The Decline of The South African Police After Apartied
… of high crime. Police in Cape Town, South Africa, arrest a suspect on Nov. 21, 2021. Citizens’ trust in the police, though, has plummeted after decades of high crime.
Lamb said citizens don’t trust the police to protect them. In fact, people now take the law into their own hands.
“Residents will pay these non-state actors to recover stolen goods or to mete out street justice to suspected killers and rapists,” Lamb said. “The suspects are stoned to death and burned, often in sight of children, who begin to accept brutal violence as normal and the way to …