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...Statistics certainly reveal that Chileans have a growing fear of crime. Indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that they worry about it more than almost everyone else in the region - a startling finding in a country that prides itself on being a haven of safety in a dangerous continent...
...Fundacion Paz Ciudadana (The Citizen Peace Foundation), an independent Santiago-based organisation committed to reducing crime levels, compared surveys on attitudes towards crime around the world. It found that Chileans are more fearful of crime than Argentines, Paraguayans - even more fearful than Colombians, whose country is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous in the world...
...government's own figures tell a similar story. In 2003, 12.4% of Chileans regarded crime as the country's most pressing problem. By 2007, that figure had risen to 14.9%. And while in 2003, 44.6% of Chileans said they felt crime had gotten worse in their neighborhood over the previous 12 months, by last year, the figure had climbed...
...rather different story emerges when the measure is crimes committed, rather than fear of crime. Delinquency has, in fact, fallen in Chile in recent years or, at the very worst, remained constant...
...Victimisation surveys suggest crime has been steady for the last five years or so," says Andres Baytelman, executive director of Fundacion Paz Ciudadana. "But at the same time, it is certainly true that fear of crime has consistently grown...