More ethnic cleansing than fighting crime. One only needs to read some blogs on The Tribune’s web site yesterday and connect them to comment made by Donald Trump a few days ago about the MS-13 gang to understand what’s behind all the murders and police killings in the Bahamas and the Caribbean. It is a dirty, wicked, nasty plot that hopefully backfired on the ones who planned it. One cannot cannot effectively lead a police force and not keep current of world wide events. You end up killing people only to find they were victims of a nasty plot. And the armed forces in this country must be vary of who they share their intelligence with and who they take directions from. There is much false information being put out about young men in the Bahamas and the Caribbean to support the murders and justify the police killings.

Black Bahamian policemen shooting black hi shun and black Bahamian criminals with weapons and you call it ethnic cleansing? Please!

Was there one shooting in which a weapon was NOT involved?

was there one policeman that got shot? was there one police car that got damaged? yes PLEASE... this has MIA written all over it

Same as white boy shooting 17 of his schoolmates and school staff right? what weapon was involve in this tragedy?

Wanna know where the weapons coming from? When the US Department of ATF's "fast and furious' operation was in effect where they claim they were "selling guns" to trace Mexican gun cartels, over 1,000 of these weapons, including assault rifles similar to the one the school boy used, went missing. And around the same time these type weapons started showing up for the first time on the streets of New Providence....still wanna know here the weapons coming from? Even a US sitting judge has been charged with this weapons trafficking scam and has yet to serve one single day in jail. Meanwhile young men in this country continue to be killed like flies.

So. what can we do about it? Can't just sit back and let those gangbangers kill us without judgement, and trying to resolve matters peacefully failed with walkabouts and youth intervention programs. Those two usually work when the gang presence is at a lower level, and doing those methods will fail regardless because the rewards of being a gangster, prostitute or drug dealer within a gang is better than being an honest citizen and outweighs the risks associated with the job.

The country wants less crime but, more importantly they want less killings. They don't want their sons and daughters being killed by criminals, by the police, by the CIA the FBI, the DEA or the NBA.. if a crime is permitted let natural justice prevail...don't be a dirty dog that refuse to bark...but still take the law into your own hands..

Then let’s tie it in to the US Stat Department release about the Bahamas and see if it makes sense.

A different spectrum? I hope this was just a word misquoted by the reporter, perhaps he actually said sphere. I like the idea of dash cams and body cams. Ones that the officers can never turn off while on duty. Recorded footage of police killings subject to review by a panel not answerable to the RBPF.then I could start to have some faith in the organization again.

who's concerned?? Surely not the NON CRIMINALS!!!!???? more media fake news.....

Live by the sword etc.etc.

what you said

and Ferguson claims to be a Christian..killing ppl chirren in the name of the law...the scripture says " they are dumb dogs that refuse to bark"...they are not dumb because they cannot bark...they are dumb because they *refuse* to bark....bur after the death comes the judgment...for everyone.

Actually i live in Chicago and only in Nassau by extension..and what is your point?

Certainly we as a society would like to reduce the crime rate in the Bahamas, in particular, murder. However, we still live in a society where a person is considered innocent until proven guilty. Yes, even those who look the part. What this country really needs is an independent commission to police the police, just so that at least there appear to be some form of impartiality in the system. The body cams is another very important element that should have been implemented long time ago. The problem with Bahamians is that we love short term results without even looking at the root of the problem. No Bahamian should rejoice when our young men are being taken out like flies!

Actually @John isn't far off the mark in some respects. Fifty years ago when I was a teenager, the police embraced what suspiciously seemed to me to be a Wild West type policy of shooting criminal suspects who they considered to be Wild West type bandits. My first memory is their shooting a man named L'il Ounce who they accused of all sorts of misdeeds. Then in more recent times we have criminals on bail getting shot or shooting up others under mysterious circumstances and few arrests made, few charged and few convicted. But Commissioner after Commissioner complained about persons let out on bail possibly to commit more crimes but some of them get killed before ever going back to court. Commissioner Ferguson seemed unconcerned that civilians are being killed by his officers not all of whom are armed with guns or shooting at police officers. The persons investigating these shootings are police officers under the Commissioner's command. So there's no independence in the process. Who can forget the police shooting of the young man in the back of the old City Market near Kemp Road that was never satisfactorily answered by the force? Police officers are given the ability to carry and use firearms but it also comes with the heavy responsibility to be answerable whenever the firearm is used, not a cloak to kill anybody, anytime, anywhere and then holler that "it was justified" just because you wear the uniform. It's not a licence to kill indiscriminately but under very strict and controlled circumstances that have to be explained and stand up to public scrutiny.

COP Ferguson reminds me of those African junta leaders from Liberia or Sierra Leone etc. ..... The criminals better be shitting their pants to imagine meeting this man in Interrogation ...... smh

A fight broke out on a Carnival Cruise ship in the South Pacific. Twenty five passengers were booted from the cruise for fighting with the ship's security and other passengers. security used handcuffs as knuckle braces to beat down and subdue the unruly passengers. Ya think the US State Department will issue travel advisory for Carnival Cruises?