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Those troubling crime statistics

Dear Editor,

The official crime statistics for the first seven months of this year released on Monday by National Security Minister Tommy Turnquest confirmed a startling fact that virtually every Bahamian already knew: The Bahamas is experiencing a frightening level of serious crime that apparently has rendered the current Free National Movement (FNM) government impotent as far as finding solutions to this troubling problem is concerned.

Initially, it seemed as if the police were too embarrassed to release the actual figures when The Nassau Guardian repeatedly requested them over the past couple months, but after The Guardian published a story criticizing the failure of the police to respond to its request, Mr. Turnquest hurriedly made the figures public.

What the figures showed was that crime overall increased by 16 percent compared to the same period last year.  Indeed, there were significant increases in practically every area of serious crime – murder, rape, attempted rape, armed robbery, robbery, housebreaking, stealing, stealing from vehicles and stolen vehicles.

Murders were up by an astonishing 57 percent, from 54 for the first seven months of 2010 to 85 from January 1 to July 31, 2011.  Of course, that figure has skyrocketed to 92 since then, and may very well have continued its upward spiral by the time this is printed, possibly surpassing the record-breaking 94 murders last year.

More likely than not because more deadly weapons are being used when firearms are responsible for a murder, incidents of attempted murder declined by 14 percent and manslaughter by 100 percent.

Rape was up by 26 percent, from 53 to 67 this year; attempted rape increased 11 percent, from 19 to 21; robberies skyrocketed 19 percent, from 175 to 208; armed robberies jumped 14 percent, from 459 to 522; attempted robberies soared by 38 percent, from 16 to 22; housebreaking leaped by 12 percent, from 1701 to 1908; stealing also was up by 12 percent, from 1048 to 1170; stolen vehicles shot upwards by 7 percent; and there was an astronomical 97 percent increase in the category of stealing from vehicles, from 705 to 1386.

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