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Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s a corporate crime-buster

puts a bounce in your step. Streets bustle with noisy fruit-sellers and minibus drivers seeking custom. But South Africa’s commercial capital can also put a knot of fear in your stomach. Jozi, as locals call it, is notorious for muggings and armed robbery. Corporate offices bristle with impenetrable security and armies of guards. Yet the area has grown less edgy since Schumpeter first visited, nearly two decades ago. For that, give some credit to Business Against Crime.

Proantioquia bankrolls research into the best ways to combat organised criminals. Other Colombian firms urge banks to extend loans to their hard-pressed workers so that they avoid, a vicious local species of loan shark. In Monterrey, a large industrial centre near Mexico’s border with the United States, big local firms known as “the group of ten” argued for reform of corrupt state police who had let violent criminals prosper.

Corporate caped crusaders have a range of motives. They fret that crime will hurt the wider economy and thus them, too. Whitney Smith of JPMorgan Chase, a bank which has funnelled $150m into rehabilitating parts of Detroit and is now contributing to efforts in Chicago, says that companies, civic organisations and local government all feared the Windy City was earning a reputation for violence. “It felt like a threat to economic growth for everyone,” she recalls.

 

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Start by petitioning to get rid of none home grown criminals that will at least halve the problem!!! as Australia N.Z. Canada America DO!!!! Regardless of what could happen to them in their own country they should have thought of that before they turned to crime here !

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