Much easier said than done. Bear in mind how many of the public know who these criminals are and protect them.

Sadly there are well-known Bahamians taking advantage of this fear of crime situation to unjustly enrich their friends and family members seeking to derive great profits from providing neighbourhood security services in areas where they themselves own property or are involved in property development activities. More often than not, opening up or exposing a neighbourhood to such security services results in the opposite effect desired because the security providers themselves (or their family members or close friends), armed with additional information gathered about the neighbourhood's residents, begin to prey on the very people they are supposed to be protecting in an effort to justify their existence and/or make "good easy money" on the side by burglaries and home invasions that would not have otherwise been experienced by the neighbourhood's residents, especially those residents who refuse to ante up the coercive monthly payments demanded of the security service providers. Most Bahamians would be wise to educate themselves on what happened to residents of Blair Estates and many other similar neighbourhoods whose fears were preyed upon by very opportunistic security service providers! There is really no substitute today for neighbours looking out for each other and having a licensed firearm that they know how (and are not afraid) to use when absolutely necessary.

Not just an experience of Blair Estates in days gone by, but also Camperdown, Sans Souci, Winton, Port New Providence, Sandy Port, etc. etc. etc., and even Lyford Cay! Neighbourhoods hiring private security service providers cannot even rely on police certificates produced for each of the security personnel involved because even these certificates are often subject to being fraudulently obtained for the right price!

It seems that Urban Renewal is the only thing that pleases the police. The officers smiling up in MP's faces cause they know the next promotion they will be rewarded for making the MP's look good. Pro active policing is done thru visibility, sadly officers them stop walking, or only walk after a murder has been committed. Let's not forget the cameras they always bring behind them. You see a hundred police on that one news clip and the next day none thru that same community. It is sickening I often say police like to work hard, cause crime prevention is exactly what it is, preventing crime, dealing with wayward young one while they are impressionable....getting in the school and be a police officer. Police officers in schools are security officers in uniform, nothing more nothing less.