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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	12.97 %		[4th of 38]
Acquitted	18,971		[12th of 30]
Assaults	25,219		[22nd of 49]
Assaults (per capita)	0.587116 per 1,000 people		[35th of 57]
Burglaries	13,375		[31st of 38]
Burglaries (per capita)	0.31138 per 1,000 people		[48th of 54]
Car thefts	33,135		[15th of 46]
Car thefts (per capita)	0.771407 per 1,000 people		[32nd of 55]
Convicted	85,180		[23rd of 34]
Convicted (per capita)	1.98305 per 1,000 people		[43rd of 56]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	2.64 %		[17th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	37.76 %		[14th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	1.57 %		[7th of 39]
Death penalty > Abolition date	1,910		[61st of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed	1,909		[39th of 55]
Embezzlements	1,247		[23rd of 36]
Embezzlements (per capita)	0.0290311 per 1,000 people		[34th of 44]
Frauds	1,229		[45th of 48]
Frauds (per capita)	0.028612 per 1,000 people		[60th of 61]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms	45.2092		[3rd of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	51.7683		[2nd of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Non-firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	62.74		[1st of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	114.5083		[2nd of 32]
Illicit drugs illicit producer of coca, opium poppy, and cannabis; world's leading coca cultivator with 167,000 hectares in coca cultivation in 2007, a 6% increase over 2006, producing a potential of 535 metric tons of pure cocaine; the world's largest producer of coca derivatives; supplies cocaine to most of the US market and the great majority of other international drug markets; in 2007, aerial eradication dispensed herbicide to treat over 153,000 hectares with another 67,000 hectares manually eradicated, but aggressive replanting on the part of coca growers means Colombia remains a key producer; a significant portion of non-US narcotics proceeds are either laundered or invested in Colombia through the black market peso exchange; important supplier of heroin to the US market; opium poppy cultivation is estimated to have fallen 25% between 2006 and 2007 with a corresponding estimated 27% decline in the yield of pure heroin to 1.9 metric tons
Jails	168		[18th of 80]
Jails (per capita)	0.00391116 per 1,000 people		[33rd of 62]
Judges and Magistrates	3,995		[6th of 35]
Judges and Magistrates (per capita)	0.0930065 per 1,000 people		[25th of 45]
Murders	26,539		[3rd of 49]
Murders (per capita)	0.617847 per 1,000 people		[1st of 62]
Murders committed by youths	12,834		[2nd of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita	84.4		[1st of 57]
Murders with firearms	21,898		[2nd of 36]
Murders with firearms (per capita)	0.509801 per 1,000 people		[2nd of 32]
Police	91,155		[12th of 47]
Police (per capita)	2.12215 per 1,000 people		[31st of 48]
Prisoners	54,034 prisoners		[28th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	6.1%		[27th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	0.6%		[76th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	126 per 100,000 people		[69th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	41.1%		[45th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	136.5%		[45th of 128]
Rapes	1,861		[19th of 50]
Rapes (per capita)	0.0433254 per 1,000 people		[44th of 65]
Robberies	24,537		[15th of 47]
Robberies (per capita)	0.571239 per 1,000 people		[31st of 64]
Sentence Length	137		[1st of 21]
Software piracy rate	58%		[61st of 107]
Total crimes	214,192		[31st of 50]
Total crimes (per capita)	4.98654 per 1,000 people		[53rd of 60]
United States extradition treaties > Citation	TIAS.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	September 14, 1979
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	March 4, 1982
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	0		[136th of 143]

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