Glass shatters and women scream as the police bust their way into the house and wrestle suspected drug dealers to the ground.
The raid is all in a day's work for the Peruvian police squad that filmed it.
The country, which elects a new president on Sunday, has one of Latin America's strongest economies. But like its neighbors, it is also stricken by violent crime.
Many voters want tough treatment for the killers, dealers, robbers and pickpockets that are terrorizing them.
"Here in Peru, crime is so bad that you can even get killed for a pair of sneakers," Laura Chafouk said in a park in central Lima.
The lead candidate Keiko Fujimori has vowed to put more police and even troops on the street to keep order.
That is a controversial promise coming from her. Keiko Fujimori's father Alberto is in jail over a crackdown by death squads while he was president in the 1990s.
Courts held him responsible for massacres of suspects who he said were terrorists of the Shining Path insurgent group.
"I am wearing the trousers when it comes to fighting crime," Keiko Fujimori has repeated at campaign rallies.
She promises to build prisons high in the mountains, out of range of mobile phone signals so gangsters cannot run rackets from their cells.
- Killing for a phone -
Media show countless images of the crime wave of recent years.
Robbers burst into restaurants and pharmacies and hold up money-changers on the street.
Last month, robbers reportedly killed five students to steal their cellphones.
"I think that the vote will be decided on which candidate people really think will bid to change that situation," Cesar Ortiz, a security analyst at consultancy Aprosec, told AFP.
"Nowadays, they attack you at a food stand, at the park, on the street. So, you fear for your life, for your children's and for your family in general."
The government has declared a state of emergency in the city of Callao near Lima, where bullets fly in a turf war between drug gangs.
Callao is home to a big port where gangs are said to traffic drugs in shipping containers.
- Close to crime pandemic -
According to the latest UN statistics, Peru in 2012 had a homicide rate of just under 10 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
That was far below other Latin American states such as Brazil, Honduras and Mexico. But it is still close to pandemic levels, according to Aprosec founder Cesar Ortiz.
In a poll by Ipsos, 70 percent of voters said crime was their top concern in Sunday's election.
Fujimori's opponent Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has echoed her vow to fight crime. But for many voters, the memory of how her father crushed the insurgents in Peru's two-decade civil conflict gives her an edge.
A survey in March found 30 percent of voters trusted her to reduce crime, against only 13 percent for Kuczynski.
The call is strongest in the poorer districts worst hit by violence.
"To move Peru forward, you have to be tough," said 82-year old Hilda Vera, a resident in a poor district of Lima.
Alberto Fujimori "saved Peru from terrorism and ruin," she said.
Kuczynski has closed in on Keiko Fujimori's lead in the days leading up to the vote, according to three opinion polls released on Friday.
Challenging Fujimori's plans, Kuczynski has proposed to strengthen the police and improve existing prisons.
"Democracy is the best thing for security in a country," he said.
"We cannot believe that sending troops into the streets or sending people to jail at 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) in altitude will solve this problem."
Glass shatters and women scream as the police bust their way into the house and wrestle suspected drug dealers to the ground.
The raid is all in a day’s work for the Peruvian police squad that filmed it.
The country, which elects a new president on Sunday, has one of Latin America’s strongest economies. But like its neighbors, it is also stricken by violent crime.
Many voters want tough treatment for the killers, dealers, robbers and pickpockets that are terrorizing them.
“Here in Peru, crime is so bad that you can even get killed for a pair of sneakers,” Laura Chafouk said in a park in central Lima.
The lead candidate Keiko Fujimori has vowed to put more police and even troops on the street to keep order.
That is a controversial promise coming from her. Keiko Fujimori’s father Alberto is in jail over a crackdown by death squads while he was president in the 1990s.
Courts held him responsible for massacres of suspects who he said were terrorists of the Shining Path insurgent group.
“I am wearing the trousers when it comes to fighting crime,” Keiko Fujimori has repeated at campaign rallies.
She promises to build prisons high in the mountains, out of range of mobile phone signals so gangsters cannot run rackets from their cells.
– Killing for a phone –
Media show countless images of the crime wave of recent years.
Robbers burst into restaurants and pharmacies and hold up money-changers on the street.
Last month, robbers reportedly killed five students to steal their cellphones.
“I think that the vote will be decided on which candidate people really think will bid to change that situation,” Cesar Ortiz, a security analyst at consultancy Aprosec, told AFP.
“Nowadays, they attack you at a food stand, at the park, on the street. So, you fear for your life, for your children’s and for your family in general.”
The government has declared a state of emergency in the city of Callao near Lima, where bullets fly in a turf war between drug gangs.
Callao is home to a big port where gangs are said to traffic drugs in shipping containers.
– Close to crime pandemic –
According to the latest UN statistics, Peru in 2012 had a homicide rate of just under 10 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
That was far below other Latin American states such as Brazil, Honduras and Mexico. But it is still close to pandemic levels, according to Aprosec founder Cesar Ortiz.
In a poll by Ipsos, 70 percent of voters said crime was their top concern in Sunday’s election.
Fujimori’s opponent Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has echoed her vow to fight crime. But for many voters, the memory of how her father crushed the insurgents in Peru’s two-decade civil conflict gives her an edge.
A survey in March found 30 percent of voters trusted her to reduce crime, against only 13 percent for Kuczynski.
The call is strongest in the poorer districts worst hit by violence.
“To move Peru forward, you have to be tough,” said 82-year old Hilda Vera, a resident in a poor district of Lima.
Alberto Fujimori “saved Peru from terrorism and ruin,” she said.
Kuczynski has closed in on Keiko Fujimori’s lead in the days leading up to the vote, according to three opinion polls released on Friday.
Challenging Fujimori’s plans, Kuczynski has proposed to strengthen the police and improve existing prisons.
“Democracy is the best thing for security in a country,” he said.
“We cannot believe that sending troops into the streets or sending people to jail at 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) in altitude will solve this problem.”
