Thread: Officials can't recruit new police for Nuevo Laredo

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Officials can't recruit new police for Nuevo Laredo

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico The weary residents of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, had hoped the influx of hundreds of federal agents would put a halt to the wave of violence in the border city.

The crime wave blamed on an escalating drug war killed 181 people last year, including a newly appointed police chief and a city councilman.

But drug-related crime hasn't let up since the "federales" arrived, and 31 people have been killed so far this year. That's a sharp increase from last year's record toll.

Eight months ago, President Vicente Fox sent soldiers and federal agents to take back from drug traffickers the city across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. But the killings continue and brazen attacks remain commonplace. Plans to gradually withdraw federal agents have been put on hold, and police are having trouble recruiting new officers.

It's no wonder they can't get new officers there, it's an automatic death sentence