All political parties should learn and so should the news media not to use crime as a political football. The FNM may not have put up bill boards , but they did say they had the answer to crime . Mother Pratt was the problem. It is really to recent to forget what the FNM did and said about crime when they wanted to win the election. And they did not and do not have the answer to crime, just as the PLP does not have the answer. I do not believe in the death sentence.

this birdy must be a dodo bird ,

Welcome back Comrade Arthur, to your Shirley & Deveaux Tribune home. Them upstairs been missing you in the worst way.
Let's shift over to a da peoples minister responsible for their security Bernard, a man who back in 2005, you were strong on describing as towering over balance in the PLP party. You also said how Bernard is seen by his fellow PLP's, as towering over Perry in the "competence" department.
How you feeling these days about Bernard's competence? So much was your confidence, you were predicting Bernard to succeed Perry's "one term" if he became PM after 2007 General. Do you still think Bernard is PM material come 2107?

Birdie the PLP spider

Spins her web so well!

She works so hard for her masters

As ev’ry one can tell.

Whene’er their plans go amiss

Birdie’s job is to spin and twist.

And if the people complain

Birdie brings them pain.

She spits her venom at those who get mad

Even though she knows her masters been bad.

**................... “partisan politics” is the root cause of the country’s crime crisis .................**

Bahamians mimic ostriches sticking their heads into a hole to avoid facing the truth.

Crime like any other Phenomenon did not "just happen" of it own fruition.

Bahamas was led to this present crime epidemic predicament by decades of political mismanagement by the PLP and FNM.

Failure to keep economic growth in pace with population growth, coupled with failure in education is the reason our country is "unbalanced" and chaotic today.

How many children of politicians in the past 43 years attended public schools? Why are public schools adequate for the electorates children but not good enough for the "hired helps" (politicians) children?

Politicians shifting blame for crime to fatherless children is no more than a futile cop-out for feeble minded minions that choose to continue recycling slick, failed leaders.

*Time pull our heads out of the hole and collectively decide to rid ourselves of those that brought us to this failed destination.*

Anyone who would blame one political party or the other
need only look in a mirror to see a main contributor.
How did we get here? We assumed the Authority for ourselves
without taking responsibility for ourselves,
we dismantled the clerical system of colonial rule and replaced it with political
minions, willing to do the bidding of the new master.
we burned the rules of conduct and threw out the Barbadian prison officers, Jamaican police officers, and infiltrated the judiciary with our new found power and influence.
Permanent Secretaries became disposable, shuffle-able, as much as Incompetent cabinet ministers.
And all the while, the rot crept up while the corruption crept down.
To fix any of this requires the admission of guilt, Failure, fraud.
I do not believe we will ever concede that we have lost, failed, as the fraud/graft/kickback pays too well.
And the power corrupts them all.

Where is the church in all this fighting for the hearts, minds, and souls of the lost. There is one on almost every block in the ghetto, but ever since the gospel of prosperity has become the message of the day, concern for the suffering has been replaced by the goal of self enrichment through exploitation. I was shocked to read about the many men of God ( call no names) advocating vigorously for young men involved in murder to meet the hangman's noose Yet them and their family have benefited from the generousity of the flook, many whom give their last in the name God to ensure Pastor keep his mercedes. The church has become a fashion show full of sybolic gestures, ceremony, exploitation and just outright hypocrisy. It has lost all integrity and the ability to affect change, Jesus would be very disappointed..

When the Churches AND Parents largely relinquished Education to the Government, their contribution was made.

Every citizen is responsible for playing a role in crime ......... either committing, accomplicing or preventing ..... which part are you (and me) playing????????? .......... there are just too many settling for the first two roles because too many of us see crime as a benefit rather than a vice

The United States has experienced a massive decrease in crime trending over the past 20 years & the decreases are getting more dramatic each year. The same goes for Canada and most developed countries. This has been studied by the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law and among other academics. They have compiled a list of causative factors, and these are the most significant:

(1) Decrease in Unemployment

(2) Increase in Income

(3) Increase in Consumer Confidence

(4) Decrease in alcohol consumption

(5) Decrease in crack cocaine use

(6) Legalised abortion

(7) Aging population

(8) Increase in social media and gaming by the young who were traditionally the worst offenders -ie they are hooked the internet & kept busy

(9) Here is a strange one -decrease in leaded gasoline is a factor.

(10) Use of data and technology in crime fighting as a preventative measure

Here is what doesn't work:

(1) High degrees of incarceration

(2) the death penalty

(3) right to carry guns

(4) increase police numbers

From 2000-2013 there has been a 27% decline in violent crimes in America including murder. There has been a 25% decrease in property crimes (stealing, burglary, robberies) in the same period. Factored over the years 1990 - 2013 there has been a 50% decrease in murders in violent crime in America.

Studies show that based on original empirical analysis conducting the first nationwide study of applying the technology of CompStat- a modern police management tool has a dramatic effect on crime. CompStat’s effectiveness on crime is that the introduction of a CompStat-style program may be responsible for a 5 to 15 percent decrease in crime across cities that introduced it. CompStat is a police management technique - a way to run police departments — that was widely deployed in the nation’s cities in the 1990s & 2000s, starting in New York in 1994. Specifically, a CompStat-style program is associated with a 13 percent decrease in violent crime, an 11 percent decrease in property crime, and a 13 percent decrease in homicide.

And the overriding element to crime reduction, is a healthy, diverse economy.

So in many ways, the Bahamas is really behind the eight ball. We have people crying for the things that do not reduce crime. We have a police and government who are dinosaurs, klepocrats and corrupt criminals themselves who really don't want to fix the economy or fight crime. So, we are doomed and we are in a death spiral that will get worse and worse until Bahamians come to their senses and lock up the treasonous politicians who brought us here.

Tal and Birdie are perfect examples of how partisanship trumps truth, goodness, patriotism and ethics. Whenever the perfidy of the vomitus ruling PLP is pointed out, the first words out of their mouths are FNMs or Red Shirts. These people do not have a patriotic bone in their bodies, and have sold their souls to the dark side.