Note that their official homicide numbers no longer include bodies found in unmarked graves (as of 2021), people killed in conflicts between police and gangs (as of 2022), and people killed in prison. These are arguably reasonable decisions but unless you backfit the old numbers, you don't have the real trend.
I suspect that the trend would be impressive either way, you'd just lose the "safer than New Zealand" line.
Well there's no need to suspect, homicide rates were dropping like a rock before 2021. Perhaps faster than has been achieved by any other social reform on record.
I suspect that the trend would be impressive either way, you'd just lose the "safer than New Zealand" line.