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[*] posted on 11-20-2007 at 07:26 AM


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It is funny people find comfort in comparing, camping on a semi remote surf spot in Baja and going for Soul Food in South Central LA, when explaining that crime happens everywhere.

Wake up. Crime in Mexico has gone off the charts. The odds of being robbed anywhere in Baja are probably similar to those of being robbed in South Central LA.


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[*] posted on 11-20-2007 at 09:55 AM
Crime in Baja


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The recent crime wave is caused largely by the Meth epidemic.




Meth trade and use is a symptom or side effect, not a cause.
Cause of crime generally is increasing urbanization without opportunity for people. You increase population without opportunity, and some people will fall into the easy path of crime. Crime and unemployment go hand and hand.



What we are seeing in La Paz is that crime and full employment go hand in hand. Never, never, never has there been less unemployment in La Paz than what we are experiencing now. Every day, there are pages full of job ads in the Sud Californiano and signs pleading for help in shop windows and bulletin boards all over town. There is so much work to be had here that workers from all over Mexico are flocking to the Baja -- and bringing their brutalized habits with them.

The workers who travel by boat to the Mogote project are picking up side money (for more drugs) knocking over the boats that are anchored out. I know of boats that are for sale merely because their owners are fed up and/or can't maintain the constant vigilance required to keep their boats secure.

In my neighborhood -- where some construction is always in process -- the jobs go on so long that the workers soon learn which houses are vulnerable and ripe for burglarization. They learn which houses are empty and the hours when occupied houses are vacant.

The proliferation of pawn shops we've recently seen in La Paz means there are more and more places to fence stolen goods and the chances of recovering stolen property from the Ministerio Publico -- even when it is in their possession -- is so ludicrously difficult it often isn't worth the effort. The crime and drug-dealing we're experiencing in La Paz aren't products of poverty, they are the side effects of the prosperity that comes with full employment.
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