Mexico Police Corruption and Insecurity of City Dwellers - Article Example

Download file to see previous pages The issue of “public safety” has been a headache of the 18 million residents of the capital city that according to the newspaper Reforma, two-fifths of the population was affected somehow by the crime wave.1 (Grayson, 1996).

Mexico police corruption has added fuel to the fire of unstable law & order condition. The police personnel has been blamed for conspiring with drug mafia, taking bribes to hush up the matter, becoming a part of the looting and thefts, murders and even shielding the drug mafia. The faith of the people in municipal police has shaken badly. Police officers are scorned as “thieves” “rats”, and “leeches” after the imprisonment of 299 police personnel during the first three months of 1994. Army General, Enrique Salgado Cordero, had to be appointed head of the city’s civilian public safety because of the shaken faith of the city dweller in the local police as it dared not enter Tepito, Buenos Aires, and other violent-hit areas at night time, and the PRI’s initiative to establish law and order so that it might not lose in the race for mayorship, to be followed by Presidency in 2002(Grayson, 1996). In its war on drugs by PRI's The World in Mexico, the federal police officers worked with the Army in Sinaloa as Mexican President Calderon wanted an end to corruption in state police forces that were often paid off by the cartels. (Figure 1)

Corruption had entered the government machinery deep that a person to the rank of Mexico’s finance Minister, Neo-Fascist Agustin Guillermo Carstens Carstens, who was also Ex-Deputy Mng. Dir. of the predatory International Monetary Fund (IMF); Ex-Treasurer of Banco de Mexico central bank cartel monopoly, converted the black money from illegal drug profits into white. (Figure 2)

In its struggle for safer cities throughout Latin America, urban resistance to neoliberal democracy was identified as the new economic order erupted in moral degradation. There was an upsurge of theft, pilfering, looting, gang activity, kidnappings, and killings. ...Download file to see next pagesRead More