Cape Town is famous for its stunning landscapes and white sand beaches, but behind Table Mountain lies a different reality. In the notorious Cape Flats, over 100 gangs battle for control of the drug market in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods on Earth.
In this documentary, we go inside the high-stakes operations of the Metro Police and the elite Gang Unit. Led by Sergeant Craig Jensen, this incorruptible squad faces the near-impossible mission of pacifying a metropolis of four million people.
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What they are Not telling you in this Video is that Corruption in the police is off the Chart's! Two police commissioners have been removed from their jobs on corruption charges and one of them is currently serving a 15 year jail sentence!. About 800 police every year are Sacked and prosecuted on corruption charges in South Africa
This Video isn't giving you the Whole Story. The police are the last people Victims trust in South Africa
It's likely that some of the police appearing on this video are on the pay roll of Organised gangs in Capetown. The ones that aren't turn a blind eye or end up getting set up and taken out by their own colleagues. I kid you Not
Comme d’habitude la misère et la corruption
Whites are paranoid. Their paranoia stems from the fact that there's never been any form of systematic violence against since the so called end of Apartheid. They are in utter disbelief that after so much abuse they inflicted on 'non-whites', they still enjoy a life of opulance. Crime and gang violence happening in the Cape is far from them. It is a system they engineered through spatial planning, so as to suit them. Utter delusion of grandure.
All of 3m33s and already this sounds like utter male bovine excrement. You honestly think it's a "whites only" issue? Gangsterism and crime touches every single South African. It is socioeconomic circumstances created by apartheid, inherited by a democracy where those in power steal as much as they can as quick as they can. After 3m33s you already sound Trump dumb
This video is definitely not a true reflection of just about anything. Except the effectiveness of the gang unit. Definitely biased..
That’s not amphetamines the police seized. It’s methaqualone tablets.
I have watched many of these documentaries and have come to a conclusion that South Africa's problem is leadership. South Africa needs a president who's a dictator like Kagame and Museveni and all these nonsense of illegal immigrants and gangs will be history. With Museveni, all those dangerous places will be covered with the military with order of shoot to kill. You guys are just joking and I love Museveni & Kagame for that. Uganda is a paradise.
The facts in this video are extremely watered down. As a South African that grew up in the Cape Flats, I can tell you that the number of ppl that die each day as a result of the violence in these areas, are way more than 6, even till this day
who ever did the subtitles did a kak job they speak afrikaans not xhosa
Xhosa spoken , bullshit its Afrikaans
Misinformed creator and AI? Hell No. Gotta go.🙄
5:10
20:35 well said
Violence is not racist! It destroys all people's lives!
Capetown is so beautiful, and if you are just a tourist thats what you will see.
So many locations in the world look so lovely, but you only need to go a short distance to find the turmoil, violence, poverty, anger, and scared people of every race.
I spent 5 days in Johannesburg a couple of years ago.
The hotel was so lovely and staff were so polite and helpful.
However,I didn't get to see any of Jo-berg outside of the hotel or taxi rides.
The minute we got thru the locked gates of the hotel and there were signs posted everywhere warning us not to leave the hotel compound alone, and even the parking lot within the walls was told not to be alone there either!
It was actually kind of scary.
I could see alot from the windows of my room.
Lovely houses with razor wire fences.
There was an apartment complex a couple streets over that looked like a ghetto area.
Im up very early in the mornings and watched as people came out of that building in work clothes, children in school uniforms.
They were spic and span as could be.
It was terribly hot and I wondered what their lives were like at home.
This violence is all over the world.
Its sad to see them targeting kids to recruit them into their gangs.😢
Africa is amazing and so beautiful.
I would love to go back and see the country from all angles. ❤
Is it Afrikaans or Xhosa spoken?
Please fact check yourself as most of the info given is false
Grant and Mandy and all law enforcement, my hats off to you thanks for the great work you do
What happened to forensic powder residue tests?
It's so sad that kids turn to crime because of poverty and unemployment so that they can care for their family as most of them don't have dad's around
Why not deploy the army to contain all this crime , martial law ? 🤷♂️
It is quite clear these are clips from the early 2000s those cars are really really outdated and your murder statistics for the week are not even half of what you get now in a single day
You gotta be careful of coloured people
These guys are unpredictable
That 78 yr old lady saying the most exciting part is “catching the person, and doing whatever to him” speaks of the person as if they’re game, prey to be hunted, she sounds like she is living for being able to resort back to her apartheid mindset legally, under the guise of neighborhood watch. It’s giving purge. Sickening.
Go knit something and calm your ass down.
Our police is fn useless
how old is this doc?
This journalist is very biased 😮