Juárez:  How Many Addicts Are there in Juárez?  Baltimore?

Baltimore and Juárez had Identical Homicide Rates in 2017

Alejandro Vargas, writing for Diario (click here) cites cites the Trust Fund for Citizen Security and Competitiveness (Ficosec) as estimating 60,000 addicts, for a city of about one and a half million.  In my entry for Jan. 18, 2019, I cite the Observatorio de Prevencion, Seguridad y Justicia de Juarez (click here), as estimating 45,000 drug addicts in Cd. Juárez today.  In that same note I comment that the estimate of drug addicts in Baltimore is about 60,000, for a population less than half the size of Juárez, so drug dependence appears to be worse in Baltimore than in Juárez regardless of which of the two estimates for Juárez is used.

Homicides:  Both Juarez and Baltimore had identical homicide rates (56) per 100,000 population in 2017.  Baltimore's homicide rate in 2017, according the the FBI, was the highest of any U.S. city with more than 500,000 people.  Wikipedia, a little vague about its sources (click here), ranks Juárez and Baltimore 20 and 21, respectively, in 2017, in a list of the 50 most homicidal cities in the world with populations over 300,000.  The 2018 figures for Juárez will show a significant increase over Baltimore, up to about 83 per 100,000, with Baltimore probably declining slightly from 56.  This will still place Juarez well below the murder rate in Tijuana or Caracas (about 111) in 2017, the most dangerous murder cities in the world that year.