What is going on in this country. I just recently read in the online edition of the Guardian, about a woman who was chopped by robbers at her store on Acklins Street. What is going on, are people all of a sudden bloodthirsty in this country. I mean take the money and leave, must you also mutilate and scar innocent people. I am extremely sad :cry: and extremely angry :hot: , that our country is becoming a voilent crimes capital. We wont be able to say anything against Jamaica, or the US, or any other country with highj crime rates, not at the rate we are going.

Dianah

Yep, actually we have always at least in the past few years had a higher crime rate per capital than the US, believe it or not. (per number of people living here and the amount of crime we have, especially violent crime, burglary and rape). We are still not close to Jamaica yet, that is just a hell hole full of crime!

They need to look at the laws and how they prosecute criminals, thats the problem. I got ganged by low lifes with home made axes 3 years ago and had to defend my life for 20 minutes up a road, and they stole my vehicle. The criminals got 17 months in prison, and would be released earlier (3 years ago now so they are probably out doing it again), for attempted murder, armed robbery, and grand theft auto. The prosecutors never called me to let me know they had caught the criminals, I read about it in the paper that they pleaded guilty. All the facts the prosecuter presented to the courts, and what the morons gave to the Tribune were totally the opposite of what happened and what was produced on my police report.

I see the law in the Bahamas, as far as the courts, useless. Its not up to the police to keep them off the street, they do their job from what I can see, they lock them up, but the courts just give them small sentences and they get out to do it all again. Whether it is the Judge or the Prosecutor I do not know, but something is wrong. I see they are letting murderers out after 1 year in Prison, what is up with that!!!

People wonder why I have so much security and self protection, to them I say 'come on', just read the newspapers every so often or talk to other bahamians and you will see why. If I had the cash Id wear a bullet proof vest, cause we are really in a war zone in Nassau these days. (or do I already wear one :-)

/// and I still question these rediculous speed limits we have here, 30mph in such dangerous times, I couldn't do 30 if I wanted to, costs more gas to go dead slow then to go a normal speed like 40 which american vehicles are made for, at the least. I follow all normal traffic laws though, I cant stand people that dont signal or drive at 20mph, or run red lights, they are a threat to my, and others lives and have no comprehension of how to drive a vehicle - to those I say - learn to drive at 40 or get off the road...///


Rory, you are so right with very much of what you are saying. (One thing though, I don't agree with you about the 40 mile per hour driving). That rate of driving might not be too dangerous on long stretches of roads like Harold Road, Carmichael, JFK, etc, but with over-the-hill and other densely populated areas in Nassau, you could easily injure or kill someone, especially young children, some of whom still have the bad habit of suddenly dashing across the path of a car! Right close up to your hood!

It is such a sad and terrible thing that our authorities have just sat and let the crime situation gradually increased so much over the years. I have long considered about our per capita crime rate being higher than the US, which is so shocking. Say what you like, I feel sure that if the UBP were in power, the crime rate would NOT have been so high! [I know some would want my head for saying this, but I don't care, I am just stating a well-considered opinion! I don't mean that I would LIKE to see them in power again! But who knows, they might just do better than what we now have!].

Someone once said that if the older Bahamians who have passed on in the 1940's and 50's were to come back to life by some miracle and see what is now going on here, they would all commit suicide because they would not believe they were in the Bahamas. What a disgrace!

On a previous thread I started in late December last year, I gave my views on what I think should be done and what should have been done to help cut down on crimes and criminals.

One of our biggest fears now, and God forbid, I really am surprised it has not happened yet, is that we might start resorting to vigilantism, ie, in the sense of taking the law into our own hands!

Rory, I think the speed limit on most of our roads is 25 M.P.H not 30 :driving:

The trouble with crime is that many of the guys doing it don't think they are doing wrong, or they don't care. Their minds, trained on Gangster rap, bad "B" movies, a few snorts of "coke" and a strong belief that they are being kept down by the establishment, allows them to take anything they want and in some cases, beat you up if you dare stand in their way.

Rory, I think the speed limit on most of our roads is 25 M.P.H not 30 :driving:


you can still kill someone doing 25 or 30, no difference. dead is dead. Its about training drivers when to slow down, you dont just drive drive drive. To have pockets of speed limits like 15 or 20 in school zones or such is normal, but to have a 10 mile stretch of road with a 30mph speed limit is rediculous. Either way noone is going to stick to 30mph if they have something to get done in the daym or else it would never get done..

What is going on in this country. I just recently read in the online edition of the Guardian, about a woman who was chopped by robbers at her store on Acklins Street. What is going on, are people all of a sudden bloodthirsty in this country. I mean take the money and leave, must you also mutilate and scar innocent people. I am extremely sad :cry: and extremely angry :hot: , that our country is becoming a voilent crimes capital. We wont be able to say anything against Jamaica, or the US, or any other country with highj crime rates, not at the rate we are going.

Dianah


sounds racialy motivated!

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