UPDATE: There are strong signs that the governmet has applied "creative accouting" methods in their numbers. Sorry for misleading you.
30 homicides per 100,000 is not a rate to be proud of. Nevertheless, things are getting better in Rio (and in São Paulo as well). I am not following the debate, but possible causes are: demographics, rising incarceration rates, new police practices, and falling inequality and unemployment.
The graph bellow shows the absolute number of homicides since 1991:
(Source, in Portuguese)
30 homicides per 100,000 is not a rate to be proud of. Nevertheless, things are getting better in Rio (and in São Paulo as well). I am not following the debate, but possible causes are: demographics, rising incarceration rates, new police practices, and falling inequality and unemployment.
The graph bellow shows the absolute number of homicides since 1991:
(Source, in Portuguese)
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Are the olympics playing a role? More stringent practices to get crime in check before the big event, or perhaps some incentives to massage the numbers?
I do not think so. Brazilian politicians are not that far sighted...Plus, homicide rates are falling in other metropolitan areas.
Most likely the police are cheating on their accounting. It is Brazil after all ...
The number comes from Datasus, related to the ministry of health. It is not perfect, but it is reliable.
How 4,800 homicides mean a murder rate of 30 per 100,000? I thought that Rio had 6 million inhabitants. If this graph is about the metropolitan area, well you should signalize that. Anyway the metropolitan area has 12 million inhabitants, that would mean a murder rate of 40 per 100,000 about the same as Detroit.
Rafael, check the source of the graph/post. It is about Rio de Janeiro State (pop. 16 M).
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