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November 28, 2018 1h15
Néstor Reverol, Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, presented a security report for 2018, according to which the incidence of crime was reduced by 28.4% in the United States. the whole country compared to the same period in 2017.
The homicide rate of 30 per 100,00 inhabitants has decreased by 17 points compared to that of 2017, while it was 47 per 100,000 inhabitants, which equates to a reduction in crime rates of 27.7%, said the minister.
For the sociologist Roberto Briceño-León, director of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, the figures presented "differ from those reported so far at the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence and are far from the feeling and from the everyday experience of ordinary Venezuelan citizens that they do not feel safer on the streets ". He assured that there are crimes that have decreased due to the crisis, such as the theft of vehicles.
Reverol said: "They stopped committing 3,703 homicides, 16,320 robberies in general and 4,440 vehicle thefts". He pointed out that in kidnapping at the national level, the reduction was 38.3%, while in the district of the capital, the decrease in these crimes was 37.4%.
The minister noted that 89.5% of kidnapping crimes are concentrated in the states of Miranda, Aragua and the capital, where kidnappings have decreased by 37.4%; However, Briceño-León believes that in terms of kidnapping, it is difficult to determine whether there has been a reduction, because these are crimes that are not reported and whose forms of execution vary.
Regarding the reduction of the criminal incidence, he concluded that "the crime was mutating" and adapted to the reality of the country. More than a reduction in incidence, it is a change of execution and modality, he assured.
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