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« on: March 28, 2013, 07:37:01 AM »

Vigilantism in Mexico - On the rise?  Good people taking back the streets?  Or, replacing one corrupt government with another?

"HUNDREDS OF ARMED VIGILANTES SEIZE MEXICAN TOWN, ARREST LOCAL POLICE"

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ACAPULCO, Mexico (TheBlaze/AP) — In a bizarre incident, hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week.

Members of the area’s self-described “community police” say more than 1,500 members of the force were stopping traffic Wednesday at improvised checkpoints in the town of Tierra Colorado, which sits on the highway connecting Mexico City to Acapulco. They arrested 12 police and the former director of public security in the town after a leader of the state’s vigilante movement was slain on Monday.

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The growing movement of “self-defense” vigilante groups has seen masked townspeople throw up checkpoints in several parts of southern and western Mexico, stopping passing motorists to search for weapons or people whose names are on hand-written lists of “suspects” wanted for crimes like theft and extortion.

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The groups say they are fighting violence, kidnappings and extortions carried out by drug cartels, but concerns have surfaced that the vigilantes may be violating the law, the human rights of people they detain, or even cooperating with criminals in some cases.

Sensitive over their lack of ability to enforce public safety in rural areas, officials have largely tolerated vigilante groups.

read more here - http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/28/hundreds-of-armed-vigilantes-seize-mexican-town-arrest-local-police/

What is missing from the story?  What are they doing with the undesirables?  Illegal immigrants?  People they take into custody?

Are the streets safer for people who live in the neighborhood?
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