The mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota wants to deploy some 2,000 Military Police officers to help curb a surge in violent crime. Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez announced she would seek…
18% of people in the biannual Chamber of Commerce study, Encuesta de Percepción de Seguridad y Victimización en Bogotá said that they’d fallen prey to some form of crime – over half of those personal theft.
Bogota has traditionally enjoyed lower homicide rates than other major cities in Colombia. However, street crime in the capital is among the country’s highest. Locals’ security perception Homicide rate Homicide…
Colombia’s Ombudsman and the Mayor of Bogota have been trading public blows after the human rights office released a report over increased activity of illegal armed groups in Bogota. The report…
Thousands of motorbikes shut down traffic in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Friday after the city’s mayor banned male pillion passengers in a desperate effort to curb crime. Local media reported…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday he would put 500 extra policemen on the street in Bogota after local authorities reported a 60% increase in street robberies in 2017.…
Colombian authorities on Thursday announced that there were 105 homicides in the Colombian capital of Bogota this January, 11 more than the same period in 2016. According to figures released by…
The inhabitants of Bogota are most concerned with the increased activity by gangs and the limited activity of their mayor, according to a survey held in Colombia’s capital. Bogota Como…
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.