GOOD Party says Western Cape policing devolution isn’t a cure, it’s a distraction [SOUND]

# The GOOD Party says the devolution of policing powers alone will not put an end to the bloodshed on the streets in the Western Cape. One-thousand-and-68 people were killed in the province between January and March this year, which is a four-percent drop from the same period last year. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says the idea that devolution will fix gangsterism, without first fixing the poverty, unemployment, and apartheid spatial planning that gang culture feeds on, is dangerous political theatre: