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Crime Is Central Problem For 2010 World Cup - Sport - Javno →
South Africa’s fearsome record for robbery, murder and rape may be the single biggest challenge facing organisers of next year’s soccer World Cup.
With one of the world’s highest rates of violent crime, South Africa needs not only to protect the fans when they arrive but convince them it is safe to make the trip in the first place. About 50 people are murdered a day — more than the United States, which has six times South Africa’s 50 million population. There were officially 36,190 rapes in 2007-2008 and 14,201 carjackings, but many crimes go unreported.
Police strategy will be based on techniques honed during the 2002 World Earth Summit, which involve saturating areas including hotels, stadiums and transit routes with at least 41,000 specially deployed officers.
