Crime Prediction for More Agile Policing in Cities - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Case study of the U4SSC City Science Application Framework

By Katherine Aguirre, Emile Badran and Robert Muggah

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Rio de Janeiro is headquarters to Brazilian oil, mining, and telecommunications companies, including two of the country's major corporations – Petrobras and Vale – and Latin America's largest telemedia conglomerate, Grupo Globo. Being the home of many universities and institutes, Rio is the second-largest center of research and development in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is also one of the most visited cities in the Southern Hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, including several beaches. There are significant disparities between the rich and the poor in Rio de Janeiro, and different socioeconomic groups are largely segregated into different neighborhoods. Although the city is ranked as among one of the world’s most populated metropolises, a large number of its inhabitants live in slums known as favelas. There have been a number of government initiatives to counter this problem, from the removal of the population from favelas to housing projects such as Cidade de Deus to the more recent approach of improving conditions in the favelas and bringing them up to par with the rest of the city, as well as the development of the "Favela Bairro" program and deployment of Pacifying Police Units

Igarape, Brazil: Igarape Institute, 2019. 24p.