I'd be interested to a hear more about this after it's been in place a while. I imagine that drug dealers' extensive infiltration of police departments will be an almost insurmountable deterrent to this plan having any great success, at least in the near term.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Paying for Convicts
The State of Mexico is initiating a program which will pay 15,000 pesos (about $1,100) to citizens who provide information that lead to narcos being captured. Mexico (and the US) have long offered rewards for the capture of specific capos, but this is the first program I am aware of that will reward citizens for denouncing any drug dealer.
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