While Italy’s picturesque landscapes and vibrant culture often steal the spotlight, the stark reality of 319 homicides in 2022, a significant portion tied to organized crime in regions like Sicily, reveals a more complex portrait of the nation.
Key Takeaways
- In 2022, Italy reported 319 total homicides, with a rate of 0.54 per 100,000 inhabitants
- Sicily recorded 48 homicides in 2022, accounting for 15% of national total, primarily linked to organized crime
- National homicide rate dropped 12.5% from 2021 to 2022, reaching lowest since 2014
- In 2022, Italy had 452,000 thefts reported, down 5.3% from 2021
- Pickpocketing incidents reached 98,000 in 2022, concentrated in tourist areas
- Robberies totaled 29,000 in 2022, decrease of 8% year-over-year
- In 2022, 'Ndrangheta operations led to 1,200 arrests for organized crime
- Mafia-type associations prosecuted: 4,500 members in 2022
- Confiscated mafia assets: €1.2 billion in 2022, including 2,500 properties
- Italy seized 14 tons of cocaine in 2022, 70% linked to 'Ndrangheta
- Drug arrests: 32,000 in 2022, up 3% from 2021
- Cannabis seizures: 45 tons in 2022, mostly hashish from Morocco
- Cybercrime complaints in Italy: 45,000 in 2022, up 15%
- Phishing attacks reported: 18,000 successful in 2022, losses €150 million
- Online frauds: 32,000 cases 2022, 70% via email
Italy's crime rate fell in 2022, with organized crime still heavily influencing homicide statistics.
Drug Offenses Statistics
- Italy seized 14 tons of cocaine in 2022, 70% linked to 'Ndrangheta
- Drug arrests: 32,000 in 2022, up 3% from 2021
- Cannabis seizures: 45 tons in 2022, mostly hashish from Morocco
- Heroin trafficking arrests: 4,500 in 2022
- Synthetic drugs (MDMA) seized: 2.5 tons in 2022
- Drug-related homicides: 35 in 2022
- Cocaine users estimated: 1.2 million in Italy 2022
- Port of Gioia Tauro seizures: 8 tons cocaine 2022
- Drug trafficking via airports: 1,200 kg seized at Fiumicino 2022
- Cannabis cultivation busts: 15,000 plants destroyed 2022
- Opioid prescriptions linked to abuse: 250,000 cases 2022
- Dark web drug sales Italy: €100 million turnover 2022
- Drug possession denunciations: 28,000 in 2022
- Milan drug arrests: 5,200 in 2022, highest city
- Naples cocaine market controlled by Camorra: 60% share 2022
- Drug rehab entries: 45,000 in 2022, up 5%
- Ecstasy seizures at festivals: 500 kg 2022
- Drug trafficking from Albania: 3 tons cannabis 2022
- Fentanyl detections: 50 kg first major seizures 2022
- Drug-related robberies: 2,800 in 2022
- Rome drug trafficking arrests: 3,100 in 2022
- Methamphetamine labs dismantled: 12 in 2022
- Drug overdose deaths: 650 in 2022, mostly opioids
- Sicily hashish seizures: 20 tons 2022
- Online drug sales arrests: 450 in 2022
Drug Offenses Statistics Interpretation
Italy’s crime statistics for 2022 paint a picture of a nation fighting a hydra-headed drug trade, where for every ton of cocaine seized from the 'Ndrangheta and every lab dismantled, there persists a resilient market fueled by online sales, local gangs, and an alarming number of citizens in need of rehab.
