Misunderstoodyoungbahamian, you, myself and many other innocent Bahamians have had there rights violated by the goon squad we call RBPF. A lot of the young cadets they recruit are extra aggressive at harassing the wrong people. You especially don't want to be poor and call on them for assistance.. Bahamians are better off creating there own neigborhood malitias to fight crime rather than depending on the Police. They put the U in unprofessional. Best to avoid dealing with them and if u do hopefully u get one of the good ones to respond. To start the process of cleaning up this mess i would send all new recruits to the Florida State Police Training Academy for trainining.

Banker is correct, does not matter who wins, we've been sold off. We are a highly leveraged society, one that does not have the economic engine to fund current and future expenses including entitlements. To add to this the crime problem is only going to get worse. Nobody currently in our political selection pool has the political will to deal with this and it is true a honest politician is a unelectable one.

The police must be held to a higher standard. We cannot fight crime without them, I desperately want to see this department cleaned up and a change away from the barbarian primitive police tactics of the past if we are going to win the war on crime. Its bad enough that the courts are screwed up but police abuse of power or neglect of duties go on to much with RBPF. They must distinguish the difference between criminals are ordinary citizens going on about there life. This shoot first ask questions later or beat the pissed out of someone mentality has to stop. What would it have taken for them to run the vehicles tag to identify the owner and use proper investigative techniques. To fight crime law abiding citizens and the police must be on the same page and level of trust must exist between those enforcing the law and people they are suppose to protect. In certain areas if u can them they late or never come, if they come depending on your economic status they threat u like S--t. After this u are left to deal with the criminals still in your community, so now u don't trust the cops and u know u domed with the criminal. We are in the year 2014 and we still don't have recorded police interviews, recorded traffic stops or recorded holding areas for our prisoners with public access upon request for any of those recordings. U cannot stop crime using criminal goanes, it just does not work..

Multiple flaws in this situation. 1). No legal reason has been presented to engage Mr. Darling, if there was one he would have been arrested for or charged with something. 2). Firing weapon at a moving target in a highly populated City, which leaves the question are all of those rounds accounted for? 3). What legal grounds was there to fire upon this vehicle, what threat did this person pose to the public or the Officers, what exigent circumstances existed, none as I see it. 4) The use of deadly force is only authorized to protect life or to stop a serious threat, can someone articulate what was the threat here. 5). Did any of the officers attempt to notify a marked police unit to initiate a traffic stop if the vehicle was suspicious? The fact that this man had to come to the media is a representation of the level of cover up that goes on with the RBPF, and the fear for retaliation. Bahamian citizens are trapped between a goane squad Police force mentality and the criminals themselves. Those officers who did not report this incident to the proper authority are just as guilty as the plain cloths officers firing the shots. I am still waiting for some legitimate reason that they can give for the use of deadly force on a moving target, in a populated area without any threat.. Some of these guys cannot shot 80% on a stationary target without pressure so shooting at moving things in a populated area thank God nobody was killed because of these morons posing a Cops.

RBPF overall is infested with jacked up people we all know it, criminals in uniform, there are many good officers but the majority are mindless goans who could care less about following the law they swear to uphold.. I remember being smacked by one of these fools as a kid for being out @ night. No criminal intent on my part just a kid hanging out in a poor comunity. There was no take u home to your parent, just slaps & instruction to run. Could not have been any older than 12-13. Left huge rigid mark. There is no reason for someone to make up a story like this, I believe him.

Then u would have to get rid of com stat. Com stat has been misused from its original purpose of reducing crime. It is manipulated in such a way that numerical reductions on paper is a complete farce not representing the true crime situation. Politics and elections are tied in with this so deeply now that without the peoples outrage its almost impossible to separate the 2 because of its impact on elections. What better way than a statistic that is easily manipulated to say crime is going down look what a great job we doing. Good luck getting politics out of it now.. Many police departments use com stat to justify existence, the need for more manpower and manipulating overtime. Its has gotten to the point where Departments will set up sting operations like put a purse in a high crime area and arrest people for stealing it because the theft's are down. You would think that thefts being down is a good thing but not if u want to hire more manpower or justify extra $$$ in overtime. Its definitely not the same com stat Juliani and Braton used to reduce crime in New York. The level of abuse of public trust and funds go deep with com stat people just don't realize how bad it is. All we need is a 3 line column, reported crime, enforcement efforts and its disposition. This would show the actual crime year to year and leave the politics out of it. The public has to be educated about these things to deal with crime and hold elected official and police departments accountable to the community.

Food, dollar, what's next? Many of our people have turned into savages

Live by the sword die by the sword

BJN i applaud your approach. You are addressing as part of the solution to the crime problem education, prevention, & deterrence. I respect the fact that u were one of the first to address this family crisis of fatherless kids and irresponsible breeding and parenting as the feeding source. I am a non partisan so i can objectively recognize good efforts by a politicians. Great Job Sir..

P.M who cares what the opposition thinks, if u r going to admit the signs were a bad idea, especially in tourist areas, own it and move on. But here lies the problem with our politicians & the explanation as to why we are in this state of affairs with crime. Our politicians are not statesmen, that is country before selfishness. All they cared about was winning, did not matter if the methods were harmful to the Bahamas or not. Just like in the eighties all they cared about was getting paid no matter whether it was drug money, robbing the public funds, side deals from foreign investors etc. Education, Family planning, good economic deal making on behalf of the Bahamian people would have drastically reduced the ignorance we see today. Its going to take a lot of changes to clean up this mess, u have had 2 almost 3 generations of kids that are now adults born since the 80's. Many grew up in piss poor conditions, fatherless homes & are poorly educated. It is the dysfunctions during this time period that's feed the crime. The war on crime has to include the war on ignorance. My hope is If we can just convince some ignorant fool to put on a condom or reduce or eliminate the illegal flow of immigrants that would at least keep the problem from expanding until other solutions are working.