The new era of INDECOM Jason McKay Jamaica Observer Sunday, August 16, 2020

I left Jamaica a long time ago but I do stay in contact with Jamaicans. From what I hear, the gangs do not normally 'kill, rob and rape' indiscriminately in the area they control. Quite the opposite in fact. This makes sense because to gain community loyalty, the gangs fill the vacuum of government in their areas. I know businesses in these areas are 'taxed' (extortion) for the protection that the police cannot provide. Businessmen/women willingly pay these 'taxes' because they need their operations to be protected. I know this for a fact. In addition, the gangs help children to go to school and the sick and elderly are taken care of. The gangs do practice street justice so killing of troublemakers in their areas does occur and such killings are applauded by those who live in those areas. Gang controlled areas only usually become unsafe for their residents when gangs, for whatever reason, splinter and erupt in turf wars or other inner conflict. Sometimes actions by the security forces in taking out strong gang leaders actually increase the level of violence in gang controlled areas. This is not to suggest that to have areas controlled by gangs are a good thing. Rather, it is to suggest that we need other strategies other than just using the security forces to disrupt gangs or killing gang members and leaders. Due to the conveyor belt of death from the gang areas, we are going to learn like Mexico is learning, that we cannot kill gang members faster than they can be produced.

With regard to the role of INDECOM, I do not see a conflict between being an independent investigator of police/citizen engagements, assisting in developing police operations policies and their enforcement and reducing or minimizing police/citizen combat. Investigation of police/citizen engagements leads to developing better police policies which in turn can reduce police/citizen conflict.

Raymond D. Grant

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