The state government of Veracruz caught with their hand in the cookie jar. This is what I and a number of borderland bloggers have seen saying since the start of 2013: The government of Mexico is cooking the books on crime statistics.
(April 24, 2014)—With the correction made before the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, preliminary investigations open for that crime rose from 537 to 836 for 2013.
In Veracruz, homicides and kidnappings are on the rise according to recent figures released by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, in the latest report, this organization reported and had to modify their figures since they failed to report the additional 299 intentional homicides in 2013.
With this, the registered figures in the state increased by 53%, with the intentional homicide figures rising from 537 to 836 for 2013.
According to the analyst Alejandro Hope, the fact that Veracruz barely reported 299 homicides just recently, is proof that the revised figures at national level have not been completed and that the above mentioned "reflects instability in the proportionate figures".
The fact that the figures are modified, Hope said, changes any basis for comparison, "for example Veracruz initially reported that they had 48,000 preliminary investigations in 2013, and in the new report from the Secretariat yesterday, it reports that there were actually 72,000 preliminary investigations meaning that there were 24,000 crimes committed, that were reported, and that were not reported in due time."
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