2015 Homicide rate per 100,000 population

PICHARDO

One Dominican at a time, please!
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Fewer homicides in 2015

The murder rate declined by 8% last year, according to the Citizen Safety Observatory. As reported, there were 1,675 homicides from January to December 2015 compared to 1,813 in 2014, for 138 fewer reported murders or 8%. Suicides also declined, with 547 in 2015 compared to 557 in 2014. The country's homicide rate is 16.8 per 100,000 inhabitants.

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PICHARDO

One Dominican at a time, please!
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This is great news. In all of Latin America only Puerto Rico, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Argentina, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile are safer.

http://www.insightcrime.org/news-an...omicide-round-up-2015-latin-america-caribbean

Dominican Republic: 17 per 100,000*
The Observatory on Citizen Security tallied 1,270 homicides from the beginning of 2015 through September, slightly fewer than the 1,344 murders the observatory recorded during the first nine months of 2014. If the average number of monthly homicides stays the same for the rest of the year, the Dominican Republic would record a homicide rate of 17 per 100,000 residents. However, the Dominican Republic's falling murder rate may be the result of a "pax mafiosa" among foreign and local criminal groups, rather than an improved security strategy.


Puerto Rico: 16 per 100,000*
On December 23, Governor Alejandro Garc?a Padilla announced that Puerto Rico witnessed 570 murders in 2015, which translates to a homicide rate of 16.3 per 100,000 inhabitants. According to the governor, murders are down by over 50 percent since a high of 1,164 in 2011, and are at their lowest point since 1989.
 

zoomzx11

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No one believes this nonsense, 8%. "Pax Mafioso", "improved security strategy", you are getting very creative. Dominican statistics, humbug. The last census missed my whole neighborhood.
 
Sep 4, 2012
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See this is the exact problem with statistics, it depends on the source, the details and it can be arranged. Too many things happening at once within the DR to be able to capture indigenous data as certain and quick as possible to make this numbers valid.

Garbage in garbage out.
 

zoomzx11

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"liars, damn liars and statistics". Anything given in percent changes is questionable. All things hyping the DR and given in percent are certain to be magical thinking. A few more or less murders here means nothing inless its tourists doing the dying and its hitting the news.
 

Garyexpat

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Sep 7, 2012
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There was a recent article where an official that is in charge of autopsies threatened to quit because of the large number of post mordems which were obviously incorrectly categorized. Bodies had clear signs of a struggle and violence and yet natural causes was listed as the cause of death on the death certificate.
 

CristoRey

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?However, the Dominican Republic's falling murder rate may be the result of a "pax mafiosa" among foreign and local criminal groups, rather than an improved security strategy.?

Sounds like a bad joke being told the wrong way.
 

KyleMackey

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Apr 20, 2015
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Not including war torn terrorist areas.................................

The 50 most violent cities in the world
Latin America holds the undesirable distinction of having the most cities on the Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security's annual ranking of the world's most violent cities.

Of the 50 cities on the list, 41 are in Latin America, including 21 in Brazil.

The lion's share of the elevated violence in the region is due to drug trafficking supplemented with gang wars, political instability, and the deregulation of economies triggering widespread poverty.

No DR cities made the list. Cheers and have an El Presidente.

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2016-1
 

notreallyconfused

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Fewer homicides in 2015

The murder rate declined by 8% last year, according to the Citizen Safety Observatory. As reported, there were 1,675 homicides from January to December 2015 compared to 1,813 in 2014, for 138 fewer reported murders or 8%. Suicides also declined, with 547 in 2015 compared to 557 in 2014. The country's homicide rate is 16.8 per 100,000 inhabitants.

DR1.com

That would be really great if the director of the organizations which performs autopsies publically stated that homicides were being categorized as deaths from natural causes in order to keep the homicide rate down. NICE TRY PICHARDO
 

notreallyconfused

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For those of you who are unfamiliar with Dominican politics, officials cover up the problems rather than come up with effective solutions. This is a prime example of one of those cover ups. The OP has an agenda selling promoting real estate. I will look for the original article form the organizations that performs autopsies citing political pressure to declare homicides deaths by natural causes. This is another prime example of a corruption at its finest which eventually affects the lives of residents and tourists. .