The Prevalence and Danger of Vigilante Justice in Rural Africa
In all non-urban areas in the world, police enforcement tends to be sparse. Farming communities, separated by acres of fields, evidently cannot be conducive to constant patrolling presence of uniformed officers. In fact, police presence can be so distant that when crimes and disputes occur, reporting to the police may not even bring officers to the scenes of conflict in time for fruitful resolution. In the case of crimes by stealth, it is highly likely that by the time the police can assess the situation, neither the victim nor the victimizer will be there for questioning.