The Crime Situation Is Not Getting Better.

In these blogs I am par­tic­u­lar­ly crit­i­cal, in my com­ments direct­ed at peo­ple I per­ceive to be sup­port­ive of crim­i­nal behav­ior. Whether they do so express­ly or implic­it­ly. What I’ve found, hav­ing been away from law-enforce­ment for over 2 decades, is that our coun­try’s secu­ri­ty has not improved over that peri­od. Conversely the crime sit­u­a­tion has got­ten worse, stud­ies have con­firmed that in the last 10 years the amount of Jamaicans return­ing home to live has dropped by fifty per­cent, we have com­ment­ed here about this as we seek to height­en aware­ness to the prob­lems that have beset Jamaica.

Dorian Dixon: Ronald Thwaites :

There is a mind­set that is a part of the prob­lem, we Jamaicans sim­ply wor­ship politi­cians and oth­ers we believe “the big man”. In an ongo­ing dis­pute between the Jamaica Teachers Association and the Minister of Education Ronald Thawaites, over study leave ‚Dorian Dixon prin­ci­pal lec­tur­er and head of Mico’s Social Sciences Department com­pared the asso­ci­a­tion’s dis­pute with the Ministry of Education to a fight between “a mon­grel dog” and “a lion-heart­ed cat”.

There are calls com­ing from many quar­ters for mis­ter Dixon to be canned. I mean are you kid­ding me? He did­n’t even call Thwaites a mon­grel dog, the term mon­grel dog char­ac­ter­i­za­tion was inher­ent­ly designed to dri­ve home his point and to make a state­ment, but it was a metaphor peo­ple. Ronald Thawaites, as a radio talk show host for many years, was cer­tain­ly not hes­i­tant about call­ing peo­ple names and using metaphors, as he fooled many into believ­ing he was an inde­pen­dent voice and not just anoth­er PNP shill. I’m vin­di­cat­ed on that one!

Father Richard Holung:

The irony of the brouha­ha sur­round­ing mis­ter Dixon’s com­ment is even more laugh­able when we think of what is hap­pen­ing in our coun­try. When we think of the things which comes out of the mouths of lit­er­al­ly every­one from the Prime Minister on down. The moral rot in Jamaica is pal­pa­ble. Well know Roman Catholic Priest father Richard Holung spoke to the moral decay in the coun­try in an arti­cle recent­ly.Jamaica: Conversion From Christianity To Paganism.http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​3​0​5​2​0​/​c​l​e​i​s​u​r​e​/​c​l​e​i​s​u​r​e​2​.​h​tml

One of the rea­son the Constabulary Force have not been tak­en seri­ous­ly through­out the years is that the agency was divid­ed into minia­ture groups. Each with dif­fer­ent goals and objec­tives. The Police Officers Association, made up of mem­bers of the gazetted ranks are civ­il ser­vants, they are gov­erned by dif­fer­ent rules than rank and file mem­bers who are rep­re­sent­ed by the Federation, but which is still behold­en to the gazetted ranks whose strings are pulled by the politi­cians the chief pur­vey­ors of crime in Jamaica. The ISCF and District Constables Association also have their own rep­re­sen­ta­tive bod­ies and sub­se­quent­ly dif­fer­ent aspirations.

The prob­lem is to get these groups to adhere to a com­mon prin­ci­ple which would mean that all involved would be bet­ter off. Many mem­bers chose the safe way, which was to lay low, not stand for any­thing. They saw oppor­tu­ni­ties in being per­ceived as com­pa­ny guys, who does­n’t ruf­fle feath­ers. The police hier­ar­chy is filled with these men and women who are there because of boot-licking.

Even more laugh­able are some who are out of the depart­ment but are quite con­tent with things as they are today. They join groups which calls them­selves Ex-Police-Associations, but when the thin veneer is peeled back, they are noth­ing more than glo­ri­fied rum-drink­ing-rem­i­nisc­ing-fra­ter­ni­ties, which are pow­er­less to do any­thing to effect change.

I know I will be exco­ri­at­ed for say­ing this but I was nev­er par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried about what police thought about me. I don’t care about pol­i­tics or their lean­ings, many are unable, even after they have left, to untan­gle them­selves from the cor­ro­sive ten­ta­cles of JLPNP.

I believe there are hun­dreds, per­haps thou­sands of for­mer Jamaican Police offi­cers, who could poten­tial­ly form a pow­er­ful lob­by which would have a sig­nif­i­cant pos­i­tive impact on Jamaica going for­ward. Yet even when we meet on social sites like Face/​Book all we are capa­ble of doing is tear­ing down each oth­er, not much has changed.