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VICE News traveled to Buenaventura to meet with security forces, government officials, crime reporters, gang members, and victims, to try to understand why this city on Colombia's Pacific coast has became so violent, and what's being done about it.
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The report by the University of Leicester's Centre for Hate Studies estimated that 35,000 cases of hate crime against LGBT people fell below the radar of official crime figures.
It is present even when it comes to official crime prevention, especially when it comes to anti-rape campaigns.
Audiotapes made by Police Department officers document police instructions to downgrade major crimes to the lesser charge of misdemeanor crimes (which are not part of the public crime count), for the purpose of lowering official crime statistics.
She says that officials have been working to understand what lies behind the 62% fall in crime recorded by the official crime survey since 1995.
All of this led us to conclude that the observed increase in official crime data was in fact good news, driven by greater reporting and recording of crimes rather than an actual increase in crimes against women.
Particularly strong falls were seen in car crime and criminal damage, both of which fell by 15% according to the official crime survey.
The official Crime Survey of England and Wales which, contrary to what newspapers and opposition politicians say, does not lie shows that crime has fallen to its lowest rate since 1981.
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