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Ciudad Juarez, reportedly the most dangerous city in the Mexico, is at the forefront of a nation-wide spike in crime rates. Although the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico’s previous ruling political party, had turned a blind eye to traffickers for years, the National Revolutionary Party (PAN) adopted a strict approach against drug trafficking and related crime shortly after it came to power in 2000. In reaction to new policies, particularly President Felipe Calderon’s two-year-old crackdown on drug trafficking violence, noncombatant deaths—numbered at 3,000 since January 2008?...
Although they have not offered exact figures, Caballero’s spokespeople have reported that increased crime rates have helped business significantly. Caballero’s success speaks to a disturbing trend among the Mexican elite. Bulletproof clothing is emblematic of a greater divide between Mexican problems and Mexican money; as a BBC report revealed in October, the Mexican wealth gap is the largest in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with “some parts [comparable] to Spanish or German cities, but other parts…more like the poorest parts of Africa...
...survive social turmoil is a given in any society, but what distinguishes Caballero’s customers is that they seem to embrace their greater access to security in a particularly conspicuous and inconsiderate manner. No one would insist that all Mexican citizens bear the burden of the heightened crime rates equally or that wealthy and influential Mexicans pour all their excess funds into law enforcement; however, it is fair to expect that all Mexican citizens show some engagement and investment in the problems, even when they are not as directly affected as their fellow citizens. A crime...
...optimism, however, feels as fragile and uneven as this region's recovery. Huge swaths of the city, particularly the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans East and the city's heart, appear as they did in the months immediately following Katrina: there are scores of vacant homes, potential magnets for crime...
...reputations for frequent car-burning included Strasbourg, Lille, Toulouse and Nantes. Across France, police arrested a total of 288 people on New Year's Eve (vs. 259 the year before) - though not all were charged, and many were apprehended for offenses unrelated to arson. (Read TIME's top 10 crime stories...