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Mexico City Raids Net Six as Officials Cite Declines in Crime, Extortion

Officials credit prison signal blocks alongside a '3P' policing model for recent declines.

Overview

  • Police and prosecutors carried out four court-ordered searches in Azcapotzalco, arresting six suspects and seizing cocaine doses, mobile phones and a handgun, with the operations executed without violence.
  • Investigators link the cell to at least eight home robberies registered between April 2024 and January 2025 in Coyoacán, Miguel Hidalgo and Azcapotzalco.
  • The detainees were identified and placed at the FGJCDMX for charging decisions, and two of them have prior convictions for robbery and drug offenses from 2020 to 2025.
  • Federal officials report that 56% of reported extortion lines originate in 12 prisons, roughly 33% of identified numbers have been blocked, and 478 suspects have been arrested since the national strategy launched in July, alongside a 14% drop in daily complaints year over year.
  • City leaders say high-impact crime fell 13% in the first 303 days of the current administration under the '3P' approach, as the killing of Uruapan’s mayor attributed to a 17-year-old intensifies scrutiny of child recruitment by criminal groups.