Security & Strategic Review May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BRAZIL | Rio crime rates fall. Figures released in the first half of May by the Instituto de Segurança Pública (ISP) show a substantial decline in crime rates in Rio de Janeiro state. In 2010, the number of culpable homicides fell to 4,767, or 18% fewer than in 2009 and 31% fewer than in 2002, the most recent peak year. This left Rio state with a culpable homicide rate of just under 30 per 100,000 inhabitants; the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, the state's crime hotspot, accounts for almost 40% of the state's population.