Military surge has many in Juarez feeling no safer

MEXICO BORDER VIOLENCE
Military surge has many in Juarez feeling no safer
By DUDLEY ALTHAUS Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
June 13, 2009, 8:14PM

SENDING TROOPS
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has committed thousands of troops to stop cartel violence in Juarez.

• 9,300: Troops patrolling Juarez, a city of 1.3 million

• 1,600: People killed last year

• 700: Minimum number killed this year

• 124: People slain in May, half of them gangland style

• 47: People killed in the first week of June

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Three months into a military surge aimed at restoring peace to this gangster-choked border city, soldiers are being blamed for the deaths of as many as four men, the disappearances of eight others and the torture of still scores more.

“The guarantee of public security has been totally broken,â€

I know people there "the downtown area is safer but there is crime in the poorer neighborhoods".