The extortion increased 105% in the Gustavo A. Madero mayoralty of Mexico City between January and September 2019 compared to the same period of 2018. Theft of business with violence increased 64% in the same period.
The total crime, known as total crime incidence, increased by 3% during the first months of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018.
The mayor’s office Gustavo A. Madero is located in the north of Mexico City. Its territory covers 94 square kilometers corresponding to 6.1% of the territory of Mexico City. Its population is 1 million 154 thousand 454 inhabitants according to projections of the National Population Council (CONAPO) for 2019, which makes it the second most populated demarcation of Mexico City after Iztapalapa.
It borders to the north with the municipalities of Tlalnepantla, Ecatepec, Coacalco and Tultitlán, of the State of Mexico, to the south with the mayors Venustiano Carranza and Cuauhtémoc, to the east with the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, also of the State of Mexico and to the west with the Mayor Azcapotzalco.
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The main tourist attraction of this demarcation is the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which received 10 million 603 thousand pilgrims in December 2018 and broke attendance records according to data from the Ministry of Civil Protection of Mexico City ( SPCCDMX). The town hall has sports centers, such as March 18, the Oceania and the Galeana Brothers and recreational spaces, such as the Forest of San Juan de Aragón.
In 2019, Mayor Gustavo A. Madero placed 7th in the extortion ranking of the 16 mayors that make up Mexico City, where 1 is worse and 16 is better. In 2018 he had ranked 10th, which means that the increase of this crime changed 3 positions his place in the count.
In 2019 Cuauhtémoc, Benito Juárez, Miguel Hidalgo, Venustiano Carranza and Iztacalco recorded the highest incidence of extortion crime. In 2018 the demarcations with the most cases of this illicit were Cuauhtémoc, Benito Juárez, Iztacalco, Venustiano Carranza and Miguel Hidalgo. Milpa Alta was the mayor’s office that recorded fewer extortion cases in 2018 and 2019, although between 2018 and 2019 it increased 48%.
Apart from its tourist attractions, the Mayor’s Office Gustavo A. Madero is a demarcation characterized by its commercial activity. This makes her vulnerable to crimes such as extortion and theft of business in all its forms.
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In October 2019, Gustavo A. Madero’s mayor, Francisco Chíguil, said that there is no net of nepotism, but that the Secretariat of the Comptroller’s Office will carry out the corresponding investigations. This was in response to public complaints made by Mayor’s traders against the director general of Legal and Government Affairs, Enrique Rodrigo Rojas for alleged real estate extortion and nepotism.
As for the theft of business with violence, in 2019 the Mayor Gustavo A. Madero was ranked 8th in the ranking. In 2018 he ranked 7th. Although theft from business with violence increased between those years, this demarcation dropped one place in the count because cases increased in other mayors.
In 2019 the demarcations with the most theft of business with violence were Miguel Hidalgo, Iztacalco, Cuauhtémoc, Venustiano Carranza and Alvaro Obregón. In 2018 the businesses of the mayors Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo, Benito Juárez, Azcapotzalco and Venustiano Carranza were the companies most affected by violent thefts.
During 2018 and 2019 Milpa Alta was the mayor’s office that recorded fewer violent business escasinoes.
In May this year, Mayor Gustavo A. Madero reported that elements of the Command and Control Center (C2) and the Auxiliary Police arrested six people for the crime of theft from business with violence in an OXXO located on Tetrazzini and Alfredo Robles Domí streets nguez, Colonia Vallejo. The five fled aboard a pink Nissan vehicle with white and were intercepted over Avenida Misterios, Colonia Tepeyac Insurgentes.
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As for the theft of business with violence, this crime increased between 2011 and 2013 and fell between 2015 and 2017. Between 2017 and 2018 it recorded an uptick. The total number of cases so far in 2019 is already higher than the total for 2018.
On the total crime incidence, this was increased in two stages: the first between 2011 and 2014 and the second, between 2015 and 2018. The total crime rate in 2018 was the highest recorded since 2011.
The extortion recorded a decline between 2015 and 2018. However, the cumulative cases so far in 2019 are higher than the 2018 total.
The total crime incidence in the Mayor Gustavo A. Madero increased by 3% between 2018 and 2019 from 17,975 crimes (equivalent to 1,659 per 100 thousand inhabitants) to 18,524 (1,724 per 100 thousand inhabitants).
This increase was influenced by the increase in crimes against personal wealth. In addition to extortion and theft of business with violence increased the crime of robbery by carrier with violence (52%), theft of home with violence (30%) and business theft (14%). The intentional homicide was down 6% and the intentional gun homicide dropped 7%.
In early June 2019, elements of the Ministry of Citizen Security in Mexico City arrested two people after a call detailing the unloading of goods of a van without plates, which was introduced to a private address located in Colonia Ampliación Malacates.
The characteristics of the van matched that of a complaint made two days earlier for robbery of carriers with violence, in which the driver of the freight transport was depreed by the two offenders.
In late October 2019, a video was released showing a man guarding his van in Colonia Lindavista while two men got out of another vehicle and entered his home. The owner of the home, when he realized the situation, accelerated the departure of his vehicle, causing it to hit the hall and other carts, including one where the alleged assailants were traveling.
In September, following a complaint by several neighbors, two people were captured who broke in to steal 50 cell phones and tool in a pawn shop located in the streets Estado de Chihuahua and Estado de Sonora in Colonia Providencia.
