Beacon
ConfirmedConfirmed failure

2025 criminal shooting surge

Law, Order, Public Safety & Police Conduct2025Very high media attention

What happened

Police reported 114 shooting incidents, 60 deaths and 57 injuries during 2025, with organised crime and narcotics rivalries a major driver.

Accountability assessment

What this record does and does not attribute to the government (see methodology). Where an underlying problem predates this government, only its handling is attributed.

A serious public-safety outcome under the government, although the organised-crime networks substantially pre-dated AKD.

Evidence label: Confirmed failure (A documented failure: a procedural breach, official inquiry or court finding, an admitted error, or a fact-checked false claim.). Record as of edition 2026-08-24.

Sources

Connected incidents

Relationships explicitly listed in the source report, not a claim of a common perpetrator or conspiracy.

Follow these links in the evidence trail explorer

Part of pattern

Think this is wrong?

This record consolidates published reporting under an explicit evidence label. If you are named in it, an authorised representative, or anyone who can show the record differently, tell us and we will correct it, including taking the record down while we check.

Dispute this record →