While local people recognised that such brutality was undesirable, in the context of rampant armed robbery and police corruption, it was better than the alternatives.
As a result of the introduction of community policing, fear of crime (especially armed robbery) fell from 68% to 48%.
Most of the material came from skeletonized mummies, which had been damaged by grave robberies so that the skeletal elements were identifiable.
They were particularly agitated by high incidence of armed robbery in their towns of residence.
The robberies reported in our sample week were, moreover, not confined to the roads alone.
A study of witnesses' emotional reactions and memories associated with bank robberies.
Examples of aggravated larceny included highway robbery, burglary, attacks by footpads and piracy.
In addition to armed robbery, these gangs ran protection rackets, extorting money from business people and traders as well as attacking their customers.
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