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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