the homicides increased 39.2% in the first half of 2022if compared with the same period of the previous year, according to the figures that the Ministry of the Interior presented this Tuesday. In the first half of 2022 there were 168 homicides, compared to 135 in 2021.
“50% are conflicts between criminal groups, drug trafficking and settling scores,” Heber said. The rest of the percentage is divided between spontaneous altercations, family violence and robberies.
In the same comparison, complaints of theft grew 2.4% compared to the first half of 2021, as did domestic violence (11.1%); on the other hand, those caused by robbery (1.7%) and cattle rustling (11.6%) decreased..
The Ministry of the Interior compared it compared to the first half of 2019, part of the last government of the Broad Front, when there was an increase of 8.7%. “We are in the good way and we have to continue deepening,” said Minister Luis Alberto Heber. However, he clarified that the figures do not represent “a success.”
“Now we are comparing security policies. Now it cannot be said that it is due to the influence of the pandemic because we are not in a pandemic. It is what is being seen based on the police deployment, “she added, indicating the comparison between 2022 and 2019.
“You cannot take the months as projection elements because we are not in the best of all worlds in June, nor were we in hell in May,” said the minister.
The information is from the National Observatory on Violence and Crime. Heber led a press conference on Tuesday afternoon to present the figures.
