Crime in Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City is a sheethole. The "good areas" are like living in the hood in Chicago or Detroit

Me and three of my friends got robbed at gunpoint by two guys in a motorcycle. This was in a street in Coyoacan, which is considered to be one of the safest areas in CDMX. They took all of our phones with the password to unlock them, wallets, money, ID, and my Apple watch. We reported it to the police immediately but these are professional criminals. Finding any lead is nearly impossible, unfortunately. Once we got home minutes later to track our phones, everything had been erased from the iCloud.

I go to Mexico a lot and have family there in my opinion it is a good place but it can be dangerous. However you will most likely be ok if you don't make people pay too much attention to you or stand out too much. Even though it is a dangerous place the people are usually warmhearted and welcoming and it has a lot of nice sides to it too.

Avoid the areas under the US travel warning.

Note the US State Department hasn't worded it very well, they've made it look like 'Mexico City' doesn't have any areas under high risk advisories.

If you look closely parts of it are on level 3 (on a scale of 1 to 4). They've given the impression if you're not paying attention that all of Mexico City is on a lowly level 2 rating.

If I can add to what I wrote below, this also applies to cities elsewhere in Mexico and LatAm. The ME and Africa have always been more violent than Latin America and have always had more violent cities. LatAm is above-average violent, but it lacks that elite-level violence to be considered among the world's most violent regions.

Basically, beware fear-mongering journalism (WSJ, NYT, BI etc.) using bad data. Even if I admit parts of MC are under the U.S. warning.

Mexico City is fine. I never have had a problem. People are nice and I've drank out of the water fountain and didn't have an issue. The important thing I can say is learn some basic Spanish and be polite.

I lived in Polanco for about a year and half. I never use metro and have a old car on purpose. During the last year our friend (we have only about a 10 friends) got robbed 2 times with a gun in their car, 2 times in the market and our appartmant was robbed 3 times by the same man, security catched him, we had him on the video and they would release him the same day. They say he is now dead. Our windows have bars and our house has wired and electric tape around. We have alarm and security and still we got robbed. Nothing was stolen, but the person acted like crazy. Last week there was an armed robbery of someone taking cash out of the bank. Somebody tried to kidnap someone in Mariano Escobero, very busy street, his security killed the guy and poloce now want to prosecute the person, who was protecting himslef. The whole thing is on the video. We hear every week about people being kidnapped or getting in the armed robbery in the car places like Reforma or here in Polanco, which everybody considers "save". So what is wrong with people here? Why police would never help you? I xome from eastern Europe and we can walk at night, ride metro drunk at night and go by myself and never get robbed or raped. Kidbapping for money is a thing we do not know. 98 od percents of murders get solved and people go to jail even for a minor crimes if they reocure. We are not rich country, but we have a respecr for police, justice system and especially for each other. I am tired of riding uber everywhere. I would like to take metro and not get ny stuff taken. My teacher of spanish got her phone stolen 4 times over an half year riding from Polanco to south/Unam. I am tired of being suspicious and having my head on the watch. I feel save walking in Polanco during a day, but I wish I would not to worry, which street I have to take when it get a little bit dark. A lot of crimes here are random, but they are comon. Like shoodting between the cartles at the Garibaldi just a day before Grito. And any news that the murder was solved? There is only about 2 percent chance that it will be solved and police does not bother to solve crimes like a small personal robbery. "According to the CNDH, only one out of every ten crimes is reported in Mexico; this is due to lack of trust from citizens to the authorities. Furthermore, only one out of 100 reported crimes actually goes to sentencing." ... and the city is beautiful, people are nice, but all of this .. i only ask why?