July 16, 2017: Onde tem tiroteio RJ and Frogo Cruzado are mobile applications, created by a group of volunteers aims to show the distraught areas of Rio de Janeiro, saving many innocent lives from stray bullets. Street violence and mob shooting have become a major threat to many big cities and most significantly in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro. These mobile applications inform its users where a shooting has occurred and advise to stay away from it. The app Onde tem tiroteio RJ is also responsible for doing the same via social media like Instagram, Facebook and others, as reported by BBG Direct.
Enrique Coelho Caamano, the creator of Onde Tem Tiroteio – "Where are the Firefights" is more concerned with the public lives, the lives of the common mass often entangled in massive gunfire. According to the sources, the app has now approx 3 million users, which is almost half the population of the area.
"Our job here is not to denounce anyone, we do not have a direct focus on the police or on the drug gangs," Henrique Coelho Caamaño, a volunteer of the Onde Tem Tiroteio app, said this week. "Our focus is really to get people out of the way of stray bullets." The rampaged areas can now be avoided by the common people all thanks to Onde Tem Tiroteio app.
The apps keep people updated about the areas to avoid. Pixabay.
Rio de Janeiro one step ahead in public safety and development.
Fogo Cruzado: The "Fogo Cruzado," or Cross Fire, an application created by Amnesty International and local researcher, is similar to Onde Tem Tiroteio RJ which also keeps the civilians informed about the bullet strained area. The app is also responsible for protecting the safety of the people frequently falling prey to stray bullets. Both the applications are instrumental in maintaining the security of the civilians long used to random gunfire.
BBC reports that around 42,000 people were shot dead in 2012, the "highest" in the history of 35 years. More than half of the victims are the young population with the northern state lagoas being the most violent. These apps come as saviors amidst the sound of firefights ravaging the city on a routined basis. There has been a steady growth of violent crimes by 11% this year as confirmed by VOA News. More than 23,000 people have killed in the first five months of 2017. The applications send reports based on the informations given by eyewitnesses, media and police accounts.
– prepared by Puja Sinha of NewsGram. Twitter @pujas1994