No trust in Cape Town’s
police system
March 10 2014
Last
week, police officers stripped and beat a Nigerian man in the Cape Town CBD.
The video went viral, erupting a new wave of controversy around police
brutality.
How
do Capetonians feel about their protectors? RA’EESA PATHER reports.
Chris,
Mitchell’s Plain
Police
in general are very bad. I stay in Mitchell’s Plain and police brutality is
bad. If you have an incident it takes them up to two hours before they come. I
stay in Westridge and they’ll tell you they have one van patrolling an area as
big as Cape Town CBD, which isn’t fair. There’s nine or ten areas in Mitchell’s
Plain, and they have 12 vans. They just don’t care about speed. They take their
own bloody time to help you. Police brutality is bad, especially now with what
happened to that Nigerian guy last week. It’s a reoccurring incident that needs
to be stopped. I don’t trust the police. I believe that we as South Africans
should deal with things. Rather handle your situation if you’ve got a crime
committed. Rather persecute and punish the person yourself. That’s my feeling.
