A WHOLE GENERATION HAVE COME OF AGE WHO HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW, THEY WERE TOLD TO DISRESPECT POLICE OFFICERS, PASTORS EVEN THEIR TEACHERS.
SOME IN THE MEDIA EVEN ENCOURAGED THEM TO STONE POLICE STATIONS.
Long before former Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams famously predicted that Jamaica would pay dearly for the way it was acting toward the police, a baby doctor had gotten her clutches into Jamaica’s law enforcement infrastructure.
She managed to convince the ruling class that the way we police Jamaica was evil, too harsh on dangerous criminals and should be discarded.
Esprit de corps, that (band of brotherhood) which binds law enforcement into a fraternal order of love and caring for each other, a family away from home where officers depend on each other when the going gets tough.
This is something they do not teach at a pediatric school, but it was sold to the country as a [veil of complicity to cover up wrongs]. It was derided even though that baby doctor was never a part of any military or para-military force and was totally ignorant of what it means to those who serve.
The truth of the matter is that Carolyn Gomez knew nothing about policing, esprit de corps, or what it takes to police Jamaica’s unique environment any more than the police knew how to treat colicky babies.
In fact, the most vociferous detractors of the police in civil society have never served in anything greater than themselves.
They have given nothing in service to the country, yet they are the most opinionated and critical of the police department.
There is no denying that the police share some blame in the way they are treated. By far too many of the men and women of the JCF have betrayed their oaths. Nevertheless, I do believe that what Bruce Golding did will forever be the watershed, and a seminal moment in the history of our country.
But it wasn’t just Golding, Portia Simpson Miller and the PNP were all in on it. They all had a vested interest in the promulgation and proliferation of the Garrisons which are the foundations on which their political viability are built.
The PNP’s rapacious desire to gain and keep political power was rivaled only by Bruce Goldings desire to bring the police to heel and INDECOM was born.
Make no mistake about it, every police agency should have oversight. Police simply cannot be left to police themselves.
On the other hand, the police are asked to do a job that is dissimilar to every other discipline.
Jamaica takes its cue from the western powers. Our system of government is copied from the British Westminister model.
Additionally, many of the nation’s laws do have some similarity to laws in the United States.
In addition to those similarities, Jamaica is a signatory to several western world Treaties, thus rendering the way we do business not too dissimilar as it relates to implementing our laws.
As I have said before in other Articles, the designation of what constitutes a failed state by the western powers like the United States is the inability of the government of such states to give a credible accounting of its citizenry.
According to the Global Policy Forum:
Failed states can no longer perform basic functions such as education, security, or governance, usually due to fractious violence or extreme poverty. Within this power vacuum, people fall victim to competing factions and crime, and sometimes the United Nations or neighboring states intervene to prevent a humanitarian disaster.
Jamaica is not yet a failed state, but intelligent minds can clearly see that we are already deep into some of the characteristics of that definition.
Many of our practices are deferential to the American’s ways of doing things for better or for worse.
Ironically what the Jamaican leadership has conveniently forgotten or willfully left out of it’s plagiarizing, is the concept known as [qualified immunity].
“Qualified immunity balances two important interests — the need to hold public officials accountable when they exercise power irresponsibly and the need to shield officials from harassment, distraction, and liability when they perform their duties reasonably.” Pearson v. Callahan.
In other words, Jamaican police officers are asked to risk their lives in a country with one of the highest kill rates in the world, a violent and abusive society, a largely illiterate population, poor remunerations, and horrific working conditions and no real backing from the legislature.
It is within that environment that police officers are asked to operate.
Every day could mean death on the job, or God forbid they challenge a man with a gun, off to jail they go.
Which brings to mind the question former Detective Chris Porter asks of young members still serving “why are you still serving in the JCF”?
The Jamaican Government has mortgaged the security of the country for the elusive and Utopian concept of [Human-Rights].
The present commissioner of Police, a police Commissioner who once headed the three thousand man defense force dreams of the day when all police officers are human rights activists.
Unfortunately for everyday Jamaicans who do not own high-powered weapons and large caches of ammunition, the force that the commissioner starry-eyed, dreams of having, will be of no use to the country.
There can be no guarantee of human rights where there is no peace. The most fundamental right each and every person has is their God-given right to life.
If the Jamaican state cannot guarantee the citizens of the country that they won’t be slaughtered just by leaving their homes, how can the government guarantee their other rights?
It is that backward theory which won national acclaim for Carolyn Gomez, a snake in the grass who wove her way into the body politic and distorted the national narrative in a way that a black Jamaican, never could.
This fraud was given a national honor, though she was later disgraced and is now gone from the spotlight.
What remains is the damage she was able to do to our country. Make no mistake about it, Jamaicans are living in Carolyn Gomez’s Jamaica.
Terrence Williams and Hamish Campbell are derivates of Carolyn Gomez’s work. This is the Jamaica they created in which the powers of the police are taken away, and the people like Sheep are convinced that they will be guaranteed inalienable rights.
They never bothered to tell them that they would be dead right.
The Island’s political leaders have ceded the power, authority, and remit of the state to foreign-funded so-called rights lobbies, with agendas antithetical to the wellbeing of Jamaica. Jamaicans for justice chief among them.
They knew full well that Gomez’s race would give her the leverage to do what she was able to do.
Unfortunately, for the people and even the brain-dead politicians, they are yet to figure out that Gomes was a plant, specifically placed there as part of a strategy to keep Jamaica subjugated and beholden to foreign interests
Demonize the police and create an environment in which there is no rule of law and conditions are ripe for chaos. There can be no real growth and prosperity in a crime-ridden country. Jamaica is a crime-ridden country which will continue to depend on International Lending institutions.
Checkmate.
Gomes would still be there doing damage had she not committed the cardinal sin of introducing wards of the state to homosexual material.
They forgot that Jamaicans do not like homosexuality!