Mexico outraged over corrupt police, kidnappings

[WriteDown]

Source: AP

MEXICO CITY - After kidnappers in police uniforms set up a fake checkpoint to snatch 14-year-old Fernando Marti off a Mexico City street, his businessman father paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, and waited for his son's safe return.
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Instead, the boy and his driver turned up dead, their bodies found in car trunks. Days later, prosecutors alleged that a police detective was a key participant in the kidnapping plot.

The suspicions of police involvement in kidnap-killings have moved a nation where many had grown numb to kidnappings and the drug cartels' beheadings and midday shootouts. Mass street protests are planned in several cities, and some lawmakers are even changing their minds about opposition to capital punishment.

"They should put their eyes out, so they can't commit any more crimes," said Ignacio Noriega, a 26-year-old university student who says he no longer feels safe anywhere. "Prison isn't a solution anymore. They just form their own gangs inside prison and come out stronger."....

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Unbelievable!

[midnight]

1. I would have to ask if anyone thinks this is going on here in

America?

[enid602]

2. who´s in charge?

With the Mexican Gov´t´s oil revenues (currently 57% of total revenues) going down by 15 r 20% yearly, it will be interesting to see who´s in power down there. I´ve heard that the Mexican Gov´t has only been able to keep the violence out of the sea resorts (for the most part) by cooperating with the drug lords.

[LuckyLib]

3. Kidnapping for ransom is rampant in Mexico, particularly northern Mexican states. Now that the son

of a very wealthy citizen (as opposed to just poor folks or local police and law enforcement officers) has been killed, maybe (just maybe) something will happen to change this.

[NashVegas]

4. Everyone Talks About Illigal Immigrants, No One Speaks of the Corruption

I tutored ESL a few years ago. One of the people I worked with had been a government lawyer (here legallu, AFAIK) who left everything she had there because of the corruption. Here, she was making $10 per hour in a deli.