The majority of Chihuahuans take more than two hours to file a complaint with the Public Ministry, according to the results presented in recent days by the National Survey of Victimization and Perception on Public Safety 2024.
Official statistics show that, of the estimated victims, 40.9 percent stated that it took them two hours to file a complaint with the Public Ministry. While 35.3 reported spending more than four hours to file the complaint. The reported delay in processing a complaint is the main reason why victims do not report crimes in the state, indicates the official graph. Among the victims’ reasons for not reporting crimes to the authorities, the loss of time stands out, with 34.4 percent, and distrust in authority, with 12.7 percent, which respond to causes attributable to the authority.
91.1% are silent
This situation causes 91.1 percent of crimes in Chihuahua to go unreported, indicates the Inegi. Meanwhile, at the national level, the black figure corresponds to 92.9 percent of the crimes committed in which there was no complaint or an investigation file was not initiated; The interviewed population even reports that, of the total number of investigation files initiated by the Public Ministry or State Prosecutor’s Office, in 47.9 percent of the cases nothing happened or the investigation was not continued.
Perception of insecurity
Meanwhile, 73.6 percent of the country’s population considers that living in its state is unsafe due to crime, an Inegi survey revealed. However, the figure is 5.8 percentage points lower than in 2018.
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