Mexico town's entire police force quits after officers gunned down

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Source: Associated Press

An entire 20-man police force has resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials confirmed.

The officers' resignation on Thursday night left the 13,000 people of Ascension without local police services, Chihuahua state chief prosecutor Carlos Manuel Salas said. State and federal police have moved in to take over police work, he said.

The mass resignation appeared to be connected to a Tuesday attack by gunmen that killed three of the town's officers, Salas said. But it wasn't the first deadly attack on the police department this year.

In mid-May, police chief Manuel Martínez, who had been in office just seven months, was gunned down with two other officers on a nearby highway. The three had been kidnapped a day before police found their bodies riddled with bullets in the back seat of a sedan.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/mexico-town-police-force-quits

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1. Some % of these deaths are the consequences of the War on Drugs

The US's irrational, unjust policy of the War on Drugs results in violence in the same way the Alcohol Prohibition did. Some substances have such a high demand by the citizens that prohibition just serves to promote violence and profits for the hard-core criminals.
No one should be locked in a cage like a dangerous animal for what he/she chose to put in their adult bodies.
No more drug war, please.