PREFACE
Fhis report examines the human rights situation in Jam
It is based on information gathered in the course of two tri
Jamaica in 1986. The principal delegation included
Chevigny， Professor of Law at the New York Unive，-sity St
of l，aw and author of Police Power; Lois Whitman， fo:
(ieneral Counsel of the New York City Commission on lit
Rights and a member of the Americas Watch Committee
l~ell Chevigny， Professor of Literature at SUNY-Purchase.
mission took place from June 26 through July 4. Lois Wh
made a preliminary visit from February 24 through March 6.
The Americas Watch investigation came about at the re
of the Jamaica Council for Human Rights， a small indeper
nrganization set up by a group of Jamaican lawyers in 1
which had uncovered over the years a disturbing patter:
police abuses -- civilians killed by police at an alarmingly
rate， unlawful detentions and beatings by police -- as we
appalling conditions in the island s lock-ups and prisons.
While in Jamaica， Americas Watch met with human ri
activists and lawyers， including Florizelle O Connor，
Coordinator of the Jamaica Council for Human Rights; De
Daly， Roy Fairclough， Richard Small， tlarold Murray
Andrew Rattray. We also met with individuals who had
members of their families shot and killed by police or who
themselves been unlawfully detained and/or beaten by police.
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