translated from Spanish: murders grow in 14 states; rape, extortion and robbery rebound

In the first five months of 2021, murders in 14 states of the country increased compared to last year, in some cases with increases ranging from 30 to 70%. In addition, at the national level, victims and reports of some of the most impactful crimes such as rape, robbery and extortion have also rebounded.
The average number of people killed daily rises to more than 97 in 2021, as was the case at the start of the six-year term. In addition, unintentional deaths caused by traffic incidents have also increased by more than 20 per cent so far this year.
According to updated figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), last May alone, 3,61 people were killed in Mexico. As anticipated in this note, this is the May with the most murders of the six-year term and is the most violent month so far this year.

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With this, the number of victims of intentional homicides and femicides so far this year grows to 14,666, of which 1,610 were women and 496 were minors. Although nationally this is a reduction of just over 2% from last year, the daily average of homicides has grown in the last three months after a decline that had been achieved during the winter.
In the specific case of the murders of women, of the 1,610 victims recorded in 423 cases, the authorities classified the crime as a possible femicide, that is, as a murder of the woman for reasons of gender. This represents an increase in femicides of more than 7%.

As the specialists have reiterated, the prevalence of violence in 2021 becomes relevant if it is taken into account that, unlike the start of the six-year term, the current federal government has already deployed its strategy to combat insecurity based on the reinforcement of social programs and the mobilization of more than one hundred thousand elements of the National Guard.
States with increments
At the state level, official data show that the evolution of violence is not even. There are 14 entities where murders have increased this year by up to 70%; in three states, homicide levels remain at levels similar to those of 2020; and in the rest there are decreases without any of them reaching beyond 35%.
Zacatecas is the state with the highest increase in violence in 2021; from January to May of this year this entity accumulates 620 murders, which compared to 357 last year means an increase of more than 76% in this high-impact crime.
San Luis Potosí is another serious case; the state went from 268 to 380 murders in that period, representing an increase of 41.7%. It is followed by Sonora where from January to May 842 people were killed, an increase of 38.7% compared to the same months of 2020.
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Another red light is Baja California, the entity with the highest homicide rate in the country and where the security situation continues to deteriorate. From January to May of this year the state already accumulates 1,347 victims of homicides and femicides, 14% more than the 1,178 last year.
The rest of the entities that recorded increases in their homicides are Chiapas with 31.7%, Campeche with an increase of 29%, Nayarit with 19%, Baja California Sur with an uptick of 17%, Morelos and Durango with 15%, Tlaxcala with almost 12%, Querétaro with 8%, Nuevo León with 3% and Jalisco with 0.2%.
The opposite is the case in Coahuila with a 33% decrease in murders in 2021, followed by Oaxaca, Mexico City, Colima and Puebla with decreases of more than 20%.
Rape, extortion and robbery
There are high-impact crimes that show a significant growth in reporting so far this year. Among them are the reports of violations that totaled 8,623 in the first five years of this year, an increase of more than 30% over the 6,610 reported in 2020.
The balance of violations reported this year is the worst of the six-year term. In 2019, for example, a year without a pandemic, the cases reported to prosecutors in those from January to May of that year totaled 7 thousand 64, almost one thousand 600 cases below what has now been presented.
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If the complaints for all sexual offences (including abuse and harassment) are taken into account, the figure rises to 28,498 cases in the first five months of 2021, which represents an increase of 29% with respect to the incidnce recorded in the same period of 2020.
Another crime whose incidence increased this year are extortion with 3,635 reported cases, a figure 4% higher than the 3,458 reported from January to May 2020.
In the case of robberies, while the total number of cases reported so far in 2021 remains below those reported last year, in the last three months cases have increased significantly with figures above 50 thousand complaints, above the 45 thousand that were filed in January and February.
In fact, the accumulated theft reports between April and May 2021 amounts to 99,181, well above the 82,923 in the same months last year. This confirms that the reduction in reported thefts in the past year corresponded to an effect of confinement due to the pandemic that has been reversing.
In the specific case of robberies to passers-by on public roads, which is one of the most frequent crimes and of greater impact, the balance in the first five months of the year was 26,743 reported cases, a figure that already exceeds the 25,513 that were reported last year.
A contrary case is that of kidnappings where the 324 cases reported so far in 2021 are still well below the 455 that had been reported during 2020. The same goes for cases of intentional injuries with a firearm where 4,292 cases have been reported in 2021, 5% below what was reported last year.
Vehicular deaths skyrocket
Sesnsp data also confirm the sustained increase in deaths caused by traffic incidents. The 6,361 deaths left by accidents from January to May 2021 are an increase of 22% compared to the same period last year.
This is an increase that, as in the case of sex crimes, is amealy to the effect of the pandemic. Proof of this is that compared to the five thousand 498 registered in the first five months of 2019 (when there was no confinement), the reported this year is higher by more than 15%.
The cases of people injured in traffic incidents are also on the rise: from January to May of this year they totaled 15,910 victims of these events nationwide, three thousand 500 cases above what was recorded in the same period of 2020.
In the specific case of Mexico City, the death toll in traffic incidents this year stands at 286 victims, which is already 32 deaths above what was accumulated in the same period of 2020.
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