translated from Spanish: The low effectiveness of PGR to clarify murder

the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) not clarifies the killings in Mexico. In the past eight years, the unit started or attracted the research of more than 400 killings in the country, but in that same period only closed two cases with convictions.
In fact, the PGR has arrested likely responsible in less than two percent of the cases that has worked. This level is even worse than the of the local agencies that together, meet five percent of the cases that investigate.
Official data of the PGR, obtained by Animal politician via request for transparency, threw that from January 2010 to may 2018 the federal dependency began 402 preliminary investigations and folders of investigation for the crime of homicide.
In this same period dependence reported the allocation of 63 open homicide investigations. It would be effectiveness of just 15 per cent when comparing cases instructing a judge with respect to which he has started.
But the data revealed that many of the cases that were sent to the judge are “no detainee”, while has been achieved the capture of the likely perpetrators of the crime. Just eight of the 63 recorded cases were made with already captured suspects. This is equivalent to 1.99 per cent of all cases investigated formally.
He was asked to the PGR, within this same period, the number of cases where a conviction against the killers was achieved. The unit reported only two cases with convictions, one in 2016 and one in 2017.
Cases resolved and closed by the PGR with a sentence hardly equals 0.4 percent of the total of those who have started.
This average of results is even worse than the local prosecutors. The story killing in Mexico: impunity guaranteed, revealed that of every 100 homicides investigated by the local agencies, is pronounced sentence in five of them. With the PGR, the proportion is just 1 sentence for each 200 murders.
It should be noted that 402 cases of killings by the PGR, 265 were cases initiated in the old penal system (preliminary investigations), while 137 cases of the new system (research folders). The dependence revealed – even when asked – a few victims involved these cases.
Federal homicide in epicenters of drug in response to the request for transparency, the PGR provided the breakdown by State inquiries and portfolios of research initiated by intentional homicide of 2010 to date. The data confirms that the States where there is an active presence of posters – in accordance with the same PGR – concentrated as many cases.
402 inquiries and folders in killing initiated by the Prosecutor’s Office, 77 correspond to the State of Tamaulipas, which is equivalent to almost 20 percent of the cases. The killings in that State which is publicly known that they investigate federally than the graves of San Fernando include.
The PGR reported 63 cases of homicide are investigated for their “core areas”, i.e., by some of their subprocuradurias as federal offences or organized crime, or any specialized prosecutor’s office. These cases are, for example, the various killings of journalists.
The second State with more killings investigated by the PGR in the past eight years is Jalisco with 32 research portfolios. Those cases include the killings of federal, and even soldiers, agents at the hands of suspected members of the Cartel Jalisco new generation, and the discovery of clandestine graves with multiple bodies such as the de La Barca, Jalisco in December 2013.
Sinaloa State in which arose the Sinaloa Cartel, is the fourth State with more killings attracted by the PGR with 26 inquiries and investigation of 2008 to date portfolios.
Then meets Michoacan 21 preliminary investigations for murder opened by the PGR. The data show that more than half of these inquiries correspond to the years 2013 and 2014, just in the period in which the PGR reinforced its ministerial presence in that entity in the context of the conflict with the self-defence groups.
The data provided reveal that, in this period, the PGR investigated at least one case of murder in all States. Tabasco, Hidalgo and Querétaro are entities where only investigates a murder by the Federal Public Ministry.
Does how much effectiveness the PGR?
If we add the number of inquiries and research portfolios opened by intentional homicide of 2010 to date, both local and federal levels, the total is 172 thousand 263 cases. The PGR, however, investigated only 0.2 percent of the total.
The figure contrasts with the level of killings several measurements and experts attributed to organized crime, and therefore should be federal jurisdiction and non-local. For example, Lantia consultants organization – which for years has been estimated the type of murders that would be linked to the narco – calculated only from January to April of 2018 more than 7 thousand homicides linked to organized crime groups there was another example. The traffic light criminal organization estimated that up to 75 percent of the homicides in the country are related to organized crime. Again, this contrasts with the 0.2 percent that the PGR explores.
According to the results, the PGR to attract the killings linked to organized crime is not guarantee of effectiveness in clearing them.
Officials of expert services of the PGR, who spoke with Animal politician during the investigation of the killing in Mexico, report explained that the federal agency has the most advanced forensic laboratories in the country to solve homicides, without However, these are insufficient to meet the volume of crimes in the country are also at record levels.
A more serious problem is that many cases remain in limbo, without that nobody really treats them.
Officials from several States who also spoke with Animal politician in the context of the aforementioned report pointed out that there are many killings where the initial link with organized crime, is clear therefore urged the PGR to draw them; However, the unit does not.
This leaves those killings opened a local instance, but without any investigation because of concerns about local officials deepen in those killings, or the lack of research tools to clarify them given their link with organized criminal activities.

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