In 2024, there were a total of 2,532 shootings registered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March was the month with the most shootings in each of the given years, except for 2024 - in that year, there were 254 occurrences, or about 10 percent of the year's total. The lowest number of shootings in the given period occurred in August 2023 when 153 cases were recorded. Police violence in Rio In 2022, the Supreme Court ordered the state government of Rio de Janeiro to come up with a plan to reduce police lethality, as the level of violence in police actions was deemed unacceptable, due to high numbers of casualties and human rights violations. The number of civilians killed as a result of police intervention more than quadrupled between 2013 and 2019, reaching a record number of 1,814 that year. Despite the decrease in comparison to 2019, every year from 2020 to 2022 saw more than 1,200 civilians being killed. Furthermore, it is deemed that there is structural racism in the actions of security forces. For instance, 80 percent of the deaths caused by police interventions in the state during 2023 were of people of color. Shootings and massacres in Rio Civil society and public institutions have made proposals to alleviate this situation. One of them is the ADPF 635 (Allegation of Violation of a Fundamental Precept), also known as ADPF Favelas Case, presented by the Brazilian Socialist Party, and whose preliminary approval took place in June 2020. The measure restricted unplanned police operations in the favelas during the pandemic. Despite its frequent violations, it showed evident results. Shootings fell from 7,368 in 2019 to less than 3,000 in 2024. Over one third of documented shootings in 2024 were due to police operations, while 288 were motivated by murder or attempted murder, the second most common reason. In March 2022, the government of Rio de Janeiro published a plan to reduce deaths during police operations. That year, the State of Rio de Janeiro recorded 92 fewer deaths than the previous year, and the number has fallen every year since.

The annual robbery rate in the city of Rio de Janeiro has stabilized since 2020, after it more than doubled from roughly *** robberies per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012 to almost ***** in 2017. The sharpest decline in the robbery rate occurred between 2019 and 2020 when it fell from ***** to below 1,000 thefts, reflecting a decrease of approximately ** percent. In 2024, the annual robbery rate was *** thefts per 100,000 inhabitants, however this still equates to almost one percent of the population being robbed each year.

In 2023, approximately 50,000 cases of violence against women were reported in the city of Rio de Janeiro. With over 18,000 cases, psychological violence, such as threatening behavior, harassment, and humiliation, was the category with the most reported cases, while property damage was the least reported category with fewer than 2,200 cases.

The Rio de Janeiro (RJ) municipality presents one of the highest crime rates in Brazil. However, since the 2000s, a significant reduction of lethal crimes has been observed. Given this scenario, the aim of this study is to analyze the factors that determined this phenomenon. Among them, it seeks to assess the effects of the Pacifying Police Unit (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora - UPP). To this end, the statistical error correction vector (ECV) method was used. This study allowed for the analysis of short- and long-term relationships between crime rates and variables associated with economic activity and police action. The applied dataset comprises the period between April 2002 and August 2019. The main results indicate that UPP implementation contributed to lethal crime reduction in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Furthermore, the results show that coercive police action tends to increase crime rates.

Content

This dataset contain official crime statistics from São Paulo state cities (Brazil) and were prepared based on information available on the Civil State Police statistics site: http://www.ssp.sp.gov.br/Estatistica/Pesquisa.aspx

• Period available:

  • Crime Monthly Occurrences and Policy productivity: 2001 - May, 2021 Note: in both datasets, decimal separator is a point (".") .

  • Crime rates (annual rates available): 1999 -2020 (available for some of the cities) Note: in this dataset, decimal separator is a comma (",") .

• Data and labels in brazilian portuguese.

• Information about crime type interpretation (available only in brazilian portuguese) in: http://www.ssp.sp.gov.br/Estatistica/download/manual.pdf

• Datasets prepared with Selenium (webscraping) and Pandas libraries in Python.

Author: Dalciana B. Waller https://github.com/DBWALLER

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?

This dataset is available on the official website of the Rio de Janeiro State Statistics Authority.

