The Government of Mexico released this Monday the official statistics on the crime rate in the country, the last in 2021, where it was shared that in 11 months of the year, the country accumulated 30, 693 intentional homicides, a year-on-year reduction of 3.8% compared to the same period of the previous year.
However, according to these parameters, violence would reach an average of 30 daily homicides. Even, in the accumulated so far during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, they estimate 100, 41 murders .
Even with this panorama, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who directs the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), assured that in November of 2021 there were 2, 593 homicides , which represents “the month with the least homicides in all the Administration ”of President López Obrador.
This represents a decrease of 3.5% compared to the 2, 687 of the same month of 2020 and a reduction of 41. 1% compared to last October, when there were 2, 704 murders.
“For four consecutive months it has gone down,” said the secretary at the daily press conference at the National Palace.
Meanwhile, the SSPC recorded 71 femicides in October , murders typified by sexist or gender violence, a year-on-year decrease of 19. 3% compared to the same month of 2020.
However, the country adds so far this year 922 femicides, which represents an increase of 3. 25% compared to the 893 femicides in the period January-October of 2020.
In addition, the secretary recognized an increase of 15. 5% year-on-year in the incidence of family violence in the former 11 months of the year.
say that in the last six months of the year it has gone down, but it has not yet been enough ”, he admitted.
Most violent month so far this year was May, with 2, 997 murders, while March 2020 was the month with the most homicides under the current Administration, which began in December 2018, with 3.0 41 cases.
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