Editing Sofia (section)

=== Crime ===
With a murder rate of 1.7/per 100.000 people ({{As of|2009|lc=y}}) Sofia is a relatively safe capital city.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/30/new-york-crime-free-day-deadliest-cities-worldwide|title=Where are world's deadliest major cities?|first=Mona|last=Chalabi|date=30 November 2012|work=theguardian.com|access-date=25 September 2016|archive-date=23 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123211112/https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/30/new-york-crime-free-day-deadliest-cities-worldwide|url-status=live}}</ref> Nevertheless, in the 21st century, crimes, including [[Bulgarian mafia]] killings, caused problems in the city,<ref name="CoulbyCowen2013">{{cite book|author1=David Coulby|author2=Robert Cowen|author3=Crispin Jones|title=World Yearbook of Education 2000: Education in Times of Transition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ai3MC8X1qYC&pg=PA10|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-16603-7|page=10|quote=crime rates have exploded in Sofia as well as in Moscow and St Petersburg.|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418021743/https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ai3MC8X1qYC&pg=PA10|url-status=live}}</ref> where authorities had difficulties convicting the actors,<ref name="Noutcheva2012">{{cite book|author=Gergana Noutcheva|title=European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession: Conditionality, legitimacy and compliance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nB8fKw5rSgEC&pg=PA192|date=26 July 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-30619-8|page=192|quote=The strongest EU demand – structural changes of the judicial system – had to do with the crime rate in Bulgaria and the apparent impotence of the authorities in Sofia to convict any of the murderes in the high-profile mafia killings that shook the country in 2003–2005.|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418012159/https://books.google.com/books?id=nB8fKw5rSgEC&pg=PA192|url-status=live}}</ref> which had caused the [[European Commission]] to warn the Bulgarian government that the country would not be able to join the EU unless it curbed crime<ref name="Economist">{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|title=Bulgarian Crime – Where killing is a habit|date=27 October 2005|url=http://www.economist.com/node/5090978|access-date=21 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629115824/http://www.economist.com/node/5090978|archive-date=29 June 2015}}</ref> (Bulgaria eventually joined in 2007).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6220591.stm|title=BBC NEWS – Europe – Romania and Bulgaria join the EU|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=25 September 2016|archive-date=29 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529145528/https://secure-uk.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?rnd=1622300127537&ci=bbc&cg=0&sr=1600x1000&ts=v51.js&cd=24&lg=en-US&je=n&ck=y&tz=0&ct=&hp=&tl=BBC%20NEWS%20%7C%20Europe%20%7C%20Romania%20and%20Bulgaria%20join%20the%20EU&si=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Feurope%2F6220591.stm&rp=|url-status=live}}</ref> Many of the most severe crimes are [[contract killings]] that are connected to [[organised crime]], but these had dropped in recent years after several arrests of gang members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=17096|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229002025/https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=17096|archive-date=29 December 2016|title=Bulgaria 2015 Crime and Safety Report|date=29 December 2016}}</ref> [[Crime in Bulgaria#Corruption|Corruption in Bulgaria]] also affects Sofia's authorities. According to the director of Sofia District Police Directorate, the largest share of the crimes are thefts, making up 62.4% of all crimes in the capital city. Increasing are frauds, drug-related crimes, [[petty theft]] and [[vandalism]].<ref>[http://www.novinite.com/articles/163273/Crime+Rates+in+Bulgaria's+Sofia+on+the+Rise#sthash.flBwRpGL.dpuf Crime Rates in Bulgaria's Sofia on the Rise] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522164239/http://www.novinite.com/articles/163273/Crime+Rates+in+Bulgaria%27s+Sofia+on+the+Rise#sthash.flBwRpGL.dpuf |date=22 May 2015 }} Novinite</ref> According to a survey, almost a third of Sofia's residents say that they never feel safe in the Bulgarian capital, while 20% always feel safe.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Most Dangerous Cities in Europe|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/europe-dangerous-cities-2011-9?op=1|publisher=Business Insider Inc.|access-date=23 October 2015|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702211900/http://www.businessinsider.com/europe-dangerous-cities-2011-9?op=1|url-status=live}}</ref> {{as of|2015}}, the consumer-reported perceived crime risk on the [[Numbeo]] database was "high" for theft and vandalism and "low" for violent crimes; safety while walking during daylight was rated "very high", and "moderate" during the night.<ref name="Numbeo">{{cite web|url=http://www.numbeo.com/crime/city_result.jsp?country=Bulgaria&city=Sofia|title=Crime in Sofia. Safety in Sofia.|access-date=21 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919075244/http://www.numbeo.com/crime/city_result.jsp?country=Bulgaria&city=Sofia|archive-date=19 September 2015}}</ref> With 1,600 prisoners, the [[incarceration rate]] is above 0.1%;<ref>[http://www.gdin.bg/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80-%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F_p65_l6.html The prison in Sofia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063024/http://www.gdin.bg/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80-%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F_p65_l6.html |date=4 March 2016 }}. Gdin</ref> however, roughly 70% of all prisoners are part of the [[Romani people in Bulgaria|Romani minority]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=4583604|title=Само 10 000 в затвора, 7000 от тях са цигани|website=24chasa.bg|access-date=11 April 2018|archive-date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124083636/http://www.24chasa.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=4583604|url-status=live}}</ref>