[deaddodo]

Crime in Mexico is down, and continues to trend that way. The homicide rate, for instance, is 22% down from 2024 to 2025.

Mexico is very much in it's New York mafioso days of the 80s. Still endemic, entrenched, and powerful, but losing ground and slowly legitimizing. The reason it's so slow is more to due with high rates of corruption in the government (local to federal) and justice system and the cultural effect it's had on the general populace.

[slowhadoken]

I feel like a lot of this in any country is turning criminal activity into institutionalized predatory business practices. It turns loan shark slaves into economic serfs. Homicide goes down and suicide goes up.

[adamtaylor_13]

I disagree with your premise, but Homicide seems objectively worse than suicide.

[slowhadoken]

That’s the point; make the horrific palatable by shifting blame and manufacture consent. Suicide is higher than homicide and everyone shrugs.

[nslsm]

Every time someone mentions crime someone inevitably comes along to mention how according to the completely legitimate crime rates reported by the authorities, crime is disappearing and nothing should be done.

[ZeroGravitas]

There's significant debate about exactly why the crime rates are falling around the world. But not about whether it's happening.

Which particular expert you listen to might emphasize different things to focus on to enable the trend to continue.

Listening to the people who ignore the facts because they find scaring people with lies more effective for their putposes is almost certainly a worse idea.

[xethos]

If public perception was the only metric, and gaming it was an option, why would they have let the number get so high in the first place?

They look bad, their boss looks bad, the paperwork for each individual crime begets a massive, impossible to hide conspiracy, and even nations struggle to execute on multi-year plans - individuals aren't going to be better at controlling multiple lower levels to hit each step of their plan, year after year

[thuridas]

The weapons flow from USA doesn't help.

US can afford to have militarized police with armoured cars. But the combination of drugs, poverty and weapons is very dangerous