Afrobarometer Survey 2012, Round 5
Namibia, 2012
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Q11other. Reason for not reporting crimes to the police (verbatim) (Q11OTHER)
Data file: nam_r5_data_july_2015
Overview
Valid:
60
Type:
Discrete
Start:
185
End:
292
Width:
108
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 go the police station | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Because sometimes the person is your family member and you try to protect that person from being locked away | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Court cases take too long for justice to prevail. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Don't trust the police. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Due to friendship or being related to the accuser/attacker. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Due to friendship. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Fear of being implicated | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Fear of being implicated in the crime. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Forgiveness sake. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| I don't know who stole my things. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Ignorance.Some people dont even know the police's number. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Insufficient punishment | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| It takes too long for anything to be done. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| It would be inconsequential. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Lack of information | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Lack of knowledge. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Lack of police transport | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Lack of police vehicles. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Maybe they're afraid of the police | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Offenders are forgiven | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Parents cover up their children crimes by bribing the opponents. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| People are afraid because they don't have a citizenship. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| People are ignorant. | 2 |
3.3%
|
|
| People are not understand about law. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| People don't care | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| People don't know their rights | 2 |
3.3%
|
|
| People don't mind anymore. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| People fear policemen/women. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| People fear the police. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| People really don't consider it as a case to be reported. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Petty crimes aren't reported | 3 |
5%
|
|
| Police don't act | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Problem solved on community level | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Scared to be witness. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Some are not bothered by the crime | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Some crimes are considered not so serious to report. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Some crimes might not be considered serious | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Some people consider crime to be normal | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Some people work together with the culprit(s). | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Sometime the police don't do anything. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Sometimes it is useless | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Sometimes people do not have enough evidence to report the crimes. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Sometimes the crime isn't too serious. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Sometimes the police don't do anything to that person | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| Sometimes you don't know who stole your things. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| The offender is a friend/family | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| The offender is my friend. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| The police are never on time | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| The police are too slow | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| They are afraid to be witnesses. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| They don't care that's why they dont report. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| They don't consider it to be a reported case. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| They don't want to testify in court | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| They fear police men and women | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| They felt it's waste of time. | 1 |
1.7%
|
|
| They normally don't consider it as a case to be reported | 1 |
1.7%
|
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.