Thread: Mexico Town’s Police Force Quits in Fear

Mexico Town’s Police Force Quits in Fear

Natalia Parra, Associated Press

Acapulco, Mexico (AP) - A southern Mexican town’s 15-member police force has quit for fear of being assassinated in retaliation for a shootout with gunmen, a security official said Thursday.

Zirandaro was the second town in less than two weeks to be left without its police force as Mexico’s drug cartels wage increasingly bold attacks against security forces. On Monday, the military took over a town near Texas after all 20 of its police officers were either killed, run out of town or quit.

Eight members of Zirandaro’s police never returned to work after a May 13 shootout with gunmen that left a 32-year-old man dead, said Juan Heriberto Salinas Altes, the public safety secretary of the southern state of Guerrero.

The other seven officers — including the police chief — quit days later.

“The Zirandaro police quit the service because they feared the criminals would return to seek revenge,â€

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