@ JG: ‘Age has nothing to do with intelligence. If that was the case my 50 year old helper should be way ahead in the game than myself.’ It actually does, but it depends on the person who’s making use of it, you wouldn’t expect to have this discussion with my 9 yr old brother would you? Age DOES have something to do with intelligence; your helper is in the position she’s in now because she refused to make use of all those years she could have spent studying, or trying to stop being an employee and become an employer, but that’s another story; i wont get into the 4 quadrants here.

I still believe one person CAN make a change, didn’t Martin Luther King make a change?, Didn’t Nanny of the Maroons make a change, Didn’t Sam Sharpe make a change?

I knew from the beginning that Renato wouldn’t even be considered, but i thought this post could have fueled a healthy debate…and it did just that.

My view was in the 2nd paragraph and I justified why someone who cheats the system is as guilty or even guiltier than one who slaughters. I am sure if you had invested in your life savings in a bank and overnight the bank locks down with everything you had, you would feel it would have been better to have been shot right? Well when people cheat the system they hurt thousands of persons indirectly. My view is that they are worst off! Personal view.

Dictionary.com? Are you serious? Listen, having a leader is one thing, but having a damn good team is another. Do you know anything about group dynamics? Read up on how groups operate. Seems simple but I have taught people at the tertiary level who cannot even write a paper on Group Dynamics! On what basis are you making an empirical statement that one person can chage the situation? Please cite some evidence. If this was the case then we could make just about any Don the Commissioner too right? Tell us how does a leader “convince” people to be on their side. You speak as if there is some magic switch that you just flip on and off. Human beings don’t operate like that. Also, I have stated that i do not have a PhD in Criminology but I sure know a LOT more than you to substantiate my claims. Why can’t you punish a man/woman who steals light the same way you do the one who KILLS someone. As a matter of fact the person who steals light or cheats taxes deserves worst punishment than a killer. Do you know how many people they “kill” when they do that? The deny the vulnerable of many services when they steal from the state.

Age has nothing to do with intelligence. If that was the case my 50 year old helper should be way ahead in the game than myself. Therefore, I don’t know if you were trying to ridicule me because of my age and that you can “take me on” as you claim! It’s a good thing you think you are right without citing some form of empiricism because nobody else thinks so.

You did not see anywhere in anything that I wrote that Mr. Adams should not be the C.o.P. I simply said that the barbaric ways in solving the problem will not work. I won’t be going into any lengthy explanations here as I have things to do. However, Jamaicans need to stop griping and get up off their ass and DO something about crime. 10,000 men cannot do it alon. It requires a wholistic approach and person cannot make changes on their own. If that were the case then Bora would have guaranteed us a place in the next World Cup Football….instead he is gone!

“…I can see these people are very backward because if they knew anything they would know that the day the try it they will have every single Human Rights organisation, from very powerful and wealthy countries, swoop down on Jamaica and start creating trade barriers and embargos on this little rock. People need to understand that some things are just bigger than their verandah!” – So true

“Let me just say that half of the things that are happening in Jamaica are a result of exogenous shocks (including crime).” – How are problem from the outside?

I still think one man can change a community and of course a country, so what your basically saying is that, we don’t need a Prime Minister

Dictionary.com defines a leader as someone who is “a guiding or directing head, as of an army, movement, or political group.” With a leader comes change, convince the people that your on there side and your good to go, more and more followers will naturally come into the fold, what the JCF needs to do is gain the public’s trust, destroy the image of them being corrupt etc, let me ask though…if not Adams, who would you reccommend Mrs. Criminology pHD lady?

Now pretaining to your last post about crimes, You can’t punish a man/woman who steals light the same way you’d punish a man who cut my head off . You deal with each crime differently, give the man who steals a warning and send him off.

Also you might be the big lady with the phd, and me the 17 yr old High School student with no qualifications, but again what i say has substance, i still have alot to learn, but i think i’m doing a good job so far, your supposed to be 23 years smarter than me, and i think i’m doing a pretty darn good job by taking on someone twice my age, if i’m this way now Imagine me in the next 5-10 years. I’ll grow and mature over time, and all that i say here will stay here, i can review it over time and grow from this, i still have alot to learn, but one’s thing for sure i am MAKING strides

Let me just say that half of the things that are happening in Jamaica are a result of exogenous shocks (including crime). Not one of these politicians, regardless of their qualifications have any control over what happens in Jamaica. That is factual! We are but a mere dot on the atlas and in some cases, not even recognised on a map. We are not in a position to do anything. We are only in a position to “tek telling”. That is a fact. Jamaica is non-competitive in every single market around this globe.

You say that a Commissioner must get up and do things….amm…what kind of things must he do? Tell me please. Another thing, you are not in a position to say that the same books being read today are the ones which were being read 20 or 30 years ago. The only way you can qualify such a statement is if YOU have read all book or most books printed at that time period as well as the ones that are printed today. Therefore, if you are trying to get at the fact that intellectuals only read books and use manuals to guide policy and life in general, then you are entirely wrong.

A lot of people are calling for hanging to resume….ha ha ha ha,…it will never happen and the Govenrment CANNOT do it…unless you would like to be ostracised like North Korea. I hear a lot of people offering barbaric methods of treating criminality…I can see these people are very backward because if they knew anything they would know that the day the try it they will have every single Human Rights organisation, from very powerful and wealthy countries, swoop down on Jamaica and start creating trade barriers and embargos on this little rock. People need to understand that some things are just bigger than their verandah!

Enough said! Some of the statements you have made are quite sad.

P.S. Yes….a fact is more credible when someone with a PhD vetos it as opposed to some high school kid who has never done any study much less STUDIES to substantiate his so called empirical evidence. Take it from me….I am in research….and that is why I can also tell you that poverty doesn’t lead to crime…a lot of people think once you are poor you will be a criminal…..another Jamaican mumbo jumbo way of thinking…