– Mike Smith warns
In one year - 2008-2009 – a total of 2,134 cases were officially lodged against the police. Of that only 38 convictions followed. That is a conviction rate of 1,78% . And those 2,134 official cases are just the tip of the iceberg: the majority of SA residents are too terrified to lodge charges against the police. This became clear by Stats-SA’s publication of its latest household survey on November 24 2011 http://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/PO341/PO3412o11.pdf
This showed that householders of all races were terrified of the police: so terrified that in areas mostly occupied by white, coloured and Asian/Indian residents, the householders preferred contacting their local crime-prevention units and private security companies first — before filing formal charges with the SAPS later; while in black areas, the householders didn’t even bother going to the cops: they instead ‘had their crime-problems sorted out’ by vigilante group such as taxi-associations or trusted traditional healers.
http://nolstuijt.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/south-african-police-are-criminal-scum-mike-smith-warns/
