The Presumption of Innocence
Posted by Peter Dishman on March 7th, 2008Is apparently going to make it into our Napoleonic judicial system should this legislation pass.
Archive for the 'Crime & Punishment' Category
Disarming the Police
Posted by Peter Dishman on January 31st, 2007Borderland violence has gotten so bad that president Calderón recently sent in the army to disarm the police - and as a result, crime has gone down. Read more about it here.
TIJUANA, Mexico - They say law enforcement in a Mexican border town isn’t child’s play. You could have fooled me. Cops in this city […]
Leading the Way…
Posted by Peter Dishman on December 7th, 2006Today’s online version of Reforma leads with “Mexico Leads Bribery in Latin America”. Here’s the rest of the article…
While inside the country, 28 percent admit to have given a bribe in the last year, in the US the statistic only rises to 2 percent.
The Call of the Jail Bird
Posted by Peter Dishman on September 27th, 2005When you watch TV or the movies and see people going to jail, you always see them trying to get their “one phone call”.
In Mexico, it seems that inmates think not of their one phone call, but of their one cell phone, which as one might imagine has made it a lot easier for […]
Pobre PolicÃas
Posted by Peter Dishman on September 27th, 2005Lots of police deaths over the last week or so, all the way from the top, with the death of the secretary for public safety in a helicopter crash, to close to the bottom, with last night’s assassination of the chief of police for the state of Guerrero (the state Acapulco is in). It’s no […]
All Better in Juarez?
Posted by Peter Dishman on September 26th, 2005CIUDAD JUÃREZ - More than 14,000 people in this infamously violent city on the U.S./Mexico border embraced and held on tight Sunday for a 15 minute “Giant Hug,” that set a new Guinness World Record.
TelMex interfering with Vonage and Skype?
Posted by Peter Dishman on August 24th, 2005It appears that TelMex, the company that virtually monopolizes phone service in Mexico, may be degrading broadband users ability to use Vonage or Skype, the most popular voiceover IP services (think “calling through the internet”). From Jonathan Clark’s May 5 article in the Miami Herald Mexico Edition.
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, is a technology […]
Leave Your Bullets At Home
Posted by Peter Dishman on May 4th, 2005The Herald of Mexico City reports on two border patrol agents who probably forgot they had some ammo in their car and were arrested when crossing the border into Mexico:
MONTERREY Mexico detained two U.S. border patrol agents during a routine border check that uncovered a box filled with illegal ammunition in their car, the federal […]
Bad Cops and Smart Kids
Posted by Peter Dishman on September 6th, 2004Reforma reports today (9/2) that “A band of attackers, commanded by a supposed policeman, were detained after attempting to assault four foreign tourists in the streets of Historic Downtown.” The tourists, three Swiss and one German, were detained by men claiming to be local cops who said that they had “committed an offense against […]
Murder in the DF
Posted by Peter Dishman on July 28th, 2004“50% of homicides are solved in the DF”
By Luis R. Ocampo (Translated from Reforma)
Mexico City (July 28, 2004) – Of the nearly 700 homicides that are committed every year in the city, 50% remain unsolved, admitted Guillermo Zayas, district attorney for homicides of the attorney general of the DF.
Every day an average of […]