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InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up

InSight Crime

1 February 2022

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Brazil: 18.5 per 100,000
With 29,568 reported homicides from January to September, according to Globo's Violence Monitor, Brazil stood to reach nearly 40,000 murders by the end of the year. This would give Brazil the highest number of homicides in 2021, ahead of Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. The country, though, is also the region's most populous.

There were some security advances last year. According to preliminary statistics, the country's projected murder rate of 18.5 per 100,000 was a tick below that of 2020. State governments also reported positive trends. The capital, Brasilia, saw the lowest homicide rate in almost 45 years. The southern state of Santa Catarina reported its fewest murders in well over a decade, and even Rio de Janeiro, which so often hosts the bloodiest acts in the country, made some definite progress.

President Jair Bolsonaro was quick to claim credit, saying that murder rates and violent crime had fallen since he came to power. But there were worrying signs that such gains might only be temporary. Police actions still claimed the lives of thousands of people a year with virtually total levels of impunity.

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