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Rema "Action Pak" garrison gang members stand watch as lookouts on a corner of their public housing scheme December 13, 2008 in the Rema Garrison/Trenchtown area of central Kingston. Because of the strength of ghetto gangs, often law enforcement is ill-equipped to enter or enforce rule of law in the garrisons of inner city Kingston. In the absence of legitimate law enforcement then, gangs fulfill a self-proclaimed community protector/enforcer role and function as defacto police, judge and juries on their turf.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4368x2912 / 6.9MB; Jamaica Jamaican gangs violence murder homicide rates capita crime justice society poverty community garrison gangsters guns weapons youth culture Caribbean tropics West Indies ghetto inner-city inner city epidemic lookout shottas shotta gang gunmen gunman urban decay criminality horizontal night shadows Kingston Rema Trench Town slum Jamaica Kingston garrison garrisons gangs ghetto poverty violence gangsters crime culture violence tragic crisis island Jamaican armed gang life killing homicide rate political violence PNP JLP neighborhood members guns weapons criminal projects
Contained in galleries: Jamaican Violence Project

Rema "Action Pak" garrison gang members stand watch as lookouts on a corner of their public housing scheme December 13, 2008 in the Rema Garrison/Trenchtown area of central Kingston. Because of the strength of ghetto gangs, often law enforcement is ill-equipped to enter or enforce rule of law in the garrisons of inner city Kingston. In the absence of legitimate law enforcement then, gangs fulfill a self-proclaimed community protector/enforcer role and function as defacto police, judge and juries on their turf.