Friday, May 23, 2008

The Politics of Policing the Hemisphere's Biggest City

Polishing off an old issue of the magazine Gatopardo, I came across this nugget:

Pegaso, which is how Sánchez Amaya is identified in the capital city police, got his position in the way many high-ranking police bosses do in [Mexico City], for his leftist political activities.


Aside from the obvious problems created by awarding police fiefdoms based on political service, it’s worth noting that it’s a reward for leftist politics. Usually law and order is the province of the right. Then again, the left has long had a chokehold on the capital, and law and order and the police have little to do with each other in Mexico City.

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