It encompasses crime rates across the state of Rio de Janeiro, spanning from 1990 to the present day.

columns: ano (year) mes (month) hom_doloso (intentional_homicide) lesao_corp_morte (death_by_physical_injury) latrocinio (robbery_with_fatal_violence) cvli (violent_fatalities) hom_por_interv_policial (homicide_by_police_action) letalidade_violenta (violent_lethality) tentat_hom (attempted_homicide) lesao_corp_dolosa (intentional_bodily_injury) estupro (rape) hom_culposo (negligent_homicide) lesao_corp_culposa (negligent_bodily_injury) roubo_transeunte (street_robbery) roubo_celular (cellphone_robbery) roubo_em_coletivo (robbery_in_public_transport) roubo_rua (street_robbery) roubo_veiculo (vehicle_robbery) roubo_carga (cargo_theft) roubo_comercio (commercial_establishment_robbery) roubo_residencia (residential_robbery) roubo_banco (bank_robbery) roubo_cx_eletronico (ATM_robbery) roubo_conducao_saque (robbery_during_withdrawal) roubo_apos_saque (post_withdrawal_robbery) roubo_bicicleta (bicycle_robbery) outros_roubos (other_robberies) total_roubos (total_robberies) furto_veiculos (motor_vehicle_theft) furto_transeunte (pedestrian_theft) furto_coletivo (public_transport_theft) furto_celular (cellphone_theft) furto_bicicleta (bicycle_theft) outros_furtos (other_thefts) total_furtos (total_thefts) sequestro (kidnapping) extorsao (extortion) sequestro_relampago (express_kidnapping) estelionato (fraud) apreensao_drogas (drug_seizure) posse_drogas (drug_possession) trafico_drogas (drug_trafficking) apreensao_drogas_sem_autor (drug_seizure_without_authorization) recuperacao_veiculos (vehicle_recovery) apf (police_arrests_flagrant) aaapai (admonition_of_infringement_of_rights_by_the_police) cmp (notification_of_infringement_of_rights_by_the_police) cmba (notification_of_infringement_of_rights_by_the_police) ameaca (threat) pessoas_desaparecidas (missing_people) encontro_cadaver (discovered_corpse) encontro_ossada (discovered_human_remains) pol_militares_mortos_serv (police_officers_killed_on_duty) pol_civis_mortos_serv (civilian_police_employees_killed_on_duty) registro_ocorrencias (crime_reports) fase (phase)

This statistic shows the results of a survey carried out in August 2017 to find out the opinions of tourists visiting the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. As of August 2017, up to **** percent of respondents stated they had not witnessed any crime or delinquent activity while visiting Rio de Janeiro.

Dataset

This dataset was created by G-Dant

Contents

Abstract This paper aims to expand the concept of hybrid governance and analyses the case of Rio Janeiro, where criminal control coexists with the state. This study addresses the following research question: is Rio de Janeiro an important case for expanding the concept of hybrid governance in peace and security studies? The results show that not only can it be considered a space of hybrid governance, but also a dynamic hub with constant violence outbreaks with local and global impact.

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.

There were 758 fatalities due to shootings recorded in 2024 in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This represents a decrease of 21 percent in comparison to the deaths caused by firearms in the previous year. An overall 2.532, shootings were registered in the region that year.

In 2022, the state of Bahia reported the largest number of homicides in Brazil. That year, ***** homicides were recorded in this northeastern state. Bahia was followed by the state of Rio de Janeiro, with ***** murders reported. Despite that, the number of homicides in Brazil reached the lowest figure that year since at least 2006, totaling ******. Homicide targets Data shows that homicides affected men disproportionaly more than women in this South American country. Considering the over ****** homicides registered in Brazil in 2022, nearly ** percent had men as victims. Again, it is important to remember the deterioration of data quality, specially in the case of femicides: there was a woman victim of violent death with no clear cause for every woman victim of homicide in Brazil. In that regard, the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia had the highest femicide rates. At least ***** of every 100,000 women who lived in those territories were murdered on account of their gender in 2023. Not only women, but the number of black and brown people murdered in Brazil had been growing throughout the years up until 2017, revealing that minorities are increasingly becoming the targets of violence. In 2022, nearly ****** people of color were killed in Brazil, over ***** times the number of non-black or non-brown people. Police Violence Police brutality has been gaining attention from the media, especially after George Floyd violent death in 2020. In Brazil, police violence, particularly in poor areas, such as favelas, is an old and well-known problem that affects society as a whole. Figures have shown that the number of civilians killed by police officers in Brazil surpassed ***** in both 2021 and 2022. Coincidentally, Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, the Brazilian states with the highest number of homicides, are also the ones with the highest number of people killed by the police. In Rio, the state with the second-highest figure, people of color were the main victims of deadly police interventions.

