South Africa 25: Murder rates in 2019 are much lower than 1994, even if it doesn’t feel that way By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
found, in fact, that the South Africans surveyed felt their country was more unsafe than did the inhabitants of Palestine and Libya.
The result, Weyers says, is that “despite having a good police-to-population ratio by global standards, police in South Africa have not been – and are not – where they are actually needed, and where crime happens. This has meant crime detection levels and conviction rates have been low and this has contributed to a degree of impunity from perpetrators”.
Newham describes what happened over the last decade as “the wilful destruction of the criminal justice sector by the former president and his cronies”. The fact that it was the residents of the impoverished Cape Flats who suffered most from this influx of firearms is entirely typical of the wider crime situation of democratic South Africa.It occurs most often between young black men, with limited economic opportunities, in poor, working-class communities.
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