AZMEX UPDATE 21 JUL 2019
First semester of 2019 leaves new record of homicides; increase in violence in 4 years already exceeds 70%
With AMLO there are almost 20,600 people killed; the daily average rose for the second year in a row.
June and February 2019, the most violent months in 22 years
Animal Político
07/21/2019 | 11:33 AM
https://www.noroeste.com.mx/publicaciones/view/primer-semestre-de-2019-deja-nuevo-record-de-homicidios-alza-de-violencia-en-4-anos-ya-rebasa- el-70-1169410
MEXICO (Animal Político) ._ Mexico reaches half of 2019 in unprecedented levels of violence.
In June there were 3 thousand 80 new cases of murdered people, which added to those of the previous months,
a total of 17 thousand 608 victims of homicide and femicide in the first semester of the year.
It is a rate of almost 14 murders per hundred thousand inhabitants, a new record in at least 22 years.
In fact, the number of victims of homicide and femicide registered in June 2019 represented a daily average of 102.6 murders per day,
almost equaling that of February, which was 102.7 murders per day.
They are the two months with the highest level of homicidal violence in history, both recorded this year, and in the current six-year term.
The updated data of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP)
show that the rate of homicide / femicide victims in the first six months of 2019 is 4.4 percent higher
than that registered in the same period of 2018, the year with the highest annual number of crimes to date.
This shows that the upward trend in homicidal violence that began in 2015 and was inherited in the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
has not yet been contained, although the annual increase has slowed down.
With the 3 thousand 80 murders registered in June (3 thousand 1 corresponding to victims of homicide and 79 of femicide),
the number of people murdered in the presidential term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador - December 2018 to June 2019 -
already amounts to 20 thousand 599.
Compared to June of last year, June 2019 also shows a growth of just over 6 percent.
It should be noted that this is the second consecutive month in which the daily average of homicides has risen,
after a decline had been achieved from March to April.
These differences are recorded even though the violence data of 2018 were updated upward as a result of Mexico City's
significant modification of its incidence record from last year, on the grounds that a significant significant underreporting of investigative files was detected. .
Previously it had been set at 34 thousand 441 the annual total of homicide / femicide victims in 2018 at the country level,
but with the update of CDMX referred that annual total grew to 34 thousand 654.
In four years, rise of more than 70% in homicides
The data of the SESNSP show that from January to June of 2019 there were 17 thousand 138 victims of intentional homicide
for which 14 thousand 603 investigation folders were initiated.
The data of the initiated folders is important because it is the only one with which a comparison can be made
with the whole historical series of the SESNSP dating from 1997 to date.
This shows that the country recorded an accumulated and sustained increase in four years of 73.5 percent in the homicide rate.
We went from accounting for 6.68 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants in the first semester of 2015,
to 7.47 cases for intentional homicide in the same period of 2016, to grow again at a rate of 9.69 cases in 2017,
reaching 11.21 in the same period of 2018, and finally parking in 11.59 intentional homicides from January to June of this year.
This level of homicidal violence already clearly exceeds the worst years of the so-called
"War on Drug Trafficking" recorded in the six years of former President Felipe Calderón.
In that sexenio the highest rates of homicide for a first semester were 9.75 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants in 2011 and 9.31 cases for 2012.
It should be noted, however, that unlike the previous two sexenniums, that of President López Obrador received an annual upward trend in murder levels.
If the comparison is made a decade ago when in 2009 there was a rate of 6.68 intentional homicides per one hundred thousand inhabitants,
what is noticed is that the level of murders has practically doubled.
Colima, at the head in violence in 2019
Colima is, as in the last two years, the state with the highest level of intentional homicides in the country.
From January to June of this year it registered a rate of 40.71 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants,
almost four times above the national average.
Colima is followed by
Baja California with a rate of 34.14 homicides per one hundred thousand inhabitants,
Chihuahua with 27.63,
Guanajuato with 23.07 and
Morelos with 22.74 cases.
Mexico City registered a rate of 8.97 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants in the first semester,
below the national average but higher than that of the State of Mexico,
which reports 7.37 murders in the first semester of this year.
Also: https://www.britannica.com/place/Colima-state-Mexico
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