In 2024, six of the eight Brazilian cities with the highest homicide rates were in the Northeast. Feira da Santana led the ranking of the most violent city in Brazil, with a murder rate of ***** per 100,000 inhabitants. It was followed followed by Recife, with a homicide rate of more than ** per 100,000 inhabitants. In Latin America and the Caribbean, Feira da Santana was the **** most deadly city.

Context

Rio de Janeiro is one of the most beautiful and famous city in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most dangerous. For the last years, in a scenario of economical and political crisis in Brazil, the State of Rio de Janeiro was one of the most affected. Since 2006, the Instituto de Segurança Pública do Rio de Janeiro (Institue of Public Security of Rio de Janeiro State) publishes reports of each police station.

Content

Three datasets are available: BaseDPEvolucaoMensalCisp - Monthly evolution of statistics by police station PopulacaoEvolucaoMensalCisp - Monthly evolution of population covered by police station delegacias - Info about each police station

Most of the data are in Brazilian Portuguese because it was extracted directly from government sites.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is provided by the Instituto de Segurança Pública. delegacias.csv was compiled by myself.

Inspiration

What is the most unsafe city in Rio de Janeiro State? And the safest? Which events can be correlated with the numbers in dataset? (Elections, crisis...) How crime correlates with population?

In 2024, the highest homicide rate among 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries surveyed was in Haiti, with around 62 murders committed per 100,000 inhabitants. Trinidad and Tobago came in second, with a homicide rate of 46, while Honduras ranked seventh, with 25. In the same year, the lowest rate was recorded in El Salvador, with a homicide rate of 1.9 per 100,000 inhabitants. A violence-ridden region Violence and crime are some of the most pressing problems affecting Latin American society nowadays. More than 40 of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world are located in this region, as well as one of the twenty countries with the least peace in the world according to the Global Peace Index. Despite governments’ large spending on security and high imprisonment rates, drug and weapon trafficking, organized crime, and gangs have turned violence into an epidemic that affects the whole region and a solution to this issue appears to be hardly attainable. The cost of violence in Mexico Mexico stands out as an example of the great cost that violence inflicts upon a country, since beyond claiming human lives, it also affects everyday life and has a negative impact on the economy. Mexicans have a high perceived level of insecurity, as they do not only fear becoming victims of homicide, but also of other common crimes, such as assault or rape. Such fear prevents people from performing everyday activities, for instance, going out at night, taking a taxi or going to the movies or the theater. Furthermore, the economic toll of violence in Mexico is more than considerable. For example, the cost of homicide and violent crime amounted to 2099.8 and 1778.1 billion Mexican pesos in 2023, respectively.