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Mexican States by Homicides - 2011 [1]; Rank State Homicides (2011) Homicides (2010) Change - Mexico 27,199 25,757 5.6% 1 Chihuahua 4,502 6,407 29.7% 2 State of Mexico 2,613
Mexico, in addition to having one of the highest crime rates in the world, also is a country where nine out of ten reported crimes are left unpunished. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] As a result, anti-monuments have emerged as a way to remember the victims and prevent their cases from falling into oblivion. [ 4 ]
Over 93% of crimes go unreported or are not investigated in Mexico. [5] More than 2/3 of Mexican citizens believe that some or all Mexican Police officers are corrupt. Only 18% of Mexicans expressed a high level of trust in public security institutions in 2017, and only 7% in the case of municipal police.
Since many crimes go unreported, the rates may be much higher than reported by the government. [6] The murder rate in 2023 was 23.3 per 100,000. [7] Most of the crime is committed by a small proportion of the population involved in the drug trade with about half of murders drug related. [8] Assault and theft make up the vast majority of crimes.
Juan Manuel Sierra, 33, a.k.a. Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, was arrested last Thursday after 'attempting to start a fire' with a blowtorch in a West Hills neighborhood, authorities said.
The Mexico Peace Index (MPI) is one in a series of National Peace Indices produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). The MPI provides a comprehensive measure of peacefulness in Mexico, the fifth edition of the MPI was released in 2017. [1]
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid about 50 times more powerful than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine. Opioids accounted for about 82,000 U.S. deaths in 2022, ten times the number in ...
In Mexico, criminal legislation is shared between the federal and state governments.The federal law establishes the age of 15 as the minimum age of consent, while the age at which there are no restrictions for consensual sexual activities is 18 (sex with someone 15–18 is not illegal per se, but can still be open to prosecution under certain circumstances).