Edomex: seeks to ban the use of caps and sunglasses on public transport to avoid assaults

In order to prevent and reduce possible assaults on public transport in the State of Mexico, a Morena deputy proposed banning the use of caps and sunglasses for Mexican passengers when boarding a transport unit.

This was commented by local deputy Yessica Yanet Rojas Hernández, who presented the Draft Decree Initiative to add a fraction to article 7.28 of the Edomex Administrative Code to prohibit this type of article on a combi or truck operating in the state. This article establishes that the public transport service shall not be provided when the passenger is intoxicated or under the influence of narcotic drugs or psychotropic drugs; or when carrying out an action that violates the integrity of its users.

From the rostrum of the LXI Legislature, Yanet Rojas commented that this initiative seeks to reduce assaults on transport units, since in most cases these accessories are used to cover the faces and identity of criminals before video surveillance cameras, which have been installed in about 18,000 units, pointed out.

To do this, the legislator made a demonstration as if she were an assailant who climbs into a truck to commit a crime. “Let's see gentlemen, stand still. Come over here, I'm not playing. Son of your dog*mother*. Come over there, comadrito. Cell phones and wallets! Cell phones and wallets! You do your little brother, at the first change of lights I'm going to break your pinch* mother*”, he said.

He recalled that, according to data obtained by the Origin Destination Survey of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), more than 50% of the population of the Valley of Mexico occupies public transport to get around, while minibuses and combis (or carriages) are used by 76% of passengers.

Also, during her speech, the Morenista deputy attacked the governor of the entity, Alfredo de Mazo, because her security policy has not worked. Yessica Rojas mentioned that today, 2 out of 3 Mexicans feel unsafe on public transport. “Governing is not just about giving money cards to political structures,” he said. And it is that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the State of Mexico registered an increase in this type of crime. In this regard, he noted that in 2020 there was an average of 138 rounds per week.

For his part, Deputy Daniel Sibaja urged the State Council for Digital Government and the General Secretariat of Government of Edomex to implement technological tools to block and track cell phones that have been stolen or lost. Likewise, it asked the 125 City Councils to ban the sale of mobile devices in shops, bazaars or markets. On this point, Yanet Rojas commented:

According to the National Urban Public Security Survey (ENSU), published by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) in June 2021, 66.6% of the population over 18 years old consider the city in which they live to be unsafe. Two of the five cities with the highest percentage were Ecatepec de Morelos, with 87.7%, and Naucalpan de Juárez, with 86.1%, both municipalities belonging to the State of Mexico.

In this regard, at the end of January 2022, the Secretary of Security of the State of Mexico (SSEM), Rodrigo Martínez-Celis Wogau, indicated that between 10 and 20 assaults on public transport are committed every day, mainly in Ecatepec, Cuautitlán Izcalli, Tlalnepantla, Nicolás Romero and Naucalpan.

It should be noted that during the last half of 2021, 500 suspected public transport assailants were arrested, explained Commissioner Viridiana López Valencia of the General Directorate for Combating Vehicle Theft and Transport of the SSEM. However, only 27 were linked to trial, while two received convictions.

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