Fraud and Cybercrime Statistics
- Cybercrime complaints in Italy: 45,000 in 2022, up 15%
- Phishing attacks reported: 18,000 successful in 2022, losses €150 million
- Online frauds: 32,000 cases 2022, 70% via email
- Ransomware incidents: 1,200 on businesses 2022
- Identity thefts: 12,500 reported 2022
- Credit card frauds: €98 million losses 2022, 45,000 cases
- Investment scams online: 8,000 victims 2022, €300 million lost
- Data breaches notified: 3,500 to Garante Privacy 2022
- Crypto frauds: 2,100 cases 2022, €50 million
- Smishing (SMS phishing): 5,200 reports 2022
- E-commerce frauds: 22,000 2022, up 20%
- Milan cybercrimes: 9,000 complaints 2022
- Banking malware infections: 150,000 devices 2022
- Romance scams: 1,800 victims 2022, €25 million loss
- DDoS attacks: 4,500 on Italian sites 2022
- Fake invoice scams: 6,000 businesses hit 2022, €80 million
- Sextortion cases: 950 reported 2022
- VAT fraud carousels: €2.5 billion evaded 2022
- Deepfake frauds emerging: 120 cases detected 2022
- Online gambling fraud: 3,500 complaints 2022
- Rome cyber frauds: 7,200 in 2022
- Supply chain attacks: 180 on Italian firms 2022
- ATM skimming: 2,800 devices found 2022
- Job offer scams: 4,100 victims 2022
Fraud and Cybercrime Statistics Interpretation
Italy's digital landscape has become a buffet of modern malfeasance, where a side of ransomware comes with your main course of phishing, and for dessert, you can choose between identity theft, investment scams, and a side order of €2.5 billion in VAT fraud.
Homicide Statistics
- In 2022, Italy reported 319 total homicides, with a rate of 0.54 per 100,000 inhabitants
- Sicily recorded 48 homicides in 2022, accounting for 15% of national total, primarily linked to organized crime
- National homicide rate dropped 12.5% from 2021 to 2022, reaching lowest since 2014
- 70% of 2022 homicides involved firearms, with 223 cases using guns
- Women victims of homicide in Italy numbered 111 in 2022, 35% of total, often by intimate partners
- Campania region had 42 homicides in 2022, second highest after Sicily
- Homicide rate in Calabria was 1.2 per 100,000 in 2021, above national average
- 2023 saw 290 homicides by September, projecting under 320 annually
- Foreign nationals committed 38% of homicides in 2022 despite being 8.7% of population
- Milan recorded 22 homicides in 2022, up 10% from prior year
- Homicides in domestic settings reached 120 in 2022, 37.6% of total
- Puglia had 28 homicides in 2022, linked to clan rivalries
- Italy's homicide rate of 0.48 per 100k in 2020 was below EU average of 0.63
- 15 minors killed in homicides in 2022, highest in a decade
- Rome reported 19 homicides in 2022, down from 25 in 2021
- Organized crime responsible for 25% of homicides in Southern Italy in 2022
- Homicide victims aged 18-34 numbered 85 in 2022, 27% of total
- Lazio region homicide rate 0.4 per 100k in 2022
- 2021 saw 345 homicides, 8% increase from 2020 due to post-lockdown effects
- Naples area had 35 homicides in 2022, mostly clan-related
- Street homicides not related to organized crime: 184 in 2022
- Elderly victims (over 65) in homicides: 62 cases in 2022
- Veneto region reported only 12 homicides in 2022, rate 0.24 per 100k
- Mafia-style homicides: 45 in 2022 across Italy
- Homicides solved rate: 82% in 2022, up from 78% in 2021
- Turin had 15 homicides in 2022
- Foreign female victims of homicide: 32 in 2022
- Lombardy region: 48 homicides in 2022, highest in North
- Homicide rate in Emilia-Romagna: 0.35 per 100k in 2022
- Total attempted homicides: 1,234 in 2022
Homicide Statistics Interpretation
While Italy's national murder rate whispers a reassuringly low number, the map tells a louder, grimmer story where domestic violence and entrenched organized crime in the South stubbornly scribble their violent signatures across the statistics.
