After another bloody weekend, Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade held a press conference to tell people it is not the police’s fault.
That is true, but it does not help that so many police are corrupt and engaged in illegal activites.
Last weekend’s murder spree pushed the murder count up over 100, for the first time in Bahamian history.
Commissioner Ellison said that police are doing everything they can to stop the bloodshed. However, once an arrest is made, it is out of their hands.
Oddly, Mr Greenslade said he did not want to speak on the issue in much detail. But he didn’t think criminals were taking the law very seriously.
Well, blow me down! Isn’t that exactly what BahamasB2B said – EIGHT YEARS AGO – in an editorial that enraged certain Bahamians to such an extent that they allegedly paid people to attack the website?
In an editorial printed in the Nassau Guardian, back in 2003, the founder of BahamasB2B said that the law in The Bahamas is a joke. If criminals do not get punished for their crimes, crime will spiral out of control and literally destroy society.
But nobody wanted to talk about that back then. Ironcially, it is all anyone is talking about now.
While releasing the current crime statistics for the year-to-date, Commissioner Greenslade said:
“We have on record any number of persons who have committed serious crimes and we see these people in and out of the system.”
While he said police were doing the best job they can, Mr Greenslade appeared hesitant to point the finger at others involved in the legal system.
“I want to be very careful because I am never wanting to be offensive to anyone else or to disregard the role of anyone else.
“We continue to do our work and each occasion they offend we arrest them and take the requisite course of action. I am not sure that core group of serious, serial prolific offenders are truly taking us seriously in respect of the punishment and I want to be careful and not go much further than that,” he said.
The murder count in The Bahamas for the year-to-date is now 101, 87 of which were in New Providence.
Police say they have solved 51 per cent of the murders so far.
