THE DECADE PRINT · 2015–2026
Everything falls. Extortion doesn't.
Eleven years of Mexico's municipal crime records, on one scale.
What we count
Business-risk basket
Homicide, extortion, business robbery, cargo robbery, vehicle theft and kidnapping — tracked monthly at municipal level.
2,510 municipalities
Every indicator joined on the INEGI municipal key, so security and economic data can be read on the same map.
Floors, not measurements
These are files opened, not crimes committed. Most extortion is never reported — and we say so on every page.
Method note
The two universes of 2026
In January 2026 Mexico's SESNSP split extortion, homicide and feminicide into completed and attempted categories. Against Jan–Jul 2025, completed extortion reads −3.6%; completed plus attempted reads +11.7%. Homicide falls −28.8% completed-only, or −17.5% on the basis comparable with the historical series. Neither reading is wrong — they measure different universes. Our rule: we publish both, we say which is which, and we never chart the two definitions as one line.
A provider who hands you one clean extortion number for 2026 picked a universe without telling you.
Coming next
Coming in Issue No. 2 — Announced investment vs. delivered jobs
Investment announcements make headlines. Payrolls make economies. Starting with Issue No. 2, CORRIDOR tracks announcements above US$100M against formal IMSS employment in the receiving municipality — 6, 12 and 24 months after the press release.
We publish the gap and its distribution, not verdicts: municipal payroll data measures the whole municipality, and legitimate projects take time. What nobody should have to guess is the difference.