MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s crime rate rose 16.9 percent in 2012, compared to 2011, with one of every three households affected by crime, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) said.
A total of 27.7 million crimes, or 35,139 crimes for every 100,000 inhabitants, were registered last year, the INEGI said.
The figures come from the National Survey on Victimization and Perceptions of Public Safety, or Envipe, which was conducted from March 4 to April 26 by the INEGI.
The statistics agency surveyed 95,810 households, of which 32.4 percent reported at least one victim of crime in 2012.
That works out to 10.1 million households affected by crime across Mexico, well above the 30.4 percent rate reported in 2011, the INEGI said.
Only 12.2 percent of crimes were reported in 2012, with investigations started by prosecutors in 64.7 percent of the cases.
Of the total crimes occurring in Mexico, only 7.9 percent led to the opening of an investigation, with an estimated 92.1 percent of crimes going unreported or never becoming the subject of an investigation, the INEGI said.
The Envipe survey had a confidence level of 90 percent.
Hassan Rouhani, in the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on September 26: “In Iran everyone has easy access to satellite networks” NCRI - Speaking in New York at Council on Foreign Relations in on September 26, Hassan Rouhani claimed that “in Iran everyone has easy access to satellite networks, and you can even see dishes on rooftops in every village.”
Two days later, the Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) in the southern city of Shiraz used personnel carriers and roller trucks to crush 800 satellite dishes and receivers.
IRGC described it as a “symbolic act” and a “valuable measure to confront the cultural offensive staged by the enemies of the revolution and establishment”. The event was held at the “presence of Shiraz city and Fars Province officials”.
The IRGC website in the province wrote in this regard: “IRGC tanks in Shiraz went to war against satellite dishes.” (See photos) This is the “second phase of the extinction of confiscated devices carried out in just one of the bases allocated for the plan to fight against satellite dishes,” the report added.
A number of dishes crushed carried the US flag with “Death to America” writings on them.
A few days prior to Hassan Rouhani’s speech at the United Nations' General Assembly, the Iranian regime’s culture minister Janati expressed concern that some 60% of the people in Tehran are using satellite dishes.
“Today, free access to information, satellite networks and the Internet… has resulted in a cultural attack resembling itself in immoral and invaluable examples in our society,” state-run Mehr news agency, affiliated to the Ministry of Intelligence reported on September 13.
Friday Prayer Leader in the city of Qom, Mohammad Saeedi, said on September 25: "Today, the enemy, through cultural attacks and offensives, has targeted the depth of the homes and families".
Commander of the regime's State Security Force Border Patrol, Hossein Zolfaghari, annonced a 99% increase in the discovery of satellite devices, ISNA state-run News Agency reported on September 26.
The regime's repressive measures and echoes of concern are a sign of the growing public hatred towards state-run TV networks and a desire towards prohibited TV stations, particularly "Simaye Azadi", which is a reliable source of access to news and information especially regarding the state of the regime and the Iranian Resistance.
Previously, regime's officials had described Simaye Azadi as "dangerous". The regime's deputy media chief has said: "Simaye Azadi, which is related to the activities of the Mohafeqin [PMOI], is among the media outlets that has unfortunately infiltrated into most Iranian homes".
He expressed his regime concern about the "doubling of number of people who have turned to satellites" and described it as a "growing trend" and "very concerning" for the society.
Smiles in New York; execution of prisoners and smashing satellite dishes in Iran; massacre Camp Ashraf residents in Iraq and chemical bombardments of people in Syria; is the policy of the mullahs' regime during Rouhani's presidency.
Corina Ann Martinez is facing a possible felony charge of animal cruelty after an emaciated and weakened dog was found hanging from a door knob with only its back legs touching the floor in an apartment. (Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)
PHOENIX (CBS5) -
A Phoenix woman is facing a possible felony charge of animal cruelty after an emaciated and weakened dog was found hanging from a door knob with only its back legs touching the floor in an apartment.
Phoenix police initially were investigating a call of domestic violence at the apartment near 19th and Peoria avenues about 6:30 p.m. Saturday when they saw the female Bullmastiff with a large, linked chain around its neck and attached to the door knob, the dog's head hanging to its chest and in distress, Officer James Holmes said.
Corina Ann Martinez, 28, originally told police she restrained the dog because it was vicious. She said she was watching the pet for someone else, Holmes said.
Officers said the pet appeared to be severely malnourished and bones were visible under the skin.
The approximately 2-year-old dog, named Ryder, was taken to an emergency animal clinic, where a veterinarian said the damage to the dog's organs might require it to be euthanized.
Ryder was then taken to the Arizona Humane Society, where the dog was in critical condition, but eating and slowly progressing, Holmes said.
