There's personally too many to list, but there are 52 gangs the last time I've checked, and almost NONE of them are being hunted by the police.

Technically. Due to the Medellin Cartel/PLP alliance, we've contributed enough to cause the Miami Drug War in the 80's and we could have something to do with the opioid epidemic in America. Remember, with piss-poor police force and a pacified Navy, it's smooth sailing for drug-runners in the Bahamas.

Not really. In other countries it exists as well. Although those cases are less than the US, instead of unstable lone-wolf attackers, there's terrorist organizations doing it. The amount of attacks are less, but the death counts are higher.

Except that doesn't work here. Criminals are winning the war in the streets of Nassau, and what are we doing?

Letting them succeed in slaying Bahamians over and over again. And now it's a mistake in dispersing justice? Of course, we need the criminals to surrender. But when they try to fight back at officers, they have NO further choice but to shoot. There's 20,000 gangsters and only 4,500 police officers and Defense Force Marines. The 4,500 defenders have the advantage of training, but everything else is piss poor ancient and outdated compared to the gang weapons.

What we need to commit is for hundreds of these gangsters to end up in jail. Or death, because they're going to fight back to protect their "homies" at all costs. It's going to be bloody, but the job will be done. The criminal element will be contained and the Bahamas's tourism will be safe and the lives of locals and foreigners safer.

Oh please... Bahamians had already turned to drug dealers out of their own free will. Foreigners are trying to make a difference.

Except the problem is that it's the people that use guns to kill instead of protect. From what I heard, civilian-issued weapons are only on semi-automatic fire. Until someone managed to alter the weapon to fire automatic bullets. Getting a gun is always a psychological challenge of itself, but altering the gun to break legal regulations is too far.

Guns themselves aren't the problem, it's the black market suppliers messing things up. After all, it's your choice to use the weapon to kill senselessly, or kill to protect others.

Good grief, talk about playing the victim card. The Bahamas's blight is caused by the natives themselves. From the Cartel alliance from the 80's and the PLP's most broken and depraved administration from 2012 up to 2017. We kept playing pirates with the IRS and other financial organizations for years on end. Besides, who knows how deadly these offshore bank accounts are in the hands of the PLP. Their own friends were Cartel Sicarios and Lieutenants that they made as allies with Pindling, and they're mandated to pay them for each of the money stolen from the US.

Thing is, I'm also ashamed that the police didn't do a single thing for criminals and went on walkabouts. Wasting time and space for what? These criminals are striking fear into citizens and even Defense Force Marines and cops, yet the RBDF and RBPF is a bunch of pacified vegetables that refuse to take the risks to create safety for the Bahamas. There are 52 gangs still remaining, there's no reason for walkabouts or Police/Defense Force band parades at the moment. As for the 80's, sure that drug money isn't too much compared to the US. But unlike the Americans, there's only a matter of time before those corrupt judges are put down, dead or alive. In the Bahamas, we always get crooks involved in the Cartels' business in the 80's, so Carlos's ill-gained revenues remain in the country to sell back to sicarios or terrorist groups. You know how much money the PLP borrowed, or stole from the US or EU to pay these organizations to help cause chaos.

I say that the criminals are winning the street wars in Nassau, and the police are put to shame. Too many lives have been sacrificed for that same drug money from the 80's. The only way to prevent any further deaths is to arrest hundreds if not, thousands of gangsters. All which can turn bloody in a few months. But it's necessary to save the tourism product, as these gangs will be our demise in the future.

Can you stop blaming others? Look at us. We had a chance to become a decent tourist destination and a solid banking service, but NO. Lynden sacrificed thousands of Bahamian lives over 30 years and our chance for the drug cartels.

5 million dollars each for every life sacrificed for that drug money. For how Carlos managed to make drug-running and killers a promoted and sanctioned activity in the Bahamas, not from some of those corrupt judges and DEA officials from America. The Miami Drug War started because of our own mistake. Now no one can be an honest citizen in our country. All of these gangs are embracing the cartels' explosive entrance into the Bahamas in the later future, and this Anti-American propaganda fed by those savages is cementing our demise. I can ensure you that in 10 years, even within 2 years. The country will embrace their new cartel rulers. While we become slaves and the deaths caused by the sicarios will be genocide.

Face it, the corruption and crime is the product of the Shadows of the Medellin Cartel

Good lord, we've gotten too far deep in criminality to the point that the right thing doesn't matter anymore.