Border safety concerns linger after Project Gunrunner revelations

April 6, 2011

Former El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) director Phil Jordan has said drug cartel members, like organized criminals, know where they can break the law and get away with it, and where they can’t. Jordan, who led the inter-agency anti-drug cartel task force EPIC and ran the Dallas Drug Enforcement Agency office during his 30-year law enforcement career, said they’ll commit most of their crimes, including murders, on the Mexican side of the border, so nobody will ever know what happened.

“She’s right in one sense that the border cities, like El Paso, have a very low murder rate and crime rate,â€