There are no police anymore in Villa Ahumada. Even the mayor has fled. Drug gangs have virtually seized this town of 1,500 not far from Texas. The Mexican military took over the police department this week because all 20 officers have either been killed, run out of town or quit, officials said Tuesday.
Mayor Fidel Urrutia took refuge in the state capital of Chihuahua City 600 miles away, where he's waiting for the soldiers to recover his town. The killings came a month after soldiers arrested eight men, including a police officer, during the burial of an alleged drug hit man in Villa Ahumada, about 80 miles south of El Paso.
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Maybe the law should simply isolate these criminals and let them kill each other off.
Legalize drugs, and the the drug gangs won’t have the money to buy ammo.