It contains some margin for error as it potentially includes attacks on passengers. 31 2016 and shows all incidents of robberies involving taxi and Uber drivers. The crime data obtained by Reuters covers Jan. Īssaults involving regular taxi drivers in the city rose by just a third in the same period, according to crime data obtained by a separate freedom of information request filed with same security officials, as a deep economic downturn lifted all robberies in the city about six percent. Attacks rose from an average of 13 per month in the first seven months of 2016, reflecting some degree of danger even before the cash option took effect, to 141 per month in the rest of the year, the data shows. In Sao Paulo, robberies involving Uber drivers rose ten-fold, the data shows. It changed that policy across Brazil last year, allowing customers to pay with cash to turbo-charge growth in a crucial new market.ĭemand took off, but so did crime. Traditionally, Uber has charged rides to credit cards registered by users, offering an easy way to verify passengers and track them down if needed. Police have confirmed six murders since his death, with local press reporting more than a dozen.Ī Reuters analysis of crime data obtained by public information request from Sao Paulo’s state security secretariat showed a spike in robberies involving Uber drivers since July, when the company started accepting cash payments in the city, raising questions inside the company as to why it did not act faster to address the problem. Uber said Modolo Filho was its first driver to be murdered in Brazil.

They are awaiting sentencing and lawyers for both have vowed to appeal. Police later found the car, arrested the couple and accused them of murder in the service of car theft.

Two of his fatal wounds were so deep police would first mistake them for bullet holes. They repeatedly stabbed the 52-year-old driver and drove away with his black SUV as he lay bleeding in the road. Riverside township police department.SAO PAULO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - On a Thursday night last September, Uber driver Osvaldo Luis Modolo Filho accepted a ride request from a teenage couple on the eastern edge of Sao Paulo, to be paid in cash.Ī few blocks from their destination, the passengers - who hailed the ride on the Uber app with a false name - drew two blue-handled kitchen knives.

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