The governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha (MDB), sent on Tuesday (12) a letter to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to contest data presented by the American about crime in Brasilia.
On Monday (11), when decreeing a state of emergency public security in Washington, Trump quoted the Brazilian capital and said the city records 13 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.
In the document, the governor stated that “in the current management was reached the lowest homicide rate of the last 48 years, the result of the investment in hiring another 5,000 public safety servants, in the duplication of electronic monitoring points and other actions.”
According to data released by the DF Public Security Bureau (SSP-DF), the index is 6.9 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.
Ibaneis also stated that the information used by Trump “is wrong, possibly due to the current absence of a more consistent dialogue between Brazil and the United States of America.”
