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Johannesburg Reports High Recidivism For Gun Offenders

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Johannesburg officials reported seven gun-related incidents involving eleven suspects in the past week. City data indicates that only a fraction of these arrests result in convictions.

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Sources · 7 independent

SAfm

“Seven guns, eleven suspects in just the last week. But according to the city's data, only a fraction of those arrests actually result in a conviction.”

SAfm

“How many of those suspects that are arrested will see or will be back on the street by the weekend? 95 out of every 100.”

SAfm

“the service is a seizing illegal firearms. The spare and incredulity on the various internal WhatsApp groups we have where he was seeing the number of guns being confiscated, but then also seeing the consequences or the failure of the criminal justice system to any meaningful way.”

SAfm

“the forensic ballistic services with thousands of backlight... these cases take extremely long to return to the court role and invariably get withdrawn with the consequences out of every that we're with about a 4.7% conviction rate”

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