Crime-Fighting in Urban Battlescapes

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Journal Title: Defence and Security Alert (DSA)
Volume: 3
Issue: 2
Publication Year: 2011

A timely warning forecast that analyses the social impact of increasing urbanisation and the massing of human populations in dense metropolitan slums. This is likely to compress social spaces and lead to an explosion in organised crime within the urban battlescape. The writer cites the chilling example of Brazil, South Africa and Mexico where crime syndicates and drug mafias fight regular battles with machine-guns and rockets and sometimes employ former Special Forces military personnel.

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