Peru Crime Research Paper

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The insecurity in Lima needs to disappear in 2021

Lima, the Capital City of Peru, was founded by Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535. With a population of almost 10 million, Lima is the most populous metropolitan area of Peru and the second largest city in the Americas, behind Sao Paulo and before Mexico City.
Lima is the country´s commercial and industrial center and one of Latin America´s most important financial centers. And as a big city it also has big problems, one of them, is the crime. Surveys highlight how there are far more Peruvians afraid of falling victim to crime than actual crime victims, even as the country continues to struggle with thousands of urban street gangs. President Kuczynski has emphasized the goal to reach Peru´s
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Electronics (especially cameras, laptops, GPS, smart phones, I-pods, etc.) rank high on the list of items that criminals target. The places where people feel least secure are Lima downtown, San Juan de Lurigancho, Center Lima, Callao, La Victoria, Rimac and among others.

Experts say, that one of the biggest problems to fight criminality in Peru was the weak governance in terms of style, leadership and capacity to manage scarce economic and institutional resources. They also agree that good urban governance and management are essential to achieve effective planning, that in turn, furthers the development of the city for life.
President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has called for a social revolution in Peru to meet nation´s bicentennial in 2021 as a modern nation.
He has emphasized the goal to reach Peru´s bicentennial in 2021 as a modern nation of equal opportunities and access for 32 million citizens. The president has summarized his program in a six-point wish list and one of them is to have a country free of corruption and crime.
Kuczynski has assured that he will assume permanent leadership in the fight against national security by leading meetings of the National Council for Citizen Security (CONASEC) and the National Defense
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The Ministries of justice and Home Office will be spearheading this effort, but public awareness of success in these aspects will depend a great deal on personal experience and how the media covers the news.
In a few words, we ought to speak frankly, lay the cards on the table, see what topics need to be discussed and create an agenda to establish a follow-up agenda for the following months.
To succeed in this matter, we need a president totally committed to the fight against corruption and I expect he will not allow his officials and closest collaborators to fall to the indignity of corruption.
We know that crime was and is a particular concern for all of us during the past election cycle as insecurity has been on the rise. Furthermore, the country has been plagued for centuries by “extortion”, meaning almost daily acts of petty corruption and now we have a deep hope to become a great and better country in the next five years and say in our bicentennial “WE GOT

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