Criminal rights, human rights and the social gap

I drove a Morris minor 1,000 car in the mid-1980s. It collapses in every district in Kingston. It was finally about 25 years old.

Many people do not remember or simply do not know that we were not allowed to import motor vehicles in Jamaica for decades, unless we met some special criteria like a returnee. Car dealers had odds and they were very small. Everyone, except for the very rich, drove old cars.

The end of my old car trip was that I became a good old car mechanic. I actually believed that I was able to transfer my knowledge to every car – old or new. That was until I bought a BMW and opened the bonnet. Then I met that I didn't know anything about repairing new cars.

I often think several times in my career when I was so anxious that I could taste it in my saliva. It has a metallic taste. When I reveal these moments in my quiet time and with discomfort, I remember the experiences like ammunition while the gangsters still shot. I remember that I was left in a chaotic withdrawal from an enemy mob. I remember a lot that keeps me awake. A call that is not answered means that the recipient is kidnapped or dead. I remember every bumped weapon, every colleague who was injured next to me.

In none of my many memories there was a human rights activist next to me. However, they seem to be all experts on the subject of police control dynamics. Let's take a look at this problem with the body camera. Jamaican special squads are not like American Swat teams. More than half of the special squad operations are generated from the intelligence that you collect in service yourself. This intelligence often comes from good people who live in contrast to the executives of the Jamaican for Justice (JFJ) -in bangs controlled communities.

Jamaica has a culture that promotes the murder of informants. Productive recording artists sing songs that are advocated for the death of such people. So let me speak directly to the JFJ.

Would you give information if you live in a house like a bird cage as uncertainly like a bird cage, even if he tells you that it is over? Would you risk seeing someone who pumps balls in your child? Because the criminal people, who call them “police information”.

Would you be asked in the middle of an attack: “Who di Killa Deh?” Signal with your eyes that he is next door?

If you make your irresponsible jokes in public media, I know that you are not malignant, but because you have no idea what you are talking about. This is the real problem. You speak of police cameras if you run entries with high risk.

Do you even know that the camera has a blue light? So the police should carry a light on his chest to help the gangster shoot it carefully to please you and the other members of your club?

Your organization is powerful. You have the ability to demoralize the officers who are worked into the bones in order to achieve a historical reduction in serious crimes.

Would you like to do that? Do you know that you have already done that? Yes, you have.

From 2001 to 2009 they carried out a campaign on public education through cases that were stacked by misinformation that demoralized and enabled the forces of this country and enabled the gangs. The number of murder moved from 1,139 to 1,683.

How often does the story have to be repeated? Did you congratulate the police to reduce murders? Do you feel good with the previous services? Do you want us to reach the murders of Sub-1000 in murders?

We always fail because we are not a united people. The poor in the inner cities and squatter settlements are not the same reality as the people who live in communities of the middle or upper class. No Don sends people who are looking for people who live in the city center for the 13-year-old daughters who live in the city center.

The Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) and Indecom are a lot of creations from the human rights community. I don't like much about Indik, but they are good investigators.

Have you even recommended fees for a case that convince you in the 50 fatal shootings that you speak of? Would you like to hear that there were 50 dead police? Do you feel comfortable with the gangs that preserve control over the communities? Do you recognize that your words help the gangs to maintain their grip and discourage the police officers?

What do you have with the 100 people who have been killed by armed men since the beginning of the year? Are you concerned about how your human rights are violated while being slaughtered?

Unit is what is now required. We have to become a Jamaica in which the rights of a victim of a crime for the human rights activists are as important as the rights of the criminal.

Politicians have to take a back seat for a year. If necessary, miss the choice for this year and simply concentrate on saving life. If we can reach the sub-1,000 for 2025, we can continue to drive it further next year.

The defeat of the gangs is imminent. Help or allow, but don't be the one who stands in the way.

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