Dear Neighbour, The Sunday Independent (Sunday 09th August 2009), carries as its leader article "Violence soars amid stats row.'
This piece reinforces the need for community involvement via neighbourhood watch and community police forums. The government is most likely losing the 'war against crime' And is ineffective in several ways. Crime stats are disclosed 18 months in arrears, for reasons that are futile to speculate about. Some extracts form the Sunday Independent: * Proof of increase in violent crime: ten years ago there were several hundred 'lifers' in prison. Now there are 8,000! * Almost a third of prisoners were serving sentences of 10 to 15 years. * Police stats for 2007/08 show that 42,376 house burglaries were reported in the Western Cape.. (nobody can hazard a guess as to how many were not reported to SAPS) * Hollard Insurance says that the national stats show that in SA there is a house burglary every 2 minutes. (a very good reason to become part of a neighbourhood watch and look out for each other) * Vivienne of SA Insurance Association "The criminals are very organized. For them it's a business." (we need to be organized too) Regards, Kris Marais --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
