Unless u pair one cop with one criminal, you won't stop crime by adding police.

It's taken years of the ruling class of scumbag criminals raping society to push our people to the point of no hope / what the heck crime is all I can do.

Our country will continue to pay until our social fabric is repaired to a point where there is realistic hope for everyone.

Our country is all the proof one needs to see what happens when the ruling elite steal all the money and keep the people suppressed

These knee jerk reactions that end in the spending of tax payer money is always foolish and short sighted. The major beneficiary is the car company that sells the vehicles!

New police cars cannot stop a person with a hardened conscience and no moral values from doing what he has in his head to do if he wants something from you or if he believes he has been wronged! Many of these criminals are so mentally dense that they are prepared to spend time in jail just to get back at someone who hurt or harmed them.

Producing sensible, moral children who make good decisions is not an accident people. It take a lot of hard work and sacrifice, something too many morally slack people are not prepared to do!

This "crime problem" has been 30 years in the making. We sowed moral slackness and now we are reaping its violent fruit.

MORE TAX MONEY DOWN THE TUBES. We need experienced assistance in tackling our out of control crime not more rookies and vehicles for them to break up. Maybe it IS time to look toward Singapore.

Trying to stop crime with police is like trying to stop rain with an umbrella, or the waves with a seawall.

Fix the problems in this nation you bumbling buffoon then most of the crime will disappear.
Educate the people, stop robbing them, stop letting the rich rob them, give the people a chance , give them a reasonable expectation of success if they try. Teach your own kids to have respect for people. Teach them to use birth control, or to raise the children they create.

This is going to take at least a generation to fix, likely more. Anybody who thinks any different is failing to reason honestly.

This is a Band Aid solution used after every murder spree. Create a Boot camp in Andros and make it mandatory for every male Bahamian child to serve three years minimum when they leave high school regardless of what part of society they come from. Include boys for the rich areas and the inner city areas. Pay them a stipen and teach them all the Discipline and values they need to develope to function in society and move the Fox Hill prision and teach the inmates the same. There are enough retired Defence force and police force officers who would gladly give their time for such a plan. .This plan that some would call national service and is the one plan Sir L.O Pindling regreted not doing as he was quoted in one of his final interviews

Discipline and abuse are not the same thing!

Blaming the mothers eh? Classic.

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Having a million police cars on the road plus 1 million Police Officers in ile Station or on the roads will not stop crime.
Lets even double the number to 2 million and it still will not decrease crime..........all it will do is block up the roads....especially as all that has happens ....is they puts on plenty sirens....whee...whee...whee...and fer those cars cant move over in the gutter to let dem pass....dey gets on the car speaker....'you dere in da blue car..move over...yer blockin da road....yes you ....move over!!'.....AND THEY SPEEDS OFF TO BE DERE ......AFTER .....DA CRIME DONE HAPPENS.......plenty lights flashing....and asking people of dey sees what happems....
Somebody should tells dem by now dat deys...needs to do undercover...investigations...infiltrate dese drug areas...bribe for sources of tips....interrogate suspects....trace dese illegal guns where dey coming from....STOP DA CRIME BEFORE IT HAPPENS..?....stead of showing up afterwards in yer new police car !!!!!!

60% of the Police is in khaki ......... How can they patrol the streets, when they are behind the desks???? ............ That is the problem ............ not more than 25% should be in khaki.

Not even 25%!

That's what I said last time, most of the field police officers should be temporary removed from the streets, add in the US Army's Green Berets to replace the missing officers and to actively hunt gangsters, then Delta Force and the ISA should train the RBDF into creating a true Special Forces unit.

After reading that the Comrade Minister Peoples Security's 'riding' is among the highest crime statistics, I can see why its called the Chicago of colony of islands. An MP, first needs brungs peace his constituents, before he can brungs nation.

It's sad when you feel like our Government needs a 1st world government to keep them from stealing, cause they seem so untrustworthy. Our police need some first world police to make them do their job. So our government needs to be governed and our police need to be policed. It's like these guys are in kindergarten and need a teacher or nothing will get done.

Ma Comrade BahamaPundit, if the Queen on other side pond does gets wind Nassau Town's over performing crime statistics which just happens falls under the under performing governing management many of the 35 elected red shirts MP's - she can be expected order the boarding members her battle ships with elite members contingents riot ready Royal Constabulary Englishman's and Englishman's Policeman's to set sail destination enter Nassau Harbour... means the Queen wrestle away crime solving responsibility from Marvin... who also thinks he was appointed by PM, wear Commissioner Policeman's hat too. {Just can't make up such stuff }.

