{"id":514601,"date":"2026-07-10T14:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/task-force-reports-the-lowest-homicide-rate-in-the-last-four-years\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:35:49","slug":"task-force-reports-the-lowest-homicide-rate-in-the-last-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/task-force-reports-the-lowest-homicide-rate-in-the-last-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Force reports the lowest homicide rate in the last four years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.<\/strong>\u2013 The Joint Task Force reported that the cumulative homicide rate in the country stood at <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"674892\"><strong>6.92 per 100,000 inhabitants<\/strong>,<\/a> the lowest figure recorded for this period in the last four years, according to the weekly crime statistics report as of July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report indicates that the monthly homicide rate stands at <strong>3.33 per 100,000 inhabitants<\/strong>, a result it attributes to the preventive, operational, and investigative efforts carried out in a coordinated manner by the National Police, the Armed Forces, the Public Ministry, and the other agencies that make up the Joint Task Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likewise, it points out that <strong>28 territories in the country<\/strong> maintain single-digit homicide rates, while only <strong>six<\/strong> record double-digit figures, which means that <strong>82.4%<\/strong> of the national territory has a rate equal to or lower than <strong>9.99 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Statistics also reflect a sustained reduction of this indicator in recent years. For the same period, the cumulative rate went from <strong>12.29<\/strong> in 2023 to <strong>9.96<\/strong> in 2024, <strong>8.27<\/strong> in 2025, and <strong>6.92<\/strong> in 2026, a decrease that authorities attribute to the strengthening of prevention strategies, crime prosecution, and timely responses to criminality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 The Joint Task Force reported that the cumulative homicide rate in the country stood at 6.92 per 100,000 inhabitants, the lowest figure recorded for this period in the last four years, according to the weekly crime statistics report as of July 3, 2026. The report indicates that the monthly homicide rate stands at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133559,"featured_media":514963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29S1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/3f3473ce-3655-4040-b599-82779cd637a6-1024x740-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Preciosa Jimenez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/3f3473ce-3655-4040-b599-82779cd637a6-1024x740-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}