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To murder in Mexico:
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Note The biggest challenge to building databases is that newly established terms are not compatible with previously-used terminology. As for statistics on Public Security and Justice, it wasn’t until 2011 that the National Census of Due Process in States (CNIJE, for its acronym in Spanish) was created. This is an agency that establishes and maintains annual standardization of methodologies, enabling the statistical data-keeping. Therefore, the pre- 2014 registries are inaccurate and make it difficult ot make analysis over time. We decided to include them in order to offer longer-term analysis, but we must consider the possible that data obtained from 2010 to 2012 is incompatible with current standards.
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*2017-2018 World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index. It is a series of indicators on administration and delivery of justice on a national level.
**The ratio is calculated based on 100,000 habitants. Homicide ratio for 2017.
*Expressed in dollars PPP (Purchasing Power Parity), according to the World Bank data.
Information obtained from the National Census of Municipal and Regional Governments, 2017. We must include the 16 Mexico City boroughs, a “state” that has no community-based policing, but does have a centralized police force with powers and authority of first responder.

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How many years would it take to solve every unsolved murder?

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*Calculated with information from INEGI read more.
Source: INEGI data (on unsolved murders) and transparency requests (MP agents assigned to murder cases)
Methodology: The total number of homicides adjudicated from 2010 a 2016 was divided by the total number of MP agents to obtain the average number of cases each would have to solve in that time-frame. This number was divided by the 7 years that data was obtained from in order to assign a yearly average of resolutions for each MP agent. Finally, we calculated the years necessary for solving, at that rate, the cases that fell to each of those agents.

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In Mexico, 95% of murders are unpunished
(impunity index 2010-2016)

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Percentage of unsolved murders
*Calculated by Animal Político read more.
The indicator should not be seen as a suggestion that more sentences should be handed down on the back poorly presented investigations that are thrown out during procedural stages of the court case, but simply as a measure how many cases reach a judge in the first instance.

The data is compiled in the database “Historical statistics. The judicial system and criminal cases,” and for the period from 2014-2016 data is taken from “Statistics on security and justice. The administration of justice in criminal cases.” Comparing these three sources of information must be a done with care due to the methodological differences between them since changes were introduced by the Specialized Technical Committee on Information related to the Administration of justice that was convened in 2014.

The impunity index is created by using the proportion of homicide or femicide cases end with a sentencing in the arraignment phase. This way, the indicator is defined as the percentage of total cases in which no verdict is handed down. This number is obtained by subtracting from 1 the ratio of sentences handed down over the total number of homicides/femicides recorded from 2010 to 2017 then multiplied by 100 (to turn it into a percentage).
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Impunity index: 0

Victims: 0

Cases with convictions: 0

Cases without a verdict: 0

Victims for every 100,000 inhabitants: 0

Cases with convictions for every 100,000 inhabitants: 0

Cases without a verdict for every 100,000 inhabitants: 0

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Comparison of salaries between states

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*Information from INEGI. Read more.
*Data from 2017 from the Government Census of INEGI.
*Gross salary
Data from 2017 from the Government Census of INEGI.
*Gross salary
States not shown did not disclose any information on their websites
Data from 2017 from the Government Census of INEGI.
*Gross salary
Data from 2017 from the Government Census of INEGI.
*Gross salary
States not shown did not disclose any information on their websites
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This is what each state invests for every murder (in forensic services)

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*Mexico City, Puebla, Aguascalientes, Campeche, Guanajuato, Nayarit, Coahuila and Colima did not provide the information requested.
*An estimate calculated by Animal Político. Read more.
When comparing the yearly budget of forensic services of each state in 2017 with the number of murder victims in the same year. In reality, the amount spent may be less, because the budget not only includes forensic experts investigating murder but also specialists investigating other crimes, and their salaries.
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Which states have databases on forensics information?

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Average of unsolved murders per MP agent
(All cases from 2010 to 2016)

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Average of unsolved murders for every MP: 0

MP murder investigators: 0

Unsolved murders 2010-2016: 0

*Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, Quintana Roo, Veracruz and Sonora did not provide the information requested.
*An estimate calculated by Animal Político. Read more.
The number of Criminal Investigators for every Murder is obtained from the ratio of the number of Criminal Investigators assigned to unsolved murders in each State and the total number of unsolved murders in each state from 2010 to 2016.

The number of Criminal Investigators specialized in murders was obtained through transparency requests made in 2018 and also from the Delivery of Justice Census from INEGI in 2017. The number of MP agents working only at agencies specializing in murder investigation is used for the ratio.
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