In dialogue with AIR, Stephen Santantinosecretary of analysis of the Ministry of Security and Justice of Santa Fe, provided more details of the data that arise from a comparative report of the number of intentional homicides that occurred during the first half of the year between 2014 and 2024.
“Talking about numbers regarding homicides is very difficult because the coldness of the data does not allow you to be fair with the story behind each of these events, but it is also necessary to put this information in context and know what 94 homicides mean provincial level,” indicated the provincial official.
And he added: “It is data that is validated, triangulated, it is the most serious in terms of what it is at the national level. And we can say with great pride that it is not something of this government, but rather it is a strategy that is being worked on.” for many years with the Public Prosecutor’s Office as well”.
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Rosario and La Capital, the departments of Santa Fe with the most homicides so far in 2024
Although the departments that concentrate the majority of homicides are rosary beads and The capitalThese are numbers that are also decreasing compared to previous years.
“In The capital There have been 19 homicides so far in 2024. If we go to 2014, we had 72 homicides in the first six months. This is 76% fewer homicides“, indicated Santantino. Regarding Rosary beads, The official said “so far this year there have been 52 homicides. At the same time of year, in 2023 there were 141. The variation is less than 65%“.
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Behind the two largest urban regions of the province are Castellanos (4) and San Lorenzo (4)). In addition, there are seven departments that did not register homicides in the last six months: Belgrano, Garay, 9 de Julio, San Cristóbal, San Jerónimo, San Justo and San Martín.
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Santantino clarified that not only did the data on all homicides fall, but also the variables that are analyzed for each of the events: use of firearms, murders on public roads and/or in the context of organized crime, among others. others.
“Let’s associate the decrease in homicides with poor work in terms of public policies, citizen security because clearly those are the variables that are allowing us to explain in some way why there is such a marked decrease,” he said.
“In addition, since Pablo Cococcioni took office as Minister of Justice and Security, a series of actions have occurred that we need to correlate with the current state for good and bad,” he concluded.
