Trump: With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world....
Well just what are the crime rates in Mexico?
- Country vs country: Mexico and United States compared: Crime stats
- Cannabis use: U.S. 11 times more than Mexico.
- Opiates use: U.S. 6 times more than Mexico
- Rape rate: U.S. 2 times more than Mexico
- Total Crimes: U.S. 8 times more than Mexico
- Total Crimes per 1000: U.S. 3 times more than Mexico
- Gun Crimes per 100 residents: U.S. 6 times more than Mexico
- Intentional Homicide rate: MX 3 times more than United States
- Murders per million people: MX 5 times more than United States
- Burglaries: U.S. 35 times more than Mexico
- Fraud: U.S. 6 times more than Mexico
- Fraud per 1000: U.S. 2 times more than Mexico
- Worried about being attacked: MX 3% more than United States
- Perception -- property crimes: MX 4% more than United States
- Perception -- violent crime including assault and robbery: U.S. 38% more than Mexico
- Prisoners per 1000: U.S. 4 times more than Mexico
- Serious Assaults: U.S. 76% more than Mexico
- Car Thefts: U.S. 9 times more than Mexico
- Car Thefts per 1000: U.S. 3 times more than Mexico
- Murder Committed by Youths: U.S. 37% more than Mexico
Once again, Trump has fabricated his own reality and bid Americans to accept it.
is that raw numbers or percentages?
Both.
- See the "per 100" and "per 1000" qualifiers on some of the bullet points?
- The perception rates are explicitly stated as percentages.
- The remaining values are incidence figures.
I pasted the variance in the values for the two nations not the actual values. I did that because the rhetorical focus of Trump's remark is comparative; thus the content I shared highlights the variance between the two nations for the parameters noted. For all the items, one'll need to go to the linked site to see the actual value that gives rise to the "difference" value I shared in the post.
There are five pages of parameters, some of which are duplicates stats but with data taken from a different source. Murder metrics, for example, are one that is repeated using different sources, but there's no material difference among the variance no matter the source, so I listed it only once. I didn't list every parameter measured/listed. For instance, I didn't list the stats on prosecutions because I know nothing about the equity of prosecution in Mexico. I didn't list penalty metrics because it has nothing to do with the incidence and rates of crime even though it's likely a relevant factor were the topic (assertion) recidivism.