Excuse me, what right do you have to say about my reputation? I have never once been personal with you? Infact I have been reserved with my comments. Oh if you read the threads you would have seen that the states posted by the SAPS and rest do not add up
Ha ha ha since when is me stating that "for the sake of your reputation on here I hope the latter" a personal attack on you? And I will continue with that thought process now... why post the first link then as I tend to read from top to bottom so when you post the first ten links you have found on google I tend to read the first one first. When this then confirms what I am saying I tend to not bother continuing.
I did, however, have a look at the next few after posting and did find the sources interesting.
The second one was dubiously from a website called
www.gunowners.org and seemed like a newsletter of theirs. Leaving this aside they then also go on to talk about crime between 1994 and 2001 which is once again irrelevant to our conversation as your claim was that crime, along with everything else, has started going badly wrong in recent times hence your recent negativity. Stats from 2001 do not support or contradict this, so a bit pointless really.
The third one from a website called
WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org, so we know where they are coming from. Again leaving this aside the entire article's basis is this is based on a book by Jim Peron and in particular this : "in Jim's book, on pages 104-105, he compiled crime statistics for South Africa from 1974-1997". Now in your previous link it was stated that "it is difficult to get crime statistics prior to 1994". So I do wonder what information Mr Peron had access to that others don't.
Fourth, again a report from 2001 using figures from 1998 which makes it irrelevant to our recent drastic increase in crime conversation.
And now I am not going to carry on as I have no need to read through every google link related to SA crime. Post something relevant and I'll read it with pleasure.
