For the majority of the population, this policing has changed their life drastically for the better. It's not good from a human rights perspective, but they are very happy with it (from everyone I spoke to); and families from abroad are finally coming back - spoke to a number of people that hadn't been back for 5, 10, 20, even 45 years!
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Thanks for this Mags. If given the choice,and similar circumstances, most people would accept the trade offs. By the sounds of it, the tyranny of the gangs was a far worst choice.
Yes, let's see in eg 10 years, but rn the people are happy about the freedom from gangs they've been given. I came I skeptical wrt the approval rating, but I talked to everyone I met (Google Translate for the win)
The main point of my previous post was that the HRF is not a neutral reliable organisation. It lumps countries like El Salvador in with China (who as a functioning authoritarian regime have successfully choked most of the use of bitcoin in the country) and non functioning African states.
Nigeria from your statista list is #16 on the fragile states index and has a sizeable black market where USD is king. In a functioning state, authoritarian or otherwise; neither foreign, nor crypto currency would be allowed to gain such a foothold.
NYC has a similar program called stop and frisk. It’s apparently not as effective after someone decided it was “racist”.