Crime, Safety, and the Police

[Travv]

Was sitting in Restaurante Azul when a series of gunshots in the alley went off. Everyone in the restaurant hit the floor. After the shooting stopped, the diners and myself went to the balcony to see the scene. Looked like a non-pro woman was shot (looked like some type of waitress in a white shirt) and lying in front of the Golden Palace Bar and the police were on the scene, motioning people away from the woman as if she were dangerous. The paraditas who normally stand next to Restaurante Azul ran into the restaurant then up to the 2 d floor balcony. Likely will find out tomorrow in the newspaper the details over the shooting. Can hear the ambulance sirens now.

[Captain Solo]

Over 1,500 murders in Tijuana the first 6 months of 2018 alone.

Per Tijuana local press, the Felix Arrelano cartel has been eliminated. With El Chapo arrested and extradited to the US, the Sinaloa cartel is weak and being butchered up by the JNG cartel for distribution and transportation of drugs through Baja California Norte.

Already major resort cities, Cancun, Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas, Puerta Vallarta ect have been deserted of visitors for the last 5 to 6 years. Search Youtube for videos showing local business owners complain bitterly that their businesses used to be crammed with visitors, but now completely empty due to fear of violence. These business people are also subjected to extortion and shakedown by the cartels. Taxi drivers in Acapulco have to pay protection or face death.

This is the beastly side that is violently destroying the beautiful country and people of Mexico.

"journalist Luis Alonso Perez Chavez, who documented the expansion of the cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacióand. For the past two years, this criminal organization has been trying to wrest control of the city from the hands of the Sinaloa cartel. ".

https://warisboring.com/tijuanas-morgue-is-overflowing/

Tijuana's Morgue Is Overflowing Drug murders spike.

WIB FRONT September 10,2018 Pierre Sautreuil and Clement Detry.

Forensic authorities in Tijuana are overwhelmed by an unprecedented wave of violence. Buried in mass graves without being identified, the victims add up to the list of tens of thousands of people who have gone missing since the beginning of the war on drugs.

Martíand de la Cruz Roja washes the inside of a Ford van belonging to the Public Ministry. Nobody accompanies him to fetch the corpses of Tijuana tonight. He's on his 10th homicide victims since starting his shift in late afternoon.

It has been a year and a half since Martíand's employer, the prosecutor's office of the State of Baja California, decided to delegate all the other duties to funeral companies — and that for a good reason. For the past two years, the fridges of the Tijuana morgue have been overflowing.

With the help of Caesar, who is on duty that night at the morgue, Martín lays four bodies on metal trays in the autopsy room. All of them were shot in the head with a small-caliber pistol — the weapon of choice for quiet murders — and stripped of their identity papers.

Caesar searches in vain for some room in the refrigerators dedicated to "new arrivals", but they are already full. In each compartment, at least one body out of two bears the mention "unknown" scribbled on a slate. Upstairs, Dr. Melina Moreno, deputy director in charge of mass graves in the Tijuana morgue, confirms that the rate of identification of murder victims barely reaches 50 percent.

Caesar sighs. "Fortunately, we're going tomorrow to the mass graves."

With more than 1,500 violent deaths in just six months, 86 percent of which are related to drug trafficking, this border town of a million-and-a-half inhabitants is now one of the deadliest cities in the world. But far from the images of war and the macabre staging that Mexico has seen since the beginning of the war on drugs in 2006, the victims of the cartels perish in the shadows in Tijuana.

"Nobody, including the belligerents, has any interest in seeing the violence come to light," says journalist Luis Alonso Perez Chavez, who documented the expansion of the cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacióand. For the past two years, this criminal organization has been trying to wrest control of the city from the hands of the Sinaloa cartel, resulting in a number of homicides never seen before.

"This cartel is known almost everywhere else for its spectacular violence, but here in Tijuana, its victims are left out, hidden, in outlying areas, and it has become even more difficult to identify them."

The next morning at the morgue, around 15 bodies piled on the ground wait for a place in the freezers. Caesar was supposed to go home long ago. Instead, he was requisitioned to bring 40 corpses to mass graves. It is the third excursion of this kind in only two weeks.

"We would like to make more room by increasing the number of burials in mass graves, but the state attorney is slowing us down, as if he was trying to lower homicide statistics," says Dr. Melina Moreno, deputy director in charge of mass graves in the Tijuana morgue, as she climbs into the van loaded with corpses.

The victims Melina and her colleagues were carrying were killed three or four weeks ago. Since it takes too long for the state attorney's office to deal with the administrative procedures, the morgue's personnel do them on the go. In the sweltering heat of July 2018, the stench of putrefaction spreads at every stop. Three hours later, the team finally reaches the 12th Tijuana Municipal Cemetery, a gigantic site inaugurated in 2004, already populated by 30,000 dead.

