Ways to Combat Crime

Here in SA private security personnel outnumber the police force. They are better equipped and their vehicles always have enough petrol to get them to crime scenes. Now I’m not being flippant here – the official fuzz are often without petrol for numerous reasons.

A local very effective anti-crime company – Combat Security – run by one Norman Reeves was featured on the local TV news last night. His method of dealing with those he catches in the act is to handcuff them to a lamp post in a public street with a sign pinned on them announced things such as ‘I’m a House Breaker – Caught by Combat Security’

Most people interviewed agreed with this approach but Civil Rights groups are up-in-arms. Asked what he thought of their comments Reeves replied ‘….I don’t give a rat’s arse what they think.’

Shades of the stocks in the village square.

In dark hours my emotional crime weary and closet ‘lynch them’ side agrees with this method. My rational self says it’s not right – but very reluctantly.