Mexico - Q1 2022 Homicide Data

Initial data shows homicides are falling in Mexico, but the good news comes with some caveats.

Last week, Mexico’s Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) published crime data through the month of March 2022. Most notably, homicides for the first quarter of this year are down nearly 13 percent relative to the same period last year. Between January and March, there were 6152 reported homicides compared to 7061 homicid…