{"id":3538,"date":"2010-10-27T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2010-10-27T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:57:52","slug":"how-long-before-crime-destroys-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/how-long-before-crime-destroys-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"How Long Before Crime Destroys The Bahamas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come to take the gloves off and  let Government get real serious about crime in the country or everything  else will be for naught.<\/p>\n<p>It has become common for criminal cases to make it to court and the  lawyer acting for the defense requests a postponement which is granted  and the people who were called as witnesses are told that they will have  to appear on a new date. At the new date another postponement is  requested, it is granted and the witnesses are told again that they will  have to appear on a new date. If it is postponed a third time the  victim has lost patience and drops all charges. The defending lawyers  and the defendant know that this is a possibility. So, they have won and  the criminal is free to rob again.<\/p>\n<p>This nonsense must stop. Now.<\/p>\n<p>It is long past time to remove the revolving door at the prison so that  the criminals who are terrorizing us are not back on the streets doing  the same thing in a couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come to take the gloves off and let Government get real serious about crime in the country or everything else will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[14],"tags":[93,32,31],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}