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Municipal policemen leave a police station after the entire police force was disbanded in the Gulf port city of Veracruz, Mexico, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011
Friday, Dec. 23, 2011

Open quoteYou can clean up a force only to have them get [corrupted] and have to fire everyone all over again.Close quote

  • ERIC OLSON,
  • Mexico expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on the need for robust internal-affairs divisions after Veracruz city's entire police force was fired partly for drug-related corruption
Photo: Felix Marquez / Felix Marquez | Source: Wall Street Journal