You wish, Comrade!

what you're missing in the grand scheme of things is that the first world governments are the professional thieves, our bumbling buffoons are just rookies, and that's why you know about it. Believe me, you don't want them to learn the ways of the developed countries, lest you wanna pay 75% of your income in tax by the time it done spend, and get nutting much for service.

What is it that prompts the Marathon Man to have a press conference? Also if he has all
of these brilliant ideas what is taking him so long to implement them? Lots of talk indeed
but no substance, Just keep running until you run out.

Another challenge from cleaning up dese crime areas.....would of course be that the current ruling Member of Parliament ...an his/her general...campaign manager...party supporter....stalwarts.... councillor.s....party elder....who would of course know of every voter...family...every house....track road....street....business....also know... every likely culprit..now the big question would be just like Roc wid Doc say....would the MP rather lose the election than the constituciency????
--- mathematically speaking looking at the numbers of accused murderers, criminals and their numbers of sympathetic families who are voters would be significant in many areas....and in certain areas where victory is by narrow margins????
@Aegeonon your ideas are interesting

POVERTY BREATHES CRIME. We are living in the residual of our leader/parents pass deeds and action/inactions. Sell Bahamasair, they probably have not made a profit since the 1980's; use the potential money to be wasted on Bahamasair to subsidize University of The Bahamas, along with tax from legalizing cannabis we should be able to give every interested Bahamian citizen a higher education. Think long term, this can be just a rough patch, however, keep reacting and buy more cars to fight crime is stupid. The same people who are directly benefiting financially from our Government buying more cars etc are the same elites and___________ who want to see and is orchestrating our demise. We trust our amoral, greedy enemies too much, "over-the-hill" is just the battleground, like the war in Iraq their central command is behind the gates in our Bahamaland. Lyford cay and others. Many can't run for office because of one of many reasons, so they just buy our elected leaders and our religious leaders, sadly, to them it's a game. We must educate our own people, import the best teachers and professors if we have to, this is war people, hard choices has to be made. Laugh now and cry later or cry now and laugh later.

"The same people who are directly benefiting financially from our Government buying more cars etc are the same elites and___ who want to see and is orchestrating our demise. We trust our amoral, greedy enemies too much, "over-the-hill" is just the battleground, like the war in Iraq their central command is behind the gates in our Bahamaland. Lyford cay,"

Ya neva know! What about the funeral homes?

you really believe it's that simple? Come on, any bunch of thieving elitest who can rob a country blind and stay out of jail, is plenty smart enough to fix our education system. But why would they, that just make it harder to steal.
These guys know what to do, problem is, they know all too well why they should not do it.

> and the incorporation of new crime
> fighting equipment as a part of the
> 2018 budget cycle, including an
> updated fleet of squad cars valued at
> $6.9m.

How many $6.9 million worth of squad cars, many of which don't last a year, will this country have to purchase before you realize that the police alone cannot solve this crime situation? Police going in the areas and playing Starsky and Hutch, or Ten Speed and Brown Shoes will not cut it. The country is (unfortunately) breeding criminals and murderers. The average age of criminals is not increasing. So as fast as a criminal is killed, locked up or some how or the other removes off the streets, another takes his place. And now it is not just drug dealers and gang bangers being killed.. The general public is at risk. Even innocent little school children. And yet no one has been charged and convicted of being a gang leader or even being involved in gang activity. Put half that $6.9 million into development and traiing programs for the youth and the returns will be greater than police cars being written off in a matter of weeks or months.

If the Bahamas Government was a company, consumers would tell them to get out of the governing business, because they're terrible at it. It's quite clear that our government, both parties, are simply terrible at governing. Their skills at governing are not something any consumer would pay money for in the working world; they would be completely bankrupt.

The fact is New providence is becoming to trauma filled with the violence from the crime, the numerous car accidents and the day to day stress of living in the city. It is starting to take its toll on the general population. More and more young people are turning to drugs and alcohol and the older people are drinking more and choosing to stay at home. Social life is being restricted and more and more persons with psychological disorders are popping up. Life was already hard trying to deal with economic hardships cause by the unrelenting recession.

Yeah new police cars. That will definitely reduce crime. VAT 18% here we come in 2 years. Tax and spend. What a waste

You spend 50 years dismantling Clerical impartial rule of law, and expect to avoid all the bad aspects of doing so?
Rule by connection, favor, Personality not capability get you exactly this.
It is the only outcome that could be expected. We were warned, B.K. Bonamy brought the warning back from Jamaica, and we ignored it.
We are still ignoring it.

