"Police officials assume that about 90 per cent of the victims of ‘mob justice’ [in Uganda] may be innocent. However, there are no exact figures about the number and development of these practices as perpetrators are not prosecuted by state authorities."https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698240802354474 …
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Suspicious that mobs are not prosecuted. And of course the police would CLAIM mob choices are inaccurate; mobs directly compete with police for public legitimacy as a legal solution.
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Mob justice probably forms to establish a deterrent when police is not effective. https://nypost.com/2020/01/15/vigilante-couple-allegedly-baited-bike-thieves-beat-them-posted-videos-to-youtube/ … (the comments to this story on twitter were overwhelmingly on the side of the vigilantes)
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