According to reports from police agents to La Crónica, no hypotheses are made, nor is the financial trail followed to identify the economic structure of the cartels or the use of bank accounts in the purchase of drugs. It is reported that police commanders halt deeper investigations due to biases about the places where criminal leaders could be hiding, believing they would not be in residential areas.
The Attorney General's Office of Mexico City has identified 44 active criminal groups in at least 15 municipalities, engaged in crimes such as homicide, drug dealing, forced disappearance, extortion, human trafficking, arms trafficking, and other crimes, according to data provided to the newspaper La Crónica. Among the mentioned groups are La Unión Tepito, the Tren de Aragua, El Grupo Fortaleza, and various criminal cells distributed across different areas of the city.
The operational strategy of the Citizen Security Secretariat, which consists of detaining individuals for possession of small amounts of drugs to investigate their connections to major crimes, is undermining ministerial investigations, according to consulted Investigation Police. This practice, in effect since 2018, leads to a "revolving door" where those arrested for minor offenses quickly regain their freedom without facing charges for serious crimes such as kidnapping, homicide, or drug trafficking.
A cited example is the case of "Los Diablitos," minors between 15 and 17 years old operating in the Miguel Hidalgo municipality. The SSC, according to investigators, arrested them for drugs when discovered, hindering the investigation's progress, which resulted in their release. Additionally, PDI officials criticized the lack of intervention from the Financial Intelligence Unit to trace the money flows of these criminal groups.
