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Peru: Crime rate decreases 40 percent in Lima district thanks to new police program

Living in Peru
Translated by Israel J. Ruiz

(El Comercio - Mario Mejía) Yesterday afternoon, a thief cut the chain securing a bicycle to where its owner had left it in front of Santa Cruz market in Miraflores, he got on the bike and fled.

He did not get far: just five blocks away he was caught by police officers that are taking part in the "Patrullero de mi Barrio" (My Neighborhood Patrolman) program.

María Rodríguez, the owner of the bicycle recovered by police noted that the patrolmen had appeared at the right moment. "I have just gotten back from a trip and I see a lot of these vehicles patrolling the streets," said Rodríguez.

In Miraflores, the "Patrullero de mi Barrio" program began on July 1 with 21 trucks. According to district Chief Luis Flores Prialé, the results have been optimum.

"We don't have exact figures but I can say that muggings and burglaries have decreased."

The program, which was implemented by the Ministry of the Interior and is being carried out in six Limean districts, consists of dividing the district's streets into sectors or quadrants and assigning two police officers to watch over the sector.

Instead of constantly changing zones, the officers assigned to one sector remain in that area for at least one year.

"The idea is that the officers identify themselves with the neighbors and work with them to improve the perception of citizen safety," said Colonel José Vallejos Passano, the person in charge of the program.

The program will be implemented little by little throughout the city. For now, the objective is to reduce the crime rate 15 percent in four months in the areas where the program is running.

"We calculate that muggings and burglaries have decreased 10 percent, said Vallejos.

However, in Magdalena, one of the first districts where the program was implemented, the crime rate has decreased 40 percent since it began in June, according to district commissioner Jorge Valenzuela.

The program, which consists of 124 new patrol vehicles, is currently taking place in the Limean districts of Barranco, Magdalena, Miraflores, Breña, Los Olivos and Pueblo Libre.

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# Phillip says :
20 September, 2008 [ 03:39 ]

I am happy Peru is at least trying to combat its street crime. This is very positive.

# Phillip says :
23 September, 2008 [ 13:34 ]

US Gangs & Organized Crime links





http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/infotheft/2005-08-03-atm



http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2005-05-09-debit-cards



http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-03-gangs-under-estimated



http://www.streetgangs.com/



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_Game



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mafia



http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-27-street-crimes_x.htm



http://www.lulu.com/content/1376323



http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-07-home-invasions_x.htm



http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=5123





http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm





http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable

# danidanado says :
23 September, 2008 [ 20:04 ]

No comment

# Phillip says :
28 September, 2008 [ 01:31 ]

YANKEES GO HOME!




The Peru People's Movement (MPP), generated organization of the
Communist Party of Peru (PCP) for the abroad work, assuming firmly
its reasonability to combat imperialism, revisionism and reaction
inseparably and implacably, direct itself to the Communist Parties
and revolutionary organizations of the world, to the children of our
people abroad, to the international proletariat and the peoples of
the world, to:



I. Repudiate, condemn and denounce the visit of the genocidal
President of the United States (US), George W. Bush Jr. to Lima-Peru



Why is Bush going to Peru? Officially the genocidal Bush goes to Lima
to have an Andean mini-summit with the Presidents of Peru, Ecuador,
Bolivia and Colombia and a bilateral meeting with the President of
Peru, "the Yankee with indian-hat" (Toledo). Officially they have
said that the agenda will be the handling of preferential tariffs for
these countries (ATPA), trying to place on a secondary level what has
been stated by official spokesmen of the countries in mention, that
in both the mini-summit and in the bilateral meeting with Toledo, the
central theme will be the "fight against terrorism and the fight
against drugs", later it has zippered out that they also will treat
the establishment of a Yankee military base in Iquitos (in north-
eastern Peru), when already for a long period forces of the genocidal
hordes of Yankee imperialism is occupying a base of the Peruvian war
Navy in this city. But behind the official words and declarations the
real purposes of the visit of the supreme representative of the
biggest puppeteer (Yankee imperialism) and its puppets in the Andean
region, is hidden. So, then why is Bush going to Peru? Considering
that it is the first visit of a Yankee President in several decades,
this has a very special and striking significance for the Yankee plan
of hegemony and as sole police for Latin America, specially for South
America, inside that the Andean region and Peru, which comes from the
time of Reagan and today with the genocidal Bush Jr., its being
implemented under the name of "new security architecture for the
hemisphere", which has as its center and main axis the Andean region,
the key for the control of South America, which is vital for the
strategic interests of the Yankees, and therefore against our
People's War, which together with the People's Wars in Nepal and
Turkey, is strategically the main thing that goes on in the world,
all of this under the cover of there double politics of "the war on
drugs" and "the danger of the FARC", of "ties between FARC and the
Shining Path", which they develop inside there current world "anti-
terror" campaign as a part of there general counter-revolutionary
offensive, which Yankee imperialism leads as counter-revolutionary
gendarme of the world and hegemonic superpower.



