Crimes Letais Intencionais (CVLI): uma análise do impacto do impacto Pandemia Covid-19 nos indicadores de um município no Nordeste do Brasil

Abstract

The high numbers of intentional violent deaths in our country represent a chronic and complex phenomenon that affects several variables of life in society. Facing it is a challenge for public security and health systems, for politics and the economy. The social isolation resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic added other dramatic implications for all these layers of society, so discussing its impacts on the dynamics of Violent Crimes is a fundamental premise for the construction of public policies in times of crisis. This work aimed to compare the sociodemographic and circumstantial characteristics and the spatio-temporal dynamics involved in Intentional Lethal Violent Crimes (ILVC) recorded in the municipality of Juazeiro/Bahia before (2018-2019) and during (2020-2021) the Covid pandemic. -19. This was an observational study involving all ILVCs that occurred in the municipality of Juazeiro/Bahia in the related period, taking as a source secondary data obtained through Police Occurrence Reports (POR), provided by the Northern Region Police Command (NRPC) , regional tactical management body of the Military Police of Bahia (PMBA). In terms of results, it was found that regarding the types of deaths due to aggression, intentional homicide was the predominant species in the selected four-year period, highlighting the increase in cases of femicide during the Pandemic (94%). The profile of the victims coincided with that observed historically in the country, with black and brown men being the predominant public throughout the year. (91%). Firearms account for 70% of deaths, with the increase in the use of bladed weapons during the Pandemic. Violent relationships linked to the illicit drug trade represent a third of the social correlations of crimes. Conflicts are more pronounced during the pandemic period. Regarding temporal aspects, crimes increased during the Pandemic (increase of 16.5% per year), there was no month with predominance in relation to others. More than half of the crimes occurred on weekends and at night during the four-year period, with no major differences between phases. The places where deaths occurred were mostly the same, the outskirts of the city which registered a sharp increase in the Pandemic in the same territories.