Police Accountability and Reform: Update on Mexico for 2009

Estimates are that there are tens of thousands of "foot-soldiers" in the direct employ of the four main narco bosses with at least the same amount of police on the take, employed in any needed capacity. .... Tijuana with 1.7 million averages 120 killings per month with 90% of its police force outright failing “fit for duty tests” (polygraph, personal wealth, urinalysis) Since June 2009 124 police officers have been arrested for corruption and ties to narcotraffickers in ...