Article on crime in local press

This article was shared on Facebook by a long-time, bilingual local expat resident. As we all know the vast majority of crimes in Mexico are never reported - which makes the statistics cited here all the more alarming. I'll post the link to the original article in Spanish, followed by the Google Translate version.

https://chapalanoticias.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/alarmante-inseguridad-en-chapala-degollado-guarda-silencio/

ALARMING INSECURITY IN CHAPALA; DEGOLLADO KEEPS SILENT

Tuesday, August 1, 11:30 pm: Salvador manages his 2007 Bora sport vehicle in the La Floresta subdivision, when 3 men and a woman with weapons in their hands, ask him and his companions to get out of the car and Give them the car keys, cell phones and their wallets. His last instruction is: get away from the area without making any noise, much less scream.

With fear, Salvador and his companions retire and watch as the subjects leave with their car and their belongings, next to an explorer truck of green color dark-black of delayed model, towards the center of Chapala.

Monday, August 7, 4 am: A couple of subjects assault the gas station located outside Chapala. After completing the robbery, they flee towards Guadalajara but on the way they are persecuted by police of chapala and end up crashing against a sign at the height of La Calera in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos. They are arrested.

Monday, August 14: In the channel of a stream and a breach behind the production plant of the company Productos SANE, a farmer finds two bodies upside down caught in a cyclonic mesh and a barbed wire with signs of violence. One of them with a bullet in the skull.

Saturday, August 26: In a breach of the delegation of San Nicolás de Ibarra, in Chapala, a corpse of a man was found on the night of Saturday, August 26. The finding was made by a man who gave notice to the authorities, who realized that he had approximately 12 days of cadaverous evolution.

Alarmingly, homicides, robberies to businesses and vehicles, have increased in Chapala more than 100 percent since the arrival of Javier Degollado to the Municipal Presidency.
This is the account of the statistics of the Executive Secretariat of the Public Security System of the Ministry of the Interior.

Compared to 2015 and 2016, this year increased theft with violence to home, business, vehicles, transients and livestock. Like cases of common theft, fraudulent injuries with firearms and white goods, as well as patrimonial offenses due to abuse of trust, damage to property, extortion and robbery with violence.

As of July this year, the SESSP accounted for 59 cases of home theft (4 of them with violence), 38 cases of business theft (9 with violence) 36 stolen vehicles (1 with violence) 16 cases of robbery to bystanders 7 with violence) 75 cases of common theft (4 with violence) 3 cases of violent robbery to transporters and 4 cases of cattle theft.
In addition there have been 6 homicides (4 of them malicious) and 42 people have been injured either with firearms or white.
At the same time, 10 cases of patrimonial crimes have been reported in the form of abuse of trust (5 more than in 2016 and 8 more than in 2015) 29 cases of damage to property, 5 cases of extortion (1 more than in 2016 And 3 more than in 2015) 31 cases of fraud and 7 cases of dispossession (1 with violence), in addition to 37 cases of people who have been threatened.

Faced with increased violence and insecurity in Chapala, Mayor Javier Degollado González has preferred to remain silent and ignore the figures held by the Attorney General of Jalisco and the SESSP of the Federal Executive.

The only one who has come out to face was the Director of Public Safety Municipal Chapala, Adán Domínguez, who only made excuses for the problems of insecurity because it has given a "cockroach effect" this topic.

According to Adán Domínguez delinquency groups have come to operate to the municipality after the operations carried out in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, according to an interview granted to the news portal La Voz de la Ribera.

Regarding the reported felony killings, the director of security only said that there are no missing persons in the municipality and as if everything was quiet and the priority was not to combat insecurity, he said that together with the Public Prosecutor's Office they have started an operation to That Chapala does not become a clandestine dump of corpses.

So, I guess every or anyone, that is or if they will become, alarmed by this report and it is factual should be extra diligent....is that the point?
If the vast majority of crimes are not reported, it would be difficult to determine how diligent one should be.
Maybe luck is more important than diligence.
I doubt I will do anything different tomorrow than I would have done, before reading this report.

Spencer warned of local car jackings and increased business crime a few months ago. It's not being covered up that tightly....hopefully a Facebook call out will encourage some more boots on the ground from the local and state authorities.

That's the way I read the article, CanuckBob. It seems like by publicizing the sharp spike in crimes (violent ones, especially) they're trying to put some pressure on Degollado and others to do more.

I'm remembering the spate of narco-related murders here just a few years ago and the nosedive tourism from Guad. took back then. The powers-that-be might not be all that concerned about (or able to do much about) a lot of the crime but they sure do want to keep up the "safe place to party" facade as long as possible.

They really need a larger permanent presence of the state police. I think the muni police are ineffective for a multitude of reasons.....

A friend in Guadalajara has definitely noticed an uptick in crime there. I wonder if there are any numbers at all as to how many expelled, convicted felons from the U.S.A. found their way there? Not that this is any way at all a U.S.A. problem, it is a Mexican problem, and probably growing worse. Very few contractors here ask for identification, and pay in cash. This is also why there are so many uncaught fugitives in this country. Pick any name you want, make a subsistence living, while the rest of us hope like heck they don't fall into a bad crowd.

By "expelled, convicted felons from the U.S.A." I assume you mean deported Mexicans, not American criminals who for some reason decided to ply their trade in Mexico?

Oh, we get both kinds here. There's the break ins and then there's the grifters. Both kinds of injustice can do serious damage.