The Editor, Sir:

The recent killings of our country's lawmen speaks volumes of the seeminlgy uncontrollable criminal forces crippling our country. This cannot be tolerated and urgent drastic measures must be taken to weed out these criminals immediately. One such solution is to resume hanging.

While these blatant attacks on the security forces and any other citizen cannot be tolerated or condoned, we should not be quick to herald the innocence of these lawmen.

Controversial as this may be, the December 24, 2006 issue of The Sunday Gleaner supports and perhaps confirms my accusations. Given what we now know, we can no longer discount the possiblity that our lawmen may be involved in 'taking out' their own or may be the victims of drug and gun deals gone sour.

With that being said, wherever investigations reveal such cases, the police force has an obligation to provide Jamaica with the details. If policemen can murder and extort Jamaicans without even a slap on the wrist, what is to stop them from exacting vigilante justice on their own?

I am, etc.,

MARVIN GORDON

addikktion@yahoo.com

Kingston

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