Jamaica’s murder rate: How bad does it have to get?
They killed two teen sisters yesterday, shot dead in their Kingston home, on the eve of their father’s birthday. The country seems increasingly impotent.
The police too. Gunmen ambushed and shot dead two members of a police patrol in Trench Town on Friday. They act with impunity.
1,500 will be murdered this year, at least, at the current rate. And that is among a national population of just 2.7 million.
The situation is feeling increasingly hopeless, despite assistance from overseas police forces, despite a new government, just as long as the poor remain poor and the guns keep coming.
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It has become increasingly apparent that the so called war on violence, crime and murder in Jamaica has been lost by civil society and law enforcement authorities.Terrorists,gunmen,goons, savages,sociopaths,criminals et al, unleash bloody butchery and savagery on the society daily with total impunity,as the death toll, or, murder rate increases beyond comprehension with a correlated level of excessive anxiety on the part of most Jamaicans.Indeed, the Rubicon has been passed,terrorists and gunmen reign supremely.And,yes,anyone,anytime,anwhere, anyplace can be viciously and savagely cut down or metamorphosed into a duppy while an impotent State and a decayed and exhausted Opposition discuss and politicize the merits of another vacuous crime plan which most likely will not become operational while people are being butchered including women and children.The empirical reality of the lost war on crime, murder and violence on the part of civil society and the law enforcement authorities, is aptly demonstrated and evidenced in the arithmetic of death for the month of May, which saw 181 of our brothers and sisters butchered and slaughtered in the tsunami of death which now engulfs Jamaica akin to a killing field.Hopefully, my perspective is totally wrong and the respective authorities will be able to put some manageable limits on this monster called crime, violence and murder.