These are basic indicators of crime - robbery, murder, rape and firearm seizures – available for the entire city per neighborhood or equivalent. For firearms, data should include seizure classification – e.g. weapon type and caliber – and whether it is legal or illegal.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| In an open format | HTML, XLS | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | The information is provided monthly. The last information available is from december 2016. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | At the footer they declare to have a “Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Brasil” license |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | I googled “number” and “rio de janeiro” and “robbery” or “muders” or “rapes” or “firearm seizures” and the ISP website came up among the first results. | |
| licence_url | https://www.creativecommons.org.br/ | It is not clear which license among those indicated creative commons website is the one of this portal. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | I consider a extensive effort because of the number of datasets you have to download and consolidate to finally analyse and compare different areas, months and rates. |
| collector_name | ISP - Instituto de Segurança Pública | Portuguese for Public Security Institute. ISP is a state level administration body. |
| characteristics | Number of robbery, Number of murder, Number of rapes, Firearm seizures, Data available per neighborhood or equivalent | The institute provides the data per “police unit” which is the territorial delimitation applied in Brazil’s public security logistic. It is defined by the area which a police station is responsible for. |
| location | Public Security Institute - https://www.isp.rj.gov.br/Conteudo.asp?ident=108 |
Reviewed. Everything ok.