{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Dataset",
  "name": "Vehicle robbery in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 2024–2025",
  "description": "Official full-year reported counts of vehicle robbery (roubo de veículo) for the municipality of São Paulo (SSP-SP, as published by the city government) and the municipality of Rio de Janeiro (ISP-RJ open data), 2024 and 2025, with Rio express-kidnapping records from the same ISP-RJ file. The two cities come from different state recording systems and must not be compared with each other or summed. No visitor-specific, route-level or risk-rate estimate is made. This file replaces the September 14, 2026 withdrawal notice at the same address; the figures withdrawn then remain withdrawn.",
  "url": "https://vanguardattache.com/en/insights/armored-car-rental-brazil",
  "identifier": "vanguard-armored-car-rental-brazil-2026-10",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Vanguard Attaché",
    "url": "https://vanguardattache.com"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Vanguard Attaché",
    "url": "https://vanguardattache.com"
  },
  "datePublished": "2026-10-01",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-01",
  "spatialCoverage": [
    "Municipality of São Paulo, SP, Brazil (excludes Guarulhos, where GRU airport is located)",
    "Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil"
  ],
  "temporalCoverage": "2024-01-01/2025-12-31",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "isBasedOn": [
    "https://prefeitura.sp.gov.br/web/seguranca_urbana/w/em-2025-s%C3%A3o-paulo-registra-menor-n%C3%BAmero-de-roubos-em-geral-da-hist%C3%B3ria",
    "https://www.ispdados.rj.gov.br/Arquivos/BaseMunicipioMensal.csv"
  ],
  "measurementTechnique": "Public-record aggregation. São Paulo: annual counts reproduced as published by the Prefeitura de São Paulo, which attributes them to the Secretaria da Segurança Pública do Estado de São Paulo. Rio de Janeiro: monthly values of the fields roubo_veiculo and sequestro_relampago for municipality code 3304557 in the ISP-RJ file BaseMunicipioMensal.csv, summed January to December; every month of 2024 and 2025 carries fase 3 in that file. Percentage change = (2025 - 2024) / 2024 x 100, rounded to one decimal. Retrieved October 1, 2026.",
  "variableMeasured": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Vehicle robbery, municipality of São Paulo",
      "unitText": "reported count per calendar year",
      "description": "Roubo de veículos as published by the Prefeitura de São Paulo from SSP-SP data."
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Vehicle robbery, municipality of Rio de Janeiro",
      "unitText": "records per calendar year",
      "description": "ISP-RJ field roubo_veiculo, summed over 12 months."
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Express kidnapping, municipality of Rio de Janeiro",
      "unitText": "records per calendar year",
      "description": "ISP-RJ field sequestro_relampago, summed over 12 months. Not compiled for São Paulo in this file."
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "city": "São Paulo",
      "name": "Vehicle robbery",
      "unitText": "reported count",
      "y2024": 12559,
      "y2025": 9921,
      "calculatedChangePercent": -21.0,
      "publisherChangePercent": -21,
      "source": "https://prefeitura.sp.gov.br/web/seguranca_urbana/w/em-2025-s%C3%A3o-paulo-registra-menor-n%C3%BAmero-de-roubos-em-geral-da-hist%C3%B3ria",
      "sourcePublished": "2026-02-06"
    },
    {
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "name": "Vehicle robbery",
      "unitText": "records",
      "field": "roubo_veiculo",
      "y2024": 17302,
      "y2025": 13713,
      "calculatedChangePercent": -20.7,
      "source": "https://www.ispdados.rj.gov.br/Arquivos/BaseMunicipioMensal.csv",
      "sourcePage": "https://www.ispdados.rj.gov.br/estatistica.html"
    },
    {
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "name": "Express kidnapping (sequestro relâmpago)",
      "unitText": "records",
      "field": "sequestro_relampago",
      "y2024": 72,
      "y2025": 77,
      "calculatedChangePercent": 6.9,
      "source": "https://www.ispdados.rj.gov.br/Arquivos/BaseMunicipioMensal.csv",
      "sourcePage": "https://www.ispdados.rj.gov.br/estatistica.html"
    }
  ],
  "caveats": [
    "Reported counts reflect reporting and recording practice as well as crime.",
    "São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro use different state recording systems; do not compare the levels or add them.",
    "Municipal totals do not describe visitors, executives, specific neighborhoods, routes or airports.",
    "These figures do not indicate whether a particular visit needs an armored vehicle."
  ],
  "distribution": [
    {
      "@type": "DataDownload",
      "encodingFormat": "application/json",
      "contentUrl": "https://vanguardattache.com/datasets/armored-car-rental-brazil.json"
    }
  ],
  "suggestedCitation": "Vanguard Attaché, \"Vehicle robbery in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 2024–2025.\" SSP-SP counts as published by the Prefeitura de São Paulo on February 6, 2026; ISP-RJ municipal monthly open data (roubo_veiculo and sequestro_relampago), annual sums and percentage changes calculated by Vanguard Attaché. Revised October 1, 2026. https://vanguardattache.com/en/insights/armored-car-rental-brazil",
  "corrections": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "summary": "Earlier fleet capacities, generic armor specifications, tire range, booking lead time and crime-context figures were withdrawn because the file did not establish the vehicle-specific or statistical evidence required. The fleet-rate attribution was also withdrawn. Those figures remain withdrawn."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-01",
      "summary": "Replaced the withdrawal notice with official vehicle-robbery counts for the two cities, each traced to a primary source. No price, rate, fleet or vehicle-specification figure is published."
    }
  ]
}