{"id":7948,"date":"2026-04-13T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/govinfohub.go.ug\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:57:51","slug":"ugandas-crime-is-falling-but-is-the-truth-fully-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/govinfohub.go.ug\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/ugandas-crime-is-falling-but-is-the-truth-fully-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s Crime is Falling; But Is the Truth Fully Reported?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When statistics decline, but silence deepens, what exactly are we measuring<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Christine Keehe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uganda Police Annual Crime Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I listened to the 10 pm interview on NBS Television, a conversation between Samson Kasumba and Tom Magambo, the Director of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of the Uganda Police Force. I found myself arrested, not by the confidence of the statistics, but by a question a fellow journalist raised, almost in passing, yet heavy with implication: Are all crimes really reported? It lingered long after the broadcast faded into the night, echoing beneath the polished certainty of numbers. If crime is indeed falling, as the report suggests, then what are we not seeing, and who is not being heard? Sometimes, the most important truths are not the ones announced, but the ones that quietly escape measurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a quiet evening in one of my neighbouring towns Namugoona, that question finds a face. A mother lowers her voice as she narrates a story that she has never told the police. Every night, there is a neighbour who comes home drunk and violent, a child who cries through the night, a community that has learned to \u201chandle things internally.\u201d No file is opened. No case number exists. Yet the harm is real, present, and repeating. \u201cNot everything must go to the police,\u201d<\/em> she says, almost defensively. But if it never reaches the system, does it ever truly count, and more importantly, does it ever end? And how many such stories live and die in the shadows, never troubling the statistics that claim to represent them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is within this fragile space, between what is lived and what is recorded, that Uganda\u2019s 2025 Annual Crime Report arrives with reassuring headlines: 196,405 cases reported, down from 218,715 in 2024, a 10.2% decline. Theft cases dropped to 56,360, assault to 26,366, domestic violence to 12,361, and even sex-related offenses fell to 12,606. On paper, the country appears to be getting safer. \u201cThe numbers suggest progress,\u201d one might argue, but whose safety are we measuring, and whose silence are we overlooking? When numbers fall, do they always signal peace, or sometimes, absence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that same conversation, Tom Magambo offered a firm defence of the figures, pointing to strengthened community policing, intelligence-led operations, and deeper deployment at the sub-county level. \u201cCrime starts from home,\u201d<\/em> he noted, anchoring the discussion not just in enforcement, but in upbringing and values. It is a powerful assertion, but also a provocative one. If crime begins in the home, then can its decline be explained solely by better policing, or must we confront deeper, more uncomfortable social truths? And if homes are the cradle of behaviour, who is shaping the conditions within those homes, and who is accounting for when they fail?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because beneath the reassuring statistics lies a stubborn question: what if crime is not only about what is committed but also about what is reported? In many communities, especially informal settlements and rural areas, disputes are resolved quietly, through clan systems, local leaders, or sometimes quiet coercion. Domestic violence is negotiated behind closed doors. Child abuse is buried beneath the weight of shame. \u201cA country can look safer on paper, even as silence grows louder in its communities.\u201d<\/em> If reporting itself is shrinking, then declining numbers may not signal less crime, but less visibility. And when visibility fades, does justice fade with it, or does it simply become harder to reach?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even within the data, subtle contradictions begin to whisper. While overall crime has declined, categories like sex-related offences have dropped more modestly, raising questions about persistent underreporting. Globally and locally, such crimes remain among the least reported due to stigma, fear, and distrust. \u201cWhen a crime carries shame, it rarely carries a report,\u201d notes Kalema Abudal, a social worker in Wakiso, where some of the highest case volumes are recorded. Some analysts quietly point to another gap: the rise of cyber-enabled offences, informal financial scams, and drug-related activity that may not yet be fully captured in traditional reporting systems. So, when the figures fall, is justice improving, or is reality evolving faster than our ability to record it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magambo\u2019s assertion that crime begins at home opens yet another layer of inquiry. Today\u2019s Ugandan home is under pressure: economic strain, long working hours, digital exposure, and shifting cultural norms. Parenting itself is evolving, sometimes fragmenting under the weight of modern survival. Stories of domestic workers harming children, or children growing into violent behaviour, are no longer isolated headlines, they are recurring anxieties that ripple through everyday conversation. But can we place the burden entirely on families? Or must we ask whether social systems, schools, community structures, and economic policies are adequately supporting the moral architecture of the home? \u201cBefore crime reaches the police file, it often begins as a conversation never held at home,<\/em>\u201d a child psychologist at Makerere reflects. \u201cYou cannot demand strong values from homes that are structurally strained,\u201d <\/em>he adds. \u201cSometimes, crime is not born of neglect, but of survival.\u201d<\/em> And in such circumstances, where does responsibility truly begin, and where should it be shared?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also the question of trust. Reporting a crime is not just a legal act; it is an act of belief: belief that the system will respond, protect, and deliver justice. Where that belief weakens, reporting declines. In some communities, victims weigh the cost of reporting, time, stigma, retaliation, and quietly choose endurance instead. \u201cPeople don\u2019t always report because they don\u2019t always feel safe to report,\u201d says a community leader in Luweero. Others speak of delayed justice, withdrawn cases, or informal settlements that discourage escalation. If trust is uneven, then crime data becomes uneven too, and the national picture begins to fracture at its edges. If citizens measure risk differently from the state, can their realities ever fully align?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this negates the progress made. The Uganda Police Force has expanded its reach, refined intelligence systems, and strengthened visibility in many areas. These gains matter. They save lives. They deter crime. But a critical society must do more than celebrate progress; it must interrogate it. \u201cNumbers tell a story, \u201cAs one criminologist puts it, \u201cbut they rarely tell the whole story.\u201d And perhaps the true test of progress is not just fewer cases, but greater confidence in reporting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, we are left with a paradox: a country that is statistically safer, yet socially uncertain; a system that is improving yet still questioned; a narrative of declining crime, shadowed by the possibility of declining reporting. And perhaps the most urgent question is not whether the numbers are true, but whether they are complete. Because completeness is not just about data, it is about dignity, visibility, and voice. And a nation that counts carefully must also learn to listen deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if crime truly begins at home, then so too must truth. And if safety is to be measured honestly, it must account not only for the cases recorded, but for the voices still unheard. It must ask not only how many crimes occurred, but how many were silenced before they could be counted. For in the end, what we choose to measure defines what we choose to confront, and what we choose to ignore. So as Uganda celebrates a drop in crime, we must ask, not defensively, but courageously: if the numbers are falling, are we also listening less?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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