Mexico town's police force quits after attack

[marmar]

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — An entire 20-man police force resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials said Thursday.

The officers' resignation Thursday left the 13,000 people of Ascension without local police services, Chihuahua state chief prosecutor Carlos Manuel Salas said. State and federal police have moved in to take over police work, he said.

The mass resignation appeared to be connected to a Tuesday attack by gunmen that killed three of the town's officers, Salas said.

But it wasn't the first deadly attack on the police department this year. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-towns-police-force-quits-attack-232518398.html

[mdmc]

1. what a bunch of cut and runners

don't they know that Obama will win the drug war - we just got a jail a couple more "dead enders"..

[SpiralHawk]

2. If we just keep jailing sick people who smoke pot as medicine

all these problems will, um, er, go away...

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[mdmc]

3. and create jobs..