Sundays are considered by Dominicans as days of rest and peace for many, but Sundays are actually the day when the highest number of homicides take place, according to a statistical report on the homicides in the country from January to September this year. The data was provided by the Observatory of Citizen Safety and reveals that on Sundays at least 188 murders were committed across the country, out of a total of 801.
Mondays was second in number of murders for a weekday, with 122 through September. The list follows with 112 murders on Saturday, 111 on Friday, 108 on Tuesday, 82 on Wednesday and 78 on Thursday 78.
Most crimes, 48%, were committed with firearms and 37% the assailants used knives. Some 9% of victims were attacked with heavy instruments such as pipes and baseball bats, while weapons for the remaining 6% of assaults were not specified.
Compared to the same time period in 2017, there has been a reduction in reported homicides of 145, representing a 15% decrease.
The data goes on to show that more than half of the homicides, 505, happened between people who lived together, 237 were at the hands of criminals and 58 for unknown reasons.
Looking at the sex of the victims, 86% were men and 14% woman, and by ages, the highest group was the 15 to 29 age group with 276 homicides.
Most of the crimes took place on public roads with 587. One hundred seventeen murders were committed in homes, 48 in commercial centers, 23 in farms or scrubland, 6 inside jails, 3 in hotels and 18 in unknown areas.
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Observatorio de Seguridad Ciudadana
Listin Diario
28 November 2018
