'can justice too 'sighted'
published: Wednesday | June 2, 2004

THE EDITOR, Sir:

LAW ENFORCEMENT is too random and justice is too arbitrary in this country. With all the good intentions in the world, until every citizen is satisfactorily convinced beyond all reasonable doubt, that once you break the law there is every reasonable likelihood that you will pay the penalty, then I am afraid we are engaged in an uphill struggle.

We will not curtail the nearly six hundred million dollars recklessness on the road until all of our major roadways are patrolled, not once in a while, but every single day, by efficient patrol officers who cannot be bribed. We also need prison systems which are infinitely less vulnerable to escape. Drug trafficking will not cease with the removal of the hoodlums and thugs we have come to know as dons. The now respectable entrepreneurs and businessmen who have profited from drug trafficking and now occupy choice positions in society must also come to the practical knowledge that criminality does not pay.

If the law cannot make this point to them, then our young people will not get the message either. Jamaican justice is too 'sighted'. It is about time someone removes the transparent blindfold she wears and pokes her eyes out. The sooner the better.

I am, etc.,

STANLEY REDWOOD

stanley_redwood@yahoo.com

Middle Quarters,

St. Elizabeth

Via Go-Jamaica