Despite the violent outbreaks in Nuevo León, the majority of citizens in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey improved their perception of insecurity in the third quarter of the year, where San Pedro Garza García is ranked as the safest place to live.
The National Survey of Urban Public Security (ENSU) conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reveals the data obtained from the inhabitants interviewed, from different parts of the country during the months of July, August and September.
Most unsafe municipality
According to the information from the recently published report, the municipality of Escobedo is the most unsafe according to the perception of its inhabitants, obtaining 48.4 percent of negative responses from people when questioned about how protected they feel by the local police.
However, Escobedo is not the worst in the entire country, since for this exercise its percentage dropped compared to the previous quarter where it obtained 50.0. While the place with the highest perception of insecurity is Tapachula with 91.9 percent.
Once again, San Pedro is positioned as the city where its inhabitants feel safest, obtaining 13.7 percent, but not only in Nuevo León, but in all of Mexico, since the figure is the lowest at the national level, despite the spikes in violence that occurred in the municipality in previous months.
Meanwhile, for this latest survey, San Pedro Garza García, increased its percentage with respect to the previous edition where it obtained 11.7 percent, which indicates that its inhabitants, in the last three months, have perceived greater insecurity.
Other municipalities
Monterrey went from 69.8 to 59.7
Apodaca went from 38.4 to 42.4
Guadalupe went from 53.7 to 47.3
San Nicolás de los Garza went from 28.5 to 28.6
Santa Catarina went from 50.4 to 47.4
According to the results of the ENSU, the percentages of the population in relation to the performance of the police corporations, where their effectiveness in preventing or combating organized crime was measured, were: Navy, with 87.7; Mexican Air Force, with 83.9; Army, with 83.1; National Guard, with 73.5; state police, with 55.8, and municipal preventive police, with 48.6.
Source: reporteindigo
