Many countries around the world recorded dramatic declines in crime under lockdown. South Africa was among them, with major reductions across most crime types.
Bricks, laid out in front of Congress, represent the staggering number of Brazilians killed each week.
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Some 60,000 Brazilians are killed each year, accounting for 10% of all homicides worldwide. As terrorised voters look to authoritarian leaders to impose order, Brazil’s democracy hangs in the balance.
Some 13 people ‘disappear’ in Mexico every day, and the country is on track to record 30,000 homicides this year.
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A controversial report claims that Mexico is more violent than Afghanistan and Yemen. It’s wrong on the details but right that Mexico is, in effect, a war zone.
Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg speaking on Q&A.
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Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said he thought that Victorians have never felt more unsafe, and that burglaries, assaults and murders are rising year-on-year. Is he right?
South Africa has stubbornly high rates of violent crime. More concerning, though, is that the latest crime stats suggest the recent increase in murders is not slowing - it may even continue.
A man walks through a field of crosses erected near Pretoria, South Africa, to honour mostly white farmers who have died in.
farm attacks.
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The widely-held assumption that murder rates have been increasing in South Africa in the past two decades is incorrect – and it may divert attention from a new problem that needs attention.
A recent protest by South African schoolchildren which had to be quelled by an under-resourced police force.
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It is exactly forty years since the Soweto uprising in June 1976 where the South African police met the students with brutal force. How much has changed in terms of policing?
In response to the surge of crime in the mid-1990s, suburban dwellers in South Africa began to fortress their houses.
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In response to high levels of crime, South Africans have turned their homes into fortresses, seeking security behind high walls. But doing so might be counter-productive.