The number of intentional homicides in Mexico decreased by 1.68% year-on-year in the first half of 2023 to 15,122 murders, an average of 83 per day, as reported on Tuesday by the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC).
These figures are compared with the 15,381 homicides in the first 6 months of 2022, according to data provided by the head of the SSPCRosa Icela Rodríguez, in the morning conference of the Government.
In June alone, the SSPC documented 2,536 murders, a year-on-year reduction of 4.91% compared to the 2,667 in the same month of 2022, and a monthly decrease of 4.7% compared to the 2,661 of last May, the most violent month so far this year. anus.
These figures show that the upward trend of the first quarter of the year was reversed, when the intentional homicides they rebounded 2.14% year-on-year.
Intentional homicide for the month of June is very clearly on the decline and it is the lowest June in the last six years”,
Rodriguez boasted.
The secretary defended that since the beginning of the Administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in December 2018, homicides have decreased by 17%.
And he asserted that there is a downward trend because there were 83 daily victims in this first semester compared to 89 in all of 2022.
Rodríguez argued that six states concentrate almost half of the homicides: Guanajuato, the State of Mexico, Baja California, Jalisco, Chihuahua and Michoacán, which together accounted for 7,226 of these crimes.
More federal crimes, less femicides
On the other hand, data from the SSPC showed a year-on-year increase of 4.54% in federal crimes in the first semester, when there were 40,315 compared to 38,566 in the same period last year.
The Secretary of Security recognized, for the period from January to June, a 5.3% year-on-year rise in crimes related to firearms and explosives, in addition to a 15% growth in fiscal crimes.
But he announced year-on-year decreases of 27.3% in organized crime crimes, 30.3% in financial crimes, 45.5% in people smuggling, and 11.7% in those committed by public servants.
On the other hand, in common law crimes, carrier theft rose 11.6% annually in the first semester.
But there were reductions in the rest: 14.8% in theft from individual transport, 16.5% in theft from public transport, 8.8% in theft from a business and 10.3% in theft from a passerby.
Common law crimes have also decreased in most of them, as is the case of robbery in all its modalities, here they come and the daily average, there is a reduction of 25.8% (since the Administration began) ”,
argued the secretary.
Regarding femicides, murders of women for reasons of gender, the SSPC registered 81 last June, six less than in the same month of 2023, although almost 20 more than last May.
So far this year, there have been 438 femicides, 19.19% less than the 542 in the same period of 2022.
Femicide also continues to drop (but) had an upturn in relation to the previous month, so we continue to intensify the persecution and punishment of this type of violence”,
Rodriguez maintained.
These figures are reported after the 7.1% annual drop in homicides in 2022, when Mexico registered 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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