Another point for the criminals..the police force needs to step up these criminals are winning the game. Guess it will continue on until the last man stands after the smoke clears...
-wild wild west

We've got us a Bahamian Batman...avenging Bahamians and disposing of criminals. Best advice...keep them in jail because out in these streets they call it MURDER!!!!

Well if does happen to me I will follow whatever procedures and protocols they deem necessary and then afterwards lodge a formal complaint if I felt my rights were violated. But as I keep saying...I don't place myself in situations for such things to happen. I am one person who when large crowds are gathering and it doesn't look constructive I head the opposite way. So I won't be round up and corralled like young goats when others are.

Yes, my away is the US and I am well aware of profiling that comes with being black. And because of that I am even more aware of how I portray myself. I try not to feed into the ghetto or slum stereotype that many have once they realize I am black and from a Caribbean nation.

Stereotypes are such for a reason, because the majority made it that way. So to continue to feed it and perpetrate it then you get what you ask for.
We know that Kemp Road is a bad area so if you know this why hang out there unnecessarily. I never understood people who know the way things are but purposely do it and look around baffled when shiiite happens.

The Bahamas is full of crime, situations are out of control and there seems to be no end. That being said do you walk around looking suspicious, leave your car door unlocked, walk down Cowpen Road at 2am and then be shocked if something happens.
People need to make wiser decisions...stop courting trouble then acting shocked when you find it.

Another things Bahamians are so hypocritical it makes my blood boil, the same people who don't want to be profiled because they are young, black and wearing dickies are the same people who profile Haitians. The same Bahamians who think that all Haitians are in the Bahamas illegally. But wait all people who dress a certain way and look suspicious can't be criminals....oh what a tangled web of hypocrisy we weave.

Not the same...he was targeted for a specific reason in his home, not because he was hanging out in a bad area dressed like a possible criminal. Furthermore if you think Mr. Cash just stood there with his hands in the air like a deer in headlights allowing the police to search his home then you are crazy. If you are going to attempt to draw analogies at least have the sense to make sure they match up.

Do you need a diagram to show the difference between apples and grapes?

I never claimed to know the answer, however common sense (which you so clearly lack) dictates that harsher punishment is needed when crime is committed. Yes the problem of crime did not just spring upon us and while your point has some validity as to the origin, the situation is not being helped by stacking these criminals up in HMP and just leaving them there to run appeal after appeal.

It may not solve the crime issue but I can bet it would help to deter some who feel crime does pay and there is no punishment for offenses committed.

What do you propose be done EMAC...teach them the way to go and hope the don't stray from the path and when they do pat them and tell them everyone makes mistakes. WISE UP man we aren't dealing with stealing cookies out of your mom's kitchen. This is murder, rape, and robbery which requires a sterner hand. Maybe a sterner hand coupled with some morals might have at minimum curb some of these violent activities.

But hey....you continue to be one of the many Bahamians with their head buried in the sand looking to rope in horses that have been running free and get them to stay in a barn with no doors. Good luck with that...

Well it works for me and mine, no one in my family has ever been arrested or detained unlawfully. So I will continue to live as I have been taught because it worked for my mom, my aunts, my uncles, my cousins, my grandmom, my granddad etc...

I will continue to portray myself in the way of an upstanding law-abiding citizen who has nothing to fear from the law. I won't act in a suspicious manner and neither will I be found in places where suspicious people or activity can be found. If I for whatever reason find myself in a situation with the law for whatever the reason I will remain calm, follow instruction, and not create an unnecessary scene.

More people need to try this method and not just with the law- with each other. There might be less violence on the streets between people.

I am still waiting to see an outline of proposed budget spending. I don't understand how you want to tax the people but don't want to be transparent in what you are spending the money on. I am sure many Bahamians would not mind paying VAT if there was a credible reason for it. If all other avenues of collecting resources were exhausted and justifiable ends were still not being met then I could get on board with VAT.

But we don't have any visible proposed spending plan, we don't enforce and collect the tax revenue we have now and the government's spending is not justifiable. So explain to me why I should give my hard earned money to a crack head (government) knowing full well they only using it to feed their habit (poor budget and corrupt spending).

Not so...there is a difference between being dressed for a trade job. People that work trade jobs don't walk around with pristine dickies and workboots. They don't have their pants hanging to their knees and while they may appear "dirty" they have a look of hard worker about them.

Please don't insult your intelligence by trying to sell me on the fact that you can't tell the difference between a hard working young man in work clothes versus one just wearing them for fashion.

And if it were my child I would warn them of the dangers of keeping company with suspect people. I believe that is part of the problem with the Bahamas now. Parents don't want to own up and take responsibility for parenting these young men and women. Teach your children to respect authority and stop automatically siding with them against authority. To much cloak and dagger from these parents is why these young people feel they can do what they want in the streets and then home they present a different front.

....this goes beyond profiling.

Well those rights and privileges come with a responsibility. I am a law-abiding citizen who has had encounters with law enforcement and left feeling just fine. I responded to whatever they wanted in a sensible manner and followed the rules. I dress according to the way I want to be treated...

it's really simple actually. You look and act like a vagrant criminal you shall be treated as such. No two butts about it...