Saturday, February 21, 2009

Bad Precedent

In Juárez, the police chief resigned two days after receiving threats that until he left his office, one policeman would be killed every 48 hours. In the interim, a guard at the city jail and a municipal cop were both gunned down.

I can't judge anyone who was in a situation so foreign from anything I've ever experienced, but the fact that such a gambit worked, that the police didn't circle the wagons to protect their boss and ward off criminals, offers an undeniable illustration of who runs that town.

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