
This piece examines a survey concerning crime perception, crimes that most affect the public and response behaviors that insecurity arouse, which was conducted in Bogotá after the 2023 territorial elections. The analysis diverges from quantitative approaches statistical tables that reproduce simplistic social constructions of criminality. Instead, it adopts an approach that critically and rationally contrasts dissimilar interpretations of its results. It concludes that the fear of crime in Bogotá does not respond to mere exposure to being victimized by crime, but to agitated narratives of reaction to delinquency that exacerbate the fear of crime and the anxiety associated with urban unrest.