The Brazilian Crimes Dataset (BCD) contains crime records and pre-processing procedures used in our experiments on crime analysis and prediction [1]. In particular, we proposed an approach to predict crimes and evaluated it by using crime records crawled from the brazilian web site Onde Fui Roubado.

Please consider citing the following references if you found this dataset useful:

[1] Úrsula Rosa Monteiro de Castro, Marcos Wander Rodrigues, Wladmir Cardoso Brandão. Predicting crime by exploiting supervised learning on heterogeneous data. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'20), 2020.

[2] Úrsula Rosa Monteiro de Castro, Wladmir Cardoso Brandão. (2020). BCD: Brazilian Crimes Dataset (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo.

Abstract The purpose of this article is to examine the influence of the media on perceptions of fear of crime among residents of the Brazilian Federal District. The study explores the influence of audience characteristics on the relationship between the media and fear of crime. We also analyzed the impact of different types of media (television, newspapers, and social media) on fear of crime. Research shows that the media's influence on fear of crime depends on the type of media, due to the differences in content and the characteristics of the audience.

Hi Fellas!

This dataset is about crime data in São Paulo City Brazil. I've scraping this data in SSP (Secretária de Segurança Pública) website. SSP is a government agency of public security in São Paulo state. A observation, São Paulo city is capital of state the of São Paulo, equal in Rio de Janeiro.

Any questions, is just send me message in email: marcus.rodrigues4003@gmail.com

SSP website: http://www.ssp.sp.gov.br/Estatistica/Pesquisa.aspx

In 2024, Brazil's homicide rate reached **** incidents per 100,000 people. This is the lowest figure recorded in the country since 2012.

Abstract Macrosociological theories of criminal violence predict that the rate of violent crimes, especially intentional homicide, increases in response to social structures and processes that strengthen violent motivations or weaken social controls on violence. To test these hypotheses, we used several bivariate and multivariate regression models with panel data and variables constructed with demographic and mortality data, according to theoretical relevance, to verify whether the use of psychoactive substances, access to firearms, sociodemographic structures (population growth and density and proportion of young men), and the prevalence of socioeconomic exclusion increased the rate of intentional homicides in Brazilian microregions between 1996 and 2019. Most of the results significantly support the hypotheses. But the most powerful factor was the previous year’s homicide rate. This reveals an endogenous feedback tendency of violence in the short and medium terms, which can lead to the accumulation of the effects of the structural factors of intentional homicides.

Supplementary material for computing a blue-crime index to Brazil. The Excel files include the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook and data used in the index.

This replication material includes datasets, R scripts, figures, and tables used in "From Drug Lords to Police State: The Effects of Order Transition on Local Economies." Abstract: What is the effect on local economies when the state intervenes to capture its own territories back from non-state actors? In 2008, the government of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil implemented a policy to take control of favelas that were previously dominated by criminal organizations. We use day and night luminosity to assess the effects of this program on economic growth. The difference-in-differences design shows that state intervention has a significant and negative average treatment effect on the favelas that received the intervention. We further test a mechanism to explain this economic downturn: institutional replacement. Based on crime data, we demonstrate that this effect is caused by the destruction of local markets, especially illicit activities. The data highlight the perils of order transition, even when OCGs are removed by state actors. Furthermore, this paper reinforces the need for policies that are mindful of the externalities of institutional shifts.