Thread: Crime, Safety, and the Police
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05-28-16 19:38 #1080
Posts: 6555Sindicatura
I reported on their web site.
They wanted me to come into their office and bring evidences and witnesses.
Have not had time in their office hours to do it.
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05-28-16 04:50 #1079
Posts: 1082Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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05-27-16 22:38 #1078
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by BaxterSlade [View Original Post]
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05-17-16 02:24 #1077
Posts: 8Originally Posted by Steven [View Original Post]
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05-17-16 00:32 #1076
Posts: 6555Sindicatura
Your walking path has medium risks early in the evening, but after 10 PM Constitucion and Calle 1 have been known for choke holding rateros in the last few years.
I would rather fight traffic tickets from stupid, corrupt cops than a few rateros with knives. Driving is still safer, quicker and less work walking that distance. You just have to learn how to deal with policias without fear. I have seen Mexicans begged off tickets from a moto cop on Calle 3 near Revolucion.
Just write down all identifications about them and mention "Sindicatura. " They would go on to rob the next weak and stupid guys rather than risking answering to prosecutors. The moto cop I reported last year no longer work near La Zona.
Originally Posted by Steven [View Original Post]
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05-16-16 04:35 #1075
Posts: 151Driving and parking
I have been making my approaches and my exits from the west as indicated by several brothers here. But lately I found a new method. Driving into el centro you go up third, and right before it hits Revoluciand you enter to the right into the Soriano parking lot. There is a 24 hour grocery with a good ATM machine and 24 hour security. I exit the lot and walk up second which is well lit with traffic and people all hours of the day and night and make a right on Constitucion. And walk down the hill into the zona, past some of my favorite paraditas. Returning to the car I come up the hill on constitution and make a left to get on second walk up to Revoluciand and a little past it into the parking lot. Then to the border, simply exit the lot on segunda right to all border lanes. Never a cop to be seen.
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05-15-16 23:51 #1074
Posts: 536Corruption vs. violence
Originally Posted by MikeyOC [View Original Post]
My initial comment was about corruption, not violence.
For the kind of experience you describe, you'd have to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or about half the countries in Latin America.
As someone who used to work in Compton, right where the Mona Park Crips turf intersects (violently) with the Largo 36-ers, I'd say it was a good idea to stay cautious, and stay aware, wherever you might go.
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05-15-16 05:49 #1073
Posts: 8Originally Posted by WombatEd2 [View Original Post]
Back to my trip report tonight. I took the route that someone suggested here: going west on Coahuila instead of east toward Madero and then left on Mutualismo to get onto Calle 2. This was about 7 PM tonight and there were just way too many police trucks there. One truck was following me but luckily I was not stopped. They usually get you on your way out. Since I was going in the opposite direction, they didn't stop me? I don't know.
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05-15-16 02:11 #1072
Posts: 536Not always bad cops
Originally Posted by Hargow20 [View Original Post]
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05-14-16 17:42 #1071
Posts: 2635Personally I have not had any problems with cops in Tijuana. I do not drink and do not drive in Tijuana. The police has only stopped me twice once to look in my shoulder bag and the other time to ask where I was going on the pedestrian bridge.
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05-14-16 16:26 #1070
Posts: 536Most corrupted Country
Originally Posted by MikeyOC [View Original Post]
This Wikipedia article lists Mexico as 95th of 167, with the USA at #16, and North Korea at 167. That puts Mexico pretty much in the middle of the pack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrup...ceptions_Index
In other words, while Mexican corruption sucks, it's nowhere near the worst in the world.
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05-14-16 08:00 #1069
Posts: 3214Originally Posted by MikeyOC [View Original Post]
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05-14-16 03:15 #1068
Posts: 8I've been to many "Tourist" places and I think Mexico is the only place where the tourists are harassed by local police. You would think that you, as a tourist who brings US dollars to help the local economy would get a nice welcome treatment from policia, much less harassment and extortion.
Well, what do you expect? Mexico is one of the most corrupted countries in the world so you need to expect the unexpected the moment you cross the border. Remember, the Mexican law is exact opposite of the US criminal law. You are guilty until proven innocent. This is why people get thrown into jail without proven guilty and we know the Mexican jail is the last place you want to be. I am not trying to scare anybody but I am trying to say that we need to realize what we are getting ourselves into, once we cross the border. Well, I am heading to LZ tomorrow. I will try the route someone suggested here and report back.
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05-13-16 02:09 #1067
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by BaxterSlade [View Original Post]
I was changing LZ hotels and carrying more dinero than normal. My last bag was still in my room, the Leyva folks knew I was checking out by 1 PM. And I was scheduled to meet up with QW in just a few minutes at another LZ hotel.
Consequently I probably would have been more willing to pay a mordida than usual because of the time crunch.
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05-12-16 20:22 #1066
Posts: 1082Looks like you lucked out Scatman. That is the exact same spot my amigo got jacked up for carryi g ED meds. It cost him 2 hours of his time $80 . And left him bruised up after the trip to the field.