SA remains a relatively dangerous country in which to serve as a police officer, despite a 52% drop in the rate of cop killings over the past decade.
And they will continue to abuse their power until accountability and structural problems are fixed.
A state of emergency was declared after second night of unrest as protests flared after yet another police officer shot and killed a black man.
A police officer’s laxity led to a boy shooting his brother but the family still waits for compensation.
The shooting of the 12-year-old-boy in 2014 was described as a "perfect storm of human error" by the prosecutor, Tim McGinty.
Samaira Rice, whose son was killed by a police officers as he was playing with a toy gun, says the officers involved should be criminally convicted.
At least two people were killed by police in the Eastern Cape last night, after an altercation when the cops stopped them stealing goods from a truck.