# Homicide prints remain near historic lows in 2024

Date: 2024

## The fact

In 2024 PNC and independent tallies recorded homicides remaining near historic lows in a second full exception year. Detention costs remain on neighbouring rows.

## Context

PNC classified. Neighbouring 2023 collapse is the parent drop. Neighbouring 2024 election is politics. He did not sit as every registrar.

Homicide 2023 is the parent drop. Exception 2022 is the legal parent. CECOT is neighbouring.

The President of El Salvador heads the executive, commands the armed forces, and can request a state of exception that the Legislative Assembly must approve and extend. He does not write a Constitutional Chamber judgment by himself, an IMF board decision, or a [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designation. The Assembly, PNC, Fiscalía, and prison service share specific files. A homicide print is not a unique due-process coefficient. Gang membership is not proven by detention alone.

## Evidence and sources

National Civil Police of El Salvador carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [social cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion): a completed second low-homicide year is a dated everyday-security instrument, remaining untried detention named.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2024 continued low homicides, independently reported.

Not established: that every detainee was a unique homicide author, or a unique later disappearance series of zero.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The PNC recorded. Independent tallies corroborated a continued low. Prisons still held neighbouring untried people.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Homicide prints remain near historic lows in 2024, not a later speech about Homicide prints remain near historic lows in 2024.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Homicide prints remain near historic lows in 2024 on 2024-12-31 is not a licence to treat every later National Civil Police of El Salvador communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Homicide prints remain near historic lows in 2024 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He owned the exception weather. The PNC recorded. Independent tallies corroborated a continued low. Prisons still held neighbouring untried people. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Nayib Bukele: https://factrail.ai/people/nayib-bukele

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-homicides-remain-low-2024-12-31/
- https://www.pnc.gob.sv/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sv-homicide-2024