INEGI Survey Shows Unsolved Crime Rate in Mexico Climbs to 93 Percent Deutsche Welle
go to original September 29, 2016

New figures suggest as many as 93.7 percent of all crimes go unreported or uninvestigated across Mexico. But general crime rates for 2015 were down 13 percent, although the number of murders rose sharply.

The embarrassing figures, published by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), showed that less than seven percent of all crimes in Mexico were properly investigated last year.

The number of unsolved crimes was up 0.9 percent on 2014, and the second highest since the survey began in 2010.

But the crime survey, which was conducted in March and April, did show a 13 percent fall in criminality compared to the previous year, with an estimated 29.3 million crimes committed in 2015.

But while common crime levels, such as robbery and assault fell, the number of murders climbed sharply, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The paper cited the same survey as showing that the number of victims of crime had risen two percent to 23.3 million.

...The survey, which was published Tuesday, estimated that the cost of crime and insecurity was about $12.22 billion (10.9 billion euros) per year, or 1.25 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

It also revealed that close to two-thirds of Mexicans chose not to report crimes last year, due to a distrust of the police.

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Related: Survey Shows Levels of Common Crime in Mexico Fell in 2015, Homicides Rising (The Wall Street Journal)

Related: Homicides Reach a New High in Mexico, and an Alarming Trend Is Developing (Business Insider)

Related: Number of Unsolved Crimes in Mexico Rose in 2015: Poll (Reuters)

Related: Mexico Grapples With a Rise in Killings (Wall Street Journal)

Related: 600 Train Robberies a Month in State of Guanajuato (Mexico News Daily)

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