First, how does the leader cope with the occasional problem with law enforcement? (I know that those problems will crop up -- we had a policeman demand a bribe in San Quintin about ten years ago, and we managed to buy him off with several Tootsie Pops for his children!) The problem of minor hassles with the police and the federales is emphatically not enough to keep me from going -- but it would be nice if there were someone else to deal with this.
Second, is it true that traveling in a group discourages criminals? Or, realistically, is the problem of carjacking/robbery so rare (during the daylight, of course) that this is just not an issue? By comparison, almost no one in the US travels in groups to deter criminals, but (at the same time) we avoid the really bad areas of town (assuming that we know the town).
First, how does the leader cope with the occasional problem with law enforcement? (I know that those problems will crop up -- we had a policeman demand a bribe in San Quintin about ten years ago, and we managed to buy him off with several Tootsie Pops for his children!) The problem of minor hassles with the police and the federales is emphatically not enough to keep me from going -- but it would be nice if there were someone else to deal with this.
Second, is it true that traveling in a group discourages criminals? Or, realistically, is the problem of carjacking/robbery so rare (during the daylight, of course) that this is just not an issue? By comparison, almost no one in the US travels in groups to deter criminals, but (at the same time) we avoid the really bad areas of town (assuming that we know the town).
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