It is heartbreaking to hear about the escalating state of insecurity and crime.
We are in the south and its the high high season now and we have not noticed that businessese are closing earlier or anything like that which is happening elswhere. Even with all the crowds which historically have brought the criminal opportunists for stealing stuff out of cars, etc they dont particularly seem to be here this year or somehow we just arent in the wrong places at the wrong times.
The cities are where this will fester, but without a solution it WILL spread out to even the more remote areas. It will not stay contained as long as the root causes are allowed to stay rooted in the ground and feeding the poisonous trees
I agree that 2 more years of this escalation is a deal breaker. It is just not viable. What is one to do with small children. One of the reasons we came here was for the safety in face of the western countries downward spiral. At this point it has almost become a case of pick your poison
Sad to hear more have left, but I can understand why. What real future is there here for the next 1 or 2 generations? It looks pretty bleak.
According to this report, the homicide and attempted homicide rate has almost doubled in six years, with no sign of a letup.
Suspect that the true rate is considerably higher.
Yeah, that article states that the police have a high approval rating these days, but that wasn’t the case not too long ago, when members of the present government and sections of the media led attacks on all public institutions with the aim of generating instability as a precursor to their commie takeover.
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I said this in January 2023 (as well as titling this thread 'crime increase hopefully over?) and I was expecting crime in 2023 to be the same or slightly lower than 2022.
Just checking the stats however, and it looks like I was being a bit optimistic.
If we look here Fiscalía de Chile | Estadísticas you can compare 2022 (Jan to Dec) to 2023 (Jan to Dec). The text is small, so view on a TV or on a monitor, not on a phone.
I believe these are official statistics which is as close to the reality as you can probably get
For 2022, we see ‘delitos ingresados’ of 1.425.712 and for 2023 we see 1.552.289 which is 9% higher.
That’s on page 4 which is the first real page of data after the header page and table of contents
For homicidios I see 3.032 for 2022 and 3.248 for 2023 which is 7% higher (page 7)
Robos has increased from 99.848 to 111.343
Robos no violentos increased from 201.587 to 204.202
So to summarise 2023 was even a bit worse than 2022
