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With the release of crime stats in South Africa, let's estimate how many murderers are walking among us in society.
According to the stats there are 47 people murdered each day in this country, which adds up to 17 155 per year. This is a staggering amount of murders. I can not fathom why this is not priority number one for government, anyway let us continue.
It was estimated that the conviction rate in South Africa is 10% for murder (www.usatoday.com). This is an appallingly low rate, 90% of people that murdered someone, taking their life in a violent, animalistic way, are still walking around. Are we just accepting this?..Sorry it is difficult to stay objective with something so horrific, yet accepted relatively quietly by the public.
When the 10% is taken into account, it means that 15.4.4.0, uhm..sorry I mean 15 440 murders are not convicted. Now if you assume that half the 25% of the murders are done by people that have committed more than one murder of the total amount, you are left with 11580 murders walking the streets. This is only the murders from 1 year, if we assume that the previous 5 years there were just as many murders, we get 57 898 murderers walking among us still. Almost 60 000 murderers are at large at any point in time in this country, people that have slashed throats, even in worse manners that ISIS extremists, people that have beaten people to death with their bare hands, can you even imagine the pain and suffering? These people are still among us.
There are an estimated 53 million people in this country, of which 0.11% of people are murders, my calculations have a lot of assumptions, but there are probably more. For every 1000 people you see, 1 of them is a murder. We are more worried about a cripple killing a blonde woman than these facts. Something needs to be done.
We need to speak up. We need to take a stand. We need to take action.
We need a national vote on the death penalty. Surely murderers forfeit their right to live among us in society.
(Originally posted http://phiblographer.blogspot.com/2014/09/with-release-of-crime-stats-in-south.html)
