Criminality and lawlessness jumps under the PNP Administration!

The scourge of crime, violence and general lawlessness seems to find favour with most PNP administration and this current one is no different.

Recent statistics appears to indicated that this current PNP administration has “successfully” lost all the gains made back in the summer of 2010 and seems hell bent on returning crime to the  once lofty position  it held back in 2007.

The police records says crime is trending down, but there is nothing to suggest that this is true. What I can say is that it’s down when compared to  2009  but not trending down and let me explain.

After May 2010 the police under the JLP leadership had criminal elements not only on the run, but many were cowering in fear and left the country as they feared they would have been caught and incarcerated or otherwise be disposed off.

Many ran from Kingston and settled in place like Montego Bay, Clarendon , St Thomasand parts of St Catherine as an energized police force pressed forward the initiative and was taking it to them and appeared to have been gaining the upper hand.

Extortionist all but disappeared from place like downtown Kingston and Spanishtown and life was really became difficult for many as their source of income was disrupted.

There was not much intervention from the Government and as we all know, Jamaican people love dem belly. Here comes along the poor people champion , promising to tun up the ting on the uncaring and wicked JLP, who dared to box food from the mouth of poor people.

The PNP did a better job of showing how cruel the JLP vs the JLP showing the people what was ahead in the future despite the tough times and predictably won because a hungry man is an angry man.

Having won the election in 2012 , criminal elements in Jamaica knowing that the PNP has always been soft on crime started taking baby steps to “test” the resolve of the cops under this new government. A little extortion started here and there and nothing was done. Robbery started to trend up, but these were low scale and again nothing was done.  Lawlessness started to creep in once again, even in the police force, which saw them killing more people than ever before and still nothing was done.

In fact starting in Mid 2012 having seeing that the administration was really not taking steps to keep up the pressure( or tun up d ting) the criminal masterminds started returning to Jamaica and re-organizing themselves in small groups.

These criminal “returnees” however were not welcomed by those who had remained to face the onslaught of the then rejuvenated cops and who constantly had to find themselves at local police stations having been named “persons of interest” and whom the cops would like to speak.

Another point to note is that many criminal dons who were aligned to the PNP and who were in prison were released during 2012 and returned to their communities to once again stamp their authority on those communities

This my friends is the genesis  of the problems we are now facing and to which the current Minister  sought to refer to when he said, the rise in murders is being attributed to gang warfare.

This is what he said…

PETER Bunting yesterday said a general increase in the number of inter- and intra-gang conflicts is among several reasons for the spike in murders which have made for an unusually bloody summer with an average four murders per day for the period June 30 to August 31.Another reason for the spike, he said, was that in recent times a number of alleged gang leaders have been released from custody for a variety of reasons

 

He continued …

In noting that a general increase in the number of inter and intra-gang conflicts is also thought to be a factor, he said the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) is monitoring approximately 50 of these situations currently.

He said contributing factors to these increased conflicts include “a predicted increase in the trafficking of drugs and guns due to a so-called ‘balloon effect’,” caused by the fact that as the war on drugs heats up in Central America, more cocaine traffic is starting to return to the historical Caribbean routes

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Bunting-blames-gang-feuds-for-murder-spike_15046889#ixzz2eaiAWeOl

 

The PNP’s approach to law and order is the single reason why we are witnessing what’s taking place on the crime front at this time and until they change their approach from the “eat a food” mentality, the problem will only get worse.

This is not the worst before it gets better, it’s the worse before the worse, if you know what I mean.

Divine intervention or decisive action ?