Sleepless in Mexico

What's it say about the effectiveness of law enforcement when the head of the state police needs to reside in a safe house in a foreign country? I would suggest it means that law enforcement is merely a mirage in his own jurisdiction?

Saul Hernandez, director of the [Mexican] Chihuahua state police, now resides in El Paso, Texas, since the last several weeks and crosses the border on a daily basis to carry out his duties. All this for “reasons of security.”

Across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Ciudad Juarez last week recorded its 1,000th homicide for 2008.

Companion post at Diggers Realm.