“Of 23,000 people arrested for various crimes, only 9,000 are in prison,” Police Commander Gilberto Fleitas had pointed out, citing a study carried out by the National Police with the Inter-American Development Bank.
According to police records, in the country, an illegal act is perpetrated (thefts, robberies, assaults and others) every six minutes, according to complaints made in the national departments. The criminologist Juan Martes, for his part, maintains that these numbers “will fall short” in contrast to real numbers, where he mentions many cases not formally reported by the victims.
The spokesman for the Public Ministry, Gunter Krone, pointed out that the current Penal Code determines in some cases that criminal episodes have specific penalties, which do not match the expectations that citizens have in this regard. And that this translates into criticism that is formulated against judicial decisions on people arrested for crimes committed.
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One of the emblematic cases cited by analysts in the criminal field is the one related to the category of “trifle robberies.” This label includes those appropriations (theft of goods or money) equivalent to G. 900 thousand. Up to this amount, according to the legislation, there are no prison sentences.
Another legal provision, on the non-imputability of minors, is used by criminal gangs to recruit adolescent addicts (and even children) who are forced to commit all kinds of crimes, with the certainty that either they will go to detention for a short time, or they will not go to jail at all.
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The entry Bagatellary robbery (up to G. 900 thousand) and the law: of 23 thousand caught, 9 thousand prisoners, 1 crime every 6 minutes was first published in Diario HOY.
