Thousands arrested for drugs: Cops

Can the leaders really be that stupid :(

How about crowd-sourced laws? Where the nation gets to decide about certain laws. Would go hand in hand with e-voting
 
Broken-window policy...

Take them all down!
is a great policy for dealing with corruption and vandalism

doesn't work for statutory offences relating to possession of something proscribed by legislation (drugs, series and warez, firearms, crowbars)
 
it isn't the cops fault our courts are horribly corrupt. I reckon they arrest far more rapists and murderers than we know about, dockets are easily lost, evidence tampering with easy. Killing witnesses etc. So many ways to get off charges as long as you have money to grease a few palms.

Killa
I have to ask, have you ever spent time in a criminal court.
It is not the court's that are corrupt.
The dockets are kept by the investigating officer - a cop.
The evidence is kept at the police station - again cops.

Then of course the legal process itself:
In court you will find the magistrate, the prosecutor, the accused & their attorney.
Over & over & over, you will hear the cases are remanded for further investigation, this will usually happen at least 5 or 6 times before a trial date is even set - again, waiting on the police to do their work.
Or very often, the investigating officer is not present - remanded - again - the cops.
Or the docket is not at court - remanded - again - the cops.
Or the forensic results are not available - remanded - again - the cops.
Killing of witnesses - accused is granted bail, one of the fundamental requirements of being granted bail, is that the accused will not interfere with the witnesses or investigation - again - the domain of the cops.
 
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Fact of the matter is that:
Either the wrong people are cops...
The cops are not well trained...
Nobody (in Justice) cares a damn!
 
Why do you keep nitpicking at the irrelevant, and not address the actual point?

I used arbitrary examples to highlight that simply changing one aspect of the criminal justice system (thanks, Orbital) will not solve either the crime problem nor the inefficiency that we face in dealing with it.

Simple in the basic idea- take away the reasons that people commit crimes over in the first place.

I understand that, i was under the impression you were saying the brutality of our criminals stem from their upbringing and i don't believe it, that isn't to say their upbringing does not create the monsters.

Mitos i would imagine the last one
 
5 million Rands worth of drugs and 13608 arrests. That means on average they only taking in R357 worth of drugs per arrest. I never knew the policy was go after the small guys.
 
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