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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 10:24 AM
How safe is Mexico?


http://howsafeismexico.com/global_crime_rates.html




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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 10:45 AM


Noticed the mentioned site contains the following sentence:

'This site is a project of Black Label Interactive, a firm which has represented travel and luxury brands on every continent. In the interest of remaining impartial'.

Impartial? maybe. I can easily understand the casual Tourist
to Mex being concerned over the Cartel Pub of 3-4 yrs.
back. I've thaught the chance of being a victim in Mex
has remained the same over the yrs
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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 10:45 AM


Gimme a break...

"HELP! HELP! HELP! I'M BEING ROBBED!"

"Shhhhhhhh! You want to bring the police?"

This is a really old Mexican black humor "joke".

If you live not just vacation in M�xico, for any length of time, you'll come to realize that the gente only involve the cops when there is no other choice. A gunshot wound or bloody death for example. Or a rocket propelled grenade taking out a disco.

Mexicans themselves agree about TWO PERCENT of violent crimes are reported to the cops. A sparsely populated finger of land containing about two percent of the total population of Mexico has to be treated differently. Saying "Baja California has a very low rate of violent crime than the USA" is a hell of a lot different than "Mexico has a lower rate of violent crime than the USA"

The state police handle an overwhelming majority of ministerio publico cases dealing with violence. Wanna know what "la gente" says about la julia y los judiciales.

The first thing they let folks know is "What's In It For Us?"




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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 10:49 AM


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Originally posted by BajaBlanca
http://howsafeismexico.com/global_crime_rates.html


"Unless you are involved in the drug trade, you are statistically safer in Mexico than anywhere else in North America."
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Questionable timing for this propaganda here while Gary Patton remains missing.




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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 11:51 AM


I think i'll take my vacation in Chicago, especially a nice weekend stroll through a local neighborhood park......

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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 11:59 AM


I lived in Loreto Baja Sur from 168 to 2000, never in all my travels was I concerned about my Safety. Lived in Loreto 16 years full time with no Incidents.I felt saver there than I did while in Hollywood and South Central LA working as an Officer.

I know some things have changed as always but I never felt unsafe and took my Children there many times.

I do suggest that you learn some Spainish go down and meet the People. It is a Grand Place.

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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 12:02 PM


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I think i'll take my vacation in Chicago, especially a nice weekend stroll through a local neighborhood park......

NOT



Ohhhh...c'mon....you can do worse than that:

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/neighborhoods/crime-rates/t...




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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 01:59 PM


Yup lived in Liberal, Kansas, for 209 years. Them folks sayin' L.A. is dangerous must be nuts. Leave my windows open every night even in January. Just gotta be safe everywhere. Go lookin' for trouble your gonna find it for sure.

Sheeeeit. You want dangerous? Me, oh hell I'll smear Cordova shoe polish all over my face and arms and you go as is. I'll take you to some barrios in Mexico. You'll get shot within 10 seconds of showing your face. Me? I got maybe twenty or thirty seconds until th recognize I'm not a hoodie.

This is like reading accounts of someone born and raised in Disneyland telling me all about how safe East Oakland, Watts, or Pomona, is. Wotta hoot.




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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 02:16 PM


OK let me see if I've got this right
Skeet you lived in Loreto 1832 years
And David lived in Kansas 209
Whew...what are you guys eating...drinking....smoking?




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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 02:42 PM


Sorry about that I had just takin a Big chaw of Copenhagen.

First time 1968 in my Cessna, had a Panga for 27 years, built Rancho sonrisa North of Loreto on the Beach, lived{the only americano in San Nicholas} for 4 years the left in 2000 after all the UGLY Americans and Canadians started moving in.

I did not completly feel safe while going through La on Hwy 5. Never was concerned while on the Road in Baja Sur. or any other place.
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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 02:43 PM


Skeet says :
I lived in Loreto Baja Sur from 168 to 2000,

was that BC or AD?




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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 03:02 PM


Aw shucks, we just funnin' one another.



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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 04:02 PM


Quote:
Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
I lived in Loreto Baja Sur from 168 to 2000, never in all my travels was I concerned about my Safety. Lived in Loreto 16 years full time with no Incidents.I felt saver there than I did while in Hollywood and South Central LA working as an Officer.

I know some things have changed as always but I never felt unsafe and took my Children there many times.

I do suggest that you learn some Spainish go down and meet the People. It is a Grand Place.



Skeet /Loreto


Comparing retiring in Loreto to working as a cop in south central is BS. How safe would you feel as a cop in TJ or maybe Juarez?
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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 06:15 PM


Does that include gas station rip offs
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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 07:29 PM


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Does that include gas station rip offs

:) Theft is not a crime, according to the latest revision of Mexican Criminal Code, so let's not deviate...
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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 08:23 PM


una rata con dos patas
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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 10:09 PM


I love those diagrams. According to them, Canada has 6 times higher rate of assault than Mexico... Sure...

In Canada it would constitute an assault when a man attempts to perform ... er... his marital obligations, while the spouse is, for God knows what reasons, indisposed at the moment. The case makes it to trial, the guy gets prosecuted. No prison term usually, but a lot of pain totally unknown in "less civilized" parts of the world - restraining order, probation, anger management programs, hours of community work ... Everything is thoroughly documented, records are entered for future statistical studies...

Mexicans would probably laugh had they known...

I see that the UK is a dangerous place too, according to these data. But there is no US of A. Gee, how come? Oh, wait, I think I know - this is because the crime rate there is so high, higher than in Africa, so they couldn't fit in the scale :) ...
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[*] posted on 9-30-2013 at 11:46 PM


...my biggest fear on a roadtrip to mexico,,is the drive through LA :o:o:o
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[*] posted on 10-1-2013 at 11:55 AM


How to stay safe in Mexico:

1. Don't be a pendejo.
2. See #1
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[*] posted on 10-2-2013 at 04:26 AM


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...my biggest fear on a roadtrip to mexico,,is the drive through LA :o:o:o


the thing i love most about LA? getting thru it on the way to somewhere else!




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