During the first 9 months of the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the willful homicide grew 3.6% compared to the same period of the previous year, according to data from the National System of Public Security (SNSP), analyzed by GLAC Consulting.
From December 2018 to August 2019, 22,861 victims of intentional homicide were recorded, while in the period December 2017 to August 2018 the figure was 22 thousand 63.
Between December 2017 and August 2018, Colima positioned itself as the entity with the most research folders for intentional homicide, with a rate of 63.64 folders per 100 thousand inhabitants. Yucatan recorded the fewest open folders with a rate of 2 per 100 thousand inhabitants.
In the period December 2018-August 2019, Colima again became the entity with the most research folders for willful homicide with 62.85 per 100 thousand inhabitants compared to the record of December 2017-August 2018. This involved a 1.2% decrease in the state.
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However, in January 2019 the governor of the entity, Ignacio Peralta, stated that the point to highlight “should be the citizen’s perception of the security situation” and insisted that as long as that indicator does not improve, it cannot be assessed whether public policies applied were “successful.”
On the opposite side, Yucatan recorded the lowest rate of research folders for this crime with 1.17, which represented a decrease of 41.5% compared to December 2017-August 2018.
On September 20, the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Luis Crescencio Sandoval stated that Yucatan had “enviable” security, taking into account only the rate of intentional homicides and not other common jurisdiction crimes such as theft and fraud.
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Although some entities managed to reduce the intentional homicide between December 2017-August 2018 and December 2018-August 2019, this is not enough to improve the incidence of crime at the national level.
During the first 9 months of President Felipe Calderón’s sixteenth year (December 2006-August 2007) 7.4 folders of investigation for intentional homicide per 100 thousand inhabitants (7,856 folders) were opened.
This figure increased by 78% during the first 9 months of Enrique Peña Nieto’s six-year year year (December 2012-August 2013). The open folder rate for intentional homicide was 12 per 100 thousand inhabitants (13,992 folders).
Meanwhile, in the first 9 months of the sixteenth year of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (December 2018-August 2019) the increase was 63% compared to the same period of the previous sixyears with 18 folders open per 100 thousand inhabitants (22,861 folders).
As for death from intentional homicide, the number of cases experienced fluctuations during the six-ye of Felipe Calderón (December 2006-November 2012).
Between 2006 and 2007 it recorded a marginal decline. From 2007 to 2011 there was a significant increase. For 2011-2012 it declined temporarily again.
In the six-year life of Enrique Peña Nieto (December 2012- November 2018), there was a temporary decline and an uptick at the end.
While in the first 9 months of the six-year year life of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador the death rate from intentional homicide continued to increase to 3.6%.
Finally, during the first 9 months of 2019 the total crime figure in Mexico increased 5% from 1,431,289 December 2017-August 2018 to 1,530,275 compared to December 2017-August 2018.
The crimes that recorded the greatest increase at the national level during that period were extortion (35.23%), kidnapping (13.5%), rape (12.3%) and robbery of business with violence (9%).
