In percentage terms, Gamboa – who registered one case in the first six months of 2025 – and Paquetá, without any criminal record, maintained the vehicle theft figures of the first half of 2024.
The others recorded a decline in the indicator, with Lapa and Saúde, which had one and two cases respectively in the first half of last year, with a 100% reduction in the same period of this year, the largest percentage reduction.
Check how many vehicle thefts were recorded in neighborhoods in the central city region from January to June 2025:
What is the crime map?
What are the most dangerous neighborhoods in Rio and Niterói? Where have the thefts progressed? When is the least safe time to walk in your neighborhood? To help answer these questions and understand the dynamics of violence in the city, GLOBO developed the Crime Map, an interactive theft monitoring tool with unprecedented crime data by neighborhood.
After launching the first edition in the middle of this year, with data from 2024 referring to the city of Rio, we are now publishing the second edition of the platform, based on data referring to the first half of 2025, with information on four different crimes — cell phone thefts, thefts from passers-by, vehicle thefts and collective thefts — in 147 different neighborhoods of the capital of Rio de Janeiro, in addition to 51 neighborhoods of Niterói.
The tool was created using microdata obtained via the Access to Information Act from the Institute of Public Security (ISP). The body, responsible for compiling security statistics in the state, publishes monthly indicators divided by battalion and police station areas, which in most cases cover several neighborhoods. Seeking to understand hyperlocal criminal dynamics, GLOBO requested more precise data on the location of crimes and received information on the neighborhoods where each incident was recorded, the smallest territorial unit made available by the ISP. This is the first time crime indicators in Rio have been published with this level of detail.
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