'No whistle, no crime,' say UK cops
Wolf-whistle might be a hate crime in some countries, but not in South Africa.The practice became a hot topic after Nottinghamshire police announced last week that men reported for wolf-whistling at women could end up with a police record.The county is the first in Britain to categorise wolf-whistling as misogynistic and a hate crime.Yet SA national police spokesman Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said wolf-whistling was not among this country's various crime categories listed on the police website."It will depend on what exactly the 'perpetrator' intended and how a 'victim' feels at the time during such incidents that would determine where a crime was committed and what crime/s would be committed."South African gender rights activist Lisa Vetten, of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, said crimen injuria (impairing one's dignity) was probably the most appropriate legal charge to apply to wolf-whistlers...
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