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International Women's Day march in Mexico City. The rate of domestic violence against women in Mexican marital relationships varies at between 30 and 60 percent of relationships. [24] As of 2014, Mexico has the 16th highest rate of homicides committed against women in the world. [25] This rate has been on the rise since 2007. [25]
Mexico City currently has one of the highest police officer to resident ratios in the world, with one uniformed police officer per every 100 citizens. [63] The murder rate in 2009 was 8.4 per 100,000 — by comparison, higher than the 5.6 in New York City [ 64 ] but much less than the 14.8 in Atlanta .
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
CELAYA, Mexico (AP) — A dead man lay on his back in the parking lot of a convenience store in late February when journalists rolled in to the north-central Mexico city of Celaya to interview police.
A total of 18 Celaya police officers have been shot to death so far this year, making the city of a half million inhabitants probably the most dangerous city in the hemisphere for police.
The notable atrocity against Asian people was the three-day Torreón massacre (13–15 May 1911) in northern Mexico, wherein the military forces of Francisco I. Madero killed 308 Asian people (303 Chinese, 5 Japanese), because they were deemed a cultural threat to the Mexican way of life.
Each spring, residents of this village tucked at the base of one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes trek up to a cave near its crater to make a peace offering.
In 2012, Mexico was ranked as the 16th country with the highest rates of femicides. [49] Moreover, between 2011 and 2016, there were an average of 7.6 female homicides per day. [50] In 2016, Mexico had a rate of 4.6 femicides per 100,000 women, and there were a total of 2,746 female deaths with the presumption of them being homicides. [50]