The TransMilenio buses are horribly overcrowded even at off-peak times, attracting muggers and pickpockets.
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At every station stroll uniformed guards, truncheons in hand, deterring muggers and graffiti artists.
Con artists and muggers, the pornographic cinemas and bookshops have all had to relocate.
In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.
Britons were fretting about the decline in civility two decades ago, when muggers and heroin addicts roamed the streets.
The Sunday Star reports the death of a 79-year-old woman after trying to stop muggers stealing her husband's ashes.
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Pride Hill in Shrewsbury has reportedly become a hot-spot for "charity muggers" or "chuggers" who ask people to make a regular donation to charity.
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Mr Williams thinks the city needs more middle-class families, not muggers.
Too bad that that very day muggers assaulted his top aide in a taxi, carrying off, not least, a copy of the mayor's inaugural speech.
He also singled out New York police Detective Ivan Marcano, who was off duty in the Bronx with his girlfriend when he saw muggers attack a cab driver.
The model here is Central Park in New York, which has been reclaimed from the junkies and muggers who made it virtually a no-go area in the 1970s.
Using a map of criminal activity produced by a CyberTracker, police arrested and convicted a gang of muggers that had been prowling a beach near Mr Liebenberg's home.
Pride Hill in Shrewsbury has reportedly become a hot-spot for collectors, sometimes referred to as "chuggers" or "charity muggers", who ask people to make a regular donation to charity.
Often the response to chuggers (a term meaning Charity Muggers, used to describe collectors who operate on the street, signing up shoppers for direct debit to a charity) varies between abuse and being ignored.
He tracked the muggers' footprints on sand dunes over the course of several weeks, to get data for the maps, and established a pattern that helped police predict the attacks, so that they could lie in wait.
One of the delights of the game is the way you can gaze down on the day to day hustle bustle of your city, zooming in to see individual Sims strolling down pavements, caught up in traffic or even getting beaten up by muggers.
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