Bake, drugs is a major problem here. The simple fact is that the police cannot police everything. They are overburdened, and losing hope fast. They now only resort to solving major crimes, and it's a growing trend that they will ignore "minor" crimes. I'm a cab driver (I've been a professional driver; trucks, driving instructor, cabs, for 23 years), and last week I had a $50 runner, and asked the base to call police. The first response of one of my workmates was, "f**k the police, they don't care". And sure enough, when the police arrived, they basically said, "consider your money lost". I had a name and address, but this was never followed up. Nothing was followed up. Their attitude was, basically, "don't bother us with this shit", "we have more important things to attend to". So cab drivers have totally lost faith in "the process of law", and many of them take "matters" into their own hands.
I'm afraid I don't see "law enforcement" winning out.
Stuff like that real infuriating to me... I was having lunch with a judge today and she was telling me this story that happened to her yearsss ago when she was in law school... nothing too serious, but it reflects your experience. She stopped at this state-owned rest station on the highway late one night and went inside. As she coming back out she see ah ole fella lean up on she car and her instincts tell her to leave the area. So she turne on her heels to go back inside... the man called out to her and apologized asking if that was her car and apologizing for startling her. He moved away and as she climbed into the car he opened his trench coat and started masturbating at her. She drove for a while then stopped and called the police to report it... they essentially brushed her off and asked her what she wanted them to do about it.
You would think that our "public servants" would pay a bit more attention to the "service" part of their jobs... hope springs eternal. Sorry to hear about your situation with the passenger though, nobody likes being cheated.
It seems like police all over the world have this "doh bother meh wid dis small stuff kinda mentality", but what they don't know is, small stuff almost all the time escalates into big stuff.
tuh tell yuh the truth, i real hate police, but not for the same reasons as most young black ppl do. i believe in law and order and rarely support lawlessness except for ah lil weed here and there, and ah lil numbers from time tuh time, but the real serious things that affect society , i tend tuh frown on.
the reason i hate cops is BC they feel for the most part, that they are untouchable, they could do whatever they want and get away with it, and to me this is unbecoming of ah law enforcement agent. IMO they should respect the law more than any other being, that's BC they are the first line of law enforcement, but that's clearly not the case.
the last time i went home for carnival, on my way back in the cow shed ah two young fellas sitting @ ah desk as soon as passengers exit immigration,one of them called out to me in the most despicable manner, " ehyy come boy" i ask him who he was, then he flashed ah badge, " weh yuh hah dey, yuh have anyting eligaal in yuh bag/ carry on" i answered obviously not, then they went through my bag and then gestured wid ah hand movement like they were chasing ah fly, tuh go ahead.
after thinking about it Bc of how violated i felt, ah little while later i approached them and i asked one of the unprofessional pr!cks very calmly " do you talk tuh the sabgas and the de-silvers the way you did to me" he then asked me if i wanted tuh miss my flight and spend the night in jail, i replied, " why, BC i thought your conduct was totally unprofessional and out of order?"
he then asked for my travel docs (ah guess to pull rank and continue to humiliate me) i told him i can't do that, "you are not an immigration officer, and my docs doesn't belong to the govt of TNT". i then bluffed the dumb arse and told him i worked for the state department and flashed my U.S. passport and federal ID, yuh shoulda seen how this dumb cock head boil down like bajjee,
he said he was only doing his job, i then told him that i would have ah word wid the minister of legal affairs about his conduct and demanded his name, not to mention that it ended peacefully after being threatened BC i stood up against his bullying.
it's ah shame how most trinis in authority treat first world foreigners better than their own ppl, and had i not lied and told him that my daddy was bigger and stronger than his daddy, jah knows what woulda happened wid I.
IMO most cops regardless of nationality are big time bullies! and i just wanted this pr!ck tuh feel vulnerable and violated as i felt, and this was not the first time it happened to me either with cops in the cow shed.
