Brittany McGregor
11/06/09 11:23AM
This past weekend, newly appointed police chief of Garcia, Mexico was assassinated. Brig. Gen. Juan Arturo Esparza was said to be the latest military officer killed after taking over a Mexican police force that has been troubled with corruption. The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, knows that some of the police forces are working for drug cartels, that’s why he is relying on the military to fight the drug trafficking problem. On Thursday, ten people were arrested; five were police officers and five were suspects. They have found evidence that those five officers received pay to help assist the five suspects with killing Garcia. Officials eventually shut down the entire Garcia police force. The military was called in to reinforce security and operations at the Garcia police headquarters were suspended. I do not believe the crime on Mexico will get better. Each and every week the crime seems to get worse and worse. Why would someone kill the police chief, who is there to protect the city and make it better? Or was he really there to make it better? What shocked me about this article is the fact that five of his coworkers were arrested because they played a part in his death. I guess these days you cannot trust anyone, not even the people who work right beside you.
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1 comment:
I was interested to read your post about this artical concerning the death of the Police Chief in one Mexican city. I think in order to understand this situation and answer the questions you pose at the end of your post you must think in a more Mexican state of mind. The police institution in Mexico is not like the police here in the United States. People here grow up thinking the police is always there to keep us safe. In Mexico the public understands that the police are mixed up in cartel buisness and are clearly corrupt. Therefore they do not have the same expectations of the police as an American, such as yourself would. We as Mexicans would not ask such questions because sadly we expect our police to be involved in such actions. This is one major issue that has plaged Mexican society for years, it has just recently become a subject of US media stories.
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