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Drug cartels targeting Mexican police

You know your crime problem is bad when your entire police department resigns in fear, as happened recently in Zirandaro, a Mexican city in southern Guerrero state. Reported AP:Zirandaro was the second town in less than two weeks to be left without its police force as Mexico's drug cartels wage increasingly bold attacks against security forces. On Monday, the military took over a town near Texas after all 20 of its police officers were either killed, run out of town or quit. Eight members of Zirandaro's police never returned to work after a May 13 shootout with gunmen that left a 32-year-old man dead, said Juan Heriberto Salinas Altes, the public safety secretary of the southern state of Guerrero. The other seven officers ? including the police chief ? quit days later...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).