What is the most resent development of this Yankee plan? The most
resent steps that they have taken are: 1999, the Assembly of the OAS
established the Interamerican Committee against Terrorism (Cicte); in
August 2000 it became public knowledge in the world that the Yankee
CIA through its agent in Peru, Montesinos, and the fascist Armed
Forces of Peru, with participation of Yankee spies all over the
world, protected by the military centers for satellite observation,
had been equipping the FARC with arms during the years of 98 and 99,
that is that they where strengthening them, to create a favorable
conjuncture to the internal and external public opinion for their
bigger direct intervention, and to use these revisionists of the FARC
in the future against the revolution in Peru. If this wasn't the
case, why strengthen their firepower? In September of 2001, the
Extraordinary Assembly of the OAS in Lima approved the "Democratic
Letter", which consider the "assistance for the maintenance of
democracy..."; before that, in June 2000, Brazil got into "Protocol
505", which allows it to obtain arms and equipment from the United
States, as compensation Yankee imperialism obtained the use of the
military and satellite base of Alcantara, on which no Brazilian may
enter without permit of the Pentagon, the treaty was made without
knowledge of the Brazilian parliament; at the beginning of the
current year the sale of F-16 fighter planes from the US to Chile,
took place, thus closing the circle, we recall that before they have
established the US military base of Manta in Ecuador and, with the
starting up of Plan Colombia at the end of the Clinton government the
active Yankee military presence in Colombia was increased (including
direct combat operations of the Special Forces) and the direct
command of the Armed Forces in this country. The The National
Security Council of the US, organ for intelligence planification of
Yankee imperialism, together with the Center for Military
Investigation of Chile have worked on the scenario of "the threat to
the internal security by the indigenous population (i.e. of the
peasantry - our note) from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego", and the
Interamerican Defense Center of the OAS treated, the 20th of
September 2001, the scenario of "the expansion of a conflict to
supranational level could lead to a war with ethnical and religious
connotations" (once again the peasant problem and the People's War is
hidden behind this riff-raff). In August of 2001, in Salta
(Argentina) took place, without the Argentinean Congress being
consulted the joint maneuvers of the Armies of the US, Brazil, Chile,
Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Argentina, Colombia did
send an observer, called the "Exercise Cabanas 2001" which had as its
scenario, again, "an imaginary ethnical conflict". The commander of
the joint forces was US General Butler, chief of the Special Forces
of the Southern Command, and the Argentinean General Olivera (a
butcher of the former military junta of Videla) who defined the
maneuvers as "instruction of forces with the same language and with
the same doctrine". After this the visit on the 23rd of March 2002 of
Bush to Lima. In May 2002, also in Lima, will take place The
Conference of the OAS against Terrorism to discuss and approve the
Interamerican Convention against Terrorism. At the end of last
February Yankee imperialism have given the certification of good
behavior or of "co-operation" with the Yankee "anti-drug" politics
and tripled the anti-drug assistance from US$ 50 million to US$ 150
million, and almost tripled the "aid" of USAID (Agency for
International Development of the US State Department) from US$ 25
million to US$ 65 million each year, which only serves as an
indicator of the percentual multiplication of the financial Yankee
military intervention in Peru, because there are many institutions of
imperialism that participates in this, their strategy has different
military components (instruction, equipment, etc.) which comes
directly from the Defense Ministry, to that belongs the budget of
SOUTHCOM and the CIA (all of that is not considered as foreign aid
and they are protected by secrecy, only every second year the foreign
aid and the security budgets is known); continuing, before they had
prolonged for 90 days the validity of ATPA, in application of the law
called "Anti-Drug-Abuse Acta" of the 27th of October 1986, which
demands a review of the relations between the drug trade and
terrorism, and also the development of the accurate means in the
fight against this threat (Section 2014 of this law). With this law
Yankee imperialism made Peru and the other Andean countries the most
important scenery for their "anti-drug" foreign policy and the
eradication of the coca its main instrument for which it had to face
the "Shining Path which have assumed the role of protective power for
the peasant producers" (Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations of
US Congress, 1989). Thus Yankee imperialism, with this Act, since the
time of Reagan, made its own law to authorize itself to intervene
directly against the People's War of Peru. Thus was trained the
agents of the DEA, who where placed in Peru, and the Peruvian
militaries not only by a team of instructors from the US Special
Forces, but also by units like the Yankee Rangers in commando
doctrine, fire control, techniques for attacking with helicopters,
small unit tactics, etc. Officers of the Army, the Navy and CIA
agents where assigned to the DEA headquarters to coordinate.
Furthermore the plans for Peru "...where worked out jointly by
special agents of the DEA and the experts of the Center for Low
Intensity Warfare... The trick is to put the things in a politically
acceptable manner..." (Committee for Governmental Matters of US
Senate-Congress, September 1989). This committee of the Yankee
Congress complained because in 1990 they couldn't inspect the
training of the Special Forces in Mazamari Peru and they pointed
out: "The State Department should pose the question and answer it,
like: if this aid is for the fight against drugs or also for counter-
subversive operations" (Snowcap-Report, August 1990, US Congress). In
this cynical manner they internally recognize that their so-
called "war on drugs" is war against the PCP and against our People's
War. Thus behind the agents of the DEA they are trying to hide the
military Yankee intervention against the People's War. Mazamari is
one of the 15 bases that they recognize, and on top of that there is
the so-called floating bases with the Navy in our Amazonic rivers. So
by that the so-called "fight against the drugs" is a
part "historically, doctrinarally and operational of the counter-
subversive strategy of the US" (Youngers, 1991), so for that those
responsible of applying their "low intensity war" against the
People's War in Peru, are the Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Center for
Low Intensity Warfare, the CIA and the Special Forces. For that,
since Reagan, they created the term in which not even themselves
believe of "narco-guerrilla". In the current century, the
document "Santa Fe IV- Latin America Today", worked out by Committee
for Foreign Policy of the US Senate, Washington 2000, on the future
of North and South America, resumes in nine points the major
problems, the subject "Terrorism" is hidden in the chapter "Drugs".
There they define the concept "Narco-Terrorismo" as "...the alliance
between terrorist organizations, drug traffickers and organized
crime, a deadly symbiosis which destroys important elements of the
western civilization".

