This is so very sad. It was so painful to listen to the commissioner that many wished he had remained silent. How can the commissioner say after 13 murders in 13 days that the country is not in crisis and persons can go about their normal life. How can he insuly Bahamians and tell them that some of them can't take care of their own homes but they trying to tell him how to do his job. Does not Greenslade realize that the 13 persons killed this month are Bahamian children as are many of the over 1,000 victims that were killed under his watch as commissioner? Twenty seven for the year. More murders under his watch than *any* other commissioner in the Bahamas. More murders than what happened under *all* the other police commissioners in the past 100 years in the Bahamas. We can no longer buy the case of "a few prolific offenders killing up each other." No not after 10 or more years. And to hear Greenslade almost justify some homicides by saying something to the effect that many of the persons who are killed are not as innocent as many may want to believe, and they have done something to cause them to be murdered. Careless words coming from a commissioner whose job it is to protect and uphold the law.. Almost sanctioning vigilante justice. . And While the PM admits the murders are out of control, no apparently effective plan was put forward to stop the mayhem. Maybe someone needs to say that if the killings doesn't stop the government will have to consider hanging or capital punishment.

Just curious here, HOW many years does a person maintain the post of top policeman? Is there a cap?

Total disgrace and shame, this is just a poor excuse of indirectly saying they don't have a solution to crime and cannot maintain the crime or protect the lives of the people of the Bahamas. Go about our daily licea! Wasn't a Sergeant recently a victim of a crime if he had not had his license firearm on him who knows how that story would had turned out, didn't a couple of murder happen due to armed men firing rapidly into crowds aren't every day people are being robbed and attacked by criminals. Didn't the recent murder happen because the thugs tried to stole a young man vehicle from him and shot and killed the young man. No wonder why a grip can't be held on crime because our appointed members and officers are taking crime serious, they continue to blame retaliation and gang war and not looking at the fact that person involved are still murders and have in processing dangerous firearms that's dismantling the streets, homes and neighborhoods.

The entire country, no. New Providence in this regard, surely.

So Prime Minister Crisco Butt says that it is like the Wild West out there, and Commish GreenSlime says that we are not in crisis. I wish that lying was painful for those who utter lies. Unfortunately, truth is the first victim in a failed state.

I think the commissioner just rubbed salt in the wounds of many Bahamian families who have had loved ones murdered by saying they had to do something to cause their own death. When they trying to come to grips with the loss. Then you have reformed gang members on the radio station saying things like "it could be over a girl, or just looking at someone the wrong way, or talking to someone bad on a job or even firing someone. That's how serious it is.

Comrade Commish, I know you have tough job - so I wish make a fresh suggestion cause the more you arm your policemans - the heavier the artillery pieces the criminal thugs will pack. So, here's my crime prevention recommendation. When your policeman's come into contact with those on the Commish's short list for most likely to commit serious crimes and you catch them doing small offenses and infractions - even traffic violations and arguing with others - your policemans will make them strip down to their birthday suits, and tow their vehicles away for impounding - means you set them free go on their ways. It's called the "embarrassment of having to publicly show ya thing law".
Commish, you cannot out prosecute, out policemans vehicles, out judge, over jail, or out shoot these criminal thugs.
But you just might "out penis" them?

He can "out penis" them. He is twice the dick of anyone out there.

LOL! IT JUST MIGHT WORKI

The COP is already used to those numbers, 119, 146, 111, 123,... form he took over it was those kinds of numbers so he will never see it as a crisis. It is unfortunate... seems they have no plan to take care of this. Ill bet he would approve the private citizens to carry arms! I saw on TV last night 100 police officers walking about AFTER the man done get shot.. why can't they find police officers to be about the community before the peole get shot? My wife always laugh at that. The technique is worthless

The country can expect another spike in crime as Donald Trump is having immigration and inland security deport immigrants with criminal records. Some persons who have been living in the US for over 20 years are having their residency status revoked and getting deported for crimes they committed. And their families have a choice to stay in the US or go with them.

apparently this has been a problem in recent years. it already happens and will only increase under this admin.

SUCH BIG DENIAL! SUCH A SHAME! SICK!

30 murders per 100,000 residents gets you classified as a war zone...we have been at or around that ratio for many years yet he does not see this as a crisis. Is he for real?

This whole police hierarchy needs to go home ......... except maybe the DCOP from Grand Bahama ......... but the other senior cops seem politically paralyzed and all they can say is "we lock the bad guys up, and the courts let them back on the streets" ......... so what is being done to present airtight cases so that the courts CANNOT let the crooks out on bail or that the lawyers can have serious cases so easily thrown out of court????

I maintain that TOO MANY police officers are in cahoots with the crooks ...... why do we need 2000 cops in little Nassau?????????............... and the crooks are still running wild???????

I heard the police have their hands tied. If an officer wants to arrest a criminal the MP for the criminal's area makes a call and either the criminal is let go or the officer is transferred to Inagua (or does foot patrol in gang land).

That is a strong possibility as well ......... with the likes of Brave and Fitzie who bank roll the gangsters to work the streets for them

Our incompetent Commish is right about one thing......our Court system and Fox Hill Prison both have revolving doors! And in this country there is no equal justice for all.....just look at Leslie Pindling, Matthew Mitchell, John Boswick Junior and others like them who are walking around town free as Jay birds while others who have committed much lesser offenses are rotting in prison because they don't have two pennies to their name or come from politically well connected families. Truly sad!

Have you ever heard of the prime minister, the deputy pm, the minister of national security and his junior minister , the commissioner of police and his assistants, the attorney general and maybe the superintendent of the prison all in a room to discuss crime and, more specifically, murder? They are not seeing eye to eye on this matter and while they may all be concerned about it and working around the clock for solutions the cold, hard fact is the current strategy is not working. What changed in October? When before it did the country was seeing a massive decline in murders. There was an entire month without a killing and now the country can go hardly a day without someone losing their life to the hands of another? The commissioner should have information and intelligence as to what caused this new wave of killing and should move swiftly to arrest it.

Greenslade is not lying. The appalling state of the justice system is a well known fact on the streets. The police almost always find out who the perpetrators are and round them up. From that point the justice system generally fails to follow through on a punishment. The thugs do whatever they want knowing that if/when they get caught, there will be cheap bail, maybe a trial in two years time, most likely a mistrial, early release because of prison overcrowding......it is a joke. A dumb punk that is considering shooting someone is far more concerned about retaliation from his victims family than the Bahamian Justice System

So was there murder #14 in 14 days last night? Or was the report of a woman being stabbed to death in Eight Mile Rock false or not yet confirmed?

Bahamians must first ask what are the root causes of crime evolving young men. How old are the mothers of these young men? Are there fathers figures in the homes and lives of these young men. Bahamians must fix the root causes first. As soon as the police locks one up another one is born under the same circumstances that created the first one.