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Why don’t vigilantes solve this, assuming the State refuses to do so? It would certainly be cheaper to redirect some of the passive and defensive security expen
by rdl 8y ago
Why don’t vigilantes solve this, assuming the State refuses to do so? It would certainly be cheaper to redirect some of the passive and defensive security expenditure to intelligence and targeted killing.
- mmsimanga 8y agoSee that's the thing. vigilantism is illegal, society as a whole frowns upon violence. Thus good healthy men end up building fences and hoping another man (the thief) cannot attack them. The government has its challenges solving the crime issue and I would venture that the criminals are more motivated/organized/have less red tape than the cops. Not everyone is lying down and accepting the status quo. Neighborhood watch committees exist. Some neighborhoods have put up boom gates which have caused a stink because it is perceived as limiting people's movement. More to your question. Occasionally frustrations boil over and communities take the law into their own hands [1][2]. This is the other extreme to the criminals. [1]https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/limpopo-mob-kills-suspected-clothes-thief-20170106 https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/limpopo-mob-kills-su... [2]https://www.iol.co.za/news/suspected-thief-dies-in-hail-of-stones-1885911 https://www.iol.co.za/news/suspected-thief-dies-in-hail-of-s...