The question is since government says they are operating in a ‘booming’ economy, but still operating in deficit spending, what will happen if the economy really slows or if there’s a recession?

“Something is wrong with that and I’m calling on all right thinking male and females to step up. We cannot allow a few males who lack home training to continue this scourge on our country.”
,
So haven’t we been hearing this narrative for ways too long? Even before Chief Superintendent Skippings assumed her post, we were being told ‘it is only a few rotten males wreaking havoc on the rest of society. The triple digit murders started some thirty years ago and if you average 100 murders for thirty years, that’s about 3,000 dead people, mostly males. And the people who were doing the killings in the 1990’s and not the ones committing murders today! How fo you know? Police own statistics say both the victims and perpetrators of murder are usually under 30 years of age and usually male ( until recently when women and children and now shooting victims). And the reverse is also true: some of the persons committing murder today were not yet born in the 1990’s. The point is the few men with no home training are constantly and vigorously being replaced and replenished. This is a SOCIAL problem BEFORE it becomes a police problem! Help take some stress of superintendent Skippings and get some social workers and social programs in place. Identify the hood looms with no home training and deal with them BEFORE they commit murder!

Were there two incidents where women were shot today or just this one. Some are saying two other women were shot and taken to the hospital this morning.

So do you think those organizations that pushing for murderers to get bail give a hoot about Bahamians and their safety? And in the US the bail restrictions are so tight it’s like persons are on house arrest not bail

The fact everyone continues to overlook is there needs to be intervention in these young men’s lives before a crime, especially murder, is committed!!! The country needs to hear more from the Ministrr of Social Services and the Minister of Education before the Commissioner of Police. Time to be proactive and stop being reactive. Get some police ( even retired ones) ministers and pastors and social workers into the junior and senior schools and interact with these kids. Stop waiting until the police have to go scrape up dead bodies and go hunting for killers. This was not part of Bahamian culture. Use the laws on the books to dismantle gangs and discourage membership. Put services in place to help young men find jobs and otherwise occupy their idle time. Don’t hide behind the bail act ( again) as an excuse for police ineffectiveness. What is needful becomes lawful.

You have to finish connecting the dots before you call for the mother to be prosecuted. Yes, harboring a criminal is a criminal offense, and the police says they knew the suspect was in the house at the time the 16 y:o got murdered. So we’re the police in the area at the time of the shooting? And was the suspect able to evade both the police and the snipers after the young girl was shot? Does the police have intelligence as to who did the shooting? Do they have intelligence as to where the suspect is now?

Still a lot left to be done: ‘ The government does not appear to have a comprehensive plan for addressing these root causes of gangs. This places a disproportionate burden on community, and civil-society and religious organizations to fill these social and economic needs, something they have not been able to do in the past.“The government chopped down the tree, but left the roots,” said Estuado Escobar, a Salvadoran lawyer and outspoken critic of the state of emergency.’

‘ Rattled, gang members appear to be in survival mode. Deprived of territory and revenue, regrouping is not an immediate option. They have also suffered from an apparent collapse in communication between cells following the onset of the state of emergency. Gang members that have stayed out of jail have largely been left on their own, according to gang sources interviewed by InSight Crime. ’
Drastic times calls for drastic measures. So has the time now come for the government to follow the example of El Salvador, where police rounded up thousands of men suspected of gang membership or gang activity and jailed them? Of course there will have to be a housing facility separate from Fox Hill Prison and once a y male is arrested and put into this ‘camp’ lawyers will not be allowed to intervene. The men then go through rigorous physical and mental exercises and are only isolated from the program when it is determined that they are not gang members, not involved in gang activity or show signs of reform. Those who are found to be steeped in gang activity will eventually have criminal charges brought against them and serve life imprisonment. The positive effects of this program are clear is the crime and murder in El Salvador has declined exponentially. And even though estimates are that some 21,000 gang members are still free, they are on the run, keeping a low profile and avoiding crime to avoid being captured. Remember this all started when the US released thousands of inmates , many suspected of being members of the deadly MS-13 gang, loaded them onto jets and returned them to their home countries in Central and South America and in The Caribbean. They caused murder and mayhem in these countries and El Salvador had taken the most drastic and effective measures thus far to stamp out gangs and eliminate violence in that country. Crime been serious in this country long time. Time for government to get serious and stop the talk, talk, talk!

Why we must pray: ‘ Ephesians 6:12

NKJV

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against mprincipalities, against powers, against nthe rulers of 3the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.’ ESV For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.‘

brave davis and others who are involved in the fight against crime and especially violent crime and murder MUST, must remember that crime is only a symptom of something else gone wrong in the society. And you can continue fighting the symptom until the cows come home and the situation will NOT get better. Going after the bad boys after they have already become bad boys or having to take someone off the streets and lock them up after they have committed a violent crime or murder is not fixing a broken system. It is simply dealing with someone who has fallen through the cracks. .
.
So to fix the problem of crime one must dig deeper. Violent crime and murder had been a costly and vexing problem in this country for four solid decades and more. And the persons who are committing the crime today are not the ones who were committing the crimes in the 1980’s and the 1990s Many of them have died or otherwise moved off the scene. So the question is why is this country continuing to breed criminals. They start off at 26, 17, 18 years old and by the time they are in their mid 30’s, many of them are dead. Shirt life span, short criminal career but one that seeks to destroy the very foundation of this country. And you can list these young men as ‘aliens’ to The BaHAMAS, because before many of them can get to know this country or even know themselves, they will be dead. Is the country failing them?