Tijuana has the most effective crime investigations in all of Mexico, according to the Border Report, and some residents and local advocates are concerned that there is no end to the assault.
VÃctor Clark Alfaro, chairman of the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana and teacher at San Diego State University, says through the end of March, the Baja California’s Attorney General’s Office was investigating 415 deaths in Tijuana.
By contrast, Ciudad Juárez, just north of El Paso, Texas, had 219, and León, Guanajuato had 152.
Younger generations do n’t know a city without a constant wave of murder and crime, according to Clark Alfaro, and they believe the Tijuana wave of violence to be the norm.
” This has been going on for 25 times”, he said. The murder in Tijuana has reached a point where there is no profit, according to the statement from the 90s and has continued to grow ever since.
Clark Alfaro says city and state officers, along with Mexico’s National Guard, have tried to suppress the assault, and while they’ve had some success at times, the unrest keeps and is now “ingrained in the area”.
” Two organizations within organized crime are at odds with one another for the area that is causing violence,” said Clark Alfaro. ” On regular, six deaths take place daily, all revenge killings for the most part”.
He thinks that as a result of the development of new drugs like methadone being produced and distributed, things are getting worse.
” There’s no sight of a solution in the short term, and it shows signs of getting worse and more powerful”.
José Cañada GarcÃa, mind of a people ‘ security group, agrees with Clark Alfaro, but he blames Baja’s Attorney General’s Office for” no investigating homicides completely”.
” There are n’t any real investigations, and as long as they do n’t happen and there’s no coordination between the three branches of government, crime and murders will continue to increase”, he said.
Caada Garca believes that murder syndicates are exploiting the lack of collaboration between federal law enforcement, particularly on the national level.
” As long as the federal government does n’t go after organized crime, this wo n’t change”.
