{"id":10482,"date":"2013-09-19T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10482"},"modified":"2013-09-19T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T11:27:08","slug":"south-africas-crime-stats-worst-in-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10482","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s crime stats &#8216;worst in ten years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5587\" alt=\"crime-gun\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Responding to the release today (19 September 2013) of the SA Police Service crime statistics for 2012\/13, Institute for Security Studies&#8217; analyst Gareth Newham said the following:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>&#8220;Serious and violent crime is increasing in South Africa. This shows that government&#8217;s approach to crime is not working.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;After a long period of decreases in serious and violent crime, these are the worst figures we have seen in ten years.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Reducing crime is not only a police responsibility. There is also an important role for other government departments such as health, education and social development.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0&#8220;Violence remains unacceptably high and should be treated as a serious crisis which stands in the way of South Africa&#8217;s social and economic development.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We have seen increases in murder, attempted murder, car hijacking, street robbery and house robbery. These are some of the crimes South Africans are most afraid of.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We understand that the police work under very difficult circumstances, and we applaud the many officers who work tirelessly to combat crime and to protect people and communities in South Africa.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gareth Newham is director of the Governance, Crime and Justice programme at the Institute for Security Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the release today (19 September 2013) of the SA Police Service crime statistics for 2012\/13, Institute for Security Studies&#8217; analyst Gareth Newham said the following: &#8220;Serious and violent crime is increasing in South Africa. This shows that government&#8217;s approach to crime is not working.&#8221; &#8220;After a long period of decreases in serious and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Africa&#8217;s crime stats &#8216;worst in ten years&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,6366,913,6365],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-gareth-newham","tag-institute-for-security-studies","tag-statistics"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10483,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions\/10483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}