Unaccountable Judiciary And Unresponsive Holness Government Responsible For High Levels Of Violent Crime In Jamaica

Nobody elect­ed Jamaica’s Judges; there­fore, their claim to inde­pen­dence is based on noth­ing more than a desire to be unac­count­able. There is a prob­lem; how­ev­er, as long as you are paid with pub­lic dol­lars, you must com­port your­self with the dic­tates of the terms of your employment.
I dare say that where that is con­cerned, Jamaica’s judges have been a colos­sal fail­ure and an inte­gral part of the nation’s crime pandemic.
For decades Police offi­cers and crime vic­tims have com­plained about the lax­i­ty and sense of non­cha­lance the Island’s judges approach deal­ing with vio­lent crim­i­nals before them, except for a few.
In many cas­es, they are bla­tant­ly hos­tile and dis­re­spect­ful to pros­e­cu­tors and police offi­cers while falling over them­selves to be def­er­en­tial to defense lawyers and their crim­i­nal clients.
Defense attor­neys like KD Knight, Churchill Neita, Bert Samuels, George Soutar, and oth­ers would behave as if they were the judges with­out con­se­quences or rebuke. Knight, Neita, and a few oth­ers were known to half stand with one boot­ed leg on the seat where they ought to be sit­ting while address­ing the judge.
I have nev­er seen a rebuke of their behav­ior, but God for­bid that a pros­e­cut­ing attor­ney makes a mis­take, or worse, a police offi­cer is late regard­less of the circumstance.……

The issue of Judges act­ing out­side the scope of their author­i­ty has been well doc­u­ment­ed. Today our once beau­ti­ful and peace­ful coun­try has been reduced to one of the top mur­der cap­i­tals of the world with the direct assis­tance of judges who believe they have the author­i­ty to cir­cum­vent the will of the peo­ple and their elect­ed officials.
The obsti­na­cy and igno­rance of many Jamaican peo­ple have allowed this prac­tice to con­tin­ue to the point that our coun­try is now tee­ter­ing on the brink of becom­ing a failed state.
Judges hand­ing down sus­pend­ed sen­tences with not a day in jail for crim­i­nals con­vict­ed of hav­ing unli­censed ille­gal guns and ammu­ni­tion in their posi­tion. Five and sev­en years sen­tences for mur­der, twelve years for a dou­ble mur­der­er with the option to receive parole in ten years.
These are failed social­ist prac­tices pro­grammed into these mis­guid­ed morons at the Norman Manley Law school and the oth­er left­ist insti­tu­tions scat­tered around the Caribbean.
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Lensley Wolfe was a judge at the gun court while I was serv­ing. Wolfe would lat­er go on to become chief jus­tice. (for what that’s worth. I was an act­ing cor­po­ral attached to CIB at Constant Spring.
As one of the offi­cers who was proac­tive in remov­ing crim­i­nals from the streets, my sched­ule was exhaustive.
Back then, CIB offi­cers’ life was expo­nen­tial­ly dif­fer­ent from that of uni­formed offi­cers. So my day start­ed at the office at 7.45 am. We worked through the day until 1:00 pm; we then got a break to go home, change, and be back at work by 6:00 pm the same day. We would work from 6:00 pm through the night until 8:00 am the next day.
If you worked at CIB back then, it was almost assured that you would have one or more court cas­es that would neces­si­tate your going home to show­er, grab a cup of cof­fee and be in court after that long work shift.
One morn­ing, hav­ing done the overnight sce­nario I out­lined, I dashed home, took a show­er, and got dressed; I had a case in the Gun court and a new one in the Half Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court (RM)…
Be remind­ed that I should be head­ing to bed ( we were not being paid extra for this work); we did it out of love for the job.
I got to Half Way Tree, hand­ed in the charg­ing Information to the clerk of courts, and informed her that I had a case in the high­er court that takes prece­dent over the RM court.
Again, all of these trav­els were in my pri­vate motor­car, for which I was not com­pen­sat­ed. I arrived at the Gun Court about ten min­utes after 10:00 am; the court start­ed at ten.
I believe I arrived at the gun Court no more than five min­utes after my case involv­ing my shot­ta was called.
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I was unaware that Lensley Wolfe had a grudge against me for what I am still in the dark to this day, and he cer­tain­ly will not be speak­ing to any­one any­time soon…
Wolfe attacked me imme­di­ate­ly after I walked into the court­room; he began berat­ing me for being late with­out the decen­cy or intel­li­gence of under­stand­ing that a front­line crime fight­er will have a legit­i­mate rea­son for being late that the court [must] respect.
He told me, “you mis­sa Beckles gwan like yu a bad man but yu don’t come to my court late” on and on he went on.
(Obviously bear­ing a grudge against me because I was unre­lent­ing in tak­ing gang­sters off the streets).
I could tell he felt pret­ty good about him­self because he rel­ished dis­re­spect­ing fool­ish police offi­cers who were afraid of his mouth.
When he fin­ished run­ning his mouth, I asked him, “are you done”? But I was­n’t done; I told him he had pow­ers only in that court­room, nowhere else, and that I had the pow­er to adjourn his court, ren­der­ing him pow­er­less. I also remind­ed him that my pow­ers extend­ed to every cor­ner of Jamaica and twelve [12] miles out to sea. I duti­ful­ly remind­ed him he had no pow­er to cur­tail my power.
That angered him, so he went on, “when I talk, you can go to your fed­er­a­tion” I laughed in his face and remind­ed him that I had zero inter­est in the police Federation to fight my bat­tles but that his stat­ed ani­mus against me which was on record would go a far way in my case to the Privy Council.
That shut him up fast; he nev­er uttered anoth­er syl­la­ble out­side the case I had before him. Police offi­cers from all over the coun­try called to con­grat­u­late me for doing what far too many were too pissed- scared to do.
The only time I saw Lensley Wolfe was at the Constant Spring Police Station, where he had shown up to renew his gun license. Yes, that is how gun licens­es were renewed in the ear­ly 90s. Walking down a cor­ri­dor, he saw me and imme­di­ate­ly turned around and dashed into an office.
I nev­er saw his ugly mug again until I left the force in 91.
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I see police offi­cers allow­ing them­selves to be dis­re­spect­ed by these char­la­tans who are more respect­ful of the gang­sters than hard­work­ing law enforce­ment officers.
As a young offi­cer then, I can attest that no judge dared be remote­ly dis­re­spect­ful to me, and I would not be dis­re­spect­ful to them. Most of these lit­tle bureau­crats have a bloat­ed sense of impor­tance and lit­tle recog­ni­tion that the pow­er they wield has been giv­en to them by the peo­ple they are hurt­ing with their actions…
I want­ed to lay this ques­tion to rest because the titles, ‘mi lord” ‘& ‘your hon­or,’ seem to have gone to the head of some of these clowns.
It is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the vot­ers to vote out politi­cians who refuse to act on their behalf. It is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the vot­ers to sweep from pow­er those who refuse to act to pro­tect the nation and replace them with oth­ers who com­mit to fix­ing the lax laws that allow this pro­tract­ed vio­lence in our country.
If they do not do what they com­mit­ted to, vote them out until real lead­ers are found.
The laws in our coun­try are a joke. They pose zero deter­rent effect to would-be crim­i­nals; in addi­tion, the Judges return the most vio­lent crim­i­nals to the street using the archa­ic argu­ments that bail is not sup­posed to be used as punishment.
It is time that the peo­ple remove any gov­ern­ment that refus­es to pro­tect them with strong laws that deter criminals.
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