Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico’s failure to gather quality homicide data impeding security gains

México is failing to gather data on homicide in an effective way Mexico’s failure to gather quality data on homicides is preventing the country from developing effective policies to tackle rising violence, a new study found.

The report, developed by the Institute for Economics and Peace, concluded that state authorities across Mexico complied on average with just 14.8 of the 43 indicators established by international standards that are needed to obtain quality and useful homicide data.

The states of Nuevo León, Querétaro, Aguascalientes, Baja California, and Coahuila scored the highest on . . .

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