Jeep stolen on Michoacan coast
First, let me say that I DO NOT wish this to turn into a Mexico Travel Bashing thread. This thread is intended to RVers WHO TRAVEL IN MEXICO. Moderator: I would be happy for you to delete uninformativ...
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This is for informational purposes only for those who think crime only occurs in Mexico.
It is not my intent by any means to badmouth the US. I am simply pointing out that you could be a victim of crime in the US as well as Mexico.
I provide links below - but not the complete text from those links - only some selected text - you can go to the website for complete text. The Justice Department report is old but newer data is available though not in as much detail. Stats vary from year to year. I am sure the same is true with Mexico though we do not know how or where to get those stats.
CARJACKING
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/c02.pdf
On average, 1993-2002, about 38,000 carjacking
victimizations occurred annually, according to victim
self-reports to the National Crime Victimization Survey
(NCVS). There were an average 1.7 victimizations
per 10,000 persons annually. About 15 murders a
year involved car theft, though not all were carjackings,
for the theft could have been incidental.
• A weapon was used in 74% of carjacking victimizations.
Firearms were used in 45% of carjackings,
knives in 11%, and other weapons in 18%.
• About 32% of victims of completed carjackings and
about 17% of victims of attempted carjackings were
injured. Serious injuries, such as gunshot or knife
wounds, broken bones, or internal injuries occurred
in about 9%. More minor injuries, such as bruises
and chipped teeth, occurred in about 15%.
• Multiple carjackers committed about 56% of the
total.
• 68% of carjacking incidents occurred at night
(6 p.m. - 6 a.m.). Forty-two percent of carjackings at
night and 50% of those in the day were completed.
• About 63% of carjacking incidents occurred within 5
miles of the victim's home, including the 17% that
occurred at or near the home. Four percent occurred
more than 50 miles from the victim's home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carjacking
Carjacking is the unlawful seizure of an automobile. It is also armed assault when the vehicle is occupied. Historically, such as in the rash of semi-trailer truck hijackings during the 1960s, the general term hijacking was used for that type of vehicle abduction, which did not often include kidnapping of the driver, and concentrated on the theft of the load, rather than the vehicle itself. During the later-day car- theft crime, typically, the carjacker is armed, and the driver is forced out of the car with the threat of bodily injury. In other rarer cases, the driver is kidnapped under the assault by a weapon and is retained as a passenger under duress, or made to drive his or her abductor. Women are particularly victimized in this latter method.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Carjacking
Carjacking
The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation.
The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger to a victim." Carjacking incidents emerged in increasing numbers in the 1980s and 1990s, after their initial appearances in Detroit. According to a report filed with the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 1999, an average of 49,000 carjackings occurred in the United States each year between 1992 and 1996. During this time, about half of all attempted carjackings were successful, though the most carjackings (84 percent) did not result in injuries to the victims.
It is not my intent by any means to badmouth the US. I am simply pointing out that you could be a victim of crime in the US as well as Mexico.
I provide links below - but not the complete text from those links - only some selected text - you can go to the website for complete text. The Justice Department report is old but newer data is available though not in as much detail. Stats vary from year to year. I am sure the same is true with Mexico though we do not know how or where to get those stats.
CARJACKING
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/c02.pdf
On average, 1993-2002, about 38,000 carjacking
victimizations occurred annually, according to victim
self-reports to the National Crime Victimization Survey
(NCVS). There were an average 1.7 victimizations
per 10,000 persons annually. About 15 murders a
year involved car theft, though not all were carjackings,
for the theft could have been incidental.
• A weapon was used in 74% of carjacking victimizations.
Firearms were used in 45% of carjackings,
knives in 11%, and other weapons in 18%.
• About 32% of victims of completed carjackings and
about 17% of victims of attempted carjackings were
injured. Serious injuries, such as gunshot or knife
wounds, broken bones, or internal injuries occurred
in about 9%. More minor injuries, such as bruises
and chipped teeth, occurred in about 15%.
• Multiple carjackers committed about 56% of the
total.
• 68% of carjacking incidents occurred at night
(6 p.m. - 6 a.m.). Forty-two percent of carjackings at
night and 50% of those in the day were completed.
• About 63% of carjacking incidents occurred within 5
miles of the victim's home, including the 17% that
occurred at or near the home. Four percent occurred
more than 50 miles from the victim's home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carjacking
Carjacking is the unlawful seizure of an automobile. It is also armed assault when the vehicle is occupied. Historically, such as in the rash of semi-trailer truck hijackings during the 1960s, the general term hijacking was used for that type of vehicle abduction, which did not often include kidnapping of the driver, and concentrated on the theft of the load, rather than the vehicle itself. During the later-day car- theft crime, typically, the carjacker is armed, and the driver is forced out of the car with the threat of bodily injury. In other rarer cases, the driver is kidnapped under the assault by a weapon and is retained as a passenger under duress, or made to drive his or her abductor. Women are particularly victimized in this latter method.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Carjacking
Carjacking
The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation.
The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger to a victim." Carjacking incidents emerged in increasing numbers in the 1980s and 1990s, after their initial appearances in Detroit. According to a report filed with the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 1999, an average of 49,000 carjackings occurred in the United States each year between 1992 and 1996. During this time, about half of all attempted carjackings were successful, though the most carjackings (84 percent) did not result in injuries to the victims.
