Overview
- Official data from the SSPC indicate 2025 ended with 6,041 fewer homicides than 2024, with January 2025 the year's deadliest month at 2,037 victims.
- The Security Cabinet reported 49 people were killed nationwide on January 1, 2026 across 17 states, led by Chihuahua with nine and Sinaloa with eight.
- Causa en Común tallied at least 336 police officers killed from January 1 to December 18, 2025, an eight percent rise year over year, with Sinaloa leading at 46 as of that cut-off.
- Sinaloa’s prosecutor’s office recorded 1,654 homicides in 2025, one of the state’s highest yearly totals in more than a decade, underscoring persistent regional violence.
- Several high-profile cases advanced: 16 arrests in the killings of Colombian musicians in the State of Mexico, a detention tied to the 'Micky Hair' execution in Polanco, identified suspects in the Uruapan mayor’s assassination, the TikTok influencer case still under investigation without cartel linkage, and a December 29 ambush in Jalisco under active probe.