As a glass half full (but half a glass at the end) could classify the results of the V National Urban Survey of Public Safety, for 2008 (ENUSC). Why some indices measuring instrument are positive, but others are worrying about all the results of our region. According
information ENUSC 2008, the national victimization has been set at 35.3%. However, if we compare overall victimization from 2007 this was 34.8, which means 0.5% less than last figure can be considered statistically marginal and not significant but up from the previous year and stabilized at a figure that we should leave satisfied.
However, while victimization has stabilized nationally, in the Araucanía grows considerably, being next to the Region of Aysen one of the most up on this index if victimization in 2007 represented a 32.1% jump in 2008 to 39.5%. This means that our region is the second region with the highest rates in this category.
The myopic always say that the blame for this lies with the Government, police, prosecutors and all that is, but I think this issue is deeper on the Araucanía. Starting the national government is centralized, so we're not in a federal state, there is no autonomy to make decisions in terms of security, except short-term and minor issues, otherwise the police and all police have demonstrated more than professionalism that has made her one of the most beloved institutions by the citizenry, the prosecution for their part still can not engage a system to protect victims and actually ends with the criminal penalties consistent with the crime committed, said that judges apply lower sentences, but they say that they comply with requests for evidence and prosecutors.
The truth is that the numbers are negative and we can not condemn that families continue to suffer the scourge of crime, therefore we must invest more in safety for people and their families, can not be that criminals walk peacefully at the streets and people on the fence enclosing their homes.
Beyond this, no doubt there responsabuilidades lean on these regional figures, but as already mentioned, there seems to be something else in the Araucanía. These alarming figures of victimization must be added the high rate of unemployment, one of the largest in the country, our poor results in Test Simce, the poor numbers of private investment to talk about the pollution of Temuco. Will the Araucanía is doomed to be toward the bottom of the table in almost all subjects and therefore have one of the human development index lowest in the country?
I think it's time to break this losing streak, not always went well and I'm sure we can be better, just missing the big regional arrangement where all agree on a sustainable development project, but economically and socially successful. Only then will leave the pessimism and these lean figures.
* A version of this article was published in the Diario Austral Araucanía May 13, 2009
V. Andres Jouannet Dr.
in Political Science from the University of Heidelberg Academic
Catholic University of Temuco
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