Crime trends in the first semester are increasing for personal injuries, decreasing for homicides and stable for those committed against property
In the first semester of this year, 25,222 crimes were committed in the country; of which, 25% were against people and the other 75% were crimes against property. The most reported crime was theft with 10,964 cases, specifies a bulletin of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) released this Monday, November 14.
The second most reported crime was robbery with 5,659 cases, followed by personal injury with 4,141 cases, homicide with 1,322 cases, vehicle theft with 1,236 cases, vehicle theft with 1,027 cases, deaths due to “police intervention” with 708 cases and violations with 129 cases.
With that total number of crimes that were registered in the first half of 2022, according to the OVV, the figure represents an average of almost 141 crimes per day and 1,010 per week.
Kidnapping was the crime with the lowest incidence during the first six months of this year, with 36 cases.
The OVV report is called “Lethal and non-lethal violence in Venezuela” and details that Caracas ranks first in all forms of theft or robbery. They are followed by Miranda, Carabobo, Bolívar and Anzoátegui, which account for more than half of all crime cases, 58%.
“For crimes against property, it is found that registered thefts almost double the number of robberies and present a growing trend, averaging 1,827 per month,” added the NGO.
The Venezuelan Violence Observatory also reported that 63% of the known victims in all reported crimes are men, the majority between the ages of 18 and 49.
For the crime of rape, 91% of the victims are women and in 74% of the cases they are under 24 years of age.
The organization maintained that crime trends in the first semester are increasing for personal injuries, decreasing for homicides and stable for those committed against property.
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