Jamaica: Playing with the Law  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“With what passes for law and justice in this country is it any wonder that this is such a violent society?”: Active Voice explains that “a lot of the crime plaguing us is the result of people taking the law into their own hands because the extant justice system just isn’t delivering…complementing this is a dishonest, unreliable police force that doesn’t hesitate to resort to criminality in the name of policing.”