Growing Incompetency of the Police

Gracias! I appreciate you laying out your understanding of how the security apparatus is supposed to work and how it is actually working. It seems that the laws are intentionally vague so as to provide cover for any politician who wants to avoid responsibility for security.

While I understand the desire to keep the military present in our community I can't help but wonder if that desire isn't mostly fueled by the idea that our political leaders suggest which is that the only other alternative is to have no security at all. Time and again around the world and throughout history we see despots take power and remove freedoms from the citizenry by lionizing the military and claiming that only they at the head of a strong military can intervene successfully to provide security. While to the contrary the places that are often rated as being the most happy and safe are those places that are regulated by local, independent and professional police forces. None are perfect but I think we can all see that there are better solutions than having the military, who have little or no training in successful law enforcement tactics, riding around with minimal interaction with the citizens they are supposed to be protecting. As we have seen in cases like the 43 disappeared students in Ayotzinapa, even the military is not immune to corruption and bad actors within the military also benefit from weak judicial and law enforcement organizations.

In a relatively small city like Zihua, there must be many residents who know the identity of those running the local "protection"/extortion racket. A competent police force would at least attempt to interfere with the criminal operations.....if there was a police force. Municipal police riding around in the back of a pick-up truck, or troops riding around in larger trucks, or manning pick-up truck-mounted machine guns don't accomplish anything.

(I realize that corruption within municipal administrations and local police forces, state and Federal governments.....and even within the armed forces itself....makes effective law enforcement almost impossible. Pretty grim picture.)