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 | No | First of all, data related to murder, rape and robbery appears in one part of the website, while firearm seizures in another. Also, in both cases you have to download data by police units. So you have to download lots of databasis to consolidate the required information in one dataset. |
| In an open format | HTML, XLS | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | There is no license declaration in the website. Regarding the definition of copyright content stated by the Law 9.610/1998 in Article 7, XIII, a dataset will be copyrightable only if its organization involves an intellectual creation. In this case, data is primary or factual, so we can assume that it is open or public. |
| findable | 2 | It was easy to find the website where the data is. But it was hard to find the desired information at the website. The search mechanism is not good. |
| findable_steps | I googled “são paulo”, “municipal”, “roubo” and “dados”, portuguese for “são paulo” “municipal” “robbery” and “data”. The first option was the Public Security Secretary where all the information required is hosted (including “rape,” “firearm seizures” and “muders”). However, it will not be so easy to find this website if instead of “robbery”, we insert “rape”, “firearm seizures” or “muders”. In those cases it will come as first results a lot of news websites instead of the website where the primary information is. | |
| licence_url | https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | 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 | Secretaria da Segurança Pública | Portuguese for Public Security Secretary, a state 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 | https://www.ssp.sp.gov.br/Estatistica/Pesquisa.aspx - Public Security Secretary |
Reviewed. Everything ok.