Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey im a watch de murdarashan a de police dem an a sey it always appen sey bad tings appen to nice people.

Surely, only those with the hardest of hearts against the police would not be feeling even a twinge of sympathy for the men and women in red and blue, after the murder of so many officers recently.

Yeah, yeah, Jackass knows that there has been many a case (OK, countless cases) in which the police and citizens have been at odds over a shoot-out versus an execution, with the standard story of "man opened fire, fire was returned, area was searched, dead man, live rounds and one gun" found.

But Jackass just gets the feeling that the policemen who are being murdered willy-nilly are not the ones of the cloth that MacMillan sent to Never Never Land to count traffic tickets.

Questionable matters

Of course, Jackass is not advocating that policemen be shot any at all, but the world is not level at all, because nice policeman get bullet and police who are involved in all kinds of questionable matters don't even have a shaving cut on them.

Look at all the policemen who have been killed and, in almost all the cases that Jackass has seen, the comments from their colleagues and even the public is that this was such a decent person and it was a horrible thing to happen to him. Take Sergeant Alan Lindsay, who was murdered in Glendevon, Montego Bay, on Sunday. The comment of one policeman, quoted in The Gleaner, says it all:

"I really can't come to grips with what has happened," said Inspector Melvin Dennis. "Sergeant Lindsay was a decent human being. He is one who can be described as a quiet and well-respected person."

Tough: sense of safety

And that is the problem. Too quiet. Too well respected. Jackass is willing to bet a couple inches off you know where that if Sergeant Lindsay was one of the policemen who, as Renato Adams once said on national television, was not only ready but also eager to deal with some matters through measures "I will personally take", not a fly much less a gunshot would buzz around him.

So what appears to be the case now is that for police officers to feel a sense of safety, they should get tough. Be involved in a couple questionable shootings, get pulled from front-line duties a couple times, maybe make a one appearance in court in dark glasses and a nice suit, then walk the streets with all little sort of dutty bway bway hiding when they see "shotta police" approaching.

I am sure that the general population would feel the crunch, but I am also sure that the families and friends of the policemen would rather them alive with reputations for badness than dead as 'good people'.

I know I would and Jackass has no police friends or even foes, but Jah know him feel it for the nice police who are getting shot up regularly.

Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey if police tek it to heart an get wicked me sorry fi oonu two-foot people.