Bogota residents lynch 1 person every 3 days on average: Study
Bogota residents lynch 1 person every 3 days on average: Study
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Mar 16, 2016
Bogota residents on average lynch one person every three days, according to a study that blames Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict and inactive police force for the phenomenon of mob justice.
Lynchings are embarrassingly common in Colombia where law enforcement often is deficient or inactive. The numbers released by the Bogota newspaper demonstrate how serious the phenomenon is.
According to El Espectador, 140 people died in lynchings between June 2014 and June 2015. Another 600 were rescued while the victims of sometimes fatal mob justice.
The figures come from the National University that, unlike any local or national authority, investigated the phenomenon of mob justice in the capital.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/bogota-residents-average-lynch-1-person-every-3-days/