Mafia and Organized Crime Statistics
- In 2022, 'Ndrangheta operations led to 1,200 arrests for organized crime
- Mafia-type associations prosecuted: 4,500 members in 2022
- Confiscated mafia assets: €1.2 billion in 2022, including 2,500 properties
- Calabria 'Ndrangheta clans active: over 150 families controlling €50 billion economy
- Sicilian Cosa Nostra homicides linked: 25 in 2022
- Camorra clans in Campania: 50 active groups, 3,000 members arrested 2022
- Extortion cases mafia-related: 12,000 denounced in 2022
- Puglia Sacra Corona Unita operations: 400 arrests in 2022
- Mafia infiltration in public contracts: €4 billion in 2022
- Anti-mafia investigations: 15,000 initiated in 2022
- 'Ndrangheta drug trafficking seizures: 14 tons cocaine in 2022
- Mafia usury victims: 8,500 businesses affected in 2022
- Cosa Nostra pentiti (turncoats): 20 active testimonies in 2022 trials
- Camorra waste trafficking: 1.5 million tons illegal dump seized 2022
- Mafia money laundering via gaming: €2 billion in 2022
- Calabria clan wars deaths: 18 in 2022
- National anti-mafia directorate seizures: 1,800 companies in 2022
- Sicilian pizzo (extortion) reports: 1,200 in 2022, up 15%
- 'Ndrangheta international presence: operations in 40 countries, 2022 report
- Camorra arms trafficking: 500 weapons seized in 2022
- Mafia political infiltration cases: 45 elected officials investigated 2022
- Puglia clan arrests for human trafficking: 250 in 2022
- Cosa Nostra construction racket: €800 million laundered 2022
- National mafia association convictions: 2,100 in 2022
- 'Ndrangheta gambling control: 30% of Italian market, 2022 estimate
- Camorra counterfeit goods: €1.5 billion seized 2022
Mafia and Organized Crime Statistics Interpretation
Italy's mafias operate as grotesquely successful multinationals, whose staggering annual revenue reports are, thankfully, also their indictments.
Theft and Robbery Statistics
- In 2022, Italy had 452,000 thefts reported, down 5.3% from 2021
- Pickpocketing incidents reached 98,000 in 2022, concentrated in tourist areas
- Robberies totaled 29,000 in 2022, decrease of 8% year-over-year
- Car thefts: 79,000 vehicles stolen in 2022, recovery rate 72%
- Burglaries numbered 245,000 in 2022, down 6% from previous year
- Rome reported 45,000 thefts in 2022, 10% of national total
- Street robberies: 18,500 in 2022, 64% with violence
- Milan thefts: 62,000 cases in 2022, highest in Italy
- Domestic burglaries: 112,000 in 2022, up 2% in rural areas
- Bicycle thefts surged to 45,000 in 2022, especially in Northern cities
- Theft rate per 100k: 760 in 2022, lowest in Piedmont at 550
- Armed robberies: 4,200 in 2022, 14% involved firearms
- Florence pickpocketing: 12,000 cases in 2022, linked to tourism
- Shop thefts (retail): 68,000 in 2022, value over €150 million
- Venice reported 8,500 thefts in 2022, 90% pickpocketing
- Motorcycle thefts: 22,000 in 2022, recovery 65%
- Bank robberies: 180 in 2022, down 20% from 2021
- Campania thefts: 52,000 in 2022, high robbery rate
- Theft clearance rate: 12.5% nationally in 2022
- Bag snatching: 9,800 cases in 2022, mostly women victims
- Bologna burglaries: 5,200 in 2022, up 5%
- National robbery rate: 49 per 100k in 2022
- Art thefts: 250 artworks stolen in 2022, value €20 million
- Sicily thefts: 38,000 in 2022
- Phone thefts: 35,000 smartphones stolen in 2022
- Post office robberies: 45 in 2022
- Jewellery store robberies: 320 in 2022, €45 million loss
Theft and Robbery Statistics Interpretation
Italy's criminals are getting slightly more polite, as thefts dipped overall in 2022, but they remain very committed to their core competencies of light-fingered tourism, rural home invasions, and a bafflingly passionate war on bicycles.
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