St. Maarten Private Eye

2,197 recorded cases of theft. Most victims did not retrieve their stolen property, because the police only managed to solve 177 cases.

Every year we get these articles about crime figures, they make little sense, the numbers are confusing and the infomation in them is limited and screwy. Just what is the difficulty of printing a chart instead of this gobbledeegook?

For a small island, these figures show to me just how inept and bad our justice and police systems are.

Criminal activity still at record level - 5th January 2008