“One is afraid to go out to the city”: security secretary

10/31/2020 Colombia



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He did so during an interview with the NTN 24 program ‘La Noche’ in which he spoke about the recent events of insecurity in Bogotá, especially the murder of a man in Transmilenio during a robbery with a knife.

But despite this and other cases, the official insisted that robberies in the city have decreased. According to him, “A day 202 thefts are happening”A fairly high number, but low, he says, when compared to the “366 daily thefts” that were committed in the city in 2019.

He also wanted to clarify that this reduction is not only due to the pandemic, since he assures that “in the last two months where we have had total opening in terms of the city and it has returned to normal” the figures have also dropped.

Before the statement, the journalist Jefferson Beltrán, host of the program, asked him cHow does he explain that citizens feel more insecure when, according to his figures, crime on the streets is less. Acero insisted that it is about perception:

“Facts like yesterday [el homicidio dentro del bus de Transmilenio]Images such as those that appear of some robberies, including violent ones, and homicides that are distributed through the networks produce a feeling of extremely high fear ”.

But other words of the official about his decision to avoid, at all costs, watching videos of different crimes that go viral despite exercising, precisely, as Secretary of Security of the capital where he should be aware of everything.

Acero said that journalists confess to him in informal conversations that daily they receive videos of 12 or 13 crimes and acts of violence in the city and who does not like to see such recordings:

“I have said it in relation to the news. That’s why I stopped watching the morning news because you get up and see 4, 5, 6, 7 cases that happened the night before with night owls or night patrols and then you really feel afraid to go out into the city ” .

For this reason, he expanded his hypothesis that the insecurity of Bogotá is based on two elements. The first is a negative “feeling”, which he also hopes to see reflected in future surveys, and for the second he did acknowledge that it is about the reality of citizen complaints, in which the increase in cases also justice:

“A citizen complaint that has been increasing. Others were the times when out of every four robberies one was reported, today two out of four are being reported“.

In video, Hugo Acero speaking about the videos of thefts in the news:

Acero’s statement echoed the citizens, who reproached him for his words, while claiming that That cannot be the solution or the policies of the Bogotá Mayor’s Office, headed by Claudia López, to improve both the perception and the security of the city.

These were some of the reactions on Twitter, in which there were also testimonies from citizen victims of crime:

Finally, here are other fragments of Acero’s interview in ‘La Noche’ in which he also referred to the criticized statement by Mayor Claudia López about Venezuelan citizens in Bogotá:



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