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05/27/2008: "Mexico's war against drugs is killing its police"

Opposition politicians and even some police officials have begun to question whether the president's ambition has exceeded his grasp, with dangerous and destabilizing consequences for a country that shares a 3,200-kilometer, or 2,000-mile, border with the United States. Bush administration officials have said Calderon's efforts might founder unless the U.S. Congress approves a $1.4 billion package of equipment and training over three years for the Mexican police.

Top security officials who were once thought untouchable have been gunned down in Mexico City, four in the last month alone. Drug dealers killed another seven federal agents this year in retaliation for drug busts in border towns. Others have died in shootouts.

Drug traffickers have killed at least 170 local police officers, among them at least a score of municipal police commanders, since Calderon took office. Some were believed to have been corrupt officers who had sold out to drug gangs and were killed by rival gangsters, investigators say. Others were killed for doing their jobs.

[ If the gangsters aren't eradicated they will continue to spread corruption and crime. Hang some corpses of them around in public view or some such atrocity. Only terror works on these people. ]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/26/america/mexico.php?page=1