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Homicides in the region of Sao Paulo

sao_paulo_homicides.Rd

Dataset of homicides recorded by police in the immediate region of Sao Paulo from 2017 to 2022.

Usage

sao_paulo_homicides

Format

A data frame containing 6,214 rows and 7 columns:

year

Year

date

Homicide date

municipality

Municipality

location_type

Type of location

victim_sex

Victim sex

latitude

Latitude

longitude

Longitude

A version of this dataset is also available as a stand-alone file at https://mpjashby.github.io/crimemappingdata/sao_paulo_homicides.xlsx.

The original dataset has been cleaned to remove homicides with missing co-ordinates.

Licence: public domain

Source

State of Sao Paulo Public Security Secretariat

See also

sao_paulo_muni: Municipality boundaries in São Paulo.

Examples

# Basemap tiles require internet access unless already cached.
if (interactive() || identical(Sys.getenv("IN_PKGDOWN"), "true")) {
  map_data <- sf::st_as_sf(
    sao_paulo_homicides,
    coords = c("longitude", "latitude"),
    crs = "EPSG:4326"
  )

  sfhotspot::hotspot_map(
    map_data,
    basemap_type = "cartolight",
    colour = "red2",
    size = 0.6
  )
}