Corruption runs rampant throughout Mexico and because of the power of drug lords and organized crime leaders, many local police officers choose to fight another day rather than confront the enemy. Leaving the drug cartels doing what they want, knowing they will not be stopped.
Many local police units are disbanding giving way to state and federal police to ensure better training and better equipment. But many of the officers in state and federal police units have already been recruited in the corruption of the cartel’s pay roll. It is federal law that only federal police can combat drug trafficking.
One small town named Jalapa is taking matters into their own hands to bring reform. Not necessarily to combat the drug lords but keeping order in the collection of small villages. Providing their own weapons and rationing gas between a few vehicles, they are doing what they can to ensure the safety of their community. Instead of having the drug lords run Mexico, Mexico can be run by the Mexicans
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