Well ya better make dang sure that the stats you are using from last year did not also have the 'causing harm' get out of jail free card...let's make sure to compare apples to apples here...

#"When questioned about the decreased figures in relation to the high volume of shootings in New Providence this year, police officials explained that some shootings were classified as “causing harm” based on severity of the crime.

#Incidents of “causing harm” are not included in the official statistics that were released yesterday"

I was just about to say the same thing! SMT

But when a gun is fired at someone it is not to harm someone , but the intention is to end their life.

...'cause apparently shooting someone and not actually killing them is not a violent act...SERIOUSLY??

so if your a bad shot its not a serious crime and you are allowed to continue and sharpen your marksmanship

Was he laughing when he made the "causing harm" statement? Give him some slack, he may have been laughing....

funny ,if he wasn,t cracken up he wanted to ,,

they cant be serious ...... what a joke

Streets don't lie...everyone cooking their numbers

so, what we read everyday also on this site is invention or phantasy...right?<img src="http://tinyurl.com/c7l9ck6" width="1">

Complete and utter nonsense. ZNS indicated that there has been 4 attempted murders this year; that equates to less than 1 per month. Does the RBPF really expect the Bahamian people to buy this nonsense? You are quickly losing credibility we have had more people shot or stabbed than dies from these injuries.

In fact, in a discussion a number of have concluded (tongue in cheek) that murders were down and attempted murder were up due to the real killers having already being killed. However, in recent times it appears to make up for their inaccuracies recently the murderers have been shooting to knock their target down and then at point blank rage started emptying their clip.

My good police officers I do not think you wish to deceive us, but if the political directorate are forcing you to do this nonsense please find some way to wink or something so the rest of us can understand. Otherwise you risk the general populace having very little regard from your utterances.

Please forgive me for the numerous typos

There are those "official" policeman's statistics and then there is the reality of living in fear over all the crime that's gong on around you? I think most citizens and residents knows the difference.

As the public's faith in their policeman's ability to manage crime sinks to lower levels of expectations, so does their reporting of crimes to the policeman's. Some for reasons of privacy, embarrassment, family or little faith that anything meaningful will come of it?

In excess of 40% of crimes committed in Bahamaland go unreported to the police. So much for truthfully measuring"official" crime statistics.

Wouldn't this downward trend in crime result in lower incarceration rates up at Fox Hill prison? Can you imagine how many prisoners would actually be locked-up in Fox Hill, if only the Judges were locking-up the hundreds of them "wondering" KILLERS appearing before them?