What a surprise...

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Congratulations SAPS, especially to those dedicated officers out there!!

Now... what was the NPA's conviction rate?
 
:) Nice to see an improvement, makes us feel that much safer in these streets. Lets hope the crime continues to take a noise dive, this will encourage even more tourism, businesses and generally the public will benefit from this.

*Salutes*
 
The numbers of cases of some of the most-feared crimes are all moving down.

- The number of murders is down by 5 percent.

- The number of attempted murders is down 11 percent.

- The sexual crimes total is down 3 percent.

- Car hijackings are down 24 percent.

- Truck hijackings are down 29 percent.

- Armed robberies are down 11 percent.

- Bank robberies are down a massive 58 percent.

- Cash-in-transit heists are down 19 percent.

- Home invasions are down 10 percent.

- Street robberies are down 10 percent.

- Business robberies are about the same.

The worst news is that criminals are targeting ATMs in a big way, so ATM blasts are up by 62 percent.

This year ATM blast statistics were added as a new category of aggravated robberies.

The police produced seven years’ worth of ATM blast numbers, starting from a low of eight in 2004/05, jumping to a high of 431 in 2007/08 and ending with 399 for the past year.

In Gauteng, carjacking dropped by 20 percent from 7 444 cars hijacked to 5 936.

Gauteng house robberies – he feared home invasions – dropped 12 percent from 8 051 to 7 039 incidents.

Business robberies increased in seven provinces, particularly in the Eastern Cape, but in Gauteng they dropped 13 percent from 6 379 to 5 553 incidents.
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http://www.iol.co.za:80/news/crime-courts/good-news-the-cops-are-winning-1.1133602
 
daveza said:
Close to 16000 murders is hardly anything to celebrate.

Nor are 56000 reported cases of rape.
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Murder may be down but what is not mentioned is the horrific violence that is done on the victims during the course of the crime.
 
VioAdmin said:
:) Nice to see an improvement, makes us feel that much safer in these streets. Lets hope the crime continues to take a noise dive, this will encourage even more tourism, businesses and generally the public will benefit from this.

*Salutes*
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why I didn't feel it?

- The sexual crimes total is down 3 percent.
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(how many didn't report?)

- Car hijackings are down 24 percent.
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(why my insurance is getting higher?)

- Truck hijackings are down 29 percent.
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(I didn't have a truck :p)

- Armed robberies are down 11 percent.
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(a shop in front of me had the arm robbery, 7 gunmen with AK47 emptied the shop [cellphones, laptops, cash] during worldcup)

- Bank robberies are down a massive 58 percent.
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(a bank behind me also had the arm robbery, similar situation as above.)

- Cash-in-transit heists are down 19 percent.
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(guards went to the post bank next to us, took all the cash, lately, post bank found that those guards were fake. criminals are getting cleverer. :D)

- Business robberies are about the same
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(that is the reason why I didn't feel safer .......... oh.. i see. :o )
 
Wait what?

But the media had a hissy fit at this new tougher stance on crime claiming it wouldn't actually reduce it and would in fact result in a wild west scenario of trigger happy cops blowing away anything suspicious that dared move. Criminal's precious rights would be infringed upon and innocent bystanders mowed down en masse. These stats must be fraudulent I'm sure Debora Patta is investigating as I type...


genetic said:
:rolleyes:

1,033,000 between 2003 and 2007.

That's 258,250 a year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_survey_of_Iraq_War_casualties


Happy?
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The ORB poll estimate has come under strong criticism in a peer reviewed paper entitled "Conflict Deaths in Iraq: A Methodological Critique of the ORB Survey Estimate", published in the journal Survey Research Methods. This paper "describes in detail how the ORB poll is riddled with critical inconsistencies and methodological shortcomings", and concludes that the ORB poll is "too flawed, exaggerated and ill-founded to contribute to discussion of the human costs of the Iraq war".[8][9]

Epidemiologist Francisco Checci recently echoed these conclusions in a BBC interview, stating that he thinks the ORB estimate was "too high" and "implausible". Checci, like the paper above, says that a “major weakness” of the poll was a failure to adequately distinguish between households and extended family.[10]

The Iraq Body Count project also rejected what they called the "hugely exaggerated death toll figures" of ORB, citing the Survey Research Methods paper. IBC concluded that, "The pressing need is for more truth rooted in real experience, not the manipulation of numbers disconnected from reality."[11]
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FAIL
 
Disgusting when compared to other countries, just shows the lack of justice and control in this country.
 
Alan said:
Wait what?

But the media had a hissy fit at this new tougher stance on crime claiming it wouldn't actually reduce it and would in fact result in a wild west scenario of trigger happy cops blowing away anything suspicious that dared move. Criminal's precious rights would be infringed upon and innocent bystanders mowed down en masse. These stats must be fraudulent I'm sure Debora Patta is investigating as I type...






FAIL
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Hehe but everyone is happy with the figures from WW2 or any other figures for mass deaths around the world in past couple of decades. Yet for an event in modern times (with all our technology we have) we can't come up with a proper figure. Strange!
 
Sorry, and I know I'll be called a negative, cynical bastard but the process from the point of a crime being reported to its net significance in the official statistics, is, in my opinion, not to be taken too seriously. I'd honestly be saying the same if they'd said all crimes were on the increase. I mean, let's face it, how can we believe anything our goverment says with its constant attempts to hide things that make them look bad.
 
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