Spatial Distribution and Profile of Vehicle Robbery and Theft in the City of Natal/RN
Vehicle theft and robbery; urban violence; spatial distribution; Database; Natal-RN
The objective of this work is to make a descriptive analysis of the occurrences of robberies and qualified thefts of vehicles using the spatial and descriptive analysis to understand how the dynamics of this violence is processed in the space of the city of Natal, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, registered in the period between 2012 and 2021. This analysis will be based on the distribution of CVP Violent Crime against Property, using a single consolidated database derived from information from the DEPROV database - Specialized Police Department for the Defense of Property Vehicles and Cargo, compiled by COINE - Coordination of Statistical Information and Criminal Analysis and worked through the Metadata System used by OBVIO - Observatory of Violence of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. From these data, tables and graphs of the occurrences distributed in the administrative zones of Natal and their respective neighborhoods will be produced, in order to generate a cognitive framework on the evolution of these cases over the period studied, also using color maps of density aggregated to statistical techniques. of spatial analyses. As a result, from the perspective of Metabanco Robbery and Robbery of Vehicles (MRFV), it was possible to observe a trend of growth of robberies and thefts separately, the spatial patterns formed by the occurrences, evidencing the greater distribution in commercial districts and in peripheral areas. of the state capital. In such a way as to generate a contribution to the understanding of whether the data obtained are sufficient to outline strategies to combat this type of crime and pointing out possible gaps in data collection that can be improved so that the diagnoses are more effective for the production of policies public security and public security policies in the capital of the potiguar state.