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Home » El Salvador’s Murder Rate Plummets after Crackdown on Gangs

El Salvador’s Murder Rate Plummets after Crackdown on Gangs

Elena Toledo by Elena Toledo
May 9, 2016
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Officials attributed the decrease to recently implemented prevention and suppression measures intended to combat gang wars. (Tiempo)

EspañolHomicides in El Salvador saw an extreme decrease this April, reported Public Security authorities last week.

Officials attributed the decrease to recently implemented prevention and suppression measures intended to combat gang wars.

April finished with 352 homicides, 251 less than the 603 registered in March, according to the Head of National Civil Police Howard Cotto. He spoke at a press conference to express his satisfaction with the results.

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Cotto attributed them to efforts to fight crime through what some have previously called extreme measures. The leaders of criminal groups, for example, were recently isolated in seven prisons after a massacre of 11 prison workers shocked the country.

This substantial decline in homicides comes after three notably bloody months. It was reported that there were 740 killings in January, 660 in February and 603 in March, the majority of which are suspected to involve the Mara gang.

In the 10 districts with higher rates of murder, 188 people were killed in January, but only 75 in April.

If we compare the month of January with April, we can see the difference made by the ‘El Salvador Seguro’ Plan,” Cotto said.

In April, 216 criminals were killed, 70 were captured, and 184 firearms were seized — 22 of which were rifles.

So far this year, there have been 2,337 homicides, an average of 19 per day, and 1,061 seized firearms of various calibers, Cotto said. These figures work out to an average of about 10 firearms per day. April finished with 12 killings per day, according to police.

An official also said the work of a contingent of 1,000 soldiers and elite police forces recently went into action against gang violence with the intention of finding and dismantling gangs that have migrated to rural areas.

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The Chief of Police said these special forces — sometimes traveling in helicopters — have resulted in 17 captures and the destruction of three makeshift bases.

At least 6,657 people were killed in 2015 in El Salvador, with an average of 104 violent deaths for every 100,000 residents, surpassing historical records for the country. 2014 closed with 3,942 deaths, and 2013 with 1,429.

Source: BBC.

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Elena Toledo

Educator by trade, social-media apprentice, activist for a democratic Honduras, and free thinker. Follow her on Twitter @NenaToledo.

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