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Byline: Alfredo Corchado and Ricardo Sandoval
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico _ Underscoring a startling police crisis, at least 500 state and local law enforcement officers have resigned, been fired or have not shown up for work since the discovery of a mass grave holding 12 alleged drug trafficking victims, U.S. and Mexican officials say.
The mass exodus of officers, coupled with a purge of the state and municipal police corps by state and federal officials, has created what may be one of the worst local police crises in recent Mexican history, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
At the state level, a spokesman for Chihuahua Gov. Patricio Martinez dismissed reports of a police crisis, insisting that the number of state police officers who have left the force is 75 _ and that not all of the changes are tied to the mass graves scandal.
The spokesman, Antonio Garcia, referred all questions regarding police vacancies in Juarez to city officials. Calls to Juarez municipal police officials were ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Juarez police leaving force in droves, officials say.(The Dallas...