Crime In Mexico

Allan on February 23rd, 2015

A  Mexican NGO (non-governmental organization) called the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y Justicia Penal, A.C. (Citizen Council for Public Security and Penal Justice) researches crime statistics. The group has released its report of the most violent municipios in Mexico in the year 2014. A municipio is not equivalent to a municipality in the United States. In Spanish-speaking […]

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A Mexican NGO called the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y Justicia Penal, A.C.(Citizen Council for Public Security and Penal Justice), whose president is Jose Antonio Ortega Sanchez, released a list of the world’s 50 cities with the highest homicide rates in 2014. The group’s statistics are based on homicide rates calculated from 100,000 inhabitants. […]

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Allan on January 19th, 2015

Each new year, statistics on Mexican crime and violence from the previous year are released and examined.   It’s a grisly business, examining statistics representing real people who were crime victims, including those who were killed. What analysts are looking for are long-term trends – which direction are the statistics heading?  And that’s not easy.  Of […]

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