Martinez was interviewed again on Monday and was unable to tell officers how long the dog had been chained and hanging from the door or when it had last eaten, Holmes said.
Officers later determined the dog belonged to Martinez, that she made no attempts to care for the dog.
She was arrested and booked into jail on the felony animal cruelty charge.
Borderland Beat Perhaps all that is needed to remedy corruption among Mexican police is a woman’s touch. Officials in the nation’s central State of Mexico have hired hundreds of female officers and declared that only they may issue traffic violations. Why? Simple: You can trust ladies in uniform more than you can men, authorities say.
“Women are more trustworthy and take their oath of office more seriously,” Carlos Ortega Carpinteyro, police chief of Ecatepec, a suburb of Mexico City told NPR. “They don’t ask for or take bribes.” The Mexico State governor Eruviel Ávila Villegas has launched a broad anti-corruption campaign, which is being advertised on billboards and on radio and television. “Mexico State’s traffic police is only made up of women now,” says the announcer in one of the advertisements. “Remember, they are the only ones authorized to write you a ticket.” Although officials are favoring female traffic cops, they seem to be doing so for seemingly sexist reasons.
“When a man is approached by a female cop, even though he is the stronger sex, he calms down and will listen to her,” Ortega says, without offering anything to back up his opinion. Currently, the women are only able to give verbal warnings to motorists who break traffic rules. Mexico State’s government hasn’t given the green light for full authority until all anti-corruption measures have been put in place, which none of the state agencies have done yet. Drivers are still waiting to see if the new policy works, and at least one isn’t impressed. Diana Mendez told NPR that she had to pay a bribe to a female cop in order to prevent her car from being impounded. “I had to pay her the 200 pesos,” she said. “But let me tell you, it’s not a pleasant thing to do.” But Maria Villa Fuerte says she wants a chance to prove that women can be honest cops. “That will be much better than just standing here in the middle of the street, blowing a whistle.
Hokkaido prefectural police said Tuesday that 516 male prisoners suffered from food poisoning at a Hokkaido jail last month.
According to police, 516 of the 1,100 prisoners in Tsukigata Prison began to complain of stomach pain, diarrhea and fevers between Sept 12 to 19. TBS reported that 74 of the men were treated in the prison’s infirmary, and by Sept 30 most of them had made a full recovery.
An investigation revealed that at least 46 of the men had developed an E. coli infection from food which had been prepared by the prison. The investigating health care center reportedly ordered that the prison’s kitchens be shut down until Oct 4.
In a statement to the press, the prison’s operators said, “We intend to manage hygiene more thoroughly in the future.”
GUATEMALA CITY – A former director of Guatemala’s PNC national police force was sentenced to 16 years behind bars after being found guilty of stealing at least 350 kilos of cocaine, the judiciary said Tuesday.
Baltazar Gomez was convicted of stealing the drug last April 24, 2009, from a private warehouse complex in the southern municipality of Amatitlan, an encounter in which five antidrug agents were killed.
Investigations into the multiple murders indicate that members of the Mexico-based Los Zetas cartel were behind the deaths of the five cops.
Also sentenced to 16 years in jail were Nelly Bonilla and Fernando Carillo, formerly high officials of the PNC’s antidrug department.
Thirteen civilians who took part in the clash were given sentences ranging from three to 61 years in prison.
The drug belonged to Los Zetas, and the five agents had come to confiscate it when they were attacked and killed by gang members in two SUVs.
“This was a drug robbery planned and directed by authorities of the PNC,” the verdict said.
TEGUCIGALPA – Five members of the same family, including a 5-year-old girl, were slain Tuesday in northern Honduras, police said.
Honduran street gang members were suspected of killing the victims after they refused to pay extortions, police said.
The multiple crime was perpetrated before dawn in the Chamelecon neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second city.
The victims were attacked by suspected gang members who broke into the family’s home.
Investigators suggest the killings were in retaliation for the family’s refusal to pay what the gangs call a “war tax.”
Honduras suffered 85.5 homicides for every 100,000 residents in 2012, compared with a global median rate of 8.8 murders per 100,000, the Violence Observatory at the National Autonomous University said in a study released in February.
Violence escalated sharply in the Central American nation in the wake of the June 2009 coup that ousted President Mel Zelaya, as political strife added to the carnage wrought by criminal gangs.
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s crime rate rose 16.9 percent in 2012, compared to 2011, with one of every three households affected by crime, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) said.
GUATEMALA CITY – A former director of Guatemala’s PNC national police force was sentenced to 16 years behind bars after being found guilty of stealing at least 350 kilos of cocaine, the judiciary said Tuesday.
TEGUCIGALPA – Five members of the same family, including a 5-year-old girl, were slain Tuesday in northern Honduras, police said.