**June 22nd 2016 budget address by Dr BJ Nottage 22% less murders.**

"*If you look at the national crime for all Bahamas in the first half of this year, from January 1-June 14, there are 22 percent less murders than there were a year ago, nine percent less attempted murder, attempted rape 38 percent less, armed robbery 21 percent less. This is the effect of some of the strategies we have adopted.*"

**November 18 2015: Dr Sands on Jeff Lloyd's talk show**

"*Charging that the credibility of the Christie administration is at stake, former Free National Movement (FNM) Senator Dr. Duane Sands yesterday called for the resignation or dismissal of National Security Minister Dr. Bernard Nottage. Sands noted that while on the campaign trail, the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) told a "traumatized" nation that it had the answers to crime.*"

"*So here we are in 2015 and the clock keeps turning as it relates to bloodshed and it's not only the bloodshed, it is the shootings and we've spoken before how for every murder there are probably two shootings," said Sands, who was a guest on Star 106.5 FM show 'Jeffrey' with host Jeffrey Lloyd. He said not only has the government failed to bring the rate of crime down, crime has increased under the PLP's watch.*"

The fact is the country has been reduced to managing crime and managing criminals and everything else is built around how high or how low the criminal element is. With more than a week left in this month ( June) and the murder count already hitting 50, the country is definitely headed for another year of triple digit murders. And after a decade of what is preceived to be senseless killings the only response seems to give the police more cars and equipment. But what plans have been put in place moving forward? The murderers who were killing 20 years ago are not the same who are killing today because many of them are in jail or dead. And the victims of 10 years ago are not the victims today. The point is no intervention is being done to stop a new breed of killers and today there is no specific reason for you to become a victim. You can just happen to own a business, or be going for a haircut, or on your way to school or even home after school doing homework and hanging out at a bar or playing Domonioes or a game of cards. So there has to be some real consequences for someone even thinking about murdering someone else. But what do you do with someone whom, himself does not fear death or even as a teenager or in his early 20’s doesn’t mind the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. And some consider jail to be a refuge. Safer than the streets are now.

Problem is. Fully stopping crime is on society's duty, and since we can't figure out how to raise kids correctly or if the finances are all designed for us to create a narco-state. It's impossible to fully eradicate it. But we can keep adapting and preventing them from inflicting more damage.

They're not adapting to anything though. He's repeating word for word exactly what Dr Nottage proposed five years ago.

Ma Comrades, how crazy is it that even if you hand over new vehicles to the policeman's - won't be long before they stop properly maintaining and servicing them................... Currently the policeman's have a fleet of 536 vehicles with only 126 cars of the 538 operable. Of the remaining 412 a whopping "273 vehicles are classified as being NOT roadworthy and 139 experienced chronic repairs."
The majority of the vehicles are confined to Nassau Town, thereby exposing the Out Islands to vulnerable and substandard policeman's performance,
{ Can't make this up that the Imperial red shirts government, have more vehicles on the road and parked in government officials driveways assigned to politicians and political appointees, than do the entire fleet vehicles for policeman's to protect and guard people }. I tell you, we're red shirts F-----,
Can't keep stink off red shirts.... they is magnets crap.

Likely, the person importing the vehicles for the police will be an FNM crony. This is why they keep crashing and reordering vehicles, somebody in their party gets a big fat payday.

I bet it would cost far less to implement the death penalty for these cold blooded murderers than buying a bunch of police cars to license, insure and repair!

Stop having out of wedlock children. Spay and neuter those who do after two!

BUT THE OUR GOD INFORMS US (Book of Isiah)
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"".**Good people pass away;
the godly often die before their time.
But no one seems to care or wonder why.
No one seems to understand
that God is protecting them from the evil to come.
2For those who follow godly paths
will rest in peace when they die.
Idolatrous Worship Condemned
3“But you—come here, you witches’ children,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
4Whom do you mock,
making faces and sticking out your tongues?
You children of sinners and liars!
5You worship your idols with great passion
beneath the oaks and under every green tree.
You sacrifice your children down in the valleys,
among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
6Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys.
You worship them with liquid offerings and grain offerings.
They, not I, are your inheritance.
Do you think all this makes me happy?
7You have committed adultery on every high mountain.
There you have worshiped idols
and have been unfaithful to me.
8You have put pagan symbols
on your doorposts and behind your doors**."

more police ....more cars.....more useless gubmint employees in an already over employed gubmint sector doing the usual .....jaqcueshitte......

We need the Queen back to fix this crowd!

We need to implement the same system from politics, immigration,taxes, business etc., that the Cayman Islands did. This country is doomed if not.. Bring back hanging as well for these thugs!!