Bogota
A new act of insecurity occurred in Bogotá. Around 9 p.m. this Wednesday, Criminals stole a Sitp in the north of the city, on 134th Street with Carrera 9following pointing guns at the passengers and threatening them, they shot at them and injured a woman.
According to Councilman Juan Baena, “what happened was that a person from my team got on a Sitp and apparently some characters with firearms approached him, They robbed the bus and what the person on my team tells me is that they fired indiscriminately.”
In addition, he added that fortunately there was no dead person. “They only injured a woman, apparently she is in her hand, they are checking the person so that she is okay, Apparently it is not serious but it is incredible that criminals like this get on and shoot the crazy woman and they end up hurting someone like that and it might have happened to adults.”
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In the last few hours, the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce presented the results of the most recent Bogotá Perception and Victimization Survey corresponding to the year 2021. Participating in the measurement were more than 6,500 households, from the 19 localities corresponding to the six socioeconomic strata.
Among the main results, a 5 percentage point increase in citizens who are victims of a crime, going from 15% in 2019 to 20% in 2021.
“Bogotá experiences the highest perception of insecurity in recent years, standing at 88%. in 2019 44% of citizens considered their neighborhood safeby 2021 30% consider it safe”.
However, the police clarified that This is not a mass theft. “Two criminals observe a woman inside a Sitp bus who was carrying 80 thousand pesos in her hand, these criminals approach her, the woman resists and is injured in the hand, fortunately without seriousness. At this time we are in search of these criminals a locked plan to achieve their prosecution,” said Major Javier Cubides, of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police.
