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Originally Posted by Realtor 1
On the news they mentioned something about letting the entire police force go because it was so corrupt and that the biggest problem is they dont have detectives and their prosecution rate is 1.5%. I think that is the biggest problem but of course it stems back to the drugs which is money and the drug money will pay a cop a lot more than the wage he would make. The only way to solve all this is to crack down BIG time on the drugs and I just dont see it happening.
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That's the main problem, drug cartels like Zetas and a few others have so much money and resources at their disposal compared to regular police officers even clean cops have problems getting by. You know something is really wrong when the drug cartels are better armed with automatic weapons, have police scanners, broken into police communications, and can announce over the police radios where and when a clean cop will be killed. The resources those drug loads have is astounding, like the case where the anonymous blogger wound up tortured and dead at the city gates after speaking out against the cartels publicly. You can't have a very effective police force when the police know that they can't protect themselves.
For the most part, the Mexican government is trying to do something about it by deploying the army and the heavy weapons/equipment that they have at their disposal. But the thing is I don't think the problem will go away until the demand for drugs in the US is cut down (which will never happen) so the cartels have less power and the Mexicans can clean up their forces.