Last year in the state of Jalisco, 30 percent of all adults were victims of some sort of crime, from extortion to assault. Furthermore, an average of 6,197 pesos was stolen during the commission of said crimes, up from 6,163 in 2015.
The author of these troubling statistics, the National Victimization and Perception of Public Security Inquest (ENVIPE), has in addition found that the most common of these crimes are extortion, vehicular theft (partial or total), fraud, and muggings/stealth theft either on the street or aboard public transportation.
Findings taken from the study also indicated that people felt least secure while conducting business at a cash machine or at a bank, using public transportation, walking in the street, going to the market, walking in the park and driving a car - in short, almost everywhere.
According to ENVIPE, 60 percent of Jalisciences believe the prevalent perception of insecurity to be a byproduct of the rising cost of living, corruption, poverty, unpunished delinquency, education, and natural disasters.
The very thorough study further specified that victims were present during 46.1 percent of the 2.3 million crimes committed in Jalisco last year, and that 73 percent suffered some sort of damage, be it economic, emotional, psychological, physical, or a combination thereof.
But the following statistic could be said to call into question the usefulness of the entire study: it’s estimated that around 93.2 percent of crimes went unreported in 2016. However, that number represents a drop from 2015, when about 94.2 percent of crimes went un-reported – a barely perceptible silver lining to what remains a very bleak score.
Presenting a silver lining of slightly greater thickness, ENVIPE’s study found that from 2015 to 2016, the percentage of those suffering from crimes committed by delinquents fell from 33 to 30.