Thus under this pretext they apply their "low intensity war"
against the People's War and concretely in Huallaga, Apurimac, Ene,
etc. they apply their sinister politics of eradication of coca plants
by which they sentence the peasants to hunger, abandonment and death
and they once again recurs to the demagogical chatter
about "substitution of crops". All of that is condemned to failure in
front of the People's War and the convergent struggle of the people.
All of this they bring about under the fairytale of "the defeat of
Shining Path", "remains", "they wish to integrate themselves
politically", "hunger-strike", etc.

Today this pretext is not enough, that's why they are using that
about the FARC, they say "they have invaded Peru and they have ties
to 'the Shining Path'", The troop movements of the reactionary Armed
Forces of Peru and Ecuador, indicates that they are on the way of
constituting a "joint" intervention force for a more direct, open and
brutal intervention of Yankee imperialism.

The only thing that lacks is the formal "petition" of their
puppets, especially by the "Yankee with indian-hat". This is what
they are on to. Isn't it so that Bush goes to Peru for this formal
act with his cloak puppets? These are the real purposes behind the
official words and declarations. And this is the real significance of
this visit for our people, our country, our People's War and the
Peruvian Revolution and the World Revolution. We are in the first
combat trench of the revolution against Yankee imperialism in the
world. The word of the Party is word fulfilled and we are firm
followers of what Chairman Gonzalo established: "On one occasion did
we solemnly pledged to not leave the arms until communism, to persist
in the struggle for communism even if the super powers or powers came
armed to their teeth, with their powerful weapons, we communists know
what we want and for what we fight, nothing must and nothing can
detain us in the fulfillment of the objectives of the Party, to serve
the people, the proletariat and the world revolution" (Declaration of
the PCP, 1993). Today we reaffirm ourselves in our unbreakable
decision.



