After another bloody weekend, Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade held a press conference to tell people it is not the police’s fault.<\/p>\n
That is true, but it does not help that so many police are corrupt and engaged in illegal activites.<\/p>\n
Last weekend’s murder spree pushed the murder count up over 100, for the first time in Bahamian history.<\/p>\n
Commissioner Ellison said that police are doing everything they can to stop the bloodshed. However, once an arrest is made, it is out of their hands.<\/p>\n
Oddly, Mr Greenslade said he did not want to speak on the issue in much detail. But he didn’t think criminals were taking the law very seriously.<\/p>\n
Well, blow me down!\u00a0 Isn’t that exactly what BahamasB2B said – EIGHT YEARS AGO – in an editorial that enraged certain Bahamians to such an extent that they allegedly paid people to attack the website?<\/p>\n
In an editorial printed in the Nassau Guardian, back in 2003, the founder of BahamasB2B said that the law in The Bahamas is a joke. If criminals do not get punished for their crimes, crime will spiral out of control and literally destroy society.<\/p>\n
But nobody wanted to talk about that back then. Ironcially, it is all anyone is talking about now.<\/p>\n
While releasing the current crime statistics for the year-to-date, Commissioner Greenslade said:<\/p>\n
“We have on record any number of persons who have committed serious crimes and we see these people in and out of the system.”<\/p>\n
While he said police were doing the best job they can, Mr Greenslade appeared hesitant to point the finger at others involved in the legal system.<\/p>\n
“I want to be very careful because I am never wanting to be offensive to anyone else or to disregard the role of anyone else.<\/p>\n
“We continue to do our work and each occasion they offend we arrest them and take the requisite course of action. I am not sure that core group of serious, serial prolific offenders are truly taking us seriously in respect of the punishment and I want to be careful and not go much further than that,” he said.<\/p>\n
The murder count in The Bahamas for the year-to-date is now 101, 87 of which were in New Providence.<\/p>\n
Police say they have solved 51 per cent of the murders so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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