Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence

Brief Description of Report

Because the trends in the overall violent crime rate may not be indicative of trends in drug trafficking-related violent crimes, CRS is unable to develop fact-based conclusions about trends in drug trafficking-related violence spilling over from Mexico into the United States.

Country: 
Mexico
Report For: 
2013
|
Issued by: 
Congressional Research Service
|
on: 
Thu, 02/28/2013