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December 21, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Leyzaola draws his strategy from many sources, including French counterterrorism operations in Algeria in the 1950s and Colombia’s war against its cartels in the ’90s. He has $7 million in federal money this year, part of the $300 million President Felipe Calderon is giving to clean up police nationwide.
The plan for each district: First, a strike force is sent to make a slew of arrests. Then beat cops are replaced by officers who pass intensive background checks, and former military officers take over as commanders.
They patrol small areas in new pickup trucks with radios less vulnerable to interference by drug traffickers. And they are reprimanded before their peers for every unanswered crime.
“If there are drug dealers, prostitutes, illegal immigrants, robberies, if anything happens … I’m going after that officer,” says Leyzaola, a former lieutenant colonel.
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