“Many can deal with things going wrong if they can count on justice to follow.â€
I donâ€t know that having your 13 year old boy molested by some perv would count as “things going wrongâ€, but I do see your point in the general sense.
“Why is that not the case in JA, when and how did that start, or has it always been that way?â€
Not sure when or why it “started†or if it was always the way – I know of a murder that happened close to 40 years ago that remains unsolved, as well as countless others following. I know they never caught or arrested or even identified the guys that home-invaded my friendâ€s house close to 6 years ago.
The police in Jamaica have always had the reputation of being corrupt and easily bought off. Theyâ€ve been known to murder for hire – or even for the hell of it (Mickey Hill, Sonnieko Williams). How do you change a mini-culture of corruption? Lord knows various times its been “tried†without success. Kingfisher? Joke. The JLP had crime stats down significantly – but police brutality and murder stats up significantly as well.
And here in the USA the justice you get is the justice you buy and varies based on the color of your skin and the size of your bank account.
“RG: "imprisonment" in a a/i? lol. It's not imprisonment it's lovely actually lol†Oh, sh*t…sorry! I was actually referring to another comment that mentioned imprisonment within oneâ€s resort walls due to safety concerns. Sorry I wasnâ€t clear about that – not bashing the AI experience, many do enjoy that.
“i sure feel that hatred more in negril than the rest of the country†– Iâ€m shaking my head Jitterbug and I do remember your “rasta†car bashing experience so Iâ€m not saying its not there – but I never feel it. Never and havenâ€t ever. Knock effin†wood.
“negril is a cesspool waiting to erupt at all times . . . let's face it, a good number of tourists come for the hard drugs . . . a person just has to go into the water by bar b barn and spend an hour paddling around and observing the lane that divides bar b bar and mom's . . . the tourist demand for the hard drugs is HUGE . . . where there are drugs there are problems . . .â€
OK, look – there has been drugs – “hard†drugs, particularly cocaine – in Negril since the beginning of time. And there was a time when the brutality was completely out of hand, directed at locals and expats – asasinations, rapes, beatings….over drugs and over fence lines and just for a few dollars for heavenâ€s sake. Lets go back 20-30 years ago – Negril was the wild, wild west. It had been the jumping point for ganga smuggling to the US in the ‘70â€s and itâ€s “outlaw†nature, that and the fact that it was not all that easy to get to – made it so. Still back then you could not get a cop to come out past the Lighthouse. For several years we actually had private security for our yard – when we arrived we were given a phone number and a code to punch in should the sh*t ever hit the fan – our instructions were to stay in the house and stay low because whatever private militia that was hired would come in guns blazing.
Comforting, huh? And why? Cause you couldnâ€t count on the cops doing that!
So – whatâ€s so different now? Not much except there are far more people in Negril. The density has gotten such of course crime is going to increase. Negril doubles or triples its population between November and May. Thatâ€s a lot of opportunity for a lot of predators that can now easily come in and out of town on the improved infrastructure. Thereâ€s lot of new people in town – a lot of people in my ‘hood that we donâ€t know and that full time residents in that neighborhood do not know. This is why, in my lovely West End neighborhood two of us walk our neighbor home after a visit at night. Nobody walks alone.
Let me ask: Has there been any published articles about this incident? If so, can I see a link?