Violent crime increases Lima Peru

The increase in violent crime in that use of firearms or weapons, like robbery, theft of vehicles and attack gangs is one of the disturbing information that casts the Second Victimization Survey Metropolitan 2012, prepared by our city organization led by former Interior Minister Gino Costa.

Nevertheless, the perception of insecurity on the part of citizens has had a slight but significant decline. “People who feel they can be a victim of crime has fallen by almost 2 percentage points a year,” Costa said in an interview with INFOREGIÓN.

Citing survey data, the former minister also stressed that it has increased confidence in the police Lima, but especially in the serenazgo. “That’s been the most important achievement of the year. Confidence in the serenazgo increased from 30.2% to 34.4%. It also improved confidence in the police, which rose from 28.5% to 30.1%. “He said.

According to the study, the most common crime remained the robbery happened, but declined in importance from 49.6% to 47.9% of the total, while thefts in housing or commercial space fell from 20.2% to 19.4%. Read Article