II.- To condemn, repudiate and denounce, the new genocide that's on
its way against our people, which as part of the plan of Yankee
imperialism applied by the reactionary Toledo, "the Yankee with
Indian-hat", government, incubated, breed and nourished by the United
States and the OAS. This is a bigger genocide inside the new campaign
against the People's War and their so-called "mixed operations" as
part of the "new" anti-subversive strategy, i.e. their already failed
strategy of "low intensity warfare" under Yankee leadership; inside
the new encirclement and annihilation campaign, which has begun at
the end of January and the beginning of February this year, against
the support bases, the people's committees who makes them up, and the
People's Liberation Army (PLA), against the thousands of political
prisoners and prisoners of war of the PCP and the broadest masses in
the cities, against who they now are in process of approving a new
law, which they have called "law against vandals", which is against
the popular demonstrations and protests which, on top of the
application of the special "anti-terrorist"fascist laws, considered
the application of sentences for more than six years of prison, to
try to subject the masses who doesn't stop in the protest. They have
said they will approve it before the arrival of Bush. In this new
encirclement and annihilation campaign that the enemy are doing they
are using for the first time their recently created "airborne rapid
intervention force", which include the use of aircrafts, specially of
the helicopters of the Air Force and the Army, they have found
themselves forced to make this new combined fighting unit hence they
can not move their troops on the ground to attack the revolutionary
Support Bases. This is a material evidence of the development of the
strategic equilibrium; it shows the advancement in the relative
stability of the New Power. Once again it's the bigger ruin and
rottenness of the old landowner-bureaucratic State subjected to
imperialism mainly Yankee, that goes under without salvation by the
blows delivered by the People's War and the struggle of the masses in
the whole country. Who can negate this? Only the imperialists, the
revisionists, specially the rats of the revisionist and
capitulationist ROL, and the reaction. The People's War continues on
its road, without being detained even for a blink of an eye, forward
to the conquest of Power in the whole country, lead by the PCP, today
under the leadership of Comrade Julio who, firmly subordinated to our
Great Leadership Chairman Gonzalo, leads the entire Party. We count
on a recognized leadership forged under years. From here we greet the
future birth of the People's Republic of Peru.



