Fed up with insecurity, Daniel Arrippe, resident of The OvensLa Plata, created a crime map a little less than two years ago to record every event that occurs. Until now has recorded more than 400 robberies.
“I have been managing the ‘Facebook group’ for four years.Los Hornos, enough of insecurity’ and people began to say that there had been a robbery here, another there and I began to think about how I could create something to that a record remains of each event«, said the creator in dialogue with TN.
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The crime map is publicly accessible. Shared in the Facebook group ‘Los Hornos, enough of insecurity’ so that the rest of the neighbors can comment on the new events that occur in the three areas into which it is divided.
In each one you can see a endless points red, orange or green, each one corresponds to a type of crime. The first color, according to Daniel, corresponds to those events that were reported at the police station. The second, to those who did not go through any judicial process and the last, are the attacks by motorcycle jets.
Each circle can be expanded and, in this way, see in detail what crime was committed, where and when. Everything from armed robberies to entrances is recorded there.
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“Theft of a car wheel, theft of a car battery, theft of a car, theft of a bicycle,” are some of the other crimes that Daniel, thanks to the help of neighbors, was able to capture on the map in the latter. year and seven months. In some cases, which specify entrances, he even detailed the stolen objects.
In this way, Daniel told TN that while watching the comments of the group participants he thought: “The objective is to generate a record of which are the most dangerous areas to alert neighbors”.
Seeing that the complaints from neighbors on networks were constant day after day, he said: “I began to see on Google Maps that it could be done, without being an expert on the subject.”
This is how he transferred all the thefts that were indicated to him in the document. Although at first he began by highlighting the cases that were discussed on Facebook, he later added those that were sent to them privately on WhatsApp and those that were published on regional portals.
“This is part of what happens and In one year and seven months that I have been doing this I have already collected more than 400 crimes”, he detailed, horrified, but, unfortunately, used to it.
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As a result of this, he assured that «the police cannot cope» and that many people do not file a complaint at the police station due to the «cumbersome» process, which means that the statistics managed by the police determine Los Hornos as an area «safe». “You ask the police and they tell you that ‘it’s a safe place’, but then you see the map and it reveals another reality.”, he confessed.
“What we ask is that they take security seriously. There are many more cases that occur in the rural part that we have no record of,” he said and added: “In the end we have to take care of each other among neighbors.”