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banker 12 years, 3 months ago on Police officers waiting for answers over compensation

Police officers waiting for answers over compensation

Having the police work 12 hour shifts is like have the fire department go out and spray all of the houses with water regularly to prevent fires.

Hiring more police to provide rapid 911 responses, unfocused random patrol, and reactive arrests does not prevent serious crime. Community policing without a clear focus on crime risk factors generally shows no effect on crime. -- Lawrence W. Sherman US National Criminal Justice Reference Service ncjrs.gov

The root cause of crime is poverty, unemployment, under education, and lack of legitimate opportunity. Canada has a murder rate of 1.74 per hundred thousand. If we had that, we would have 8 or less murders a year in all of the Bahamas. We are over ten times that.

Having the police on the street for 12 hours will do nothing for the crime rate.