Afrobarometer Survey 2011, Round 5
South Africa, 2011
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Q11other. Reason for not reporting crimes to the police (verbatim) (Q11OTHER)
Data file: saf_r5_data_july_2015
Overview
Valid:
86
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
150
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Literal question
11. Some people say that many crimes are never reported to the police. Based on your experience, what do you think is the main reason that many people do not report crimes like thefts or attacks to the police when they occur? Other [specify]
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afraid to be asked questions by the police | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Corrupt and don't react. | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Discouraged by the system | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Emotionally distressed, so they can't think to report crime | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Family members do crime | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Fear of being caught as suspects | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Fear of intimidation from police | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Feeling pity for the perpetrators | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| He has not encountered crime | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| I want to solve it by myself. | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| If it's crime you can't describe the person | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Intimidation | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| It is a long process. | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| It is difficult to identify | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Jail is not a good place to send one to | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Lack of evidence | 3 |
3.5%
|
|
| Lack of resources from police | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| No actions are taken | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| No feedback from police | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Normally victims are also on the wrong | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Not efficient enough to solve | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Others don't know who attacked | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| People are often scared to report crimes | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| People are scared to report crime | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| People don't respond quickly and this gives the criminal a chance to run away | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| People don't trust police | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| People just accept and don't really care | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| People sort things out amongst themselves | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| People want to take revenge | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| People who commit crime are strangers, so you can't report a person you don't know | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Petty crime are not reported | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police are lazy and they take long to solve problems | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police are not efficient | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police are not responsible | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police are scared of the criminals | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police don't do anything about it | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police don't do their work | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police don't do their work to find criminals, they tell you also to look for the criminals | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police don't do their work well | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police don't have time for us | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police don't respond on time | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police don't satisfy community | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police have good relationship | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police just open dockets, | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police not helpful | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police react slowly | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police station is far | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police take a long time to respond | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police take long to respond | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police take time to respond to matters | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police take to long to respond | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police take too long to act | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police takes too long to respond | 2 |
2.3%
|
|
| Police threatened by gangsters | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police took time to help | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Police want some paper from local community | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Reluctance to get responses | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Response very slow | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Service slow and not professional | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| She trusts both police and committee | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Slow reaction from the police | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Some of the people are criminals themselves | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Some other people don't care | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Some people do not know or not sure of the perpetrators | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Some return the stolen goods | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Some wants a revenge. | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| The pay revenge | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| The police very unreliable | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| The victims tries to resolve matters first with perpetrator, fear that their name will be disclosed | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| They are afraid to be victimised | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| They don't arrest the criminal | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| They have too much pride | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| They scared because victims might also have criminal cases, they may also be arrested | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| They take their time to come | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| They want to take revenge | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| They want to take the law into their own hands | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Those people are some of the criminals | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| To avoid friction between neighbours | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Too little crime here, no experience | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Too much time involved for the police | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| Unable to identify the crooks | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| We don't have police station | 1 |
1.2%
|
|
| We were still new in this location | 1 |
1.2%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.