They spoke to the janitor, the cops, about that robbery yesterday.
Fights, robbery, public drinking, gang violence, and other disruptive events are common in these neighborhoods.
Yet the new codes coincided with ongoing insecurity and a sharp increase in reported robberies.
It could be more lucrative to subsist by robbery than to seek work.
The rural population was already living in a society where administrative chaos was a minor inconvenience compared to robbery and general lawlessness.
They began to do highway robberies and live in bands either in the mountains or took possession of villages.
Willingness to fight, robbery, and rule breaking display qualities such as physical strength, bravery, and willingness to incur risks.
In addition to armed robbery, these gangs ran protection rackets, extorting money from business people and traders as well as attacking their customers.
