On patrol with machetes, Kenya's slum residents hustle for security

By Neha Wadekar NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Issac Muasa decided to give up his life of crime on Kenya's streets in the instant he saw a speeding police car aim for him and his friends as they tried to snatch a woman's purse. "It was God who saved us (from the police) because we just ran very fast," said Muasa, 33, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. "We almost died." Not long before, the bullet-ridden corpses of three of Muasa's friends had been found in a forest after they had left Matha