For lack of means and personnel, the employees of the mortuary have to dig the pits with shovels under the blazing sun. The bodies are then piled up at the bottom of the trench, a dozen per section. All around them, a myriad of nameless white crosses covers several hills. In each of the 495 pits opened in Tijuana since September 2015, more than 3,000 individuals lay anonymously. In 23 of them, only the heads and babies are buried.

Back at the morgue, Maria, a secretary, presents her records for the month of July. In 15 days, only 10 murder victims have been identified. Mélina and her colleagues will have to keep going to the mass graves, but the procedure remains slow, lasting one month on average.

Photos via the authors.

Unidentified bodies often stay in the freezers for more than six months before being buried. The body of a Guatemalan citizen even congested the main freezer for a year because of endless DNA data round-trips between Mexican and Guatemalan authorities.

"There is no systematic sharing of genetic information, both nationally and with neighboring countries," says Fernando Ocegueda, president of "United for the Disappeared," the main regional collective searching for missing persons. "Many deaths are not identified simply because they come another country or from another region of Mexico."

President-elect Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, due to take office in December 2018, has made justice for the victims of criminal violence a national reconciliation issue. His office has organized "listening forums" for relatives of missing people in violence stricken cities. Olga Sanchez Cordero, who has been appointed to take up the post of Minister of Justice, has sworn to bring out the "truth" for every case of disappearance, but healing this national trauma is a titanic task.

37,000 are currently still missing in the country, and the list is growing day by day. The difficulty lies in the lack of resources put into action, but also in the identification of the oldest missing persons, whose relatives are sometimes no longer there to put a name on the rare remains.

According to Jan Jarab, who represents the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico, this problem is structural and concerns the entire country. "Despite some efforts, the results have been insufficient to cope with the need to identify victims and investigate criminal violence," he says. "There is a need for investment to hire more staff, improve infrastructure and training, adopt new procedures and enshrine the autonomy of forensic experts. For that, Mexico should think of other solutions, including international cooperation. "

However, Tijuana's case might prove even more desperate than that of other Mexican cities, due to the extreme techniques used by local criminals to get rid of the bodies.

At the top of hill in the Maclovio Rojas district, in the eastern part of the city, Fernando Ocegueda returns once again to the Gallera, a former rooster-breeding farm where the Arellano-Felix cartel used to liquify its victims in caustic acid. At the height of the war between this criminal group and the Sinaloa cartel in the mid-2000's, dozens of facilities like this one worked day and night for the sole purpose of dissolving corpses.

"The bodies were dissolved, and the body fluids buried," says Ocegueda, pointing to two large underground tanks discovered in 2009. "In each of the two pits, we found 9,000 liters of organic emulsions, and a total of 20,000 bone fragments and teeth. ".

In 2011, all the remains discovered were sent for forensic analysis to Mexico City, but the acid is so damaging that only a handful of victims have been identified so far. Among them, the son of Fernando Ocegueda, gone missing at the age of 23.

For him and the other victims of the Arellano-Felix cartel, the "United for the Missing" association has begun the construction of a memorial on the Gallera, but the macabre discoveries keep postponing the time of mourning.

"According to a report, dissolved victims were also buried on this hill in front of us, but we haven't had the time to go search the premises yet," Fernando Ocegueda says, "there would also be under the small garden of palm trees, at the entrance of the building."

In 2017 only, more than 37,000 additional bone fragments were discovered in 27 different pits at the Gallera.

[Bbond]

Google translation is somewhat understandable.

"Presidente municipal de Tijuana.

Juan manuel gastélum.

Alinea tus putas perras, de los retenes.

O los tijuanenses nos vamos a levantar en armas y les vamos a partir en su madre hijos de su puta madre.

Comparte.

Mensaje a todas las embajadas why consulados:

Sus connacionales deben tener conocimiento que la ciudad de tijuana aparte de ser la más peligrosa del mundo.

Tiene la policía municipal más corrupta del mundo donde se hacen violaciones a los derechos humanos a diario a locales why extranjeros.

Donde las turistas son violadas por la propia policía municipal theónde son robados why extorsionados cuando les ponen armas why droga es por eso.

Que deben de avisar a sus connacionales no visitar o viajar a la ciudad más visitada del mundo que era la ciudad de Tijuana ya que no te tienes que cuidar de la delincuencia ni del crimen organizado sino de su propia policía municipal corrupta que tortura roba why viola a las turistas y a las locales."

