Fewer drug killings in Sonora than other Mexican states
The Trans-Border Institute Released a Report on Drug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis through 2010. The report is based on data from the Mexican government.
The study shows that 84 percent of the killings in 2010 occurred in four states: Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Guerrero and Baja California.
The report concludes that “In a country of more than 100 million people, the odds of being killed in a drug-related homicide in 2010 were one in 6,667, about the same as the odds of being killed in an automobile accident in the United States (about one in 6,500). The odds of being killed in Mexico’s drug violence decrease dramatically if a person is not a drug trafficker, mayor, or police officer in a disputed trafficking region. With this perspective, it is important not to exaggerate the magnitude of recent violence in Mexico.”
