But even though there are innocent lives being ripped away, and fathers and sons whose families will never see them again, according to the police department's communications officer, they still have the crime situation under control.
Today ASP Fitzroy Yearwood suggested that law abiding residents may be exaggerating when they say it is out of hand. He also added that the police are doing their best, and their presence will be felt more heavily on the ground.
ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Officer
"We are trying our best to bring our city- we know that the city is not out of control but we know that law abiding like your grandparents, my mother, my father, other people's grandparents, when they hear one murder, it's too much for them so we want to assure them that the police presence will be in the streets. We will continue to go hard after these criminal elements that we believe are responsible for people not feeling safe in their own homes and we will stop at nothing, we will increase our patrols, actually, and we will ask the general public, it might look like nothing major to you, but report every crime that you see because each crime could be connected to a larger crime."
