Jalisco was one of the Mexican states that stagnated in the Rule of Law Index of the World Justice Project (WJP), an organization that monitors and evaluates this indicator in the country.
Once again, the state failed by achieving just 0.38 grade on a scale of 0 to 1. In one year there was no progress at all, since its Rule of Law Index 2022-2023 was the same as 2023-2024, the organization mentioned.
“The trend of the general scores is stagnation, since only five states increased their score from the previous edition, while 13 decreased it, and 14 maintained the score from the previous edition.
In addition, negative trends are shown in matters of criminal justice, such as respect for due process, and in the absence of corruption, specifically in security forces and justice administration, as well as falls in most states since the previous edition in the citizen participation in the design of public policies,” said the global director of Advocacy of WJP, Alejandro González Arreola, about the results.
In qualification, Jalisco stagnated. But given the progress in states that were worse, the state fell only one place, going from 25th to 26th place.
The index reviews eight factors that frame the concept of the rule of law, as follows.
- limits on government power
- absence of corruption
- open government
- fundamental rights
- order and security
- regulatory compliance
- civil justice
- criminal justice
These factors are further broken down into 42 subfactors.
The scores in this edition reflect the perspectives and experiences of more than 12,800 people throughout the country and 2,000 specialists in civil justice, criminal justice, labor justice and public health, as well as the results of a multiplicity of surveys and databases. data on these topics.
THE WEAK POINTS
Like last year, the WJP Rule of Law Index shows that Jalisco fails to prevent corruption and guarantee access to criminal justice.
The data describes that there is a failure to ensure that “public servants in the security and justice systems do not abuse their functions to obtain private benefits,” an indicator that had only a 0.25 rating.
Furthermore, the one related to the follow-up to investigations of criminal offenses barely reached a 0.18 rating.
“We hope that this year’s results will serve to focus efforts on addressing urgent problems in the different aspects of the rule of law,” added González Arreola.
Source: NTR Guadalajara