Weekly Report - 19 October 2004
MEXICO: Alarm raised over spread of vigilantism
Allied with the public's scant confidence in the police, the impunity with which criminals can act in Mexico is not only encouraging them to commit more crimes: it is also provoking irate citizens to take the law into their own hands. Vigilantism appears to be spreading, and in several instances punishment has verged on lynching.
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