The vast majority of women living in São Paulo (76%) have already suffered some type of violence during their commutes around the capital, especially on public transport, according to a survey carried out by the Patrícia Galvão and Locomotiva Institute, with support from Uber. Among the violence: 43% said they received insistent looks, flirted; 35% have suffered a robbery, robbery or express kidnapping; 30% suffered harassment, sexual harassment; 15% suffered prejudice or discrimination due to some characteristic of their own, except race; 12% suffered racism; 9% suffered physical aggression; 4% had suffered a rape. The percentage in São Paulo is slightly higher than the national average of 71%. While 26% of Brazilian women consider the streets of their city not at all safe, the percentage of women who make this negative assessment rises to 48% in São Paulo.
The Civil Police, through the Cybercrime Division (DCCiber), has already served more than 2,000 search and seizure warrants in São Paulo against criminals operating on the internet since 2022. The number of actions taken by the Civil Police to identify and hold fraudsters accountable has increased in recent years. In 2022, there were 115 operations launched by DCCiber. This year, so far, there have been 171 police investigations. During this period, 264 cases were solved, 492 court orders were complied with, 235 people were indicted, in addition to 115 cell phones were seized.
30/08/2024 – A 42-year-old woman was the victim of femicide inside the “New Parks Motel”, on the Jaraguá Tourist Road, north of the capital, on Friday night (30). The victim’s body was found inside the bathtub of one of the rooms by employees. During the patrol, security agents arrested a 46-year-old man. He confessed to being the perpetrator of the crime and stated that he killed the woman after a disagreement between them.
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31/08/2024 – Street vendors on Rua Cavalheiro, in Brás, were injured on Saturday afternoon (31) during an approach by the Military Police in an operation against illegal trade. Images recorded by cell phones by people who were at the scene show the police with batons and collecting products. A woman who would be among the street vendors appears injured and with a bloody head. In the confrontation, three military police officers were injured.
03/09/2024 – A task force of the Federal Police (PF) and the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) carried out an operation on Tuesday (3) against civil police officers in São Paulo investigated on suspicion of corruption and money laundering. According to the authorities, Civil Police agents even charged R$ 800,000 in bribes from drug traffickers not to investigate them in November 2020. In all, the Justice decreed the preventive arrests of four involved in the criminal scheme. Two Civil Police investigators were arrested by authorities in São Paulo, in the capital, and Arujá, in the metropolitan region.
03/09/2024 – On Tuesday (3), the Civil Police arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of enticing people, known as “mules”, to take drugs to countries in Europe and Asia. He would be responsible for lodging in Vila Sônia, in the south of São Paulo. At the time of the act, 22 people who were in the “shelter” were detained. The police had received information that the place was used as a temporary space for people who were preparing to swallow and transport cocaine.
05/09/2024 – Police officers from the State Department of Criminal Investigations (Deic) launched on Thursday (5) a mega operation against a criminal group that carried out millionaire scams through telephone exchanges and fake websites of city halls and ticket sales. The actions are being carried out in São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina. There are 28 search and seizure warrants served in these states. Investigations continue to find out if there is involvement of any criminal faction that invests in crime offices to launder money for organized crime.
06/09/2024 – A 43-year-old man was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm, on Taperaçu Street, in the Cidade Antônio Estêvão de Carvalho neighborhood, in the east of São Paulo. Military police who reinforced security in the vicinity of the National Football League (NFL) game, on Friday (6), noticed that he was in a suspicious attitude, using his cell phone as if he were in control of some equipment. The team carried out the approach and, when the agents checked the suspect’s car, they found a weapon, loaded with 12 rounds.
06/09/2024 – A 37-year-old man and three women were arrested for scamming people, at Praça Padre Achiles Silvestre, in the Parque Monteiro Soares neighborhood, north of São Paulo. They are suspected of applying the “winning ticket scam”, especially among elderly people. This scam consists of deceiving victims, saying that if they lent a sum of money to help the suspects receive millionaire compensation, this amount would be returned in double as soon as the supposed reimbursement fell into the account. However, the victim was never reimbursed. With them, almost R$ 5,000 in cash, three cell phones, a vehicle, and business cards were seized.
