Residents of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, are installing gates and walls to protect residents from exploding crime rates, according to a report.
are walling themselves into their neighborhoods to protect against criminals who are running rampant in the city, according to a report.
Residents in certain neighborhoods are turning to security gates to keep criminals away, including in Torres' Samanes 1 neighborhood on the north side of the city. Six gates were installed around the neighborhood in December to protect the more than 300 families who live there and prevent outsiders from entering the area between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.
"If they didn’t break into your house, they robbed someone, beat someone up. Cars got stolen. All kinds of stuff happened," Torres said. She said theAn urban planner and public safety expert told EFE that Guayaquil is working to"bunkerize" withcitizens from criminals, similar to other nearby cities that have high crime.
The outlet reported that extortion cases in the city have exploded in recent years, with prosecutors recording 1,603 such cases between January and June, compared to 1,265 cases for all of 2022 and only 425 in 2021. Robberies that target both homes and retail stores have also skyrocketed this year – already surpassing all of 2022's robberies.
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