Not my words. That was Mark Twain in 1906, though he didn't specify "crime." He credited the words to Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, but that hasn't been confirmed. So there we go.Some stats are fairly okay: airport arrivals, barrels of oil produced. Crime stats aren't.The main hospital in Nassau, Princess Margaret, reports 278 gunshot patients and 241 who were stabbed last year. Those numbers are from the director of Accident and Emergency, Dr Duane Sands, who can probably do arithmetic.
That does not include shot-or-stabbed patients at the privately-run Doctors' Hospital in Nassau, the Rand Memorial on Grand Bahama, or clinics on the other islands of the Bahamas.The police report just ten cases of attempted murder for the year, and 197 shooting incidents, nationwide.At first glance, a good few of the 519 shootings and stabbings should count as attempted murder.
Dr Sands told the Nassau Tribune: "If we were off by ten, were off by 20, were off by 30, I would say we could possibly explain it." He asks: "How are we defining attempted murder?"A patient comes in having been seriously injured, say they've been stabbed in the heart or they've been shot through a major blood vessel in the body, and then when we follow it up...if the patient does well, the accused gets charged with causing harm."
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