Baja crime problems getting better

Holy smokes, Jesse

Why? "A half-truth is a whole lie"- as one Nomads signature line says. Jesse and many others are still in denial of reality. It's muy macho. There's no shame in Mexico. I am living here full time right now-so stop blowing smoke up my burro. It's a broken record and pretty soon they'll be passing around the Jonestown Koolaid. No one believes it anyway or tourism wouldn't be down 80% here.

Here is the truth. You can't solve a problem you don't have. The police corruption problem in TJ was never solved- they ran out of will and educated "clean" bodies to replace them with. The Military was just as bad when they got to TJ to save it from the police. Their "clean and psychologically tested" military men and commanders were later found to be corrupt and actually working against and killing the TJ police. Some top TJ police commanders were corrupt too- so there is plenty of blame to go around- but no solutions except to hide the truth.

In 2006 there were over 300 criminal detentions in TJ per day- over 12,000 for the year. Those are Mexico's numbers based on the success of their state of the art $15 Million dollar camera/surveillance system. And that 12,000 is just from that system alone mind you. After the military took over the system at C4, they used the system against the police to prove who was worse. With its GPS capabilities, it tracked the movement of every TJ police vehicle. The whole system was yanked out. Not because it didn't work, because it worked too well. They simply weren't ready for that much honesty and public disclosure of the extent of the crime and corruption. They still aren't ready or the camera system would be back up by now.

What would the true crime numbers for TJ be 2007-2010 if they were't afraid to see the truth they had on the monitors and GPS tracking before them at C4? They saw how bad it really was and pulled the plug on the whole system rather than reveal the true crime stats. Why should TJ look so bad alone when other Mexican cities must certainly be worse- but with no advanced system to document it. My guess is the crime stats were trending-up so high no one would have gone near TJ at all.

If Jesse, his fiends in TJ police or anyone else has a better explanation for why this futuristic system was removed- state it. I'd really like to know why the camera housings are empty. They worked, they were expensive- but TJ has lost far more in lost tourism than the $15 Million initial cost. No one really knows when the system was pulled out either. No one noticed or said a word publicly- or warned us we were again on our own when driving "the gauntlet". I only noticed they were gone recently- when I looked for them after a failed carjacking attempt on us while driving from Rosarito to TJ last month- at noon on a weekday no less. Someone must know why and when- but no one is talking.

It also ticks me off that TJ/Rosarito claims to do everything they can to protect tourists when the system they correctly installed to protect driving visitors from the border to the toll road entry at Playas is now gone (also gone are the downtown TJ tourist zone cameras). How can they credibly demand a retraction of the recent Travel Alert about tourists being followed and harassed in their cars in border regions when they allowed the system to go away that protected the driving tourists in that area? Huh? This helps make their case how? Also missing are the solar-powered emergency phones on the toll road to Rosarito.

Just take a look at this advanced system, and then at empty camera housings on the Via Rapida to Rosarito.

"The system is a high-tech combination of cameras, emergency call buttons on red posts and handheld computers for police officers on the street. Information is routed through a central command center (C4) that is equipped with 60 video screens and staffed 24 hours a day. A map of the city displays the location of patrol cars tracked by Global Positioning System devices."

http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/2007071...


[Edited on 3-15-2010 by Woooosh]

Another genius enters the debate that has nothing to add to the discussion but denials and distractions. Aryan? Give me a break. Wait a minute- where are all the black people down here?

OK, I'll remember that, as long as you remember that 99% of the people in Mexico are Mexicans.