Police divided the city into quadrants and focused on bringing down crime levels section by section. Still, the force continues to struggle with corruption and abusive officers. There are other theories that the decrease in violence in Juarez had little to do with the actions of the security forces or government. As outlined in a report released last October by Southern Pulse , the peace was arguably achieved because the Sinaloa Cartel took control of the city.
Violence first began to surge in after the Sinaloans attempted to take over Juarez's highly prized drug trafficking routes. Local enforcer gangs like La Linea and the Aztecas fought a bitter war, often using unrestrained violence that targeted civilians and drove up the murder count. Southern Pulse argued that these local gangs will likely continue fighting over turf, but the larger conflict between the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartel has already come to an end.
And as Molloy argued to Proceso magazine , Juarez's murder statistics may not be telling the whole story. The homicides registered by the State Attorney General do not always account for victims found in mass graves. One such grave discovered 25 kilometers southeast of the city in November containing 19 bodies. Without accounting for the number of Juarez's disappeared, the city's current homicide rate may be deceptively low.
The state attorney general's office also reported a drastic decline in the number of carjackings or violent vehicle thefts in when there were The number of carjackings last year was 25 percent less than in , when there were They were 94 percent less than , when there were 4, Five years ago, during the most violent years, up to 8, businesses in the city were paying some sort of extortion fee to organized crime or a "quota" for the right to conduct business.
Mexican police agents look at a man's corpse on a street of Ciudad Juare on October 4, Most Popular. Fine art from an iPhone? The best Instagram photos from Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the Mexican drug war and the strategic crossing point for illegal narcotics entering the United States, recorded its highest rate of homicides ever in Officials stated to the Associated Press that 3, people were killed in the city over , up from 2, in , and 1, in With a population of 1.
The homicides registered for have brought the total to over 30, murders nationwide in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon declared his war on the cartels in December , including more than 12, in Ciudad Juarez is a battleground for one of the bitterest feuds between Mexican cartels with the Juarez and Sinaloa drug gangs battling for supremacy.
The two organizations were once allied.
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