Protest
against poor police response
6 murders: black people
necklaced: Khutsong, Carletonville residents rioted to protest against poor
police response to gangs terrorising towns:
18:40 Nov 15 2013 Khutsong, Carletonville, South Africa
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Khutsong Carletonville residents are sick and tired of being terrorised
by gangs: so they protested and the riots went out of control - suddenly there
were more than enough police to fight residents: six were killed in riots:
Adele Louw writes in the Carletonville Herald: 2013-11-12 This past weekend, Khutsong residents rioted and went out of control because the SAPS is not paying attention to any gang-related crimes.
This past weekend six people were murdered, but nobody was arrested.
There was a long runup to the explosion of violence this weekend, she writes:
the public kept complaining about the gang-crime, and complaints that the police were not helping them fight the gangs fell on deaf ears.
The SAPS said in turn they were not given enough resources to fight crime: personnel, crime-fighting material and rolling stock were inefficient to fight the gangs.
Meanwhile the public have to live in the grip of violent crimes controlling their suburbs.
Louw writes: while it's ironic that the SAPS in the area could not summon extra police-help when they had to act against the gangs, help suddenly arrived from all directions
when the residents rioted this past weekend. Couldn't decision-makers within the police have provided that same kind of help and prevent these problems in the first place if they had provided sufficient help to fight the gangs?
Meanwhile, residents are increasingly irate and feel that the only way they can get attention for the gang-problem is to take such drastic actions.
And they seem to have a point if one saw the overwhelming police response when the citizens started rioting.
Meanwhile other area residents are equally angry about the murders committed lately. Will all these crimes get sufficient police-attention before
the entire community decides to take the law into their own hands?
http://www.carletonvilleherald.com/101368/news-details/mense-moeg-vir-misdaad
Adele Louw writes in the Carletonville Herald: 2013-11-12 This past weekend, Khutsong residents rioted and went out of control because the SAPS is not paying attention to any gang-related crimes.
This past weekend six people were murdered, but nobody was arrested.
There was a long runup to the explosion of violence this weekend, she writes:
the public kept complaining about the gang-crime, and complaints that the police were not helping them fight the gangs fell on deaf ears.
The SAPS said in turn they were not given enough resources to fight crime: personnel, crime-fighting material and rolling stock were inefficient to fight the gangs.
Meanwhile the public have to live in the grip of violent crimes controlling their suburbs.
Louw writes: while it's ironic that the SAPS in the area could not summon extra police-help when they had to act against the gangs, help suddenly arrived from all directions
when the residents rioted this past weekend. Couldn't decision-makers within the police have provided that same kind of help and prevent these problems in the first place if they had provided sufficient help to fight the gangs?
Meanwhile, residents are increasingly irate and feel that the only way they can get attention for the gang-problem is to take such drastic actions.
And they seem to have a point if one saw the overwhelming police response when the citizens started rioting.
Meanwhile other area residents are equally angry about the murders committed lately. Will all these crimes get sufficient police-attention before
the entire community decides to take the law into their own hands?
http://www.carletonvilleherald.com/101368/news-details/mense-moeg-vir-misdaad
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