O Globo’s Crime Map Expands to Niterói as 1H 2025 Data Flag Robbery Surges and New Hotspots

Overview

• O Globo’s interactive tool now covers 147 Rio and 51 Niterói neighborhoods with ISP microdata through the first half of 2025, detailing four robbery types and applying AI cleaning at the neighborhood level.
• Centro de Niterói led the city with 55 cellphone robberies and 134 pedestrian robberies in 1H 2025, up 19.6% and 15.5% year over year, concentrated around major transit hubs such as Terminal João Goulart and Praça Arariboia.
• Icaraí recorded a series‑high 32 cellphone robberies in 1H 2025, a 255% jump from nine a year earlier, ranking second in Niterói for this crime.
• Vehicle‑theft patterns diverged: Niterói saw spikes in Itaipu (2 to 13) and Barreto (8 to 16), with Fonseca up across indicators, while in Rio’s South Zone Humaitá rose 50% (4 to 6), Flamengo edged up (28 to 30) and São Conrado logged five cases after none in 2024, as the city’s central region recorded no neighborhood increases.
• Police link part of Niterói’s stolen phones to the Feira do Laranjal market, with vendor Carlos Henrique de Paula Gonçalves arrested and sentenced on December 2 to 21 years, as experts call for disrupting receptation networks and data also show bus robberies falling to 13 citywide in 1H 2025, with Fonseca reporting none.