CDMX, less is more

In a state where violence has escalated on various fronts, from clandestine graves to grenade murders in broad daylight, Mexico City is a capsule where there are no regions controlled by drug trafficking, nor is there any relative stability or, frankly, no progress in terms of security.

Paradoxically, although the crime rate and crime figures are declining—calls to emergency lines, such as 911, and victimization surveys indicate this—the challenge now remains to be seen of facing three consecutive quarters of losses, even if the perception of security is diminished, according to INEGI data.

The monthly security report confirms improvements. In July 2025, Mexico City reported 53 percent fewer high-impact crimes than in the same month in 2019; this is the July with the fewest cases in six years. During Mayor Clara Brugada's administration, there has been an additional decline of approximately 11 percent.

The president transparently added a detailed account of the enriching oversight of the strategy initiated by President Claudia Sheinbaum when she led the capital's government: a daily and separate analysis of the 72 police sectors and their quarterly evolution in the Security Cabinet. This quest for containment and prevention is now slightly challenged by a marginally negative stabilization of security perceptions for nine months.

More than 5,580 people have been arrested for high-impact crimes, and 2,915 are facing prosecution, 590 of them for intentional homicide. This is how criminal networks are dismantled, impunity is prevented, and public trust is restored. Statistics presented by the Secretary of Citizen Security, Pablo Vázquez, and the Attorney General, Bertha Alcalde.

The police proximity model and 3,500 new patrol cars are key to the idea of monitoring and building a presence, as are the technological tools of C5 and the Digital Agency for Public Innovation, led by Ángel Tamariz, and the Territories of Peace program, which coordinates this approach with community work, led by César Cravioto as Secretary of Government.

Brugada stated in his report: "Greater institutional capacity to confront those who violate the law helps us."

This contrasts with what happened in other parts of the country: the murder with a grenade and gunshot wounds of the state delegate of the Attorney General's Office in Tamaulipas, the murder of the leader of the CROC in Quintana Roo, human remains abandoned on the Poza Rica-Cazones highway in Veracruz, and 32 bodies in a clandestine grave in Irapuato.

We can't be complacent, and we must all strengthen civic and reporting efforts. Not everything is resolved, far from it. Mexico City has fewer homicides, fewer robberies, and less impunity. This is a way of saying: there's more government and greater commitment to peacebuilding. Now there's also the challenge of helping to reduce the perception of insecurity.

@guerrerochipres