One of the crimes that has grown the most in recent months in the region is extortion, although, according to reports from the authorities, it is also the one that has produced the most effectiveness in arrests compared to the complaints received. Police, the Army and especially specialized agencies.
Hundreds of people, merchants, farmers, ranchers, investors, businessmen, professionals and ordinary citizens, are every day the target of extortion by true criminal organizations dedicated to demanding money in exchange for not kidnapping them, or for not harming their families. or to return property that they have taken by force, or not to bother them and let them work.
This is aggravated by the ease that communications and technology offer today and that allows a criminal to send a text message demanding money in exchange for something, or a photograph of the family with some basic information that reveals the knowledge of his victim. , and contact her later, without being identified, much less knowing her location.
The authorities maintain that a criminal or one of these criminal organizations permanently extorts, many times from other cities, or the worst from prisons, dozens of people, receive the money demanded in exchange for the threat and no one finds out, because the majority of the victims do not even report the incident.
That is also why any record that the authorities have about this crime is far from reflecting his true behavior. Victims almost always do not go to security agencies, first because they do not trust them and second, for fear that the extortionists will carry out their threats.
Only a few cases, in which, due to the size of the extortion or its characteristics, the victim turns to the authorities to report the incident and ask for help and protection, are the ones that come to swell the records of the authorities and become part of the figures that they manage and analyze.
What should be highlighted is that, according to what was said by the Commander of the Eighth Brigade of the Army, in 100% of the cases of extortion immediately reported in the region, the perpetrators of the blackmail were captured, which has made it possible to avoid in all cases the payment of the required reward.
In any case, this is a crime that continues to explode in the region, which for the most part does not come to the attention of the authorities, in which the victims continue to pay what is required and which does not have a strategy that allows it to transmit confidence to citizens to to report and combat it effectively.