The number of intentional homicides in Mexico decreased by 3.1% year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2023 to 22,602 murdersan average of 83 a day, as reported this Tuesday by the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC).
These figures are compared to the 23,324 homicides in the first nine months of 2022according to data presented by the head of the SSPC, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, at the Government’s morning conference.
In September alone, the SSPC documented 2,523 murders, an interannual reduction of 4.72% compared to 2,648 in the same month of 2022although a monthly increase of 1.61% compared to 2,483 last August.
In the case of intentional homicide, homicide has decreased by 17.9% since the beginning of the Administration (in December 2018), it has been decreasing, as seen here in the graph. And this September 2023 is the lowest September in recent years,” Rodríguez stated at the Government’s morning conference.
The secretary reported an average of 83 daily victims so far this year compared to 89 in all of 2022.
Rodríguez argued that six states concentrate 47.3% of the country’s total homicides: Guanajuato, State of Mexico, Baja California, Chihuahua, Jalisco and Michoacán, which together represented 10,704 of these crimes.
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The drop in homicides in September occurs despite the fact that the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, admitted in the last week of the month a momentary increase in murders after the wave of violence by organized crime that hit Chiapas, on the border, in those days. south, and Zacatecas and Nuevo León, in the north.
More federal crimes, fewer femicides
On the other hand, SSPC data showed a year-on-year increase of 4.24% in federal crimes in the first three quarters of the year, when there were 60,990 compared to 58,510 in the same period last year.
The Secretary of Security recognized, for the period from January to September, an interannual increase of 27.7% in tax crimes and 4.2% in those related to firearms and explosives.
But it reported interannual decreases of 39.1% in human smuggling crimes, 28% in financial crimes, 18.7% in organized crime, and 5.2% in those committed by public servants.
Today we present the criminal incidence of federal jurisdiction with a reduction of 24.7% compared to the beginning of the Administration. In general, in September 2023 we had reductions in almost all federal crimes,” said Rodríguez.
On the other hand, in crimes under common law, Carrier theft rose 9.5% annually in the first three quarters.
But there were reductions in the rest: 10.8% in theft from individual transportation, 13.6% in theft from public transportation, 8.6% in theft from a business, 11.3% in theft from a pedestrian and 6.9% in theft from a home.
In relation to common law crimes, here you can see how the majority of crimes have decreased, they have had significant reductions, here we continue to call for strengthening coordination with the competent state authorities to continue reducing this type of crimes. , he commented.
Regarding femicides, murders of women for reasons of gender, the SSPC registered 51 last September, 30 less than in the same month of 2023 and 15 less than last August.
In the case of feminicide, it dropped 49.5% compared to the beginning of the Administration, we are going to continue intensifying prevention, prosecution and punishment actions against feminicide violence,” said Rodríguez.
These figures are reported after the 7.1% annual drop in homicides in 2022, when Mexico recorded 30,968 murders after the two most violent years in its history, under the mandate of López Obrador, with 34,690 murder victims in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020, followed by 33,308 in 2021.
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