TULIO CROSS
SÃO PAULO, SP (FOLHAPRESS)
Six out of ten Brazilians feel insecure when walking the streets of the cities where they live. 34% say they feel very insecure after dark, and 26% say they feel a little insecure, according to a Datafolha survey.
The data fluctuated compared to what was observed a year and a half ago, when the institute carried out the same survey – in March 2022, 37% said they were very insecure and 27% said they were a little insecure.
In total, more than half of those interviewed say they feel insecure when walking at night in their own neighborhood, especially women and those over 45 years old.
Datafolha interviewed 2,016 people over the age of 16 across the country on September 12th and 13th. The margin of error is two percentage points, plus or minus.
They were asked two questions about their perception of violence: how they feel when walking through the streets of their city and their own neighborhood. Insecurity prevails in both cases, but 19% respond that they feel very safe in their own neighborhoods, compared to 30% who feel very insecure. In the city as a whole, only 14% of Brazilians feel very safe.
The ideological profile of the interviewees appears in the survey as one of the factors that most influence the perception of security. The difference in responses between those who identify as Bolsonarists and PT members is greater than regional comparisons, by income range, sex or skin color.
Among those who describe themselves as convinced PT members, or declare that they are close to PTism, more than half (54%) say they feel some degree of security – the remainder report feeling a little or very insecure.
Among Bolsonaro supporters or supporters of the former president, the answers are the opposite: 74% say they feel very or a little insecure, and only 26% say they feel more or less safe or very safe.
Factors such as family income and profession also reveal important differences. Businesspeople are those with the worst perceptions of violence. Only 6% say they feel very safe in their city and 42% say they feel very insecure. They are also those who most report feeling insecure in their own neighborhood (10% say they are very safe and 40% say they are very insecure).
Housewives are also among those who feel most insecure. Among them, only 10% respond that they feel very safe in their own city; 35% report feeling very insecure.
Unregistered employees and civil servants report better perceptions about security. Informal workers, for example, are the only category with a majority of respondents who say they feel safe in their own neighborhood (55%) when walking at night.
The richest describe the biggest difference between the perception of the city where they live and the neighborhood itself. Among those earning more than ten minimum wages, only 7% say they feel very safe walking on the city’s streets. But in their own neighborhoods, 20% feel this way. The difference is not that big among the poorest.
The same survey showed that Brazilians’ concern with violence skyrocketed towards the end of 2022, and this area became the biggest problem for the population, alongside health (the two topics are cited by 17% of respondents and share the first place).
There are studies indicating that there has been a decrease in violence in the country since 2018. The 17th Brazilian Public Security Yearbook, published in July, shows that violent deaths in Brazil reached the lowest level in 12 years.
At the same time, the country has 2.7% of the global population and accounts for around a fifth of homicides in the world, according to 2020 data from the United Nations Office on Crime and Drugs, and was the eighth country with the most violent deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants of the world – the study says that information about last year and the year before was not included in the UN bank.
The number of thefts of cargo, homes and commercial establishments in the country fell last year, while the number of frauds increased.
In 2022, Brazil recorded the highest number of rape cases in the historical series, which began in 2011, with an average of 205 cases per day – the statistics only takes into account cases that were reported to the police. Likewise, there was an increase in the number of cases of sexual harassment, sexual harassment and stalking, among other sexual crimes.
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