'Gangs have lost respect for the authorities'

Although in the past four years has increased drug bust in Panama, will continue to commit more crimes in broad daylight.

The execution took place on Sunday at a shopping mall in the city uncovered a normal behavior of the population to the violence, said the pastor and criminologist Marco Aurelio Alvarez.

"Every day more cruel crimes are committed and people are not alarmed, indeed, see them as commonplace, and when we got to this level, we are in the normalization of crime in our" said Alvarez, who also aspires to be an advocate from town.

He said this is because the criminals and gang members have lost respect for the authorities and increasingly crowded discuss their crimes and daylight places.

For Alvarez, another aspect that caused such insensitivity on the part of the population to violence are the failures that have taken control mechanisms.

It recognizes that the problem is not only the security sectors, noting that even the Church has responsibilities in these rulings that have allowed the behavior of society is turned to increasingly see these violent acts as normal, as happened Sunday, when one person was killed by shots in front of the eyes of the people walking through the mall.

For his part, sociologist Olmedo Garcia said that activities linked to organized crime, the humanitarian crisis of refugees and immigrants and trade in narcotic drugs and frontal fight trafficking are some of the issues that have generated that committed crimes like that Sunday was recorded at a mall.

"There is a culture of empowerment exitismo, which is bound to show exhibitionism, and crime must be displayed, thus affecting the development of citizenship and endangers the level of governance," said the sociologist.

"We must prevent the display is part of our culture or otherwise, families will disintegrate and continue to commit atrocities," he added.

Meanwhile, Rosendo Miranda, former prosecutor against drugs, said he's missing human sensitivity and a few years ago would have been a national scandal, now it seems that does not surprise anyone.

"It is necessary to call attention to society why it has lost sensitivity to crimes committed in broad daylight and that for many has become a habit," he said.

Miranda believes that the media and the authorities are key to the issue and if a solution is not sought, violence becomes part of Panama and why nobody is surprised nor alarmed by these facts.

He added that the important thing in organized crime, is to detect operational structures, human components, local and international contacts and thus know how to operate in the country.