Residents’ sense of safety is going up in many parts of Mexico, including cities in the state of Sonora, according to a recent government survey.
According to the survey, more than 40% of people over age 18 in the Sonoran capital, Hermosillo, feel unsafe in their city. That’s down around from this time four years ago – when more than 60% of adult Hermosillo residents felt unsafe.
In Nogales, Sonora, on the Mexico-Arizona border, more than 40% of residents also feel unsafe, also down from close to 60% four years ago.
In Hermosillo, residents' perception that the government was effective in solving problems in the city also rose by more than 10%. That perception was up in Nogales, Sonora as well — but less significantly.
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