Honest cops the goal of Mexican academy ( U.S. considers estimated $1 billion help)

The Dallas Morning News ^ | Sep.18, 2007 | LAURENCE ILIFF

[Dubya]

New breed trained to fight corruption rooted in police culture MEXICO CITY – Since he was a child, Israel Martínez Bermúdez has wanted to become something relatively rare in a nation fraught with centuries-old corruption: an honest and able cop.

But the image of police as corrupt and abusive stopped him.

[Dubya]

As the U.S. considers an estimated $1 billion, three-year aid package to help Mexico bolster its fight against drug traffickers and organized crime, police trainers and analysts warn that money alone will not solve the country's problem with endemic corruption.

[pissant]

DO NOT pour one more thin dime into that rathole.

[teenyelliott]

%^(*&)#, WHEN will our stupid government realize that giving money to bad governments solves nothing!!!!!!

Damn it stop giving our money away!!!!!!!

[SpaceBar]

They just can’t piss it away fast enough.

[navyguy]

One billion is just the start. Before this discussion is over we’ll have a 10 year, 25 billion dollar boondoggle. And when Democrats take the White House, you’ll get a tax increase to pay for it and less law enforcement here.

Why not... Its not like US citizens are ever going to do a thing to stop any of this garbage.

[umgud]

A billion bucks ought to assure that they’re honest. Right?

[teenyelliott]

Ooooo, here's an idea; build a billion dollar fence and let mexicans fix their own problems or die trying!!

[kittymyrib]

Since when is it the U.S. tax drone’s responsibility to train Mexican cops, who will soon be on the payroll of the nearest drug cartel down there? No wonder conservatives stay home from the polls.

[RedCell]

...and in other news, the US will be spending another $1B to make sure the world isn’t really flat after all.

God God almighty. Give ME the billion dollars and I’ll just *tell* you they’re honest. Same difference. Freakin’ idiots.

[Army Air Corps]

Sure, but that is not a nuanced approach. :-)

[Graybeard58]

trainers and analysts warn that money alone will not solve the country's problem

It's the liberal answer to everything, throw more of my tax money at it. Yep, it's mine. I take it very personally.

[When do we get liberated?]

I would settle for having a less corrupt police force in the Peoples Republic of Fuquay Varina NC

[grjr21]

U.S. - Mexico at a Glance

Foreign Aid

Foreign Aid from USAID (in millions of dollars)

Category	FY 2001 (Actual)	FY 2002 (Actual)	FY 2003 (Actual)	FY 2004 (Actual)	FY 2005 (Request)
Development Assistance	7.885	8.116	13.224	17.895	14.777
Child Survival and Health Porgrams Fund	5.987	9.500	5.205	3.700	3.230
Economic Support Funds	6.178	10.000	11.685	11.432	13.392
TOTAL	20.050	27.616	30.114	33.027	31.399

 

Foreign aide to Mexico  30 million a year

WOD  PRICLESS 

[flowerplough]

And flight is the goal of many pigs. Ain’t gonna happen.

[elkfersupper]

Memo to POTUS:

If there is a need for honest cops, it is in this country.

Mexico is lost.

[pissant]

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with asking folks who come in illegally, to go home. We deport thousands of people every month. I don’t see any other way to re-establish the currency of American law than to keep the law.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/3805.html

[I asked Duncan Hunter, the GOP congressman from California whose immigration policy is built around the idea of a really big fence, what he’d do with the illegal immigrants here. His answer: Shoo ‘em out.] (I don’t know the source for this, although I did hear him use the phrase shoo em out in an interview when pressed by a reporter.)

“You realize we deport thousands of people every month,” he told me. “We tell folks, ‘You have to go home. Make your country a good country. Put pressure on your government if you don’t like things. Get after those congressmen in Mexico and those congressmen in other countries.’ “

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802489_pf.html

[elpadre]

The Mexican Government will waste any money they don't siphon off into their pockets.

Put a police academy on US soil for Mexican law enforcement and other SA countries. Call it "The Police Academy for the Americas." Maybe we can keep tabs on the money and make a few "friends" amongst them at the same time. The FBI for many years has done that for foreign police executives (NA) A very successful program.

[zeugma]

As the U.S. considers an estimated $1 billion, three-year aid package to help Mexico bolster its fight against drug traffickers and organized crime, police trainers and analysts warn that money alone will not solve the country's problem with endemic corruption.

Honest government and a war on drugs are mutually exclusive of one another.

Especially in a place where corruption is so deeply embedded into the culture.

At least in most regions of the U.S. they try to hide the endemic corruption.