Private and Police security cameras could number in the thousands in the city of Córdoba. But even so, its true effectiveness in stopping in fragrant or in real time to thieves. They are more useful, however, to make a count of the number of criminal episodes that occur in the form of street attacks or against homes and businesses.
In other words, a kind of visual archive of insecurity. It will be necessary to infer that the security forces and the Justice keep these elements as evidence to identify the criminals.
But beyond the servers equipped with a regulatory weapon to protect the population and the courts in Courts, there are neighborhood sectors that make the decision to protect themselves from imminent risk through intercommunication, via WhatsApp neighborhood groups .
Even with the task of compiling the increasingly violent attacks that take place in the streets and in private homes. As we reported days ago, this is the case of Claudio Muñoz, former president of the San Salvador Neighborhood Center, located on both sides of Colón Avenue at 4,000, who treasures information, testimonies, photographs and videos of each criminal act reported by people to through the aforementioned computer support, which also has a connection with a police station.
What is curious and at the same time worrying lies in the number of acts of insecurity that this man has checked over the last three years. Namely: 47 in 2021; 79 in 2022, and 26 during the two months of 2023, which alerts to a tricky projection for the rest of the year, in line with a relentless escalation.
It is an x-ray (partial, since it is to be considered that not all thefts have managed to be documented) of a sector of the immense urban layout of Cordoba. However, it places in an unexpected dimension what happens beyond the tested neighborhoods, San Salvador and Uritorco.
It is not a new piece of information, but it is frightening the impunity with which criminals enter the patios of the houses or strip the drivers of cars, motorcycles or those who embark on the adventure of bustling the streets on foot of their belongings.
Little is being saved now. Gas meters, wiring and everything that is at hand is stolen to load and flee. The authorities of the security area of the province have to approach the inhabitants of the red zones and find out directly the problems that afflict them.
In this framework, the testimonies of victims are reiterated about the scant response they receive at a police station when they go to file a complaint. In the face of indifference, the threat that an armed subject enters a house with astonishing ease and plunges its inhabitants into the worst nightmare. He goes without saying, as always, that the State cannot be absent.