Muggings, drug abuse and the ever present sex-trade were all daily risks for him.
The police spokesman said students had been robbed of phones, cash and other items in the recent muggings.
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But when residents were asked about road safety, 86% of areas rated it an issue of concern to rank alongside burglaries and muggings.
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When a newspaper published photographs of a single day's multiple muggings at one street corner, President Nelson Mandela promised to do something about it.
In his speech Mr Collett accused Asian people of being racist, hating white people, and being responsible for rapes and muggings on white girls and pensioners.
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Estates like Holly Street in Hackney have also benefited from multi-million pound government refurbishment programmes, resulting in fewer cases of racial tension, graffiti, vandalism and muggings.
Johannesburg is, to put it bluntly, a dangerous city in certain neighborhoods, including the Central Business District and ill-famed Soweto, with violent muggings and carjackings the main problems.
It is young men who are responsible for most of France's plague of pickpocketing, muggings and burglaries and their rate of unemployment is double the overall average of 9%.
The watchdog said too few resources were allocated to the inquiry and that officers prioritised other crimes, including robberies, muggings and burglaries for which targets for success had been set.
That too was an issue he found himself seriously vulnerable on following a sharp rise in muggings and robberies, clashing badly with his oft-repeated promise to be "tough on crime".
The movie slights the work of lawyers who worked for Carter without fees for years, and neglects to tell us that Carter had been imprisoned once for three muggings before his arrest for the murders.
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