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Mexico & Nafta - February 2015 (ISSN 1741-444X)
New crime figures provide more evidence of ‘cockroach effect’
New crime statistics from Mexico’s national public security system (SNSP) show that while the incidence of crime has fallen in those states where federal security forces were deployed to reinforce public security last year, crime rates in neighbouring states has increased substantially. Local security analysts take this as fresh evidence of the so-called ‘cockroach effect’, whereby a crackdown in one area leads to surge in another.
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