Dear Editor,

HAROLD MALCOLM’s letter, ‘Take Charge of the police force Mr Commissioner’, said it and summed it up nicely. I am a Jamaican who left the island when I was six years old, and even though I did not see any of the atrocities by the cops in Jamaicans, or maybe I was too young to remember, I listened to my parents, especially my dad speak of it.

My dad grew up in one of the volatile areas of Jamaica, and he said he witnessed a lot of this, even though none happened to him, personally. I can remember visiting Jamaica last year with my husband and two small kids and witnessed a cop pulling a taxi driver over. The cop’s words were, “dutty bwoy you blind”, followed by Jamaican swear words … more