This is the safest place to live in SA, based on News24's CrimeCheck

[ToxicBunny]

This is the safest place to live in SA, based on News24's CrimeCheck | News24

The Mpisi police precinct in the Eastern Cape is the safest in South Africa, according to News24’s CrimeCheck application.

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[ToxicBunny]

Just had a quick squizz around this new little CrimeCheck tool that News24 has launched. The first thing that jumps out at me is just how screwed the crime stats must be.

Place like Pinetown (the whole suburb area) is classed as high risk, which it is... but the townships of Kwadebeka and Inanda just next door are low crime risk....

 

[epah]

I dont believe that.

 

[epah]

Just had a quick squizz around this new little CrimeCheck tool that News24 has launched. The first thing that jumps out at me is just how screwed the crime stats must be.

Place like Pinetown (the whole suburb area) is classed as high risk, which it is... but the townships of Kwadebeka and Inanda just next door are low crime risk....

The poor dont steal from their neighbors, there is nothing to steal either way. so they go to the suburbs and steal there.

 

[ToxicBunny]

The poor dont steal from their neighbors, there is nothing to steal either way. so they go to the suburbs and steal there.

Oh trust me the do steal from their neighbours.. often, but they go on drink fueled ramages and have a tendency to knife and shoot each other.

 

[ForceFate]

The place where I grew up is one of the safest places in the country. However, if the police don't proactively work on the drug problem, I see that status changing in the near future. I'm told nyaope dealers are in cahoots with the police...

 

[dualmeister]

BS. We all know it is Orania.

 

[Harmonic]

Apparently it's safer to live in Khayelitsha than it is to live in Camps Bay

 

[SAguy]

Claremont is ranked worse than Hanover Park, someone has never been in HP at night

 

[Harmonic]

St Francis Bay is ranked 1148 / 1158 most dangerous. Ya no

 

[Rocket-Boy]

The EC police dont want to fill out the documentation to report a crime.
My wife had issues with a "carguard" threatening all of the shop owners of a street and he started to get violent. They went to report it at the main police station in EL and were told by the senior detective "what do you want us to do?"
They had to literally argue with the police to get them to open a protection order after someone had been assaulted by this person. When he showed up again the next day after the protection order and the police we called, they again said "what do you want us to do? we dont have cars" Eventually when an office arrived later that afternoon, their advice was to gang up on this person and beat them up badly enough that they wont want to come back.

So if you want to know why the stats look that way in the EC then there is a valid reason.

 

[Kola-CT]

Had a look, will be away from the forum for a few days to lock the house the fukk down... it is not as safe here as I thought having lived here for 12+ years...

 

[ToxicBunny]

The EC police dont want to fill out the documentation to report a crime.
My wife had issues with a "carguard" threatening all of the shop owners of a street and he started to get violent. They went to report it at the main police station in EL and were told by the senior detective "what do you want us to do?"
They had to literally argue with the police to get them to open a protection order after someone had been assaulted by this person. When he showed up again the next day after the protection order and the police we called, they again said "what do you want us to do? we dont have cars" Eventually when an office arrived later that afternoon, their advice was to gang up on this person and beat them up badly enough that they wont want to come back.

So if you want to know why the stats look that way in the EC then there is a valid reason.

Its going to be that way in many parts of the country tbh....

Our Crime Stats are horribly skewed and incorrect for a variety of reasons, but a visualisation like this from News24 shows just how badly screwed they are.

 

[ForceFate]

BS. We all know it is Orania.

Orania isn't a policing precinct

 

[ToxicBunny]

The place where I grew up is one of the safest places in the country. However, if the police don't proactively work on the drug problem, I see that status changing in the near future. I'm told nyaope dealers are in cahoots with the police...

The cheap drug problem is growing week by week...

If anything, it largely fuels a huge chunk of the petty crime in residential areas where the guys are stealing anything that isn't nailed/bolted down to sell for their next fix.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Just had a quick squizz around this new little CrimeCheck tool that News24 has launched. The first thing that jumps out at me is just how screwed the crime stats must be.

Place like Pinetown (the whole suburb area) is classed as high risk, which it is... but the townships of Kwadebeka and Inanda just next door are low crime risk....

Data is probably based on formally reported crime, which seems to mean that those type of townships don't report as much.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

BS. We all know it is Orania.

Incest is still a crime...

 

[dualmeister]

Orania isn't a policing precinct

 

[walterl]

My suburb - 1057 / 1158, so only 101 places with higher crime in the whole country...LOL!

 

[ToxicBunny]

Data is probably based on formally reported crime, which seems to mean that those type of townships don't report as much.

100%... but the visualisation of that data shows just how incorrect that data actually is, even if its based off formally reported crimes.

As an example, (and yes its because its the first place I picked on) Pinetown is marked as high risk, but Pinetown has about 10 different suburbs and areas which each have their own crime profile, some are horrid and others are actually pretty decent.