ed felons, both wild­ly pop­u­lar role models.