Municipal President of Tijuana.

Juan Manuel Gastelum.

Line up your working girls dogs of the roadblocks.

Or the tijuanenses we're going to get up in guns and we're going to leave in his mother sons of his fucking mother.

Message to all embassies and consulates:

Their Nationals must be aware that the city of tijuana apart from being the most dangerous in the world.

He has the most corrupt municipal police in the world where human rights violations are made daily to premises and foreigners.

Where tourists are raped by the municipal police itself where they are stolen and extorted when they put guns and drugs that's why they must warn their nationals not to visit or travel to the most visited city in the world that was the city of Tijuana since You don't have to take care of crime or organized crime but of its own corrupt municipal police that torture steals and violates tourists and local people.

[MexiMonger]

OK so violence will most likely hit you if you are going around looking for drugs or hittin hookers or something like that.

I have been in tijuana for two days, going down the alley at all hours, even at 2 am and I feel safe, of course, always looking behind me and being low profile.

Police was there all the time, never left.

There was one at Adelitas door who would receive tips, it was hilarious because he was a federal policeman.

Anyway, just do common sense stuff. Do not do drugs in Tijuana, that's how you end up dead.

[Hargow20]

I typically only stay in Tijuana until 10 pm. I normally head back around 9-9:30 pm. Kayla comes out around 11 pm. But her prices are simply not worth it to justify sticking around.

One SG shared with me that most shootings happen after 11 - midnight, and she had switched her hours to earlier to avoid becoming a target. I would be extra vigilant mongering in the alley after 11 PM.

[MongerHunger]

I changed directions walking in the street in LA the other day, I begged with a cane was so paranoid I recognized him and was conning after him he was suddenly not needing the cane and running from me with his head turned to watch me. When people are up to no good, looking at anyone can be a problem.

Did you move back to California after informing us that you left the state recently?

[Travv]

I thought the whole alley and the inside of Cascadas and HK are full of security cameras. For example, if you look at the reception desk and elsewhere, they are abundant, probably to watch the desk clerk and bar staff and the cash registers along with the customers. There is a sign at Cascadas reception prohibiting hats, sunglasses and hoodies so guests can be videotaped. If Mexicans dislike being in pictures, then they should avoid the clubs and hotel area with all the video cams.

One thing to never do in Mexico is take pictures. Just having the phone out can make people think your taking pictures. I had a street girl grab my phone she thought I was taking video. The issue is so many people are up to no good they don't want to be located or filmed. This is not pattaya. I think its also illegal to film or take pictures. That's how bad things are. I changed directions walking in the street in LA the other day, I begged with a cane was so paranoid I recognized him and was conning after him he was suddenly not needing the cane and running from me with his head turned to watch me. When people are up to no good, looking at anyone can be a problem.

[Urfikhan]

My impression is that the Zona is safer these days. There is more police and they are arresting more of the ratero's and drug dealers. The crime still goes up and down so it is important to try be aware of when the crime is on the rise. This important because this when there is the most danger.

One SG shared with me that most shootings happen after 11 - midnight, and she had switched her hours to earlier to avoid becoming a target. I would be extra vigilant mongering in the alley after 11 PM.

[Asting]

Just a friendly reminder, do not jaywalk around those border crossing areas.

I'm sure most of you don't jaywalk. But in the case that some of you don't use the crosswalks or don't wait for the green light to cross, just a warning that there are cops stationed at some of those intersections and will cite you if they catch you.

I was in Tijuana today. That little street you cross from Jack in the Box to the trolley stop (on the way to Ped East entrance), the light was red and I saw some guy ignore the red light and walk across. I was temped to follow him but stopped for some reason, and then I saw a cop standing right there on the other side. The guy that crossed on red was nabbed by the cop and as I passed by, saw him handing over his ID and probably getting a ticket.

Be patient and wait for the green light at all times.

True, I have witnessed the same thing many times on that jack in the box intersection on Ped East.

Wait for the sign before you cross. This is not Tijuana, yet!

[Hargow20]

My impression is that the Zona is safer these days. There is more police and they are arresting more of the ratero's and drug dealers. The crime still goes up and down so it is important to try be aware of when the crime is on the rise. This important because this when there is the most danger.

