What Sheinbaum’s rare agreement with Trump reveals about crime in DC | Claudia Sheinbaum
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that Donald Trump claims that Washington DC had a higher murder rate than Mexico City, a statistics used by the US leader to seize police in the US capital.
“It’s like ‘more insecure than Washington Mexico City’, it’s true, SO Soinbaum said on Tuesday. “What we don’t agree with is that it is the most insecure city in Latin America.”
Sheinbaum’s comments on Monday, the US President, said that he ordered the national guards to Washington DC and seized the control of the city police force and described the US capital as one of the most dangerous cities in the world ”.
“Today, the murder rate in Washington is higher than Bogotá, Colombia, Mexico City, than the places you hear as the worst places in the world, Tr said Trump.
Some of Trump’s claims were exaggerated or patent. “Trump often reveals the numbers that disrupt the truth, Edu said Eduardo Guerrero, a Mexican security analyst Eduardo Guerrero.
Although DC has a high murder rate, the Ministry of Justice I noted this The violent crime fell 35% from 2023 to 2024 and “at the lowest level for more than 30 years”. Meanwhile, At least 49 cities In the world with higher murder rates than the US capital.
However, its comparison with the Latin American capitals was often true, and it shows that most of these cities, which are seen as stereotypically fatal, invaded places of crime, have become more secure than some US metropolises.
Mexico City’s murder rate in 2024 was 10 per 100,000 per person, according to government figures. For Washington DC 27.5 per 100,000. By the way Bogota There was a murder rate 15.2 and Lima saw 7.7 in 100,000.
“Mexico City has one third of Washington’s murders,” said Mexico City’s Mayor Clara Brugada. “It is very important to clarify this because otherwise it can be misinterpreted and people may think that Mexico City has one of the highest murder rates in the United States, and that’s not true.”
However, despite the relatively low murder rate, Mexico City reported about 1,300 losses or disappeared people last year, some of them may be murder victims who have never had bodies.
Guerrero, Mexico City, large, central police force, lower extortion rates to organized crimes, state monitoring on taxi fleets and vocational training and training centers, the access to the level of violence of organized crimes is unique in the country, he said.
For example, the neighboring state of Mexico has 19 murder rates in 100,000, almost twice the capital and a country -wide Mexico General murder rate 24 of 24 per 100,000 in 2023 – The United States.
“Mexico City is a kind of peace island when we compare it with the rest of the country,” Guerrero said.