06/09/2024 – The Civil Police found a clandestine laboratory with more than 4,000 vials of anabolic steroids in the region of Jardim Rincão, north of São Paulo. In the action, carried out on Friday (6), a 29-year-old man was arrested. Police officers from the 4th Special Corps for the Repression of Organized Crime (Cerco) were investigating a gang involved in the manufacture of these illicit substances. In addition to anabolic steroids, the teams seized needles, precision scales, a magnetic heating machine, and cell phones. Still at the scene, the suspect offered R$ 70,000 as a bribe to the agents not to be arrested.
06/09/2024 – A 20-year-old man died after trying to rob an off-duty military police (PM) officer on Friday morning (6), on João Zeltner Street, in the Parque Maria Helena neighborhood. According to the Public Security Secretariat (SSP), the victim was not injured and had nothing stolen.
09/09/2024 – The Military Police seized, on Monday (9), about 200 bricks of marijuana that were packed in delivery packages from an e-commerce company. The drug was in a car approached in the Tatuapé neighborhood, in the east of São Paulo.
09/09/2024 – A facility used to dismantle stolen vehicles, which operated in a house, was closed on Monday (9) by the Military Police in Grajaú, in the south of São Paulo. In total, ten motorcycles that were being dismantled in the garage were seized, in addition to motors and signal blockers. At the address, police teams found several motorcycles already disassembled in the garage, with parts missing.
09/09/2024 – A 26-year-old woman was found dead with a head injury inside a property on Rua General Porfírio da Paz, in the Sapopemba region, in the early hours of Monday (9). During the investigations, the police learned that the suspect had been run over and was hospitalized. When he was arrested, he confessed to the crime. He claimed to have argued with the woman and assaulted her afterward.
10/09/2024 – The Federal Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of São Paulo, through the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco) of the capital, launched on Tuesday morning (10/9) the second phase of “Operation Baal”. The action carries out searches and arrests related to members of a criminal organization focused on the practice known as “new cangaço”. The type of crime involves robberies of banks, armored cars, and ATMs in which heavily armed factions exercise territorial control of neighborhoods and even cities.
10/09/2024 – Confusion caused by the use of toy guns that shoot gel balls ended with 18 people arrested, including six teenagers, and a man injured in the eyes in Jardim São Luis, South Zone of São Paulo, on Tuesday (10). According to the Public Security Secretariat, military police were called to disperse a fight in the neighborhood. As soon as they noticed the vehicle, several people who had gel ball guns tried to flee. At the scene, the teams learned that the group was shooting at a commercial establishment where the victim was.
10/09/2024 – A counterfeiting scheme for sporting goods was dismantled on Tuesday (10) by police officers from the State Department of Criminal Investigations (Deic). Four suspects, who sold counterfeit T-shirts, coats, and key chains, were detained in businesses located in the central area and the east zone of São Paulo. After complaints, the teams began investigations and launched the operation, which targeted stores located in Brás, a popular shopping center in the capital of São Paulo, and other places in the east zone.
10/09/2024 – The Civil Police arrested a 19-year-old man on Tuesday (10) suspected of involvement with a cell phone theft and theft gang that operates in the central region of São Paulo. The suspect began to be monitored by the police after committing another crime, which was caught by security cameras, on 2 September in Barra Funda.
11/09/2024 – The Civil Police arrested 20 people suspected of being part of an organization specializing in the diversion and theft of cargo. Operation “Steel Horse”, of the General Investigations Police Station (DIG) of Itapeva, was carried out on Wednesday (11) in the states of São Paulo, Paraná, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, Minas Gerais, and Bahia. The agents served arrest warrants and 65 search and seizure warrants in several cities in the state, including the Capital. According to the investigations, the criminals registered false police reports indicating the theft of the cargo to justify the diversion of goods. The damage calculated by the Civil Police reaches R$ 6 million.
