Mexico’s police commissioner said today that 3,000 police officers have been fired since May. Six of those officers have been charged in the death a murdered mayor.
Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said the fired cops were either linked to corruption or failed to do their jobs.
Police crime is high in Mexico
About 465 officers have been charged with crimes. 1,020 of them face disciplinary proceedings “for failing confidence exams.”
Some of the fired police officers were from Ciudad Juarez. Several weeks ago, a fist fight broke out there among a group of officers after accusations of corruption were made in public.
The fired cops represent almost 10 percent of Mexico's 34,500 officers. The fired cops can never reapply for law enforcement jobs in city, state, or federal departments.
Yesterday, the mayor of Hidalgo, Marco Antonio Leal Garcia, was shot and killed in Tamaulipas, a violent drug trafficking locale that borders Texas. Mexican drug traffickers are blamed in Garcia’s death.
Two weeks ago, on August 15, the mayor of Santiago--Edelmiro Cavazos--was kidnapped and murdered. Six police officers have been arrested in connection with Cavazos’s death.
The bloodbaths in Mexico are a result of drug wars between the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. The Zetas have been around since the late 90s. They began as hired guns for drug lord and leader of the Gulf cartel, Osiel Cardenas.
Cardenas was arrested and extradited in the US in 2007. With Cardenas gone, the Zetas began a turf war with the original crew. The goal of each drug cartel is to control profitable drug trade routes to the US.
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#1 We must act now.
$113 billion is spent on marijuana every year in the U.S., and because of the prohibition *every* dollar of it goes straight into the hands of criminals. Far from preventing people from using marijuana, the prohibition instead creates zero legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand.
According to the ONDCP, two-thirds of the Mexican drug cartel's money comes from selling marijuana in the U.S., and they protect this cash flow by brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering thousands of innocent people.
If we can STOP people using marijuana then we need to do so now, but if we can't then we need to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. One way or the other, we have to force the cartels out of the marijuana market and eliminate their highly lucrative marijuana incomes - no business can withstand the loss of two-thirds of its revenue!
To date, the cartels have amassed more than 100,000 "foot soldiers" and operate in 230 U.S. cities, and the longer they're able to exploit the prohibition the more powerful they'll get and the more our own personal security is put in jeopardy.