Solution?
Obviously, there is no one clean and easy solution to the problem of corruption of Mexican police officers. Current attempts at reform and change are not efficient, because they fail to look at the sources of the problem. Proposed solutions have included firing officials known to be corrupt, and large-scale firing of officers, in order to bring in a new, and hopefully less corrupt force. The required training to become a police officer has become more in depth and rigorous.
There are many changes that need to be made to the Mexican police force, and even these won't serve to eliminate the problem of corruption. The first change needs to be higher education and training. The needs of police officers must be filled by having a respectable salary and to be respected by the people which they are supposed to protect in the community.
Changes to the police force will take a lot of time in order for their effects to become visible. As such, changes must begin as soon as possible.
posted by Jenna @ 9:24 p.m.
1 Comments:
Hello Jenna,
How are you? How's the year going in Mexico now? It's already over for me here in Canada, and I'm now home in Toronto for the long haul. Any how, just writing back to you as a feedback to your work about your topic. It's really interesting this topic about the police/judiciary in Mexico and the perceived or real problems of corruption etc. that foreigners often discover or talk about.
Corruption and related crimes are in my opinion, reflective of the culture as well, because there are intrinisic characteristics in a culture that allows for this sort of 'situation' to occur in the 1st place. Money is simply a means of exchange really, and I wonder if 'cronyism' is perhaps a better label of the situation.
I'm pleased to hear that the Mexican authorities are really clampping down on the system and enforcing the laws that they already and do have against this sort of thing. It's funny to see how many countries with such problems do in fact have laws against such activities, but it happens nonetheless!
Well, that's enough of a feedback from me really- and I really hope that you've had a goodtime in Mexico without running many of these problems such as bribes.
Keep in touch, ok?
Garrick
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