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Entire police force in Los Ramones, Mexico
Entire police force in Los Ramones, Mexico quits after gunmen attack headquarters
The entire police force in a small Mexican town abruptly resigned Tuesday after its new headquarters was viciously attacked by suspected drug cartel gunmen.
All 14 police officers in Los Ramones, a rural town in northern Mexico, fled the force in terror after gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets and flung six grenades at their headquarters on Monday night.
No one was injured in the attack. Mayor Santos Salinas Garza told local media that the officers resigned because of the incident.
The gunmen's 20-minute shooting spree destroyed six police vehicles and left the white and orange police station pocked with bullet holes, the Financial Times reported.
More here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/10/27/2010-10-27_entire_police_force_in_los_ramones_mexico_quits_after_gunmen_attack_headquarters.html
The entire police force in a small Mexican town abruptly resigned Tuesday after its new headquarters was viciously attacked by suspected drug cartel gunmen.
All 14 police officers in Los Ramones, a rural town in northern Mexico, fled the force in terror after gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets and flung six grenades at their headquarters on Monday night.
No one was injured in the attack. Mayor Santos Salinas Garza told local media that the officers resigned because of the incident.
The gunmen's 20-minute shooting spree destroyed six police vehicles and left the white and orange police station pocked with bullet holes, the Financial Times reported.
More here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/10/27/2010-10-27_entire_police_force_in_los_ramones_mexico_quits_after_gunmen_attack_headquarters.html
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I'm surprised that no one was killed, let alone injured. Were any of the police in the headquarters when the attack started?
At this point, the Mexican gov't may as well just cede all authority to the cartels. They're pretty much in charge anyway...why not make it official? Plus, once the common enemy is gone, the half a dozen cartels will begin waring with each other to an even greater extent than they are already...on a long enough time line, most of them will probably snuff each other out.
Well if we would just stop sell guns illegal to the cartel at Wal-Mart and Cabelas and all those mom and pop stores the cartels would run out of guns. :deadhorse
Pull our troops back. These are the next terrorist when we start getting a grip on them they are going to start that stuff here. We need to scratch those itch's now not later.
Pull our troops back. These are the next terrorist when we start getting a grip on them they are going to start that stuff here. We need to scratch those itch's now not later.
I hate to make light of this but ... lets just be thankful no one shot up the donut shop. There could have been numerous, serious casualties.
Seriously, the lack of casualties suggests to me that the police knew ahead of time what was coming.
In the words of the Late, Great, El Guapo ... Opprobrious !!
Seriously, the lack of casualties suggests to me that the police knew ahead of time what was coming.
In the words of the Late, Great, El Guapo ... Opprobrious !!
The Mexican cops are outnumbered, outgunned, and subject to corruption within, and within the army to the point that being an honest cop in Mexico is like being an honest sheriff in the Wild west, surrounded by bandits.
I have a lot of respect and sympathy for them, and can't really fault these guys for quitting rather than facing certain death. it's a sad situation and one where IMO we should be offering cooperation. I'm pretty much an isolationist, but in this case we know who the bad guys are so I have a better feeling about it than tooling around in say, Pakistan and defining the bad guys dynamically by the rule of whoever fights back is a bad guy. I also think we really need to solve our drug problem so that we aren't financing the bad guys with our dollars.
I have a lot of respect and sympathy for them, and can't really fault these guys for quitting rather than facing certain death. it's a sad situation and one where IMO we should be offering cooperation. I'm pretty much an isolationist, but in this case we know who the bad guys are so I have a better feeling about it than tooling around in say, Pakistan and defining the bad guys dynamically by the rule of whoever fights back is a bad guy. I also think we really need to solve our drug problem so that we aren't financing the bad guys with our dollars.
i think we are aiding Mexico - i think it is just "unofficial" though. We are defiantly giving the Mexican government weapons. This problem needs to be fixed before it gets worse.
This is just great! And I have a paid vacation to Cozumel...... I just hope they have that place under control!!!
Unfortunately our drug addicts are "aiding" the cartels.BIGROB said:i think we are aiding Mexico - i think it is just "unofficial" though. We are defiantly giving the Mexican government weapons. This problem needs to be fixed before it gets worse.
Bingo- and it is less dangerous to be in the darn cartel than to be a mexican cop trying to do the right thig, for far less money, poorly equipped, and wondering whether your partner is on the other side and is going to shoot you in the head when you turn your back.ligun said:Unfortunately our drug addicts are "aiding" the cartels.
the mexican govt is corrupt as well- most of the weapons used by the cartels are weapons that were sold by the govt to them! They are not using mini14's, they are using m16's. They are not spending the effort to convert them to full auto, yet dozens and hundreds of full auto m16's have been seen and confiscated.
These are not exactly sold here without a bunch of hoops. So each one is accounted for here. Where did all these come from? Hummmm... (oh yah, WE GAVE IT TO THE MEXICAN GOVT.)
These are not exactly sold here without a bunch of hoops. So each one is accounted for here. Where did all these come from? Hummmm... (oh yah, WE GAVE IT TO THE MEXICAN GOVT.)
I really don't care what the addicts are doing. And, I'm really sick and tired of US addicts being blamed for the cartels criminal behavior. That's just like bloomie blaming law the gun every time a criminal acts the way they do.ligun said:Unfortunately our drug addicts are "aiding" the cartels.
If there weren't any more addicts, do you really think the cartels would just die off ?? Absolutely not. They're involved in prostitution, gambling, human slavery/trafficing, and a host of other illicit acts. If you cut off the head of the snake, it'll just grow another one. And then the apologists will just demonize another segment of the US population instead of the criminals.
No, the only solution is to do the reverse. Instead of trying to stop the cartels by treating the addicts, you kill off the cartels and eliminate the supply coming in to the addict. But, the only way to deal with these cartels, whether they be South American, Carribbean, Russian, Mafia, or Albanian, is with such extreme prejudice that the next guy in succession thinks twice before stepping up. I know that's not PC, but that's the truth.
And in NY these addicts are courtesy of Eric Schneiderman!ligun said:Unfortunately our drug addicts are "aiding" the cartels.
The Mexican government should decriminalize all drug use, allow them to be sold to adults, charge tax.
End of drug cartel.
What they're doing now certainly is not working.
End of drug cartel.
What they're doing now certainly is not working.
This has been allowed to get so out of control that NOTHING short of killing every drug cartel figure is going to end this problem.bigartie said:The Mexican government should decriminalize all drug use, allow them to be sold to adults, charge tax.
End of drug cartel.
What they're doing now certainly is not working.
Lord have mercy on us when they comes to a town near us because mark my words, it's coming. Keep your ammo at the ready because your going to be needing it.
Mexico is a failing, if not a functionally failed, state. Like Somalia, Sudan or Afghanistan. The government has had to limit the areas it controls and has simply ceded certain other areas to the scumbags. Kind of like what we're doing with certain border regions.
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