Crime Declines For Second Straight Month
Torcuarto Di Tella University’s latest crime “victimization rate” survey indicates that both overall criminal activity and violent crime fell last month.
Di Tella’s study, which surveys households in 40 urban centers around the country, shows that about 30% of these homes said at least one household member was a victim of a crime within the past 12 months.
That figure is down sharply from 32% the previous month and from 33.6% in March. It’s also down about two points from a year ago.
Around 16.5% of households reporting suffering from a violent crime in May. That’s down from almost 19% the previous month but most unchanged on the year.
Link: Di Tella Victimization Survey (from April)
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Hmmn,…..the colder weather equals: less activity, less crime. I have noticed this before now. I suspect rainy days produce the same result.
I wonder how this is calculated. My wife was robbed last month and she went to the police. The report stated nothing about how it happened. It’s just a list of missing stuff for the insurance.
So whatever info this university is using it’s not from police records.
They survey households to see how many people in the house say they have been a victim of crime within the last year. In genera, crime experts say that only about 10% of crimes in Latin America are formally reported to the police.