Friday, February 20, 2009

Militarized Police

Mexican deputies have presented a plan to create a national guard, a militarized police unit that could combat drugs and leave the army to protect national security.

This could be a good idea, but I worry that it's just more uniform switching that doesn't get at the heart of the problem: effective police units that are relatively free of corruption. There's been so much of this in the past decade (just off the top of my head, and at the risk of getting mixed up: Feads becomes Siedo, the PJR is disbanded in favor of the PFP and AFI, the PFP is folded into the AFI, et cetera), and I think there's a lot to be said for simply avoiding the administrative hassles of modifying the bureaucratic structure in favor of just making the agencies that exist today as good as they can be.

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