SCK, don’t cross the river and you will be okay. From the El Paso Times:
In El Paso, the number of homicides peaked between 1991 and 1996, when they averaged 45 a year, before settling during the past decade into an average of 16 a year. Police did not indicate how many of them were drug related.El Paso has been ranked as one of the safest cities for its size in the U.S. since 1997. In contrast, Juárez – the epicenter of Mexico’s drug-cartel wars – has reported more than 9,400 homicides since 2008, and authorities say about 80 percent are drug related.
Compared with Juárez, El Paso and its vicinity have not seen much in the way of drug-related homicides.
Link: Mexico’s drug killings soar above US figures (March 28, 2012)
Anyway, more on 2014:
Elpasotimes.com: El Paso gets Conference USA tourney in 2014