Mexico town's police force quits after attack

[Raschel]

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — An entire 20-man police force 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 said Thursday.

The officers' resignation Thursday 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-towns-police-force-quits-attack-232518398.html

[ccharles000]

1. sad

[demosincebirth]

2. They had guts to last this long. nt

[Raschel]

5. Definitely. It was extreme bravery to be in the police force. Then to read the townspeople

and police dug a ditch around the town. What can you say. So desperate to hang on to some type of civil order.

:(

[kenny blankenship]

3. What are the implications of having a long border with a failed state?

What would people say if the Khmer Rouge were living in Quebec?

Is Afghanistan Pakistan's failed state neighbor, or is it the other way round?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. actually Mexico has a functioning congress

and this war was pressured on Mexico by the US... as they say... it's complicated.

Oh and it is really not failed.. some REGIONS are... but as I said... it's complicated.