This could only happen in the cash-strapped Netherlands Antilles. You have an 11,000 ft plus runway 30 miles away with avtur supplied by pipeline from the nearby refinery. Now you need all the facilities duplicated in Bonaire, 112 square miles of it, at the whim of KLM. The old control tower/ passenger facilities will also need a complete upgrade..
I expect that our dear friends in the Netherlands will be expected to foot the bill. . . . or even the Brits via Brussels as the Antilles are a European dependency
As to crime, yes you do tend to live behind bars but in general it was not violent crime.