South Of The Border
In an effort to weed out the corruption that has plagued it for years, the Mexican government has fired nearly one-tenth of its federal police force – about 3,200 crooked cops – this year, according to this report from The L.A. Times:
The cleanup is to take place nationwide and began with the federal police, the law enforcement agency mainly responsible for fighting the powerful cartels.
The United States has backed the reform push by helping evaluate officers and supplying trainers for a state-of-the-art police academy in the city of San Luis Potosi.
Calderon has rapidly expanded the federal police force, hiring about 10,000 officers during the last two years.
Experts applaud the cleanup as long overdue. Mexicans so mistrust police that they often refuse to report crimes.
But firing suspect or substandard officers also carries risks that they might jump to another department or join the traffickers. Rosas said a new computerized public safety database, called Platform Mexico, would make it easier to monitor former officers.
For some strange reason, I don’t see this ending well.
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