The organization Mexico United Against Crime reported that the country's problems in security continue and are "are worse than 15 years ago." It said that impunity is at a 98 percent level; for 100 offenses, only two are punished.
At a press conference, the secretary general of the organization, Juan Francisco Torres Landa, said that despite government initiatives, the hard data indicate that the situation has not improved since 1997. Using data from the Executive Secretary of the National Public Security System, he reported that in 1997 there were 1,379,151 reported crimes, and in 2012 there were 1,708,981. That is an increase of 24 percent.
"The hard data which we can compare over these 15 years, tells us that the situation is not only unresolved, but there is in an impressive increase. So we are worse off today than we were 15 years ago," Torres Landa said.However, he said that during this decade and a half several things have changed. For example, we live in a country where elections are open, there is a functioning democracy and citizens are more participatory, among other things.
In the context of the 15th anniversary of the founding of the organization, he demanded of the authorities three outcomes for 2013: zero kidnappings, because it is a crime that generates expansive impacts and injures families, zero extortion, with an attack at the roots of the collection from merchants of charges for "rights to sell". It is a practice that has an impact on many parts of the country, and to make highways safer, because it is unacceptable that the country doesn't have full freedom of movement. Spanish original