Total Nonsence

Jamaica’s Daily Gleaner Editorial page of Sunday August 14 was cap­tioned thus. (What the Jamaican police can learn from the UK riots)

The Editor went to lengths to com­mend the British Police for their restraint in the way they han­dled the riots that in his own words Quote, left six per­sons dead many build­ings destroyed or dam­aged and hun­dreds of mil­lions of pounds of eco­nom­ic loss, end quote. Obviously this tremen­dous loss of life , the destruc­tion of prop­er­ty and the eco­nom­ic fall­out to the coun­try was small pota­toes to the esteemed edi­tor, after all what’s a few lives lost and a cou­ple hun­dred mil­lions pound ster­ling ‚in the greater scheme of things? as long as the police do not put a stop to the anar­chy all is well.

I“ll tell you this I am ashamed for him for hav­ing put this piece of crock out . However it is easy to do this in Jamaica . These peo­ple are looked at as one would look at God Almighty, they put out the putrid garbage and the mass­es of low infor­ma­tion or mar­gin­al­ly intel­li­gent peo­ple buy into the non­sense, can any­one see why Jamaica is a declin­ing soci­ety, these are the opin­ion mak­ers , these are the peo­ple who actu­al­ly shape pop­u­lar per­cep­tions and influ­ences nation­al debate.

He was not fin­ished he went on to point out these statistics.

Quote:Indeed, last year, the Jamaican police shot dead 309 per­sons, com­pared with 263 in 2009, and 224 the year before that ‚end quote. These are exact­ly the talk­ing points of the crim­i­nal rights Amnesty International and Jamaicans for Justice, notion­al hon­oree Charlatan Carolyn Gomes. Policing in Jamaica is dif­fer­ent from any place else in the world, 10 years and a bul­let in the ass lat­er I am express­ly qual­i­fied to shout down this load of garbage. I get par­tic­u­lar­ly pissed when these Elitist morons pre­tend to know what the hell they are talk­ing about from their high perch­es in air con­di­tioned offices at the top of North Street. If you want to draw com­par­isons get out of your office and ride with the hero­ic cops that patrol the Garrisons and by-ways of the city some refer to as (killsome)sic, I guar­an­tee after one expe­ri­ence you will piss your pants.

Do not sit there and act like you know some­thing when you don’t . not one British Cop lost his or her life in all of those riots, not one. Jamaica pos­es a unique chal­lenge to law enforce­ment, its crim­i­nals are blood thirsty , doped up lunatics that have absolute­ly no com­punc­tion about killing cops, you want to draw com­par­isons about polic­ing ? spend some time look­ing at some you tube videos of British cops in oper­a­tion in the Ghettos.

The irony is that this edi­to­r­i­al lauds the British police for restraint when the very match that lit the fuse was the alleged unlaw­ful killing of a black man by British Police. Of course under the cir­cum­stances they must try to put out the fire they them­selves lit . What bet­ter way to defuse the sit­u­a­tion than to lay low, which is exact­ly what they did while the cities burned , which he allud­ed to. Quote Prime Minister David Cameron and the police chiefs in England have sparred over police tac­tics dur­ing last week’s riots across Britain and own­er­ship of the strat­e­gy that caused the unrest to sub­sidee.

What is it that keeps our peo­ple men­tal­ly chained to the slave mas­ters, who beat and raped our women and chil­dren , slaugh­tered our men, and still do it through eco­nom­ic and oth­er means to this day? This Editorial , rather than uplift our Officers who toil day in day out under the most extreme con­di­tions with mar­gin­al com­pen­sa­tion and despi­ca­ble work­ing con­di­tions, fac­ing down heav­i­ly armed urban ter­ror­ists at the per­il of their lives , he finds it fit to com­mend the very cops that are accused of killing black peo­ple in England. The crock goes fur­ther, quote: there is con­sen­sus in Britain that polic­ing is by con­sent, enshrined in an unwrit­ten, but clear­ly under­stood, com­pact between the con­stab­u­lary and the com­mu­ni­ty. Even when that rela­tion­ship is strained, as was the case last week, the con­stab­u­lary remains part of, and not sep­a­rate from, the community.

This is laugh­able, first vis­it the com­mu­ni­ties of Brixton, or any oth­er com­mu­ni­ty of col­or and tell me the police is a part of those com­mu­ni­ties. the con­cept of polic­ing by con­sent is a con­cept sim­i­lar to the con­cept in busi­ness that the cus­tomer is always right, it is a great con­cept from which to oper­ate, much like the sub­ject head­ing in an essay. The British Police you are so in awe of recent­ly saw two of it’s top lead­ers step aside due to cor­rup­tion charges, accu­sa­tions of graft and bribe tak­ing, and oth­er crimes, Their glar­ing incom­pe­tence was on pub­lic dis­play to the world, when Rupert Murdoch and his son were assault­ed in a hear­ing room as they sat being grilled by British Parliamentarians about Murdoch’s news of the world phone hack­ing scan­dal. Grand total amount of peo­ple in the rooms 50. Yet a man was able to saunter in with a bag con­tain­ing what has been described as a plate full of shav­ing cream , which he used to attack Murdoch. Murdoch’s wife showed the nec­es­sary grit need­ed in the defense of her fam­i­ly. Again take a look at the you tube video . The incom­pe­tent British Police were left with egg on their faces as usual.

You big fish in your lit­tle pond, who advo­cat­ed for the British police to come to Jamaica and show how it is done, have still not explained to us, how Mark Shields helped our Police Force after he fin­ished his lucra­tive Expatriate tour. What we do know as fact, is that crime trend­ed north under his watch ‚and con­tin­ued that Way untill the police put their feet down in Tivoli Gardens.

Jamaican police are not per­fect, in far too many instances some of them makes one want to put a foot up their rear ends, how­ev­er they are some of the most ded­i­cat­ed pro­fes­sion­als any­where in the world, they put their lives on the line every day they step out onto the streets, or whether they are in the con­fines of their own homes, such is polic­ing in Jamaica. I don’t need to be told I lived it. What gets my blood boil­ing is garbage like this edi­to­r­i­al that is not worth the paper it’s writ­ten on. Unfortunately even this edi­tor ben­e­fit from the blood sweat and tears of police offi­cer’s sacrifice.

This one real­ly made me mad.

mike beck­les:

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