AZMEX SPECIAL 24-1-2020

AZMEX SPECIAL 24 JAN 2020


Homicide rate in Mexico, 4 times larger than in the United States
Report. Colima, with a level of violence higher than El Salvador: Zero Impunity.

Last year the homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants nationwide was 23.23, while in 2018 it was 23.22. (Special)


IGNACIO ALZAGA
Mexico City / 22.01.2020 00:34:45

https://www.milenio.com/policia/mexico-tasa-homicidios-4-grande-unidos

Mexico is the most violent country of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
with a four times higher rate of malicious homicides than in the United States,
a situation that will continue in the long term not to reverse the high levels of impunity that surround these crimes,
whose probability of clarification is only 1.3 percent.

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This is revealed by an analysis of the Zero Impunity organization in which it indicates that in 2018 the levels of violence
in Colima, Baja California, Guerrero, Chihuahua and Guanajuato were above those recorded
in El Salvador, Jamaica and Honduras, the most violent nations in the world.

He says that the level of impunity in Mexico explains the limited deterrent capacity of the criminal system on the growth of violence,
so that the policy of increasing penalties for more frequent and high-impact crimes has an "irrelevant" effect to reduce criminal incidence

In the document "Impunity in intentional homicide in Mexico, report 2019",
coordinated by investigators Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona and Paola Jiménez Rodríguez, they emphasize that the effects of the
"very low capacity of criminal investigation" of the prosecutors and prosecutors throughout the country,
the "erosion" of institutions and corruption magnify homicidal violence, as a murderer knows that it is very difficult for him to be arrested and convicted.


Another problem is that high-impact crime investigation areas are exposed to the penetration and attack of organized crime groups.


Based on information from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), corresponding to 2017,
Mexico registered an average of 24.8 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants
and was followed very far away by the United States with a rate of 5.3.

"The difference remains abysmal if we compare our situation with Chile, the other Latin American country belonging to the OECD,
whose homicide rate is 4.3.
Among the countries analyzed, the one with the lowest rate is Japan with 0.2 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants ".

In 2018, 33,521 intentional murders were recorded in Mexico, which represented a rate of 26.7 per 100 thousand inhabitants,
that is, almost two percentage points more than the previous year, placing it again as the country with more crimes within the members of the OECD

Impunity Zero already warned that 2019 would become the most violent in history in the country,
a fact that confirmed the figures of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System released last Monday.

Impunity Zero stresses that malicious killings are the sixth leading cause of death nationwide;
however, the proportion they represent has increased in recent years: it went from 3.6 percent in 2016 to 5.1 percent in 2018.

Regarding the most violent entities, it indicates that that year Colima had a rate of 93 murders per 100 thousand inhabitants,
followed by Baja California with 89.1; Guerrero with 68.1, Chihuahua with 58.7 and Guanajuato 53.8.

These levels are above the most violent countries in the world,
since the rate of El Salvador was 61.8, that of Jamaica 57 and that of Honduras 41.7, the study refers.

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