11/09/2024 – The Military Police arrested a fugitive from justice in front of a housing complex, on Avenida Ragueb Chohfi, in São Mateus, in the east of the capital of São Paulo, on Wednesday (11). The 35-year-old man is suspected of being part of a criminal faction and being responsible for manufacturing and distributing weapons and ammunition in the states of São Paulo and Santa Catarina. Teams from the Special Police Actions Company (Caep) were on patrol when they noticed a man with a suspicious attitude. During the approach, they discovered the true identity of the suspect, who had two open arrest warrants for the crimes of drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons, and criminal organization.
13/09/2024 – The police of São Paulo are looking for a man caught by surveillance cameras approaching women and trying to drag them into a Fiat Uno car in Mooca, in the east zone, last Friday (13). The attacks happened in sequence, around 18:00. The suspect has already been identified and had his arrest requested from the courts but has not yet been located.
14/09/2024 – A trans woman who was in an app car was forced to jump from the moving vehicle, in the early hours of Saturday (14), in Jardim Damasceno, in the North Zone of São Paulo. According to the victim, the driver wanted to charge an amount above the one shown in the application. The two argued and the woman was forced by the man to get out of the vehicle that was in motion. The driver also stole the victim’s cell phone and is now wanted by the police.
16/09/2024 – A 42-year-old woman was stabbed to death on the morning of Monday (16), on the corner of Avenida Rubem Berta and Alameda dos Camaiurás, on her way to work at a children’s school in the Saúde neighborhood. According to the police, the main suspect in the crime is her ex-partner.
17/09/2024 – On Tuesday (17), a man was arrested red-handed for drug trafficking in Jardim dos Manacás, in the Grajaú region, in the south of São Paulo. The Military Police located the suspect in a “bomb house” — used for the sale and storage of narcotics. K2, cocaine, crack, marijuana, cash, and three cell phones were found.
17/09/2024 – The Military Police recaptured 15 inmates in the first hours of the temporary release, which began this Tuesday (17) in São Paulo. All were frequenting the region of the open scenes of use, in the center of São Paulo. They were sent back to prison. Of those recaptured by the Military Police, three were wearing an electronic ankle bracelet.
17/09/2024 – The Military Police of the 27th BPM arrested, on Tuesday (17), two men suspected of being part of a gang specializing in cargo theft and kidnapping. The pair tried to hide the merchandise in a vacant lot but were detained in the act in the Jardim Shangrilá neighborhood, south of São Paulo. In all, 180 boxes of drinks and food were recovered. According to the police, they are part of a gang that kidnapped the driver of a truck after forcing him to unload the goods.
18/09/2024 – A 63-year-old engineer was shot and killed inside her home, on Alameda dos Jurupis, in Indianópolis, in the South Zone of São Paulo, in the early hours of Wednesday (18). According to the police report, the victim was shot in the face and belly. The elderly woman was found lifeless by the Military Police, who went to the scene to respond to a call for robbery at the residence.
18/09/2024 – An elderly man, victim of a scam at a bank branch in Grajaú, south of the capital, helped the Military Police to locate the suspects on Wednesday (18). He realized that he had fallen for the scam soon after and managed to write down the license plate of the vehicle in which the suspects were before they fled. After having the vehicle surrounded by the police, one of the men fled and the other was arrested. With him, two credit card machines, a cell phone, and 54 bank transaction receipts were seized.
19/09/2024 – An attempted robbery ended in a shootout at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo, in Vila Mariana (South Zone), on the morning of Thursday (19). According to the institution, criminals approached a security guard in the parking lot of the unit around 10:00. The man reacted, and shots were fired. No one was injured.
21/09/2024 – A Civil Police chief was killed after reacting to an attempted robbery on Saturday morning (21). The crime took place on Rua Caio Graco, in Lapa, in the West Zone. The suspect was arrested.
