By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - Violent crime decreased in 79 of the 139 municipalities in São Paulo (57 percent), according to the Index of Exposure to Violent Crime (IECV), an evaluation conducted by Instituto Sou da Paz based on indicators from the São Paulo State Public Security Secretariat.
The study considers cities with a population greater than 50 thousand inhabitants.
According to the most recent study for 2018 and now published exclusively by the newspaper Estado, São Paulo has a new, more violent municipality: Itanhaém, in the Baixada Santista, which does not . . .
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