Wilson Hernández in Latina: To ban motorcycles or not?
INEI data show that 40% of money, wallet or cell phone thefts are committed on a motorcycle. 30% of these robberies, in mototaxi.
In some cities of Colombia they prohibited carrying a companion on a motorcycle or even the circulation of it. That study revealed that “in effect crime is reduced, but it is very small. It is short-term and crime is displaced to other areas.”
In this case, our Adjunct Researcher Wilson Hernández in Latina operated some solutions for the non-prohibition of motorcycles or motorcycle taxis on public roads: “Use intelligence at the local level, that is, identify the points in the city where at certain times they are committing these robberies, because (the motorcyclists) take routes. If one identifies this, who does it put forward? Police Prevention, so that this does not happen again. If we ban motorcycles throughout Metropolitan Lima, it is most likely that these people They commit crimes, but without motorcycles, on foot. Another type of modality. According to their logic, that is the job of criminals, they have to survive”.
