Politics: Crime on the Rise in Capital

MEXICO - Report 27 Aug 2015 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary The analyses of public security issues GEA conducts for Weekly Trends: Mexico Politics are generally made of nationwide crime data, but this time we are narrowing our focus to the Federal District because of its economic and political weight, its record in building a successful anti-kidnapping unit, and its reputation as something of a safe haven, although rates of both high impact and lesser crimes have been rebounding in recent months. As we pointed out in previous issues of Weekly Trends: Mexico Politics, during the last quarter the Federal District recorded an incidenc...

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