The articles below from El Diario de Juarez summarize the bad news in terms of violence in the city in 2017. There were a total of 88 homicides in December, making the last month the most violent of the year. There were 772 total homicides in 2017–a 43% increase over the number of homicides in 2016. There are some differences in the numbers that I’ve kept over the years and those published in El Diario. I think this comes from exactly which municipals are included in the counts for each year. A separate article yesterday reported a total of 94 homicides of women in 2017. (Another summary article said 96, so I recorded 95 in my tally). Either number comes out to 12.3 percent of the total victims being women in 2017–this is a significant increase over last year. Still, the average percentage of female homicides (compared to the totals) comes to 9.4 percent from 1993–present.
Juarez 2017 | |
January | 53 |
February | 87 |
March | 68 |
April | 31 |
May | 45 |
June | 83 |
July | 51 |
August | 45 |
September | 74 |
October | 66 |
November | 81 |
December | 88 |
TOTAL | 772 |
Juarez Homicides by Gender | ||||||
Women | Total Homicides | % female victims | ||||
1993 | 19 | 123 | 15 | |||
1994 | 19 | 234 | 8 | |||
1995 | 36 | 294 | 12 | |||
1996 | 37 | 253 | 14 | |||
1997 | 32 | 260 | 12 | |||
1998 | 36 | 242 | 15 | |||
1999 | 18 | 176 | 10 | |||
2000 | 32 | 250 | 13 | |||
2001 | 37 | 247 | 15 | |||
2002 | 36 | 276 | 13 | |||
2003 | 28 | 205 | 13 | |||
2004 | 19 | 202 | 9 | |||
2005 | 33 | 207 | 16 | |||
2006 | 20 | 253 | 8 | |||
2007 | 25 | 320 | 8 | |||
2008 | 87 | 1623 | 6 | |||
2009 | 164 | 2754 | 6 | |||
2010 | 304 | 3622 | 8 | |||
2011 | 195 | 2086 | 9 | |||
2012 | 94 | 803 | 12 | |||
2013 | 93 | 535 | 17 | |||
2014 | 45 | 429 | 10 | |||
2015 | 46 | 311 | 15 | |||
2016 | 56 | 546 | 10 | |||
2017 | 95 | 772 | 12 | |||
TOTALS | 1606 | 17023 | 9.4 |