III.- To condemn, repudiate and denounce the reediting of the already
failed hoax of the enemy about the "hunger-strike of Chairman Gonzalo
and Comrade Feliciano". As we have seen the class struggle is
sharpening, it's a war to the death, cruel, between revolution and
counter-revolution in the strategic equilibrium, this is sharpening,
and even more, the contradiction PCP - the fascist Armed Forces lead
directly by Yankee imperialism is sharpening and the main
contradiction is shaping up to change to be nation - imperialism.
Because of this, as a part of the new encirclement and annihilation
campaign of the enemy against the People's War, which will have as
its high point the arrival of the genocidal Bush and, inside their
plans to murder Chairman Gonzalo and Comrade Feliciano, as a part of
the bigger genocide against the political prisoners and the prisoners
of war of the PCP and against our people, the enemy (imperialism,
mainly Yankee, reaction, mainly the new Toledo regime, and
revisionism, mainly the ROL) has put together the reediting of the
new hoax about the "hunger-strike of Chairman Gonzalo and Comrade
Feliciano". All of them are into this new reediting of this hoax,
from "big guys" to the "small guys", their newspapers, specially
prominent Caretas, which has presented intelligence notes, as if it
where their own article, which where worked out by the department for
psychological warfare (of fabrication of lies and hoaxes) of the
National Intelligence Centre (CIN), which is the new name for the SIN
of Montesinos, under direct leadership of the CIA. As a part of all
that the 7th of March they put out an interview to Polay, the head of
the MRTA, where he show himself openly and absolutely as the
capitulator he is, to launch a sublime message that Chairman Gonzalo
and Comrade Feliciano are not isolated, but this character couldn't
confirm the impossible, which is to say the hoax that was going on.
Beyond their ministers, military- and police chiefs, have
participated parliamentarians, functionaries of different levels of
the National Penitentiary Institute, of the Justice Department and
the "Ombudsman" like this eager disciple of Gobbles who Pedraza is.
To the question posed by Caretas: Who coordinates all this? We
answer: the one who assumed strictly the coordination between the
CIA, the reactionary government of Toledo, its fascist Armed Forces,
etc. and the heads of the rats of the ROL, who have fooled and forced
a group of prisoners whom they hold subjective, have been the
Chairman of the Sub-commission of the Parliament "who investigate the
situation of the prisons in Peru", this individual Jonhy Lescano
Ancieta brother-in-law to this miserable Cox, a dead man walking, and
brother of another rat. So the direct links have gone through this
individual and the rat Cox. This individual said that he had visited
Chairman Gonzalo and Comrade Feliciano in the Callao Naval Base, that
he had spoken with them and that he had convinced them to change
their demands to that of that they should not be punished for "hunger-
strike" and "visits" and that "both where prepared to ask for pardon
for the People's War", to make believe the incredible he said that he
had made this visit alone, this is to not have witnesses from his own
commission that could say that he was wrong or enter in
contradictions. What is sure is that he didn't make any visit to the
Base to see Chairman Gonzalo and Comrade Feliciano, who continue
being in absolute isolation, only their prison guards can see them,
they who he did visit where the rat Cox and company in Yanamayo, his
rat sister in Chorrillos, etc. In an orchestrated way the Interior
Minister Rospigliosi came out to make a declaration and he
said: "that Chairman Gonzalo reclaims a bigger participation in the
political life and in the truth commission". This commission is part
of their "low intensity war", is made up by three genocidals, an
Admiral, and the "senderologogists" Tapia and Degregori (the only one
who lacks there is Raúl Gonzales), advisers of the so-
called "Colina", group, a squad of the fascist Armed Forces
responsible for an infinity of war crimes during the 90's. Later he
declared: "Mixed operations and strengthen the intelligence work of
the Board Against Terrorism (Dircote), these are the basic pillars of
the anti-subversive strategy, in coordination with other
institutions". That "the civil participation is a crucial part of
this strategy". That they have established the "Peace and Development
Commissars in Ayacucho, the Central Jungle and Huallaga to coordinate
the struggle against poverty with the aim of guaranteeing the
presence of the State and maintain a fluid relation with the local
institutions and the self-defence Rondas". All this was published in
La República the 1st of March 2002. So, when they speak about "peace"
they speak about the peace of the cemeteries, of bigger genocide,
which is all they have to fight us. In these days the Intelligence
Service of the Army (SIE) handed out in Aucayacu thousands of
leaflets where it says, according to the news report of 24 horas on
Panamericana (01 April 2002), "the Regional Committee of Huallaga
supports the hunger-strike". Chairman Gonzalos position against
the "hunger-strike" is well known, as a tactic it doesn't corresponds
to the proletariat but to pacifism, who believe in "bourgeoisie
humanism", the proletariat can not liquidate itself, what corresponds
is to combat and resist for the People's War. And this is what
Chairman Gonzalo and Comrade Feliciano are doing in the highest
shining trench of combat. This is not new, in the beginning of the
campaigns of encirclement and annihilation in the years of 1994 and
1995, as a preparation of their sinister genocide against the masses
in the People's Committees of Huallaga, they handed out leaflets
signed by the rats of the ROL inviting to give up (it was more than 2
million leaflets). This reediting of the hoax about "hunger-strike"
is part of the plan of imperialism and reaction that we are
condemning, repudiating and denouncing. It is a part of the plan to
murder Chairman Gonzalo and Comrade Feliciano; it is a part of the
bigger genocide against the political prisoners and the prisoners of
war of the PCP and against the masses of our people. Today they have
declared its failure and they have said that the "hunger-strike has
ended in the Naval Base". Against this the PCP with People's War
defends the life of Chairman Gonzalo and, linked to that, the life of
Comrade Feliciano, and of the thousands of political prisoners and
the prisoners of war of the PCP, with that the PCP faces, combat and
defeats all the campaigns, plans, operations and hoaxes of the enemy.
Because of that we demarcate, crush and condemn those who play along
with the miserable rats of the ROL, who outrageously says that they
meet "with the families and lawyers of the prisoners", when they are
not relatives nor lawyers of the political prisoners and prisoners of
war of the PCP but just traitors and agents of the ROL.

We call on the RIM, the Communist Parties, revolutionary
organizations, the children of our people abroad, the international
proletariat and the peoples of the world to unfold the broadest and
profoundest campaign to defend the life of Chairman Gonzalo and,
linked to that, the life of Comrade Feliciano, inseparably united to
the campaign for Maoism, to reactivate the International Emergency
Committee (IEC), its local organizations, demanding his public
presentation before the national and international press and that he
make a statement. We also call on you, to develop the broadest
campaign in support of the People's War and to participate in the
world campaign against imperialism, which PCP leads with People's
War, under the slogan: Yankees Go Home! Combat imperialism,
revisionism and reaction inseparably and implacably.



Long live Chairman Gonzalo and his all-powerful thought!
Long live the Communist Party of Peru!
Long live the People's War!
Defend the life of the revolutionary political prisoners and the
prisoners of war!
Long live the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement!
Yankees Go Home!
Glory to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought!

# danidanado says :
5 October, 2008 [ 16:48 ]

Holy cow!  Get back on your meds, boy!