Find out which are the 30 most violent cities in the country

These municipalities alone have recorded a moving average of more than 100 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, according to unprecedented data released by the Brazilian Public Security Forum, which analyzed three years

Only 30 Brazilian municipalities recorded a moving average of over 100 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants between 2019 and 2021. This is what unprecedented data showed by the Brazilian Public Security Forum on Tuesday 28th. The most violent city, according to the survey, is São João do Jaguaribe, in the hinterland of Ceará. Of the 30 cities, nearly half (13) are in the legal Amazon area and only three are classified as urban.

According to the director-president of the Forum, sociologist Renato Sérgio de Lima, the cities considered to be the most violent in the country according to the survey have a clear pattern. “If you look, 13 of them are in the legal Amazon, and of these 13, almost all of them are in a border area or near indigenous lands. Some even have indigenous lands inside,” he pointed out.

This month, indigenist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips were killed in Vale do Javari, near the Amazon border region. The crime has drawn attention to the escalation of violence in the region, characterized by illegal mining, land grabbing and disputes between criminal factions.

In 2021, as the Public Security Yearbook shows, Brazil had the lowest number of murders in the past decade. The homicide rate, however, is still 130 per day.

“We understand that the reduction of violence (in the country) it is positive, but insufficient to reduce the level of violence in these small municipalities. There is a very disturbing picture of fear, insecurity and violence, “added Lima.” It has a problem to do with the territory and the way in which the Amazonian territory is occupied. “

According to him, the dynamics of these places are similar to that experienced by the territories controlled by the militia in Rio de Janeiro and nearby cities. In this case, however, illegal drug trafficking also coexists with environmental crimes. “In the Northern region the factions act as a kind of syndicate of the criminal economy. It is not just drugs. Drugs are the articulator of illegality. It is superimposed on illegal mining, illegal fishing, deforestation and so on. “.

According to him, this year’s poll from the Forum gathered information from nearly 5,500 Brazilian municipalities. Exceptionally, there are only cities within the state of Goiás, whose government has only shared data specific to the capital, Goiânia.

Based on the information obtained, Lima explained that the Forum has recorded an average of the last three years – 2019, 2020 and 2021 – of deaths in Brazilian cities. “In small municipalities, two, three, four deaths represent a high rate,” she explained. “It took us an average of three years to be able to show reality.”

As a result, 30 municipalities were observed with homicide rates exceeding 100 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. “This is above any country in the world,” Lima warned. The survey, she explained, is unprecedented and does not appear in other editions of the Forum Yearbook.

See the list of the 30 most violent municipalities in the country:

1. São João do Jaguaribe – CE – 7,557 inhabitants – 224 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

2. Jacareacanga – PA – 6,952 inhabitants – 199.2 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

3. Aurelino Leal – BA – 11,079 inhabitants – 144.2 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

4. Santa Luzia D’Oeste – RO – 5,942 inhabitants – 139 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

5. São Felipe D’Oeste – RO – 4,962 inhabitants – 138.3 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

6. Araguaia Forest – PA – 20,742 inhabitants – 133 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

7. Umarizal – RN – 10,485 inhabitants – 123.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

8. Guaiúba – CE – 26,508 inhabitants – 121.8 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

9. Jussari – BA – 5,706 inhabitants – 120.9 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

10. Aripuanã – MT – 23,067 inhabitants – 120.2 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

11. Rodolfo Fernandes – RN – 4,457 inhabitants – 119.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

12. Extremoz – RN – 29,282 inhabitants – 118.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

13. Chorozinho – CE – 20,286 inhabitants – 118.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

14. Japurá – AM – 1,755 inhabitants – 114 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

15. Japi – RN – 4,935 inhabitants – 113.3 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

16. Cumaru do Norte – PA – 14,044 inhabitants – 113.2 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

17. Tibau – RN – 4,173 inhabitants – 112.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

18. Itaju do Colônia – BA – 6,515 inhabitants – 111 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

19. Glória D’Oeste – MT – 2,990 inhabitants – 110.8 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

20. Senator José Porfírio – PA – 11,305 inhabitants – 109.8 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

21. Flores Island – SE – 8,522 inhabitants – 109.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

22. Junco do Maranhão – MA – 4,334 inhabitants – 107.2 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

23. Anapu – PA – 29,312 inhabitants – 107.1 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

24. São José da Coroa Grande – PE – 21,868 inhabitants – 106.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

25. Novo Progresso – PA – 25,769 inhabitants – 106.1 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

26. Wenceslau Guimarães – BA – 20,862 inhabitants – 103.3 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

27. Ibicuitinga – CE – 12,730 inhabitants – 102.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

28. Santa Cruz Cabrália – BA – 28,058 inhabitants – 102.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

29. Itamaracá Island – PE – 27,076 inhabitants – 102.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

30. Bannach – PA – 3,239 inhabitants – 101.8 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

Source: Terra

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