Today information from a Citizen Institute for Studies on Insecurity (ICESI) poll is spilling across newspaper pages around Mexico. Excélsior reports that 39 percent of criminal victims don't report their crimes to authorities because they feel it will be a waste of time, and 16 percent don't do so because they distrust authorities.
It also said that the murder rate in Chihuahua and Sinaloa is up above 40 (per 100,000 residents) in 2009, jumping from 28 and 18, respectively. Those two states are Mexico's most violent, followed by Baja California, Mexico City, and Guerrero. As far as the national murder rate, according to the poll, last year was the first time it rose nationally in ten years. Contrary to Eduardo Medina Mora's claim a couple of weeks ago, the figure was at around 12, not 10.7. This year, however, it is up to 18 per 100,000.
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