Article: SA murder rate down

South Africa's murder rate has dropped by 3.1 percent in the past financial year, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa announced on Thursday.

Releasing the 2011/12 annual crime statistics at Parliament, Mthethwa said in 2004/5 more than 18,000 people were murdered -- now down to less than 16,000.
 
I trust the figures/stats as much as I trust the goverment ... which is f-ck all.
 
Well if the stats are to be trusted, it's like one less murder per day. Considering that around 45 people are murdered each day in SA, it's really no great shakes
 
What do you believe then? The newspapers? If so things are a lot merrier than we think.
 
McSack said:
Well if the stats are to be trusted, it's like one less murder per day. Considering that around 45 people are murdered each day in SA, it's really no great shakes
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Erm, 16,000 / 365 = 43.8
 
gregmcc said:
You just need to follow the current affairs thread here to see how bad things are getting.
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Really? The sky has been falling for an awfully long time. 45 people are murdered a day apparently and the only focus on murder is when it comes to farm murders which is about once every month, if that.
 
gregmcc said:
You just need to follow the current affairs thread here to see how bad things are getting.
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Trust me, things are nowhere near as bad as this particular section of the forum make it out to be. Nobody posts any positive news here, if someone does, it does not get anywhere near the same amount of posts as something negative...
 
sox63 said:
Trust me, things are nowhere near as bad as this particular section of the forum make it out to be. Nobody posts any positive news here, if someone does, it does not get anywhere near the same amount of posts as something negative...
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There aren't nearly anywhere near 5, let alone 40+ stories of murder each day. It all gets filtered down to highlight racial profiling.
 
(@) (@) twister said:
Really, how so ??
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If it's black on white violence, it's a thread in the Current Affairs section. If it's white on black violence, it's a thread in the Current Affairs section. And farm murders of course, which affect both races almost equally.
 
Fudzy said:
Congrats, you can do division too.
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Errmmm ... what was your original point again ...?:erm:

Do you honestly think that a reduction of 1 murder per day when the rate is around 45 is even newsworthy?

Don't get me wrong, if I am one of those reductions then I'm eternally grateful ...
There has been a 3.1 percent drop in the murder rate, a 5.2 percent drop in attempted murder and a 1.9 percent drop in the number of reported rapes.

Mthethwa has however emphasised the statistics are not good enough...
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Couldn't agree more, but that's what was said last year , and the year before ... and the year before ....

Meanwhile, cash heists are down nearly 40 percent and bank robberies by 10.3 percent.
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Now that's a reduction to write home to mom about... well done to all those involved.

But business robberies has seen an increase of 7.5 percent.
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Eish!
 
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sox63 said:
Trust me, things are nowhere near as bad as this particular section of the forum make it out to be. Nobody posts any positive news here, if someone does, it does not get anywhere near the same amount of posts as something negative...
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It's not particular to this forum - it's all over the world that people are generally "negative".
 
McSack said:
Errmmm ... what was your original point again ...?:erm:

Do you honestly think that a reduction of 1 murder per day when the rate is around 45 is even newsworthy?
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Just reread your post, sorry I thought you were saying the stats implied the rate was less than 1 a day now as the total, not the difference.
 
Fudzy said:
Just reread your post, sorry I thought you were saying the stats implied the rate was less than 1 a day now as the total, not the difference.
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No worries
I really wish police ministers were taken to task for not doing enough to significantly reduce our unacceptably high murder rate
 
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