Tijuana now in comparison to 10 years ago is much safer. Especially inside Hong Kong or Adelita clubs probably the safest places in Zona. Also Monte Carlo, Sonora Grill restaurants and OXXO opposite the Adelita no problem. In SG alley you have to be careful. Always use a taxi from the border to Zona and back. I can give you a link to video from about 10 years ago. Tijuana was like a war zone! Video - Tijuana shootout with cartel link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzXqFe5M5v0

[StRobert]

Tijuana now in comparison to 10 years ago is much safer. Especially inside Hong Kong or Adelita clubs probably the safest places in Zona. Also Monte Carlo, Sonora Grill restaurants and OXXO opposite the Adelita no problem. In SG alley you have to be careful. Always use a taxi from the border to Zona and back. I can give you a link to video from about 10 years ago. Tijuana was like a war zone! Video - Tijuana shootout with cartel link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzXqFe5M5v0

[StRobert]

Chiquito from the other website brings this recent happening to our attention:

This is maybe one or two blocks past La Perla restaurant.

Atacan a tiros a una mujer en la zona Norte de Tijuana.

El ataque ocurri sobre * las calles Coahuila why Mutualismo.

TIJUANA, Baja California (GH).

Una mujer result con lesiones por arma de fuego, la tarde de este martes en la zona Norte de Tijuana.

LOS hechos se reportaron alrededor de las 15:30 horas sobre las calles Coahuila why Mutualismo.

La mujer fue trasladada por socorristas de Cruz Roja a un hospital con al menos 5 disparos en diferentes partes del cuerpo, por lo que su condiciand es crtica.

Se inform que la Polica Municipal detuvo a una persona del sexo masculino relacionado con LOS hechos, quien traa un arma de fuego why abord una bicicleta.

Chiquito from the other website brings this recent happening to our attention:

This is maybe one or two blocks past La Perla restaurant.

They shoot a woman in the northern area of Tijuana.

The attack occurred on * the streets Coahuila why Mutualismo.

TIJUANA, Baja California (GH).

A woman was injured by firearms, this Tuesday afternoon in the northern zone of Tijuana.

The facts were reported around 15:30 hours on the streets Coahuila why Mutualismo.

The woman was taken by Red Cross lifeguards to a hospital with at least 5 shots in different parts of her body, so her condition is critical.

It was reported that the Municipal Police arrested a person of the male sex related to the events, who brought a firearm because he boarded a bicycle. (Translated by Google Translate).

[StRobert]

Shit is getting crazy! Translated by Google Translate.

Encuentran cadver de mujer en un tambo de basura en Tijuana.

Escuchar.

Por: ngel F. Gonzlez.

28/08/2018 10:45.

TIJUANA, Baja California (GH).

El cadver de una mujer fue localizado en un tambo de basura abandonado en la Zona Norte esta madrugada.

El hallazgo fue reportado en la calle Baja California, frente al albergue temporal "Tu lugar es a mi lado", en dicha colonia.

LOS agentes de la Polica Municipal confirmaron la presencia del cuerpo durante un recorrido de vigilancia, dentro de un bote de basura verde, del cual escurra sangre.

Edited just now by Sonero.

They find a woman's corpse in a trashcan in Tijuana.

Hear.

By: ngel F. Gonzlez.

08/28/2018 10:

TIJUANA, Baja California (GH).

The corpse of a woman was located in an abandoned trash bin in the North Zone this morning.

The finding was reported on Baja California street, in front of the temporary shelter "Tu lugar es a mi lado", in that colony.

The Municipal Police officers confirmed the presence of the body during a surveillance tour, inside a green trash can, from which blood flowed.

Edited just now by Sonero. (Translated by Google Translate)

[OlderMan4U]

Just a friendly reminder, do not jaywalk around those border crossing areas.

I'm sure most of you don't jaywalk. But in the case that some of you don't use the crosswalks or don't wait for the green light to cross, just a warning that there are cops stationed at some of those intersections and will cite you if they catch you.

I was in Tijuana today. That little street you cross from Jack in the Box to the trolley stop (on the way to Ped East entrance), the light was red and I saw some guy ignore the red light and walk across. I was temped to follow him but stopped for some reason, and then I saw a cop standing right there on the other side. The guy that crossed on red was nabbed by the cop and as I passed by, saw him handing over his ID and probably getting a ticket.

Be patient and wait for the green light at all times.

[Artisttyp]

Shit is getting crazy!

Encuentran cadáver de mujer en un tambo de basura en Tijuana.

Escuchar.

Por: Ángel F. González.

28/08/2018 10:45.

TIJUANA, Baja California (GH).

El cadáver de una mujer fue localizado en un tambo de basura abandonado en la Zona Norte esta madrugada.

El hallazgo fue reportado en la calle Baja California, frente al albergue temporal "Tu lugar es a mi lado", en dicha colonia.

LOS agentes de la Policía Municipal confirmaron la presencia del cuerpo durante un recorrido de vigilancia, dentro de un bote de basura verde, del cual escurría sangre.

Edited just now by Sonero.