Justice and Security in Haiti
Summary: A field study of justice and security in Haiti by Dominique Wisler and colleagues for the Association Coginta, dated December 2021 and funded by UNDP Haiti. The team surveyed localities across the country during the security crisis, working with the national police and with mairies.
Key Findings
- Records close to 14 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021 and an annual victimization rate of 23 percent in 2020, both far above their 2006 levels and approaching those of the Operation Baghdad period.
- Finds that in 2020 an average of 60 percent of residents nationally considered themselves safe, so the deterioration is not yet uniform across the country.
- Identifies neighborhoods whose crime rates run 4 to 5 times higher than elsewhere, which is where the traumatic effect on residents concentrates.
- Sets the security decline alongside electoral participation, which fell sharply from 2010 to under 25 percent of the electorate through the following decade.
- A field study by Dominique Wisler and colleagues for Association Coginta, funded by UNDP Haiti and dated December 2021.
Full Description
The value of this report is that it is field evidence gathered during the crisis rather than commentary on it, and that it covers justice and policing together rather than treating security as a policing question alone. Coginta states that the content is its own responsibility and does not necessarily reflect UNDP views, so it should be cited to Coginta. Read with the BINUH and UNODC reporting for the national picture and with the ACLED data for event-level violence.
How to cite
Association Coginta; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2021, Justice and Security in Haiti, https://www.undp.org/fr/haiti/publications/justice-et-securite-en-haiti