According to a survey conducted by Euromedia Research earlier this year, just over one in three Italian feels to live in a zonapoco or not safe.

This perception of insecurity is often attributed - to some extent - to the presence of foreigners, an attitude that has become much stronger with the largest increase in landings on the Italian coast.
It is natural, then, to wonder what effect they have had hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers arrived in Italy from the Mediterranean.
Thanks to the data of ISMU foundation and the Interior Ministry, we know that in the last twenty years landings were quite limited.
By 2014, however, the arrival on our shores rise very much to overcome - and sometimes even a lot - 150 thousand people a year.
Some fear that this could lead to public order problems: an increase in crime, for example.
One way to figure out if it really went like this is to look at how many crimes were reported to the authorities.
If you really asylum seekers were much more likely to commit crimes in the rest of the Italians, as some claim, we should certainly find some trace.
For just recently lucky Istat it has published the new statistics on complaints to date to 2016, and we can use as a clue.
We discover that in these three years of landing boom in our country are not crimes on the rise, indeed.
Theft, damage - all major crimes appears declining, and many other less common are at least stable.
The only clearly growing crime concerns scams and computer fraud, but to be connected to asylum seekers requires a pretty good imagination - nor the state is particular evidence of boats loaded with laptops from hackers or other high tech material.
Beyond the landings, the Istat figures allow us to make a picture of crime in our country, and to understand what crimes are reported more often and where.
In general Italians are turning more often to the police due to damage and theft of various kinds, while scams and computer fraud have become the fifth largest international crime.
Violent crime, for their part, are much rarer.
When we compare these numbers, we must remember that they indicate the complaints and not actually committed crimes when there is a crime no more people turn to the police, and this can lead us to underestimate certain.
The possible reasons are different: "the offense can bring benefits to all parties involved: the case of corruption, money laundering or of the drog store to where or who offers or receiver has the slightest interest to report the matter.
Sometimes, and is another common opinion, the crime amount is so small that not even worth making a complaint.
Or you may lack confidence in the police, so as to think that, on balance, report a crime is totally unnecessary, however, because they will not wrap.
An idea certainly more widespread in southern Italy and that, in this area, could lead to an underestimation of at least some types of crime.
The last - and most delicate - why is shame.
When it comes to sexual violence, for example, it is quite understandable that victims hesitate before telling what happened to him. "
Certainly the Italian media is interesting only up to a point.
In fact it is a number that summarizes very different situations, both for crimes by region.
For example, we know that the city with the majority of thefts density was Milan in 2016, followed by Bologna and Florence - while for the damage the Piedmontese capital appears in the head.
The attempted murders are also popular in the South, with robberies concentrated in particular in Naples - but even then Milan and Turin are not joking.
The Istat data, to be precise, referring to the town to major cities, and the entire province for smaller locations.
Just taking the great Italian municipalities, the downward trend for many crimes remain - with some exceptions.
Also for the robberies, complaints are falling almost everywhere except in Florence and Naples.
The city of Naples is also the only one among the great, where from 2014 theft does not diminish.
This is the recent situation.
If we want to turn back the years to get an idea becomes a bit 'more difficult.
The Istat numbers arrive until 2010, but due to the following year's census - which in some municipalities has made floating population statistics - up to 2013 may be slightly less reliable.
Fortunately, however, there are other sources that go much further back and allow you to get an idea of the long term.
One of them is the report on crime and safety organized by Marzio Barbagli and Asher Colombo.
In the case of the murders, the authors show that the 60s onwards there was an increase in the number of killings attempted and completed, with a peak during the period of the massacres of the Mafia in the early 90s.
As the report points out, "the growth of the murders in Italy is a phenomenon largely attributed to organized crime, its wars, the use of violence for the occupation of territories and illicit markets."
Since then, however, the decline was sharp, and recently we are close or even below the lows.
Even complaints for thefts and robberies, the report continued, "they took to grow since the beginning of the '70s" and reached a peak in the late' 80s.
Since then we find some ups and downs, with the recent period that just shows a moderate decline while remaining still about four or five times higher than in the 60s.
Certainly the record in the Italian media suffers from a huge overexposure, so that the public networks talk about twice as long compared to other major European countries - but it is possible that part of the high perception of the problem in older people come from here.
If there seems to be no particular relationship between arrivals of asylum seekers and increase in crime, it remains the more general question of the link between immigration and security.
With foreigners crime it increased or not?
This is a question to answer with rigor is quite difficult, although some evidence exists and comes just from the numbers of the Colombo-Barbagli report.
We know for example that 9.7% of people who live in Italy are foreign born, and at the same time a significant part of Italian immigration occurred during the 2000s: before that foreigners in our country were very few - both as a total number that compared to many other nations.
Even putting aside for a moment the emergency landing, which is the theme of the day, rising crime precedes by about twenty years the phenomenon of migration.
If - as the statistics show - thefts and robberies have increased in the 70s and 80s, then stabilized and wane somewhat in recent times, it is difficult to imagine a relationship with immigrants - if only because when the crime was increasing foreign in Italy they were still to come.
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