Mexico's president says violence is plunging. The data suggests it's more complicated.

CELAYA, GUANAJUATO - MAY 13: A member of the Mexican Army stands guard at the scene where a taxi driver was shot and killed along Calle General Mariano Jimenez in Colonia La Joya on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 in Celaya, Guanajuato. The taxi driver was driving with his daughter during the time of the homicide causing him to lose control of the car flipping over. The daughter was not injured. The most dangerous place in North America to be a police officer is the Mexican state of Guanajuato, where each year about 65 cops are gunned down. As Mexico has militarized its war on organized crime, vastly expanding the ranks and power of its army, navy and national guard, efforts to professionalize the nation's thousands of municipal police forces have fallen by the wayside. (Gary Coronado / For The Los Angeles Times)

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