The factory «days without accidents» sign, applied to a whole metro area. Each counter resets when a news story is confirmed. We wish the numbers were higher.
Days since Puñalín last went out for a walk.
Days since Pistolín last went out for a walk.
Barcelona Segura is a counter that tracks how many days the Barcelona metropolitan area has gone without a stabbing or a shooting reaching the news headlines. It works like the «days without accidents» sign in factories: every time an incident is confirmed, the counter resets to zero.
The idea comes from a question many people ask —is Barcelona safe?— and from the sense of insecurity that crime news leaves behind. Instead of giving an opinion, this project puts a number on it: the actual days that pass between incidents in Barcelona and towns like l'Hospitalet, Badalona, Santa Coloma, Cornellà or Sant Adrià.
Every story comes from press outlets and is reviewed by hand before any counter changes, to avoid false positives and old news resurfacing. It is not an official source or police statistic: it is a satirical take on public safety and the media noise around the city's crime.
