Although, rapes anywhere in any shape or form is horrible; in South Africa, cops apparently are far more actively involved in perpetrating these crimes themselves. This didn't make the worldwide media, unlike the India ones.
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The 'Broken Blue Line' conducted by the Johannesburg-based Institute of Race Relations, investigated the extent in which police officers in the country plan & execute serious & violent crimes such as murder, rape, & armed robbery.
And it drew a disturbing conclusion: that police involvement in serious & violent crimes, including rape & murder, were a 'pattern of behaviour' & not isolated incidents.
The report, funded by Afriforum, analysed 100 randomly chosen media reports from April 2011 to January 2015 on alleged police involvement in serious crimes.
Of those, 32 were murders & attempted murders, 22 were armed robberies, & 26 were rapes, as well as other serious offences.
In one incident, a woman was raped several times while in custody & in another, a woman was raped in court.
A 2011 version of the report had similar results, including a serious problem with sexual violence by police officers in a country which has one of the highest recorded rates of rape in the world.
It warned that 'violent crime levels in South Africa won’t turn around while the "wolf guards the sheep".'
A report in Pretoria News in July 2013 said that almost 1,500 serving police officers had criminal records - which is more than one in every 100 officers in the country.
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The 'Broken Blue Line' conducted by the Johannesburg-based Institute of Race Relations, investigated the extent in which police officers in the country plan & execute serious & violent crimes such as murder, rape, & armed robbery.
And it drew a disturbing conclusion: that police involvement in serious & violent crimes, including rape & murder, were a 'pattern of behaviour' & not isolated incidents.
The report, funded by Afriforum, analysed 100 randomly chosen media reports from April 2011 to January 2015 on alleged police involvement in serious crimes.
Of those, 32 were murders & attempted murders, 22 were armed robberies, & 26 were rapes, as well as other serious offences.
In one incident, a woman was raped several times while in custody & in another, a woman was raped in court.
A 2011 version of the report had similar results, including a serious problem with sexual violence by police officers in a country which has one of the highest recorded rates of rape in the world.
It warned that 'violent crime levels in South Africa won’t turn around while the "wolf guards the sheep".'
A report in Pretoria News in July 2013 said that almost 1,500 serving police officers had criminal records - which is more than one in every 100 officers in the country.
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