Editing Bucharest (section)

=== Crime ===
{{Main|Crime in Bucharest}}
[[File:Romanian_Police_BMW_3_Series_G20_LCI_3_(cropped).jpg|thumb|250px|A National [[Romanian Police]] car]]
[[File:Politia_Locala_Bucharest_03.jpg|thumb|right|A car of the Local Police of Bucharest]]

Bucharest's crime rate is rather low in comparison to other European capital cities, with the number of total offences declining by 51% between 2000 and 2004,<ref name="crimestats">[http://b.politiaromana.ro/index.php?pag=statistica_2000_2004_ro&limba=romana Bucharest Crime Statistics 2000–2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716235025/http://b.politiaromana.ro/index.php?pag=statistica_2000_2004_ro&limba=romana |date=16 July 2011 }}, Bucharest Directorate-General of Police</ref> and by 7% between 2012 and 2013.<ref name=bucurestipolitia2013>{{Cite web|url=http://b.politiaromana.ro/pdf/bilant/Bilant+DGPMB-2013.pdf|title=DGPMB – Poliția Română|website=b.politiaromana.ro|access-date=1 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002071841/https://b.politiaromana.ro/pdf/bilant/Bilant+DGPMB-2013.pdf|archive-date=2 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Bucharest, along with [[Cluj-Napoca]], [[Timișoara]], [[Brașov]] and [[Iași]], was ranked among the top 100 safest cities in the world in a list compiled by Numbeo.<ref name="romania-insider.com">{{cite web | url=https://www.romania-insider.com/five-romanian-cities-top-100-safest-world-2023 | title=Five Romanian cities ranked in top 100 safest in the world | date=3 April 2023 }}</ref> The study found Bucharest to be very safe with regard to aspects such walking alone, home invasions, muggings, cars being stolen, assault, insults, assault due to skin color, ethnic origin, or gender, drug dealing, and armed robberies, with the only crimes in the high category being corruption and bribery.<ref name="romania-insider.com"/> In  2015, the [[List of countries by intentional homicide rate|homicide rate]] of Bucharest was 0,8 per 100,000 people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dataunodc.un.org/data/homicide/Homicide+in+cities|title=Homicide in cities &#124; dataUNODC|website=dataunodc.un.org}}</ref>

Crime in Bucharest is combated by national forces, such as the [[Romanian Police]] and [[Gendarmerie (Romania)|Romanian Gendarmerie]], and by local forces, such as the Local Police of Bucharest.

[[File:U.S._&_Romanian_Forces_Conduct_Bilateral_Training_150225-M-XZ244-318.jpg|thumb|left|[[Romanian Gendarmerie]], which is tasked with high-risk and specialized law enforcement duties, demonstrates room-clearing during a training exercise in Bucharest]]

Although in the 2000s, a number of police crackdowns on [[organized crime|organised crime]] gangs occurred, such as the Cămătaru clan, organised crime generally has little impact on public life. Petty crime, however, is more common, particularly in the form of [[pickpocketing]], which occurs mainly on the city's public transport network. [[Confidence trick]]s were common in the 1990s, especially in regards to tourists, but the frequency of these incidents has since declined. Theft was reduced by 13.6% in 2013 compared to 2012.<ref name=bucurestipolitia2013 /> Levels of crime are higher in the southern districts of the city, particularly in [[Ferentari]], a socially disadvantaged area.

Although the presence of [[street children]] was a problem in Bucharest in the 1990s, their numbers have declined in recent years, now lying at or below the average of major European capital cities.<ref name="hf">{{Cite web |url= http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/press/16-pdf3.pdf |title= Worldwide Street Children statistics |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111208075915/http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/press/16-pdf3.pdf |archive-date= 8 December 2011 |df= dmy-all }}&nbsp;{{small|(20.5&nbsp;KB)}}, [[Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize]]/[[Council of Europe]]</ref>