When I was planning my trip to St. Lucia, I ping-ponged between viewing idyllic vacation videos and horrific crime clips on YouTube. The local police here seem to maintain a unique position with the locals: Frenemies. In this picture of graffiti in downtown Castries, you can see the unique position the local criminals hold. The illegal post praises the local police force while blatantly opposing civil order.
In one of the crime clips, I watched Soufriere gang members threaten the police in an ISIS style video in which their identities are concealed under hoods. I guess, since everyone here is family, the police are often friends and also enemies.
In the second picture we see a St. Lucia School of Music faculty pianist rehearsing Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano with a local policeman and flautist. Can't we all just get along?
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