Gaston Leturia
04/09/2021 19:02
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 04/09/2021 19:02
In a clearly exceptional context due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the controls that were activated from the quarantine restrictions, the crime rate in the City of Buenos Aires fell by almost half during 2020 if the data released a year earlier.
In general terms, the thefts reported in 2020 (34,460)
fell 45%
compared to 2019 (62,829).
There were also notable casualties in motor vehicle theft, robberies with the use of motorcycles and theft (an index that in 2019 had increased compared to 2018).
Thefts are at the lowest level since 2000, with
a drop of more than 60%, compared to 2008
, when the highest number was recorded.
Intentional homicides, for their part,
increased by 22%
, always compared to the 2019 numbers, but had a drop of 11% compared to 2018 and a 37% drop compared to 2014, when the maximum number of 197 cases.
In the last two years, the City Police
clarified two-thirds of the homicides
immediately.
"During 2020, as of the end of March and as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the circulation of people was strongly reduced and this impacted on the drop in crime. However, in the first months before the pandemic, all crimes continued
the downward trend that was evidenced in 2019
, which had been the best year in terms of security indexes, "commented this Friday the Buenos Aires Deputy Chief in charge of the Ministry of Justice and Security, Diego Santilli, who presented the Crime Map 2020 together with the Secretary of the Ministry, Marcelo D'Alessandro, and Aníbal Falivene, Undersecretary of Community Security and Criminal Investigation.
In any case, they clarified that at the end of 2020, when mobility reached almost normal levels in the City, crime in general remained below that increase in the movement of people.
"This was achieved thanks to a policy implemented since 2017 with the creation of the Comprehensive Public Security System and a working method that modernized and unified the approach to the fight against crime.
Crimes in the City are at the best levels of the last 26 years "
, remarked Santilli.
The
homicide
rate
per 100,000 inhabitants in 2020 was 4.03%,
which represents the second lowest homicide rate in the last 26 years (1995).
The previous best rate was in 2019, with 3.32%.
The rise in homicides occurred mainly in the popular neighborhoods 1.11.14 / Rivadavia and 21.24 / Zavaleta (12 more than in 2019) and due to causes such as quarrel, revenge or settling accounts.
The drug war in some of these areas has intensified in recent months and even at the beginning of this 2021 it was again represented in a series of crimes.
For its part,
homicides due to robbery in 2020 were 8
and are equivalent to only 6.45% of the total.
The detail, crime by crime:
Theft: it
fell by 45% compared to 2019 and is at the lowest level since 2000. Thefts had a drop of more than 60% compared to 2008, the peak in the amount of this crime in the last two decades.
Thefts:
down 48% compared to 2019. In 2020, reports of theft fell by 60% compared to 2000, when the highest number of cases occurred.
Automotive Theft: it
fell by 54% compared to 2019 and fell by 90% since 2002, going from 6,667 cases in that year to 658 in 2020.
Motorcycle robbery: it
fell by 60% compared to 2019. If 2020 is compared with 2018, the fall in motorcycle robberies was 67%.
Robbery with a weapon: it
fell by 46% compared to 2019. In 2020, the use of weapons occurred in 21% of the total robberies committed.
In 2019 that proportion was 22%.
Homicides:
while in 2020 there were 124 cases, in 2019 there were 102 and in 2018, 139. The main causes of homicides were on the occasion of quarrel or revenge and occurred in neighborhoods 1-11-14 / Rivadavia (3 more than in 2019) and 21-24 / Zavaleta (9 more than in 2019).
Ring Digital and 19,500 agents
The Buenos Aires government emphasized the impact that the equipment had in recent years to, for example, mitigate car theft by 90% if it is taken into account from 2002 to date.
For Ministry officials it was due to the joint action of the Digital Ring system, the Video Surveillance System and the "territorial deployment of the police forces."
In this way,
the Police control the 74 entrances and exits to the City
, through 490 patent readers and 120 video cameras.
It also has more than 10 porticoes on the main avenues with 61 patent readers.
For specialists, it could also influence that cars, as in other parts of the world, have increasingly accurate GPS tracking systems.
The presentation also included a series of numbers to understand the reason for the decline.
For the Ministry of Justice and Security of the City of Buenos Aires, it was due to the
19,500 policemen on the streets of Buenos Aires
, and the 2,200 vehicles that patrol, based on a model implemented during 2019, every corner every hour during the day. .
At night, the tour around each corner of the city would be every thirty minutes.
Finally, the authorities confirmed that for September of this year they plan to release a new batch of police officers, who will represent another 900 more agents in the streets of Buenos Aires.
In addition, they announced that this Monday the detail of these general figures will be published but neighborhood by neighborhood.
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