Misdaad vir Beginners

Daar is so baie gedagterigtings hier dat dit moeilik is om 'n eenvoudige samehangende opsomming te gee.

Ek dink egter wat indirek beklemtoon word is die omvang van die probleem en dat daar nie 'n gekoördineerde program is om werk van misdaad te maak nie.

Dit is na my mening aksiomaties dat dit 'n probleem is wat vele fasette het en dat 'n aksieplan opgestel moet word om die vele aspekte gelyktydig te takel. Alleenlik dan kan 'n mens resultate verwag.

Dit is ook ontstellend dat mense aktief betrokke by misdaadbestryding nie die omvang van die probleem besef nie. Kyk hier (uittreksel uit webwerf hierbo geskakel):

.... Thomas Sithole, chairman of the Alexandra Community Policing Forum;.....

The discussion began with Newham and Jafta acknowledging that crime rates were unacceptably high and that there had been an increase late last year, fuelled by organised gangs including foreigners and by the security officers’ strike.

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There have been pockets of positive change, like Alexandra where a focu sed programme is reaping visible rewards, and perceptions there can be quite different.

Sithole: “With the excitement of 2010 we drive the whole thing out of proportion to say the crime level is high. I’ve been involved in our community policing forum for 10 years. Compared with previous years, the level of crime ... has tremendously decreased.”

Major surveys, including ones by Markinor and Afrobarometer, do not confirm Sithole’s perception, however. After improvements up to 2006, public confidence about its own safety has plunged. [beklemtoning my eie]

Louw: “The biggest percentage drop [in confidence] was in the black population. The white population and the Indian population are always the most unhappy and the most fearful, but the percentage of these people who had confidence in the government went from 13% to 12%. But in the black and coloured populations, which are generally more positive, it dropped by about 20 percentage points between February and November 2006. It’s very clearly not just a white, middle-class thing.” "

Die verwysing na Alexandra is nogal interessant want dit was een van die plekke wat die ANC werklik gedurende die tagtigs onregeerbaar gemaak het (Sien Magus Malan se onlangse outobiografie). Die weermag het daar 'n grootse poging aangewend om die situasie weer leefbaar te maak. Dit is nogal heel gepas dat die regering van vandag hul gemors daar moet regmaak.