| Summary: | The article contemplates some aspects of the research carried out next to the PhD
course of the Postgraduate Program of the State University of Maringa (UEM) and aims to address
public safety in the small cities of the North of the State of Paraná. In this paper, municipal
expenditures and homicide rates were analyzed. The procedures a based on bibliographical and
secondary data, with municipal expenditures by the Paraná Institute for Economic and Social
Development (Ipardes) and homicide rates constructed from Datasus, the Mortality Information
System (SIM), and the Ministry of Health of the Federal Government. The results confirm the
occurrence of occurrences that generate insecurity in small cities. Despite this, little public municipal
investment was observed with public safety, collaborating with the perspective that the number of
inhabitants does not define whether the city is safe or not to live.
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