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2 active duty Tijuana cops were arrested for kidnapping

Copacetico1 - 9-23-2022 at 09:37 AM

http://www.afntijuana.info/seguridad/132405_detiene_la_fisca...

SFandH - 9-23-2022 at 04:25 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Copacetico1  


2 active duty Tijuana cops were arrested for kidnapping

http://www.afntijuana.info/seguridad/132405_detiene_la_fisca...


It's weird how that turns out to be good news. Years gone by they would not have been arrested. Progress!

BajaBlanca - 9-24-2022 at 01:00 AM

Good progress and if more are arrested and STAY arrested, maybe the kidnappings etc. will stop or at least lessen.

mtgoat666 - 9-24-2022 at 06:02 AM

Quote: Originally posted by SFandH  
Quote: Originally posted by Copacetico1  


2 active duty Tijuana cops were arrested for kidnapping

http://www.afntijuana.info/seguridad/132405_detiene_la_fisca...


It's weird how that turns out to be good news. Years gone by they would not have been arrested. Progress!


Don’t be so sure. I think this is a case where the 2 cops kidnapped the “wrong” guy. In this case, he was ”wrong” because a higher-up authority got mad. The cops would have been ignored if they had just stayed in their lane and stuck to their usual crimes and usual prey.

Also, they may have screwed up by doing the kidnapping while on camera. This article says their is surveillance video of the crime: https://zetatijuana.com/2022/09/exigen-justicia-para-jose-al...

Hard for the deep state to cover for the cops when they were caught on camera!

[Edited on 9-24-2022 by mtgoat666]

surabi - 9-24-2022 at 10:53 PM

Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck  
each time I return home it resets as there really is no one to continue practicing with here in Canada


Where in Canada are you? You might be surprised at how many native Spanish speakers there are around. I used to live in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.
I had a friend there who was Mexican, married to a Canadian. She had a birthday party I went to, there were lots of Spanish speakers from Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Nicaragua, and they all lived in the Comox Valley.
Don't just assume there aren't any around- you have to put out feelers, do some research.

Would speaking Spanish help to combat corruption? On a individual basis, yes, perhaps. Like paying mordida. A friend who owned a vacation home in my Mexican town got stopped for speeding the first day of one of her trips here in the rental car she was driving from the airport. (She was speeding, it wasn't bogus, she always drives too fast) The cop said he would write her a ticket and that he'd have to take her Canadian driver's license. Because her Spanish was rudimentary, she freaked out and didn't understand what he was trying to explain- that her license would be returned to her when she went to the transito office to pay the fine. Instead she foolishly handed over 2000 pesos so he'd let her off.

He wasn't even angling for mordida in the beginning, but when he realized how scared and desperate she got, he soaked the dumb gringa for a wad of cash. Had she understood Spanish, she would have grasped how the license confiscation worked and where she had to go to pay the fine and paid less than half of what she had bribed him.


surabi - 9-24-2022 at 11:08 PM

I had a young Mexican couple from Mexico City as Airbnb guests. 3 of their 4 parents were lawyers for the federal govt. The young woman was studying political science at university.

We were chatting over coffee and got onto the subject of corruption in Mexico. They didn't defend it at all, or try to explain that it was part of the culture- they said it was a serious problem that was an embarrassment on the international stage and that their generation was going to change that. They were young and idealistic and I wish them luck.

surabi - 9-25-2022 at 11:53 AM

I had a very similar situation. There was a tall truck in front of me blocking the view of the light. When he drive through the intersection, I followed him. Had I put on the brakes, the car behind me, which was tailgating, would have hit me. I heard the siren and got pulled over a block later.

[Edited on 9-25-2022 by surabi]

Lee - 9-25-2022 at 09:19 PM

Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck  

My point is next time we would just take the time to drive to the office and pay the full amount after they wrote up the ticket as I understand we too were breaking the law by going along with it.

[Edited on 9-25-2022 by JDCanuck]


I'll assume by ''office'' you mean police station.

There was a story posted here years ago about an older couple having a rough time at the station in Tecate.

A neighbor in Pesky had a bad outcome at a station in Ciudad.

The station might be the correct way to pay a fine. Think the odds are more favorable negotiating on the street. Gnu Paul has great strategy in dealing with cops.

mtgoat666 - 10-10-2022 at 09:34 PM

Results of the investigation of the evil cops:
https://zetatijuana.com/2022/10/policias-criminales/

They have not found the victim…