What’s the story on this?

by zulualpha, Monday, July 22, 2019, 17:35 (2670 days ago) @ Cluttrbustr

"Community police" are formed in Mexico following the same logic that armed militias are formed in the USA -- to meet a law enforcement requirement not being fulfilled by local police authorities. There the similarities stop; Mexican community police as often as not front for organized crime. They are supposedly sanctioned by the state government, and in some areas they are. But if such "sanctions" to not arrive from the state government, who is going to do anything about it?


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