In 2022, more than 8,000 people were victims of intentional lethal violent crimes in the Legal Amazon region, that is, victims of intentional homicides, robbery and bodily injuries followed by deaths. As a result, the death rate per 100,000 inhabitants in the states that make up the Legal Amazon reached 26.7, a rate well above the national average, which was 19 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in 2022. technical note Public Security and Organized Crime in the Legal Amazon, released this Monday (5th) by the Brazilian Public Security Forum According to the technical note, since 2012 the Legal Amazon has average lethal violence higher than the national average. The state of Amazonas, for example, has the highest rate of intentional lethal violent crimes last year, with an index of 33.1 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, totaling 1,432 murders last year. The Legal Amazon is an area that encompasses nine Brazilian states belonging to the Amazon basin: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins and part of the state of Maranhão. “The diagnoses and information available on the scenario of violence and public security in the Amazon indicate that the capabilities and inter-institutional arrangements of the public security forces and environmental inspection in the region have not been able to cope with the advance of organized crime that is growing in the region. region, whether in relation to drug trafficking, environmental crimes, or in the intersections of these two universes”, states the Forum in the technique. The Legal Amazon region also has the highest rate of deaths caused by police in relation to other states in the country. In 2021, the most recent year in which these data were collected, 1,057 people were killed in the Legal Amazon by military and civilian police, a rate that corresponds to 3.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. In the rest of the country, the rate was 2,800 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. According to the Security Forum, while deaths by the police increased by 5.1% in the states of the Amazon between 2018 and 2021, in the rest of the states there was a reduction of 4.2%. Investigations and drug trafficking The technical note also revealed that the Legal Amazon region, despite its extensive territory, has few delegates to investigate the crimes that occur in the region. In the states that make up the Legal Amazon there is only one delegate for every 2,451 square kilometers, while throughout Brazil there is one delegate for every 734 square kilometers. “The combination of an extensive territorial area with a very small number of police officers, especially those professionals whose core activity is linked to criminal investigation, produce the ideal conditions for the already established criminal drug trafficking organizations to increase the circulation of their assets, especially the cocaine. Despite this, seizures of the drug by the police forces have been on the decline in the last year”, informs the technical note. On the day that the deaths of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist Bruno Pereira complete one year, the Security Forum warns about the extreme violence and insecurity that is experienced in the Legal Amazon region, “especially in indigenous territories and those dominated drug trafficking and its overlap with other environmental crimes”. “A year after the death of Dom and Bruno, with regard to organized crime and violence, the scenario of the Legal Amazon, and the Amazon in particular, remains complex and permeated by the enormous economic and social pressure that the money generated by drug trafficking and its overlaps with the environmental crimes it causes. Effective actions to retake territories dominated by criminal factions do not depend only on inspection and control measures, but on the restructuring of the way the State, in its multiple spheres and powers, coordinate policies and development projects”, wrote the Forum of Security in your technical note.
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