{"id":24261,"date":"2012-08-01T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=24261"},"modified":"2012-08-01T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:54:22","slug":"police-commander-demoted-over-crime-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/08\/police-commander-demoted-over-crime-stats","title":{"rendered":"Police Commander Demoted Over Crime Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22825\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22825\" title=\"ellison-greenslade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Long Island, NY &#8211; A Nassau Police precinct commander was demoted for misclassifying and  not counting crime statistics, department officials said Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas  DePaola&#8217;s rank is being lowered from Sixth Precinct inspector to a  patrol captain over &#8220;a lack of judgment&#8221; related to improperly  classifying crimes during the past year and a half at the precinct, said  1st Deputy Commissioner Thomas Krumpter.<\/p>\n<p>Many Bahamians think this is what should happen to Bahamas Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade, whose lack of respect for the Bahamian public is appalling.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Greenslade has refused to release crime statistics to the media, allegedly following orders from his PLP political masters, who are trying hard to make it look like their banal Urban Renewal project is taking a bite out of crime.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>Greenslade insists that crime has fallen 6 percent, except for murder and armed robbery, which is like saying it is clear skies except for the dark rain clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Greenslade also refused to notify the public after a flurry of rape incidents, which allegedly caused several more women to be raped, as they had no idea that a rapist was loose in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest said there is no  \u201cjustifiable reason\u201d for the failure of police to produce crime  statistics for the first half of the year, especially if they  substantiate reports that crime has decreased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens to police chiefs who hide crime statistics from the people they are paid to serve. Well, at least in a country that respects its citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,31,142,38],"class_list":["post-24261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-incompetence","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}