And depending on who get ‘fix’ it may still happen.

The reason you don’t hear much about police killings and beatings in the US is because courts are no longer leaning towards police officers in these matters. In fact when officers are found guilty of unlawfully beating a citizen or wrongful death they are given very harsh sentences. Harsher than a regular citizen . The presumption is a police officer should know better. And in Florida the crackdown on rogue officers has become so serious when there is a police involved shooting, the police staff association brings its own lawyers to the scene to protect the rights of their officers. The end result is officers are exercising more diligence in the execution of their duties and whenever there is a police involved shooting, the public is more inclined to believe it was justified. Here a police spokesman stands over an innocent body riddled with 18 bullet holes and still warm and says ‘there will be no special investigation into this murder (sic).’ And that’s that!

Two things that increase when times are bad are alcohol consumption and church attendance.

How many officers have Anthony Ferguson dismissed of suspended since taking control of the force? This gestapo type policing came into effect when he was a member of the force. And the increase in violent and deadly crime has a direct correlation with police abuse and mistreatment of persons in their custody and the public in general.

Google how many Billions in fines these same ‘Lilly white ‘ banks that are rejecting the web shops have received in the past decade. For violations that included the illegal sharing of clients information and receiving of funds from scrupulous clients.

When you travel to Northern parts of the Bahamas, many vendors are reluctant to take Bahamian money and Bud and Budweiser outsell Kalik and Sands beer. Persons operating bars can hop on to a speed boat and dash to Miami and purchases cases of beer cheaper than it sells for locally. So they sell for a cheaper price and so they sell more. the same with restaurant supplies, clothing furniture, building supplies, most of it is brought in in those islands exclusive of VAt and customs duties. And, of course, some makes it way down to New Providence and other islands and merchants cannot compete. But rather than strengthen its forces in those islands, the government seeks the lazy way and continues to pile up more taxes to the businesses that are paying but are already overtaxed and overburdened.

> According to Ms Thurston, Mr Bain
> believes the beating was more severe
> because the officer delivering most of
> the blows was also allegedly drinking
> alcohol. Up to yesterday she said he
> was complaining of chest pains and
> other injuries from the abuse suffered
> while in custody

.Kill the father to find the missing son!

Imagine your son, your first born goes missing, apparently kidnapped and you don't know if he is living or dead. Then you are taken by police and given the most vicious beating of your life and still detained, even after your son is recovered. Despite what a learned psychologist has said about males being sexually and physically abused in their toddler/youth years and this leading to violence and even murder the country is experiencing today, the police force has done more damage to more young men than any other institution in this country. Any! And both Marvin Dames and Anthony Ferguson should hold their head in shame and be removed forthwith... they are breeding a gang of torturing animals and not running a police force. And no this does not include the entire force. There are many upstanding officers who, too are shocked by some of the horror stories and the illegal actions of some police officers. But Dames and Ferguson are fully aware of the torture they allow their officers to inflict on innocent young men in this country, destroying them mentally or physically and disabling them for life. The beatings with baseball bats, the use of mechanical tools on one's genitals, the electric shocking, the placing of plastic bags over the head until the victim passes out, probably suffering brain damage, due to lack of oxygen, that does not manifest until later. Persons dying in custody and now even reports of persons allegedly going missing in the hands of the police. Any dummy knows that if you damage a number of innocent men to solve one crime and find one guilty person, then society becomes filled with damaged individuals who become anti-police and anti-social and eventually they become labeled as "known to police." Injured people seek to hurt other people.

The privatization of cruise tourism as we know it and he calls it a Winn, win situation. So the cruise industry is growing. The ships are getting larger, the passenger count is increasing but the ships are providing more and more of their resources and excluding more and more interaction with the Bahamas and less opportunity for entrepreneurial Bahamians. They blame it on crime but everyone )yes even with a little bit of sense) know that story is manufactured. More guests are robbed, raped or otherwise accounted and molested on cruise ships every year than in the entire Bahamas. So let them cart away Billions then whil Bahamians can hardly afford peanuts. First it was the hotels, now it is the cruise ships. All Exclusive to Bahamians

It is important to find the kidnappers to find out what their intentions were. Did they intend to smuggle this child out of the country or did they intend to use him in some sacrificial ritual. Or was it a case of mistaken identity ? Did the wide media and social network publicity cause the kidnappers to abandon the little boy? Is this an isolated incident or a new trend happening in the country. But the best news is the young boy was released and returned to his family safe and unharmed.