Do you feel that not enough is being done to combat crime?

 Are there any thoughts you have that could improve in the reduction of crime effectively?

What contribution can you make to help reduce crime?

It takes no rocket scientist to realise that the reason we have to be plagued by crime is directly related to poor educational standards. The poor quality of a person’s education will directly influence the nature of the employment available to that person.  That assumes there is a possibility of some form of employment being available. If you can’t get a job to earn an income, then the question will be how can you afford to eat? Not forgetting more issues relating to the need of money, such as clothes, accommodation and transportation. Try to imagine how you would tackle such a dilemma. There is no simple solution but there is a consideration towards other people’s well being that we must make.

Having no education means the best jobs you can expect is the lowest that can be offered. This leads to job dissatisfaction and a total dislike to what the job entails. There is an easy way you can earn money that takes no precedence on your level of education or your job experience......Crime!

As the government weakens the rights of the innocent and strengthens the rights of criminals, crime pays and pays well. If a criminal is caught; and the percentages lean in favour of this being unlikely, where only 8% of the criminals are brought to trial with less than 2% are actually being incarcerated.

Our answer to combat crime is by building higher boundary walls, fitting high voltage wires and installing more burglar proofing, including living in security complexes.

 Irrespective of these precautions, your home still holds the items that are attracting the criminals, TV’s, Hi-fi, DVD, and Jewellery.

You are not going to remove these items from your home because that’s what living is about. So, short of selling them for next to nothing, it’s best you enjoy them and the little pleasure they offer. Therein, lays the problem because there are others who want them also.  

So what is the answer to alleviate this problem?

I am asking all of you out there, to support my idea which is based on sound principles. Since each and every one of us is under pressure to defend what is rightly ours, we are the only persons who can do something to eliminate us as targets. First and foremost I urge you all to register your valuables with ‘Tagga’, a data base designed to hold your details and your valuables in total privacy. Should any of your valuables be stolen or lost the item will be clicked by you and listed as stolen or missing. I like to referrer to this as “Click away Crime”.  So, enter the web and visit http://tagga.co.za  and make it impossible for your goods to be sold at any of the Cash Crusaders, Cash Converters and soon any swop shop or Pawn facility anywhere in South Africa.

Next, call on the Government to make it impossible to sell stolen goods through the media classifieds by enforcing the advertiser to include the serial numbers or IMA number for each and every item that is listed for sale. It does not take too much imagination to realise that anyone who has stolen an item will consider seriously not listing an item that has been stolen or has a suspicious history. Equally, the potential buyer  would need to do everything in his/her power to ensure that the serial number is correct and uses the ‘Tagga’ data base to check that it is clean.  All this will be consistent with the new “Second hand Goods Bill” recently passed by the Government.         

Good luck, it’s tough out there but let’s make it very difficult for anyone of these criminals to make a living out of goods that you paid for!