Venezuela Continues to Search for Solutions to High Crime Rate

[Bacchus4.0]

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7668

Punto Fijo, February 1st, 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – A surge in violent crime in recent years has given Venezuela one of the highest murder rates in the world, and is forcing the country to search for solutions as the crime rate continues to remain high.

The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), a local NGO that monitors crime, says 2012 was the most violent year in Venezuelan history, with over 21,000 murders last year, and a rate of 73 per 100,000 people.

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The government has admitted that the murder rate is above 50 murders per 100,000 people, a rate that is still much higher than neighboring Colombia (31), and about double Brazil’s (26), and Mexico’s (23).

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But the murder rate in Caracas continues to grow, reaching 122 per 100,000 people in 2012 according to OVV, a number that unofficial numbers from the CICPC, Venezuela’s equivalent of the FBI, seemed to confirm.

[Tempest]

1. Arresting the violent Capriles supporters would be a good start. n/t

[Catherina]

2. Agreed. The last count I saw was over 242 of those little shits arrested

at least 7 of them were arrested for 2 murder incidents, one was a double homicide.

And the little shits that holed themselves up in the University taken pot shots at the Chavista people in the streets were arrested too. They're crying "repression" at the top of their lungs and how the police had no right to shoot rubber bullets at their privileged asses.