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War on crime is usually just a war against poor people.

Maybe try making them less poor and see how crime falls. Its only (checks notes) backed up by science.

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Good luck with that. The biggest criminals are the incompetent politicians, there’s more and worse poverty in SA now than ever before.

Somehow they can completely drain the country of money but at the same time can’t find their way out of a paper bag.

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South Africa is, from what I hear from south African immigrants, a hell hole of crime and corruption. It’s not necessarily poor people committing all the crime. But yet these private security forces aren’t going to be targeting the richer corrupt people committing the worst crimes.

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It’s not just economic crimes this is wanton rape, murder, and wholesale take overs of state infrastructure by organised crime outfits. This isn’t normal crime like you may encounter in other countries, we are frequently topping the list in the most violent categories of crime.

Right now theres an epidemic of gender based violence, that is men raping and murdering women or male partners/spouses just outright murdering their partners. Doubt this is linked to a war against poor people.

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Are you trying to tell me rich people are comminuting these crimes at parallel rates to poor people?

Im gonna press X to doubt

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Also if you’re telling me that the only thing stopping people from raping people, and committing senseless murders is money then that’s a pretty sad indictment on humankind.

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Frankly could not care for your opinion unless you live here, or a country with similar rates of crime.

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How would that be possible when like 75% are poor? Should the rich be doing it at 3x the rate to keep up?

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