Armed robberies have become so common on buses in Mexico City that passengers have started carrying fake cellphones so they don't have to give up their expensive smartphones to thieves.
In this May 15, 2019 photo, a driver maneuvers through the narrow streets of San Miguel Teotongo on his bus where a pair of police officers ride along to protect him and his passengers from armed robbery in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. Trigger-happy bandits regularly attack the buses that ferry people from the poorer outlying suburbs to jobs in the city center.
The scene is repeated over and over again, courtesy of the cameras that many buses now carry that record the assaults, often late at night or in the early morning: Sleepy passengers are seen bouncing along in the jitneys when one or two of the men aboard suddenly pull masks over their faces. One will pull out a gun while his accomplice passes down the aisle, often with his own gun, demanding valuables.
There were an average of 70 reported violent muggings every day in Mexico City in the first four months of 2019. About two-thirds were committed against pedestrians, with the rest split almost evenly between bus passengers and assaults on motorists stopped at lights or caught in traffic jams. Between 2017 and 2018, such assaults rose by about 22 percent.
“It’s useful for robberies, the large number of muggings happening in Mexico City,” said Axel. “They say ‘hand over your cellphone, give me everything’, and people know now they have to hand over the phone quick, in a matter of seconds, so they hand over these phones and often the thieves don’t realize it.”“Obviously there are problems, because if the criminals search it or find out ... there is going to be a problem.
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