NINE MAYORALTIES REGISTER A DECREASE OF OVER 30% IN CRIMES

Mexico City is listed as second in a decrease of illicit high impact acts in the country, with 36%, thanks to strategies and institutional collaboration and not due to the pandemic.

Nine mayoralties in Mexico City registered a reduction of over 30% in criminal incidents during 2020 in comparison with 2019, according to data from the DiSi report of the Citizen Council for Safety and Justice in Mexico City. Cuauhtemoc, Iztacalco, Benito Juarez and Miguel Hidalgo had a reduction in high impact crimes of 47% both of the former and 46% and 42% the latter.

The analysis is based on data from the Citizen Council that gathers information from the Safety Line, the Executive Secretary of Mexico’s National System for Public Security (SESNSP), the General Attorney’s Office in Mexico City (FGJ) the Digital Agency of Public Innovation (ADIP).

The Venustiano Carranza mayoralty had a reduction of criminal incidents of 38%, Gustavo A. Madero of 36%, Alvaro Obregon 33%, and Iztapalapa and Xochimilco 31%, each. The president of the Citizen Council, Salvador Guerrero Chipres pointed out that criminal reduction in the mayoralties and, in general in Mexico City is related with the strategy, inter-institutional collaboration and citizen denunciation, and not only due to the pandemic.

“It has wrongfully been said that the pandemic causes crime reduction, however, the sanitary crisis is the same throughout the whole country and it has caused the same confinement, and there are entities where criminal incidents remain stable or have increased,” he pointed out.

High impact crimes that were analyzed include manslaughter, feminicide, rape, extortion, kidnapping, intentional wrongdoing. Also, house robberies with and without violence, violence against businesses or pedestrians, in public transport, against transporters, against drivers with or without violence.

The DiSi report (Denunciation, Intelligence, Safety, Innovation) also reveals that Mexico City takes second place in a reduction of high impact crimes in comparison with the most inhabited entities in the country.

The capital city presented a reduction of 36% and it was only overcome by Chiapas with a reduction of 38%. The State of Mexico, the densest entity, decreased by 13%.

The 10 states with the greatest number of inhabitants Nuevo León and Guanajuato had the lowest reductions of high impact crimes with 4% and 7%, respectively.

In Mexico City, manslaughter, house robberies without violence, feminicides, extortion, car robberies without violence are crimes whose rates for every 100 thousand inhabitants registered the greatest reductions in 2020, compared with 2019.

“Although Iztapalapa is listed in eighth place in reduction, it’s important to say that throughout the past few years it has presented a constant reduction in criminal incidents,” Guerrero Chipres established.

Read the full report here.