{"id":246503,"date":"2005-01-26T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/cops-refuse-to-arrest-hit-and-run-driver"},"modified":"2005-01-26T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T18:32:48","slug":"cops-refuse-to-arrest-hit-and-run-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/cops-refuse-to-arrest-hit-and-run-driver","title":{"rendered":"Cops Refuse To Arrest Hit and Run Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If one wants to know the reason for so many hit and run accidents in the Bahamas one only has to look at the foolish policies of the Bahamas Police Force.<\/p>\n<p>A hit and run accident victim was informed today by Staff Officer Stephen Adderley at Police Headquarters that hit and run accidents are not an &#8220;arrestable offense&#8221;.  Apparently that is true even if the accident results in the loss of life or damage to another&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take a legal expert to see how this foolishness would only lead to an increase in hit and run accidents, which have already increased by 250 per cent in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In most civilized countries leaving the scene of an accident is a crime, in and of itself.  It not clear why this is not true in The Bahamas, which is fast gaining a reputation as a &#8220;lawless jungle&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamas Police say hit and run accidents &#39;not an arrestable offence&#39;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-246503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246503","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}