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malaise

(268,976 posts)
4. Extra-judicial killings in Jamaica have been out of control for decades
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 07:09 AM
Dec 2014

Finally INDECOM has ignored the police union and exposed these killers.
I'd like to add that Pat Leahy's bill/law that cuts funding for foreign police forces that violate human rights has also had an impact.

Police are now facing prison terms for murdering citizens and there are lots of cases in the courts.

Just last week a blogger was arrested for photographing cops and mistreated in a lockup. Condemnation came from the government and the Police Commissioner himself. They made it clear that citizens have a right to photograph cops.
The cops involved will be charged - and once again the civil suit will cost the government a bag of money.

Let me be clear - too many people are still dying in lockups.

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