Pre-candidate for president with the hardworking flag in the fight against crime, the governor of Minas Gerais, (Novo), saw the absolute numbers of violent deaths in the state rise in their second term, reversing the gains of the first (2019-22).
In addition, last year, he recorded, for the third year in a row, an increase in the death rate per 100,000 inhabitants. The state is one of the only four in which there was growth.
The data are from the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook 2025, released on Thursday (24) by the Brazilian Public Security Forum.
Last year, there were 15.1 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in Minas Gerais. It is the largest level since 2018, last year of the management of petista Fernando Pimentel, when it was 15.5.
Zema took over in 2019 and lowered the rate to 13.5. In 2021, the indicator reached the lowest level of the historical series started in 2012 by scoring 11.9. Since then, it has been rising.
In this year’s yearbook, Minas Gerais also recorded worsening in other indicators such as willful homicide (+6.1%), police lethality (46%) and bodily injury followed by death (11.5%). There was a 26.7% drop in the number of murders.
Zema has sought to reinforce her credentials in the area of security. At the end of May, where local government significantly overthrew with, but accused of violation of rights.
Sought, the ZEMA government states that the yearbook “points out that Minas Gerais remains among federative units with the lowest intentional violent deaths in the country, more precisely in fifth national position.”
It also cites the second lowest position in the Southeast region, “with a proportional rate (per group of one hundred thousand inhabitants) of 15.1, behind only São Paulo.”
“The government of Minas Gerais points out that public security policies are management priorities,” he continues. “The State Department of Justice and Public Security and the police forces are focused on the complex analysis of the state’s criminal dynamics, working in an integrated way and interages with intelligence to dismantle the performance of criminal groups, whose performance directly interferes with the data of violent deaths.”
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