More than 29,000 homicide+feminicide victims in Mexico Jan-Oct 2019

The Executive Secretariat for the National System for Public Security (SESNSP) is a division of the Mexican Secretary of Gobernacion. Each month the SESNSP publishes statistics on the numbers of crimes and crime victims in the 32 states of Mexico. Those data are available online at this link:
New data generally comes online around the 20th of each month. The current data is for January – October 2019.  The numbers below include the total number of intentional homicide victims + the number of feminicide victims. The crime of feminicide is defined as the murder of a woman with a clear gender motive.
As I was looking at the data in the latest report, I noticed that the column for homicidios dolosos had been adjusted slightly in some of the past months, generally down, and the numbers of feminicides had increased slightly. I assume this is because as a crime is investigated, it may be reclassified.
These numbers indicate an average of 2,957 homicide victims each month; 97 victims each day.
In the Animal Politico article posted below, the figure of 32,565 includes homicide and feminicide victims from December 2018 (the first month of the AMLO sexenio – October 2019).
The thing about these numbers that stands out most to me is how little variation there is from month to month. The numbers are slightly higher than 2018, but very similar.

If these trends continue, close to 35,500 people will become murder victims in Mexico in 2019.
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In terms of comparison with past years, the chart below shows the numbers of homicidios dolosos 2008 – October 2019.
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Animal Politico reports the homicides for DEC 2018 (first month of AMLO sexenio) – OCT 2019
The total homicides + feminicides Jan-Oct 2019 = 29,574

Se registran 32 mil 565 homicidios durante el gobierno de AMLO; últimos 4 meses sin alza de asesinatos

Luego de que en el primer semestre de 2019 se registró una tendencia al alza, el promedio diario de asesinatos a partir de julio se ha estabilizado. Colima lidera en homicidios y Veracruz en feminicidios.
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El número de personas asesinadas en lo que va del sexenio del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador – de diciembre de 2018 a octubre de 2019 – ascendió a 32 mil 565 víctimas, entre homicidios y feminicidios. Ello equivale, en promedio, a por lo menos 97 personas asesinadas todos los días en México.

Se trata del arranque de sexenio con mayor número de homicidios de los últimos cuatro gobiernos federales. No obstante, los datos oficiales también evidencian que la cifra mensual de crímenes se ha estabilizado desde que arrancó el segundo semestre de este 2019, frenándose así la tendencia al alza registrada en la primera parte del año.

De acuerdo con la estadística actualizada del Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública (SESNSP), en octubre de 2019 las procuradurías y fiscalías del país reportaron 2 mil 866 víctimas de homicidios dolosos y 67 víctimas de feminicidio. Es decir, un total de 2 mil 933 personas asesinadas y un promedio diario de 94.6 casos.

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