Public policies and the Sao Paulo State organized crime: The Fall of Homicides between 2006 and 2016
Every month, the Government of São Paulo discloses the crime rates of the State. Compared with
Brazil, SP is the state that registers the least cases of murder by violent death, following a
methodology that ignores, for example, robbery as homicide. After the PCC attacks in 2006,
some research was conducted and pointed out organized crime as a determining factor for this
fall. According to the Atlas of Violence, between 2006 and 2016, of the 27 units of the
Federation, only seven had a drop in the homicide rate / 100,000 inhabitants. The objective of this
research is to identify, according to the voice of the State, the possible motivating factor for the
decline of homicides in this period, whether public security policies and which ones; if the laws
of the CCP, if a set of actions agreed between state and organized crime, or other possibilities not
listed here are the real formula of this equation. In order to achieve this, we will seek to combine
the existing bibliography on the subject, the homicide data under the databases of the Secretariat
of Public Security and the Atlas of Violence 2018.