23/09/2024 – A man assaulted his girlfriend in her apartment and the building’s doorman with a knife, on Monday (23), in Saúde (South Zone). The woman managed to escape and was rescued by the police. Upon seeing the officers, the man barricaded himself back in the apartment. The action required the intervention of the special forces of the Police. He was arrested.
23/09/2024 – The Military Police seized various drugs on a bus with 35 inmates on temporary release. The incident took place in a bus garage on Voluntários da Pátria Street, in Santana (North Zone), on Monday (23). The 35 men were boarding the bus to return to the Provisional Detention Center (CDP) of Potim, in the interior of São Paulo.
23/09/2024 – The temporary exit prisoners ended on Monday afternoon (23) but many did not return voluntarily. During this period, the Military Police had to recapture 829 inmates throughout the state of São Paulo. They were caught not complying with the precautionary measures imposed by the Court to maintain the benefit. At least 331 arrests occurred in the capital and metropolitan region, representing 39% of the total arrests.
25/09/2024 – A man suspected of participating in the theft of a luxury motorcycle valued at almost R$ 80,000 on the holiday of September 7 was arrested on Wednesday (25) in Jardim Guaianases, east of São Paulo. For the investigations into the crime, the civil police analyzed the suspect’s social networks, which constantly displayed possession of the vehicle, in addition to other items possibly stolen products.
25/09/2024 – The Military and Civil Police carried out an operation in the Cracolândia region, in downtown São Paulo, on Wednesday (25), to combat drug trafficking and collaborate for the rehabilitation of users who frequent the place. In the action, 115 offenders with some judicial restrictions were identified as violating the rules imposed by the Court. In addition, a man wanted by the Justice was arrested in the act.
25/09/2024 – In the early hours of Wednesday (25), in Sacomã (South Zone), a car driver reacted to an attempted robbery and tried to stab one of the bandits. The criminal retaliated by shooting his victim three times. The assailants fled on a motorcycle.
26/09/2024 – Léo Áquila, candidate for councilor in São Paulo, said she suffered a shooting attack on Thursday night (26) in the North Zone of the capital. According to her, an armed motorcyclist shot at the car where she and her aide were on the Presidente Dutra Highway, in Parque Novo Mundo. Léo, who is a trans woman, said that the attack may be a criminal response to the fact that she defends LGBTQIA+ agendas.
TRENDS & ADVICE
- Stay away from any protest most likely to occur in the city center, including Avenida Paulista, the MASP, Praça do Ciclista, Praça da Sé, Largo da Batata and Praça da Republica.
- Attention when walking downtown São Paulo, especially in Liberdade and Sé districts. At night, these regions are no-go zones.
- Monitor the local media in order to circumvent protest locations, including social media.
- If caught in a demonstration: remain still and take the time to see which way the crowd is going; attempt to leave the area by going against the movement of the crowd; avoid using your mobile phone, taking pictures or filming the demonstration; go to the nearest building as soon as possible and wait until the situation clears; try to avoid contact with security forces if possible.
- Considering the high crime rate of some locations in São Paulo, business travelers and expatriates should comply with safety rules in order to reduce the risk linked to violent crime. In case of an assault, it is strictly recommended not to resist and avoid making any sharp movement that may irritate criminals, who do not hesitate to open fire.
- Avoid, if possible, circulating through the neighborhoods in the East Zone and peripheral neighborhoods in other zones due to the high rates of various crimes.
- Pay attention when trying to meet new people on the internet as criminals use the dating apps and social networks to apply scams.
- Due to several police operations, drug users previously concentrated in a region called “Cracolândia” have spread across downtown, leading to an increase in petty crimes. Hence, avoid walking around with your cell phone in your hand, in addition to wearing jewels and expensive watches.
- The number of express kidnappings has increased lately due to a new method (PIX) that allows people to easily transfer money using bank apps. Cooperate in order to mitigate the risk of violence.
- Attention to the windows when inside a vehicle. Keep them closed, as criminals use heavy traffic to rob passengers that expose valuables.
- Keep in mind useful numbers: Emergency police number (190), and São Paulo tourist Police (+55 11 3120 4447).
