JFJ Executive Director Mickel Jackson
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Mickel Jackson
By Halshane Burke
Lobby group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) wants more to be done to prevent criminal activity.
Executive Director Mickel Jackson has restated that the recurring State of Public Emergency is not an effective tool in the way it is being used, since "it is not having any sustainable inroads in the reduction in crime".
While crime control is important, Ms. Jackson argued, the country will remain like "hamsters on a wheel" if there are no strategies to actually prevent criminal activity.
"SOE will not sort that out. SOEs, based on what we have seen, [are] a recurring thing that you detain the same people and others, some of whom are innocent. It costs taxpayers money for these lawsuits, you do not secure the conviction, then you also end up having overworked law enforcement officers who are also demotivated," she complained.
Ms. Jackson said there needs to be real results from the imposition of the SOEs.
"We have to start looking at what we call outcome indicators, actual success, reduction in the gangs, looking at charges being laid, prosecutions being undertaken, convictions being secured. We are not hearing anything at all of that nature," she asserted.
She was speaking Thursday on the Morning Agenda on Power 106.
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