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More bull.

Show me until then shut UP

These are the facts: from 2002 through 2012 we had over 800 murders in the Bahamas. In the period from 2002 - 2007, 9 people were convicted for murder. From 2007 - 2012, 26 people were convicted for murder. So out of the 800+ murders in our country for the 10 year period, less than 40 people have actually gone to jail. Or put simply, for every 100 murders, less than 5 people are serving time for this serious crime!!!

I know who I (and the majority of my fellow Bahamians) think is winning this war........and it ain't law enforcement!!

The police alone cannot stop crime. It has to be a joint effort of all segments of society. The fact that the murder rate is still increasing says that our efforts are not effective, not effective even to the point to get the murder rate to level off The fact that, while the detection rate (by the police) for murder is above 60%, less than 5% of murderers are actually convicted and sent to jail. This tells we have a serious flaw in our judicial system. Murder and serious crime cases are taking far to long to make it to the courts ans some drag on far too long before thay are concluded. The system has many slack and lazy persons who seems to have no motivation and are not goal orientated. I know of a case that was concluded since last year. All that is left now is for the majistrate to make her ruling, but she continues to put the matter off. Over 7 times by the magistrate alone..this cannot be right..this cannot be justice..this s not fair to the parties waiting on her decision. Talk to Joe Public and you will hear of many such cases where the magistrate is not doing an efficient job of managing cases. So There seems to be no law. When 95% of persons who have committed murder in the past 10 years have never been convicted, that is over 700 persons who hav comitted the most serious offence on the books and 700 victims who saw no justice. We are allowing the same set of people to ensnare this community in their criminal activity because there appears to be no punishment for murder. Why not set up 5 murder and serious crime courts for 5 years and clear out the back log of cases. That way persons charged with murder will not get bail after awaitinh trial for 3 years and swift justice will be seen to be done.

Too many mothers have mourned .The "Third Force" was a term used by leaders of the ANC during the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to a clandestine force believed to be responsible for a surge in violence in KwaZulu-Natal, and townships around and south of the Witwatersrand (or "Rand").The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) found that:
while little evidence exists of a centrally directed, coherent or formally constituted ‘Third Force’, a network of security and ex-security force operatives, frequently acting in conjunction with right-wing elements and/or sectors of the IFP, was involved in actions that could be construed as fomenting violence and which resulted in gross human rights violations, including random and target killings.[Sounds like the Bahamas 2010-2013].The South African Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) was a government-sponsored hit squad] during the apartheid era that operated under the authority of Defence Minister General Magnus Malan. The Truth and Reconciliation Committee pronounced the CCB guilty of numerous killings, and suspected more killings.A death squad is an armed military, police, insurgent, or terrorist squad that conducts extrajudicial killings, assassinations, and forced disappearances of persons as part of a war, insurgency or terror campaign. These killings are often conducted in ways meant to ensure the secrecy of the killers' identities, so as to avoid accountability.Death squads are often, but not exclusively, associated with the violent political repression under police states, one party states, or military dictatorships. It is not unheard of, however, for more democratic governments to form death squads during a state of emergency and then disband them once the crisis passes.Death squads often have the tacit or express support of the Government, as a whole or in part (see state terrorism). Death squads may comprise a secret police force, paramilitary forces or official government units with members drawn from the military or the police. They may also be organized as vigilante groups."Extrajudicial killings" are the illegal killing of leading political, trades union, dissidents, and social figures by either the State security forces, terrorist organizations, or organized crime such as the Sicilian Mafia or the Latin American drug cartels. Add Haiti into this agenda and it all adds up to the same thing being played out in the Bahamas. Take off the blinders people. Something ain't right when police officers employed so long have the country in such an array. Something definitely wrong.