TTPS Trinibad Tactic Trini-wrong

I am no lover of Trinibad music, heck I rather listen to Nailah singing on a track of nails scraping on a chalkboard, but this latest initiative of the TTPS is pure folly.

Let me see if I understand how this is supposed to work. The TTPS plan is to arrest Trinibad artistes for allegedly promoting gang violence in their music. How is that even legal much less logical???

Someone needs to tell me what the charge would be and under which law they doing that. Allyuh remember when the authorities arrested a whole bunch of people under the anti-gang legislation only to have to release them all because they couldn't prove they were gang members?

If it's ok to arrest Trinibad artistes for their lyrics then I waiting to see them arrest Soca artistes for singing about assaulting random gyal bumper. Man like Problem Child go get life in prison. Ravi B better stop singing about loving rum or he might get held in a road block for promoting drunk driving.

How is this even a deterrent or crime fighting tactic? Them fellas will just stop singing about violence and there goes tanty Erla new initiative. Or better yet they will switch to the young people slang like “cringe” and “delulu” that could mean anything. What the TTPS gonna do then?

I for one do not believe music incites people to do anything. That is a convenient narrative to absolve people from their personal responsibility. Why not arrest delinquent parents who abdicate their responsibilities to train up the youth dem?

My biggest concern is that when all these fellas get arrested and they hire their King's Counsel and ting, when they win a judgement who pocket the lawsuit money coming out of?? I fed up see my tax money jump up because police moving like the elephant from sesame street asking for directions to the zoo, running off with half an idea constructed only to have to come back to square one.

Yuh ain’t have to like their music or the lyrics to know they have a right to sing it. If they are involved in crime then prove it with proper police work, not primary school tactics that even an SEA student would find laughable.

Also, it’s time to make the cops foot the bill for botched initiatives and illegally detaining people.

TANA