💻 Indoor crime

Brazil recorded 40,775 violent deaths in 2025, an 8.2% drop and the lowest rate since the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety (FBSP) began counting in 2012. 

At 19.1 per 100,000, that broad measure — which folds in police killings, feminicides and latrocínios — sits below 20 for the first time. The narrower homicide count fell further, to 15.4 per 100,000, clearing the 16 target written into the National Public Security Policy two years ahead of its 2027 deadline.

That is the good news in the 20th edition of the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook, released this week — and it applies to one kind of crime…

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