JAMAICA Observer online readers have weighed in on the theft of a policewoman’s high-end phone from a service vehicle Monday while she and her colleague were writing a ticket for a motorist who had committed a traffic breach. The phone was snatched from the front passenger seat of the police car by a man who escaped in a nearby market. Here are some edited comments:

peejay the original

Desperation will make a normal person do anything without worrying about the risk. Either they are brave and fast or accomplished it with stupidity AND fear and out an the police. Sorry, this happened but now maybe you can pay more attention as to how the citizens feel.

Dully

@peejay the original: Peejay downtown is a disaster happening and needs more than police intervention.

Livingston Brown

What makes it “Barefaced”? This thing happens every day to ordinary Jamaicans. The service providers and the police seem incapable of doing anything about it. Yet they can use phone conversations to convict people. Dem lucky!

chuck emmanuel the First

@Livingston Brown: There can be no justification for any crime.

dallo

I’m trying to conjure up a little sympathy for these cops and I keep coming up empty. In the meantime I keep wondering how a convicted criminal was able to calm downtown Kingston and the government can’t! Isn’t that embarrassing, especially with a Phd man at the helm of the police? whether it is by phone, computer, tablets, or in person.

Jay Henry

The one person able to contain these acts is locked up at Uncle Sam’s pleasure for 23 years.

Derrickanthony

@Jay Henry: Good riddance! Let him stay locked up for an additional 23 years in the US, after he finishes serving the allotted time. Jamaica has enough dons, just look at the inept and corrupt politician from both sides of the political asle.

err gag ViewMaster

Maybe the thief thought the ticket was unjust. Instant karma?

Dully

@err gag ViewMaster: They are lucky he didn’t steal the car.

Ashton E. Pitt

These cockroaches return to their Garrison hell holes as heroes, getting the most bleached out girl in the community!

Meredith

So the esteemed officers of the law leave a high end phone unattended, exposed in an unlocked car and it is stolen (are you surprised that would happen?). Wait…so now they are embarrassed, hurt and confused. Ah my dears, my deepest sympathies, but that is what many of the Jamaican populace have and continue to experience. What about those who have their doors kicked down in the dead of night, held up at gunpoint in broad daylight and worse. How do you think they feel?

Cappo

@Meredith: It’s almost like you saying “a good”. Yes this happens to Jamaicans on a daily basis but why are you assuming these cops aren’t sympathetic to that plight? It’s an unfortunate incident that does not need any of us to be saying “serve dem right”.

Sondon

Lawlessness rules the land! These acts are committed because the thieves know that they can get away with it.

drew

Barefaced indeed! No respect for authority.

kgn 13 yute

What if it was a rifle that was left on the seat, a police radio or a laptop? I thought police officers locked their vehicles when they exit them for any reason whatsoever.

mccormacklindel

This incident just highlights how fierce these criminals are.

PhilOiseaubay

This is just the natural consequence of our country’s inability to grow the economy nor keep our youth gainfully occupied in education.

1H3

@PhilOiseaubay: Is today hug a thug day for some people?

mlyffe

Greed and entitlement are no respector of persons.

Lisa

If these culprits can go into the house of the Lord to rob or kill why do we think that police and soldiers are exempt from anything? SMH. Sigh.

april

These young thief are very barefaced they will rob you any time, any where.

Ann Hudson

No sah… mi haffi tek bad sinting an mek laff. When they start robbing the police, you know that things are very, very bad. I guess a him name Zorro. I would like to think the police would be the last person someone would think of robbing… must be on some kind of mind altering drug.

StoneCold

Such slackness. Jamaican police have no use.

jayjayja

Just make one foreign call and get a next one.

Guest

First the police must realise that they are in a war zone and they must think proactively to protect life and property, you trust no one or underrate no one.

GAD1066

Do you (Now) agree with the Accompong Maroon Colonel’s proposal to revive flogging as a form of punishment for criminal behaviour?

ELORY HENRY

This is sheer carelessness on the part of the police officers. No one respects their lives or their propertiy, so why make it easier for those who don’t with these acts of carelessness?