“A POLICEMAN should not die with his gun in his hand,” Bheki Cele, South Africa’s police chief, proclaimed recently at the funeral of yet another slain officer. “Your job,” he told mourning colleagues, “is to arrest criminals and if someone makes your job difficult, make sure it is not you that will be killed.” Over the past five years, more than 100 officers a year on average have been gunned down. The situation, Mr Cele declared, has become “a national crisis”.
The police death toll in a country that sees itself as the most civilised in Africa is indeed shocking. But the tally of civilians killed by the police is even worse. Last year 566 South Africans (out of a population of 50m) were killed “as a result of police action”—up by half over the previous six years. Most were suspects shot dead during arrest (there seems to have been little attempt to incapacitate them); 16 were innocent bystanders. Seven suspects were tortured to death. South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of recorded homicide by police. More...
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The police death toll in a country that sees itself as the most civilised in Africa is indeed shocking. But the tally of civilians killed by the police is even worse. Last year 566 South Africans (out of a population of 50m) were killed “as a result of police action”—up by half over the previous six years. Most were suspects shot dead during arrest (there seems to have been little attempt to incapacitate them); 16 were innocent bystanders. Seven suspects were tortured to death. South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of recorded homicide by police. More...
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