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Gypsy Jan
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Thinking about bribing a police officer in Tijuana? Think again - 253 arrested so far in 2013
From San Diego Red
TIJUANA. - "The number of people (31) who were arrested and processed for offering bribes to police officers in Tijuana has decreased. And according
to the municipal police, it is the lowest figure in a single month so far this year.
From January 1 to May 31, 2013, the total number of people who have been arrested for this crime has amounted to 253. 49 in January, 59 in February,
73 in March, 41 in April and 31 in May.
The Municipal Secretariat for Security and Public Safety (SSPM), said that this figure contains all of those people who offered different amounts of
money to officers in order to prevent them from arresting their relatives, friends or even themselves and turning them over to the prosecutor or the
Municipal Judge after committing any type of crime.
In the past 24 hours Jose Luis Martinez Gonzalez, 29, Sergio Ivan Lopez Castillo, 30, and Jose Alfredo Martinez, 43, were all arrested for trying to
bribe officers.
Gonzalez tried to offer 300 pesos (about $25 USD) to officers who patrol neighborhoods near "La Presa", so that they would release an employee from
the hardware store in "El Refugio" for selling several cans of spray paint to two minors.
Sergio Ivan Lopez Castillo tried to bribe officers with 200 pesos (about $15 USD) near the "El Centenario" neighborhood after officers had stopped him
for driving a vehicle without the proper documentation.
Finally, with 200 pesos ($15 USD) Jose Alfredo Martinez tried to avoid a citation after being stopped for speeding.
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Great news for TJ residents and travelers.
Shure would be nice if the rest of the peninsula was the same way.
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Great news
.......selling several cans of spray paint to two minors.
.......... driving a vehicle without the proper documentation.
.................stopped for speeding.
And they are enforcing the law!!!!!!!
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DENNIS
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They just didn't offer enough money. Inflation ya know. It's everywhere.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
They just didn't offer enough money. Inflation ya know. It's everywhere. |
That's a perspective I hadn't looked at.
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My brother has a helmet cam video of him bribing a cop in Ensenada who pulled him over for doing wheelies. It lasts about 10 mins and ends with the
cop telling him to throw the money in the car rather than handing it to the cop.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bent-rim
My brother has a helmet cam video of him bribing a cop in Ensenada who pulled him over for doing wheelies. It lasts about 10 mins and ends with the
cop telling him to throw the money in the car rather than handing it to the cop. |
Another smart cop. He couldn't see a camera right in his face? You'd think they would be looking for that.
I guess they just don't care.
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When we were in Mexico City, the cop that stopped us about had a fit when I put the cash in my hand and held it out of the window! I can't remember
how he had me hand it to him in the end.....but what a farce.
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Try bribing a PFP (highway patrolman) and say hello to las esposas (handcuffs). A substantially wealthy Mexican living in Cuernavaca went to jail for
offering 5,000 pesos to a PFP to forget about him driving drunk at double the posted speed limit. The cop arrested him. In jail he offered 10,000
pesos to el sargento. A second charge was added to the first. It (the 2nd bribe attempt) was captured on camera at la commandancia. This made for good
headlines in México. The PRD leadership in the state used the incident to the max for PR. Later on I read the rico was a notorious PRIISTA figure.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
They just didn't offer enough money. Inflation ya know. It's everywhere. |
Very good point Dennis... a $20 bribe 25 years ago meant something, but today, $100 MIGHT cut it.
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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I'm glad the TJ Cops turning altruistic, the only thing
I take from the article is, as D mentions, the mordida
has to be more than lunch $. So if the Officer himself
mentions paying him directly, does that let one off the
hook for offering a bribe?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob H
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
They just didn't offer enough money. Inflation ya know. It's everywhere. |
Very good point Dennis... a $20 bribe 25 years ago meant something, but today, $100 MIGHT cut it. |
Everything comes down to how good a negotiator you are. Some pay more some pay less.
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F*ck it.
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Do TJ cops issue traffic tickets to foreign plated cars?
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
Do TJ cops issue traffic tickets to foreign plated cars? |
I don't know about now, but they used to. I have a mail box at Postal Annex in San Ysidro, and so does/did the city of TJ. They would allow ticket
payment to their address in SY.
Surprisingly, they got a lot of mail.
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SFandH
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Thanks for the reply. I'm just wondering if they no longer take on the spot payments of the fine, then what happens? I've read smaller towns take you
to a municipal office to pay, but TJ is a huge place. That could be a giant hassle for you and the cop. They must be issuing tickets.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
I'm just wondering if they no longer take on the spot payments of the fine |
Ohhh....don't worry about that. Mordida is anything but a thing of the past. It's alive and well, and going nowhere any time soon.
Jans article is tourism propaganda.
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[Edited on 6-9-2013 by DENNIS]
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WE won't pay no Stinking Bribes
NEVER HAVE - NEVER WILL.
Many times however, at the suggestion of LE personnel, I Have paid for numerous infractions directly to the officer who said that he would be
HAPPY to pay the court on my behalf.
Talk about GREAT customer service.
It's a far superior and more efficient system.
Although, that ONE occasion when I was stopped for 41 mph in a 60km (36 mph) zone did seem a bit picky.
Given that there was only one such over hundreds of trips in 49 years, No Complaints.
ANYBODY who suggests a bribe to a Mex Cop deserves whatever he gets.
Another example of Darwinism.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
Do TJ cops issue traffic tickets to foreign plated cars? |
Under a reciprocity agreement the US will not ticket Mexican plated cars unless Mexico tickets US plated cars
Bob Durrell
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
Do TJ cops issue traffic tickets to foreign plated cars? |
Under a reciprocity agreement the US will not ticket Mexican plated cars unless Mexico tickets US plated cars |
The "promise to appear" part, when you sign your name on the citation becomes a little dicey when that cited person lives in another country.
I wonder how many Mexicans driving MX plated cars would actually return to say, San Diego, and appear in traffic court.....and conversely, how many
Americans would actually return to say, Tijuana, and appear in a court.
If that Mexican were driving on a valid California license, a failure to appear would result in a arrest warrant being issued and the next venture to
San Diego or beyond, could result in his/her arrest on the spot, if stopped by law enforcement and the drivers license number fed into the system.
In this day and age of "instant" intelligence concerns, who really knows if the California Department of Justice actually "talks" to data entered in a
MX court system or not.
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Ask the NSA
They KNOW who talks to WHO.
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