4 out of 5 or 80% of murders go unpunished in Mexico. The legal system is overcrowded, so law enforcement chooses to focus on and use resources for minor crimes.
60% to 70% of inmates in Mexico City prisons are there because of small robberies, often adding up to around $400 or 5,000 pesos. Faced with violence and overcrowding, many inmates end up committing worse crimes when they get out of prison.
Mexico law officials are not prosecuting real criminals. Instead, they are punishing individuals such as two chefs that have arrest warrants out for taking a recipe from a restaurant they used to work at, and a 6-year-old boy who got a ticket after he bumped into an SUV with his mini motorbike. In Chihuahua, where the boy lives, 96.4% of murders go punished, and in Nuevo Leon, where the chefs are from, the the murder rate went up 617% from 2009 to 2011.
Please tell the Mexican government to make Mexico a safer place and put their time, money, and energy into punishing real criminals!
80% of murders go unpunished in Mexico. While murderers run free, 60% to 70% of inmates in places such as Mexico City are in jail for minor robberies. It is time for you all, the Mexican government, to punish real criminals and make Mexico a safer place.
