Posted on 12/26/2009 9:45:34 AM PST by Lorianne
Beheadings and amputations. Iraqi-style brutality, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, and murder. More than 7,200 dead—almost double last year’s tally—in shoot-outs between federales and often better-armed drug cartels. This is modern Mexico, whose president, Felipe Calderón, has been struggling since 2006 to wrest his country from the grip of four powerful cartels and their estimated 100,000 foot soldiers.
But chillingly, there are signs that one of the worst features of Mexico’s war on drugs—law enforcement officials on the take from drug lords—is becoming an American problem as well. Most press accounts focus on the drug-related violence that has migrated north into the United States. Far less widely reported is the infiltration and corruption of American law enforcement, according to Robert Killebrew, a retired U.S. Army colonel and senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for a New American Security. “This is a national security problem that does not yet have a name,” he wrote last fall in The National Strategy Forum Review. The drug lords, he tells me, are seeking to “hollow out our institutions, just as they have in Mexico.”
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hell I wish this would happen here more in Tennessee...mordida...no more speeding tickets for wardaddy
just a little gratuity for Officer Restrepo and I’m on my way with no points
i always love the corruption that pervades latin America as long as i was on the right side of it
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I’m not sure that the families should be thrown into the street, but ill gotten gains should certainly be confiscated. Shooting a bunch of these corrupt, drug dealing cops in the head on TV would certainly make a cop think twice about going into the drug business. Of course that would never happen in America.
Narcotics cops on the take or selling drugs themselves is nothing new. In Philadelphia,PA since the late fifties at least there have been narcotics squad members arrested for corruption. There is just too much money to resist for some of these people. That bullet in the head might help resist temptation.
“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal....
Barack Obama, Candidate for President(June 2008)
I don't think you are.
“I am amazed at how many of the busts of BP agents involve hispanic names.”
“This process is turbocharged by affirmative action hiring of “hispanics” into U.S. police forces and other government agencies.”
I’m amazed at the ignorance both of you show. There have been just as many anglo BP agents busted for their connections to the cartels. Hispanics have been a huge part of the country for a long damn time. We serve honorably in the military. Many Medal of Honor recipients have spanish names. I have many hispanic friends who are BP agents, they are also military vets. They are just as American as you two clowns are. The majority of hispanics in the US can trace their roots in the South West back 400 years. My family was in New Mexico 60 years before the Mayflower landed at Plymoth Rock. Every ethnic group has it’s 10%, I guess you two are part of the 10% of racist clowns on Free Republic!
I didn't start seeing all the BP corruption stories until affirmative action arrived at the agency, and since then I am amazed at the number of stories that involve hispanic names, you are saying yourself that you think the hispanic minority are only matched by the non hispanic white majority, well I don't notice a 50/50 match but even if I did it would still support the problem with affirmative action and hispanic corruption.
But I am amazed, it was not something that I anticipated in the 1970s, I would not have agreed with you, if you had made that prediction to me.
When I interviewed for the BP I encountered exactly one caucasion person. That was a big eye opener for me. I thought that maybe the venue of my interview (Houston) was a factor, but now realize that overall, the BP is heavily hispanic. On the application for employment I had to list all of my known immediate relatives and their nationality. also, there was a question along the lines of "Is there anything for which you or your family members could be blackmailed?" At the time I thought that was odd. It turns out that many BP officers have family members who are actual Mexican citizens living in the US as well as the old country. Someone please convince me this does not constitute a major conflict of interest.
Simply untrue. Most Hispanics in the US have snuck into our country in the last 40 years, or their parents did. The idea that most Americans of hispanic ancestry are descended form ancestors who lived in the area that is now the southwest United States is ludicrous and not supported by fact.
A more likely clue is the fact that 10% of the population of Mexico has moved into the United States in the last 30 years.
People are simply angry this demographic trend, and they have a right to be angry. Hatred, racism, and xenophobia have little to do with this dynamic, and to claim so does a disservice to the quality of dialog on FR.
That is the situation that I have seen since the changes that have taken place since the affirmative action, 1970s.
I didn’t intend my remark to be insulting to any individual that has inappropriate feelings of chauvinistic racial identity, it is just my personal observation over the last 40 years, just as your personal experience that you shared with us is your personal observation.
I would remind people that this thread is about the Border Patrol and the “Mexicanization of American Law Enforcement”.
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