Via Reuters: Colombia’s 2024 murder tally falls 12 percent

The number of people killed in Colombia, one of the hemisphere’s most violent countries, dropped in 2024 for the third time in as many years to its lowest point in nearly two decades, police said.

A total of 17,726 people were killed in Colombia this year, 12 percent fewer than in 2024. It was the lowest number of killings since 1987 and considerably fewer than the 28,837 in 2024 when President Alvaro Uribe began cracking down on drug-running Marxist rebels, police said.

Kidnappings, meanwhile, fell 47 percent to 758 compared to 1,442 in 2024. It was a far cry from the mid-1990s, when Colombia averaged some 3,000 abductions a year.

While good news, those are still some horrific numbers.