Mass Action
Mobocraziness
Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Crowds taking the law in their own hands by mobbing criminal suspects to death are on the increase. Whether this is a sign of the public becoming increasingly brutal or the police being slow in taking action, is a moot point.
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Observance of the law seems to have dropped to ground zero now. Mob actions are on the rise, often resulting in the death of people suspected of having committed a crime. In Tangerang alone, a regency that previously belonged to West Java Province but has now become a part of the newly created Banten Province, no fewer than 30 criminal suspects have been summarily executed by mobs in the past seven months.
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