28/02/2025 – Thefts broke a record in the city of São Paulo for January, with 20,172 cases in the first month of this year. The crime increased by 7.7% compared to the 18,723 cases recorded in January 2024 and is the highest number since 2001. The data was published on Friday (28) by the Public Security Secretariat (SSP). Statistics also showed a slight increase in thefts in the state in January, which had 48,026 cases, 3.2% more than the 46,507 records in January 2024. The number is also the highest for the period since 2013. Robberies, on the other hand, fell to the lowest level in the current historical series, with 15,972 cases in the state. At the beginning of last year, 17,622 occurrences were recorded. Homicide victims in January 2025 were the lowest in the series, with 221 deaths. In the capital, the number rose, with 47 deaths, 11.9% higher than the 42 deaths in the first month of 2024. Rape reports continue to rise. There were 270 cases in the city of São Paulo and 1,286 in the state in January of this year, the highest numbers since 2018. Vehicle robberies and thefts remained at the same level in the state, with an increase of less than 1% compared to January 2024, with 2,312 cases of robbery and 7,729 thefts. In the capital, vehicle robberies were 878 and fell by 6.6% compared to the first month of 2024. On the other hand, vehicle thefts saw a small increase (1.7%), with 3,292 records in January of this year.
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02/02/2025 – A 20-year-old student was reportedly raped by two police officers on Rodovia Anchieta, inside a police car.
04/03/2025 – The Civil Police are investigating the death of a 22-year-old man in the early hours of Tuesday (04) in the southern zone of São Paulo. The victim and the perpetrator argued inside a bus on Avenida Senador Teotônio Vilela, in Jardim São Rafael. A man shot the victim and fled the scene.
05/03/2025 – On Wednesday (05/03), a nursing technician, had her car stolen from in front of her house in Parque do Carmo, east of São Paulo, by a tow truck. She was at home when the crime happened and noticed that her vehicle was no longer where she had left it. She looked at the security cameras and realized that the criminals had put her car on a tow truck and taken it. Michelle has already called the police, who have not yet been able to identify the suspects or locate the tow truck used, but are working to recover the vehicle.
05/03/2025 – A couple was robbed by a group of ten criminals on Avenida Mário de Andrade, in Barra Funda, west of São Paulo. The victims were waiting for a bus when they were approached and had their cell phones and other belongings stolen. During the action, which lasted 15 seconds, there was an exchange of punches and kicks. The images of the robbery, captured by a resident, are helping the police in their investigation. The Military Police carried out searches in the area, but no one has been arrested so far.
07/03/2025 – A robbery took place at a bakery in the Pinheiros neighborhood of São Paulo, where armed criminals held customers hostage and demanded cell phones. A customer, wearing a white shirt, tried to fight back and was shot. Security cameras recorded the robbers fleeing, taking five cell phones. The injured man was rescued and is out of danger.
07/03/2025 – One man kidnapped an 11-year-old girl. The girl was taken on the back of a motorcycle from a gas station. She was with a friend buying candy when she was approached by a man on a motorcycle with no license plate. The police were called, but a medical student who was walking on Marginal Tietê, one of the busiest avenues in the capital, saw the child trying to escape and managed to save her.
09/03/2025 – A woman was robbed by two suspects, on the corner of Lydia Ferrari Magnoli and Mário Augusto do Carmo streets, in Vila Prudente, east of São Paulo, around 15:30, on Sunday (09/03). After attacking the woman, the criminal robbed a vehicle that was nearby. Nobody was arrested.
09/03/2025 – A gang fled after setting up a barricade with burned cars, crossing a bus on a road and shooting at the Metropolitan Civil Guard in an attempted robbery of an ATM in Parelheiros, in the south of São Paulo, in the early hours of this Sunday (9). GCM agents informed that a group of around eight suspects tried to break into the terminal in a market on Estrada da Barragem, around 4:30. Nobody was arrested.
