La política pública de seguridad ciudadana y control del crimen organizado en la provincia de Morona Santiago entre 2023 y 2024

Abstract

Abstract: The security crisis in Morona Santiago is driven by the expansion of organized crime, illegal mining, and extortion. The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the effectiveness of the public policies on citizen security implemented in the province of Morona Santiago in the face of the advance of organized crime between 2023 and 2024. The research question was: how does the public policy on citizen security and control of organized crime contribute to the fight against organized crime in the province of Morona Santiago between 2023 and 2024? From a theoretical point of view, the study was based on neoinstitutionalism and the ecology of knowledge. The methodology of the study was quantitative and cross-sectional, with 383 respondents and documentary analysis. The findings indicated a 59% budget under-execution in the Ministry of the Interior, over 90% citizen dissatisfaction with patrols, and a 600% increase in extortion reports. It is concluded that state strategies fail due to their centralist and superficial design, which ignores the Amazonian reality and Indigenous justice systems, thus consolidating a crisis of effectiveness that erodes institutional trust.