The Free Market Foundation Rule of Law Project presents the Section 12 Initiative for a #SaferSouthAfrica
The most basic purpose of government, and the reason society gives up its unbridled liberty to grant the state a monopoly on coercive force, is to secure common protection against violent threats to lives and property.
Smoking isn’t a real crime. It is bad for your health. But so is fast food, not exercising, and voting for the ANC.
Many of us presume that when a crime is committed, the perpetrator will just get away with it.
Based on official statistics and the fact of unreported cases, anecdotally, the crime situation seems to be approaching apocalyptic proportions.
Corruption is endemic in the SAPS, with petty bribery being endemic across the force, and personnel even selling vast amounts of weapons to gangsters.
Corrupt police and military personnel are responsible for selling an exorbitant amount of firearms to gangsters.
The omens are not auspicious. The litany of faults and failures grows ever longer. The solutions suggested by our leaders are ever more fanciful.
Codifying all the conceivable conduct for which someone might be liable for a criminal record, a fine, or imprisonment, is an important, definitional place, to start.
The FMF’s proposed codification of South African criminal law.
Protecting people from criminals is one thing; protecting them from themselves quite another. Like all victimless crime laws, these laws only make matters worse.
