CAPE TOWN - Human Rights Commissioner Chris Nissen is meeting with police bosses in an effort to clamp down gang violence in Cape Town.
This comes after a horrific week in Mitchells Plain saw five people shot dead and seven injured.
Police say the recent waves of gang violence in the City over the past two weeks has claimed 18 lives across the city.
The Mitchells Plain Community Policing Forum says authorities are failing them and leaving the community hopeless.
Mitchells Plain CPF chairperson Norman Jantjies said, "Well the CPF is very concerned about the upsurge and it's not the first time we have an average of 15 murders per month that's for the first three months of this year and I'm sure it has since went up in the other three months up to June now."
"The community is totally traumatised and it's the entire Mitchells Plain that's affected. There's a feeling of hopelessness and there's a thinking that SAPS is not capable of dealing with this violence. The killings are very brutal."