South African Police
Nah, I think cops need to be chilled, bro. My lived experience here makes me appreciate that I live in SA, for all the hate they get, I think the SAPS's approach is one that is welcoming and unintimidating at first contact and pushes for corrective measures. But is it still effective in quelling crime and getting rid of criminals.
"In SA we say the police don't work until they are looking for you."
Well you might say but this is just recent well, we've seen them doing this before at an even wider scale. Consider the article below
NATIONAL police commissioner General Bheki Cele woke up yesterday morning and continued with his job as usual. But a few hours later, Presid
Our polices demeanor is more of a corrective and anti-crime than a suspicion and guily till proven innocent approach it allows citizens to not feel anxious if they didn't do the crime but also makes police more approachable.
The tough approach for police makes it difficult for citizens to trust them, not that police fighting crime heavily and armed is a bad approach definitely nit saying that. Police end up having bad stereotypes like in the USA (the police i met in America we chill AF) where citizens call them for nothing just a hunch because they think someone shouldn't be there in a sovereign country.
The view I have of American police is that they are intimidating, and are suspicious of you at any and every interaction, of this is driven by the social media, in a country for 700k police we only see a small fraction of incidents but hey the approach of the police to quell these accusations is none. Making it seem like a common problem.
But then that isn't the case in South Africa, which is great honestly. The police here might be known to be lazy but wait until they look for you. We've seen it with the recent arrests and shootings, we saw it during Cele's time 12years ago while he was "mr shoot to kill top cop". But there is no stigma arising why because police give you a chance to plead your innocent and you laugh about it or shit gets real and you find out.
At least that's how I feel about it.