Crime up 25% in Rosarito Beach

  • Crime up 25% in Rosarito Beach

    Posted by mx-rider on April 30, 2022 at 12:49 pm

    According to the Citizens Council on Public Safety for Baja California, reports of crime are up 25% in the first quarter of 2022 compared to last year.

    Breaking down the numbers, homicides and robberies – mainly on businesses – were the crimes that registered the highest increases compared to the same period in 2021.

    They report a total of 998 crimes that were committed from January to March in Rosarito Beach, compared to 801 registered the previous year.

    In the same time period, 55% more ​​homicides were committed this year – 48 in total – with 25 of them in January, 9 in February and 14 in March. A total of 31 murders were committed in the first quarter of 2021.

    Store robberies / shoplifting grew by 36%, with 15 crimes of this type reported in comparison to 11 the previous year. Vehicle theft also increased by 20%, adding 170 incidents reported to the State Attorney General’s Office (FGJE).

    Home burglaries were actually down 43%, with only 28 such crimes reported in the first quarter compared to 49 last year.

    In the month of March, two complaints were also filed for crimes of extortion with 6 reports of kidnapping filed in the first quarter of the year.

    Be safe out there boys and girls!

    https://vivirsegurosbc.org/

    sawdogger replied 2 years, 7 months ago 7 Members · 15 Replies
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  • JuanSoler

    Member
    April 30, 2022 at 1:11 pm

    Tourism is also up by probably much more for the same time period and looking deeper into their numbers, it shows that drug related crimes are up a whopping 129% compared to last year when looking only at January and February. And we know that most of the other crimes seem to revolve around drugs so I would guess that is what should be the leading indicator.

  • Cruiser

    Member
    May 9, 2022 at 12:56 pm

    Crime seems to be up everywhere these days. Maybe the criminal element just got tired of staying locked down during the pandemic and trying make up for lost time?

    • JuanSoler

      Member
      May 10, 2022 at 7:26 am

      That is true however our current president made a few major mistakes since he took office, including releasing Chapo’s son when we had him in custody, going to meet Chapo’s mom at her home and giving her a hug and his overall “abrazos no balazos” policy which basically gave the criminal element down here the green light IMHO.

  • bajajeepers

    Member
    June 27, 2022 at 1:01 pm

    Violent crime seems to be up everywhere these days and it’s not just in large cities. It’s soaring in rural America these days too:

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/violent-crime-rural-america-homicides-pandemic-increase-11654864251

  • tom-lindsay

    Member
    June 27, 2022 at 2:22 pm

    Crime is definitely up here north of the border and what seems different these days is that it is becoming increasingly more difficult to get the police to respond if a weapon wasn’t involved. Burglaries are becoming a big problem here where my mom lives and she has called a couple of times when she saw a prowler after dark and neither time did a unit come out. She swears that the next time it happens she will say that “she thinks she saw a gun”, to see if that gets them to show up. Just increasing motivation for us to make the move down to Baja to some small and remote beach community.

  • JuanSoler

    Member
    June 28, 2022 at 6:43 am

    It’s certainly not unique to Mexico. I travel a lot and spending over half my time on the road all over the U.S. and Asia, I have watched how increasing crime has been another product of the pandemic and further exacerbated by increasing drug use with police efforts seemingly unable to do anything about it. It’s everywhere and disheartening to see, especially in regions that historically had relatively little crime and today seem ill prepared to deal with this ugly side of humanity.

    • mx-rider

      Member
      June 29, 2022 at 6:12 am

      I think that humanity to a large degree simply turned a corner in the last few decades, deciding to just start putting “me” first and to hell with everybody/everything else. It’s all about what “I” want now and couple that with a higher percentage of youth believing that the planet is ecologically doomed, norms and rule of law simply don’t carry the same impact as they used to. Several in my family are career teachers and they all comment they have never in their lifetimes witnessed such a dim view of the future among their students as they are seeing now. And it’s playing out in our streets all the way to the halls of congress.

  • sawdogger

    Member
    June 30, 2022 at 6:24 pm

    Crime is up here where we live too and wilderness camping is becoming a too dangerous anymore to even consider. The woods around where I live here are full of drug growers, criminals on the run, gangs and social outcasts. Well, I guess some people consider me a social outcast but I was referring to those living on the fringe that have more guns than I have pairs of socks. And my sock drawer is full, in case any of you were wondering. Life on planet earth these days is becoming more and more dangerous so I suppose I’d prefer to be wherever you can find the best tacos close by.

    • mx-rider

      Member
      July 1, 2022 at 6:07 pm

      A high school buddy became a park ranger and is getting ready to retire after 30 years on the job. Told me recently that in his first 20 years on the job he doesn’t remember ever pulling out his gun. That has slowly changed over the last several years to where now he celebrates when a week by he doesn’t have to. Crazy times.

    • bajajeepers

      Member
      July 3, 2022 at 9:08 am

      We used to do a lot of camping up in and around Sequoia National Park but there have just been too many attacks on people there camping and hiking these past several years. I figure that if we need to take a gun on a camping trip for protection, it’s time to go somewhere else or do something different.

      • sawdogger

        Member
        July 5, 2022 at 8:20 am

        You definitely have to have your guard up anymore when you come up on somebody in the middle of nowhere, be it the woods or or in the middle of the desert, north or south of the border. Bad hombres everywhere these days.

        • bajajeepers

          Member
          July 7, 2022 at 8:51 am

          True. Remote / wilderness camping just doesn’t seem like something we want to do anymore, especially tent camping or just sleeping out under the stars. You are just too vulnerable and it’s like putting a big target on your back.

  • mikel

    Member
    July 7, 2022 at 11:46 am

    Was Rosarito following the “abrazos no balazos” strategy?

    • tom-lindsay

      Member
      July 7, 2022 at 4:03 pm

      The entire hugs instead of gunfire/bullets idea was a concept pushed by Mexico’s president at the federal level although some local government agencies have chosen to follow that same plan to some degree. It has not been a popular program and almost everyone we asked about it on our recent trips down expressed disapproval over the idea, including many who said they had voted for AMLO. In an ideal world it might work, in the real world it’s just another example of poorly thought out public policy.

    • sawdogger

      Member
      July 7, 2022 at 7:58 pm

      Only if you paid them enough

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