translated from Spanish: Sixth report: increased violence despite historical spending

the sixth report of Government of President Enrique Peña Nieto recognizes the setback in the fight against violence in the country. While the killings already exceeded the levels of the last six years, there are other serious crimes where the progress is minimal or non-existent.
This, despite the fact that spending on security already surpassed that of the previous administrations.
And although the document denies that the country is in a “downturn” insecurity, does recognize that in 83 per cent of the municipalities there are less than 50 police officers.
In fact, there are more than 600 municipalities in Mexico without a single agent. That is why the Government considers impossible to do without the support of the army and Navy in public security tasks for the coming years.
According to data in the report, during 2017 the rate of intentional homicides in the country was 20.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, top of the last year of the last six years (2012), which was of 18.3 murders.
In addition, the report highlights that crimes such as thefts in road violence grew from 2.1 cases per 100,000 population in 2012, 3.3 cases in 2017.
Theft with violence in general, had a minimum descent over 191 cases to 188 per 100,000 inhabitants, in the referred period. Kidnappings fell marginally. a rate of 1.2-0.9 cases.
Why have I increased the killings?
The report recognizes external and internal causes behind the upturn in violence.
On the side of the external causes argues, as an example, the increase of the demand for drugs in the United States – mainly derived from the opium-, combined with the “increased” flow of arms of high power and money to cartels from that country to Mexico.
As for internal reasons, Peña Nieto Government holds that you although large criminal structures have been constrained its presence and organization by the fall of several of its leaders, they have diversified their criminal activities and they have heightened the controversy over rising violence.
The report also highlights that there is a “huge disparity between the law enforcement capabilities of federal and local institutions”, i.e., points out that the local police forces are not developed enough, situation serious longer than half of the killings (the document) are product of local crimes.
“Organized crime organizations, have expanded their range of criminal action, which explains the increase in incidence rates in other of high impact, as serious offences such as extortion and trafficking in persons, among others. However, that crimes like kidnapping has been hold. As described previously, the structural causes there are responsibilities of the different powers and orders of Government”, the report said.
Few policemen despite the sixth report of Government historical spending stands out as a delicate situation the lack of local policemen in the country.
Indicates that there are 651 municipalities that lack full’s own police force, while there are other 1400 that have less than 50 police each.
This means that 8 of every 10 municipalities of Mexico there is even with one sufficient number of local police.
And as in the last report, the Government of Peña Nieto recalls that he sent Congress an initiative so will see 32 of police only by State corporations, thus eliminating the local forces, however, this initiative has not been approved.
This weakness in the institutions of security and recovery of the homicides in the country takes place despite the historic amounts of money have been spent.
“Since the beginning of the Administration the Government supported the strengthening of the institutional capacities of the State and municipal police. In this six-year term, have been transferred more than 80 thousand PESOS to local authorities to modernize facilities, equipment and armament of its police corporations, as well as to promote the training of personnel and dignify its work”, report says .
According to their figures, this investment is 23.7 per cent greater than the of the sexenio de Felipe Calderón when transferred 64 billion to the States, and it is 218 per cent higher with respect to the 25 billion transferred in the Government of Vicente Fox.
Military cannot leave the streets in the current context, according to the report, there are no conditions to stop in the “next few years” elements of the army and Navy “subsidiaries” functions of public security carried out in various parts of the country. I.e., they must remain on the street.
The report emphasises that coordinated with military intervention operations have produced results.
For example, the case of the safe lagoon operating that from 2012 to 2018 was able to reduce almost 80 percent homicides in that area, or the special operating Jalisco which fell 76 percent kidnappings designates.
He stressed that in all the places where the military forces have been deployed is by request of the own Governors.
A generalized crisis?
The sixth report of Government of the President Enrique Peña Nieto is emphatic in pointing out that “in no way” the crisis of the current violence is “widespread” in Mexico.
He argues that the red flags are in very specific areas, many of them related to Mexico border stripes.
The report also insists results of a strategy called “Operational Titan” which have been reduced (in some cases marginally) the incidence in eleven municipalities preselected.
But contrary to the assertion in the report of Government, Animal politician recently published – from official data – that, on the issue of the killings, the increases are not isolated.
Last July, it was revealed that, in the first half of this year, the violence has picked up in 18 of the 32 federal entities of the country. This is in the middle of the federal entities.
In the same text, it was revealed that 26 of the 50 cities identified by the Government as they concentrate half of the killings in the country, the murders has increased despite the strategy that the administration of Peña Nieto put up by lowering the violence at the same, and that was already not concerned in the latest government report.

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