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Examines the police force in the small college town of Jalapa, Veracruz.
NYT: "In the age of the drug war, local policing is often the biggest gap in slowing the spread of criminal networks, whose battles for turf and clashes with federal and state authorities have claimed 34,000 lives in the past four years.
President Felipe Calderón has proposed essentially doing away with municipal police forces like Jalapa’s, folding them under the command of the 31 state police forces as a way to standardize training, tamp down corruption and boost professionalism.
But with the proposal stalled in the Mexican Congress — some legislators object to giving the state police too much power, given their own corruption and links to organized crime — its future is unclear."
