Crime, Safety, and the Police

[Jackie888]

Article from "The San Diego Union Tribune".

"Meth and murder: A new kind of drug war has made Tijuana one of the deadliest cities on Earth" link https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...L6guOG0OQrt30g.

I am sure a couple of the Chicas in HK are on meth bases on their fuck up teeth and bony faces. And I've had some chicas confessed to me that they use meth. I believe that the guys yelling "quarto" in the alley are the street distributors. How unfortunate that they are likely protected as the police ignores them while they peddle meth publicly. It would have been a pleasure to see one of these dealers slip and fall under a passing truck.

[Travv]

Ran into a deportee (From his good English) who tried to Interview me around dusk when I was coming back from dinner on Revolucion near the Kentucky Fried Buches restaurant. Asked me a question, tried to get close, started demanding money, then I demanded that he "Dejame in Paz" and had my pepper spray ready to go in my right hand while motioning him to stay back with my left. Once he saw I had the pepper spray with my thumb on the trigger, he stopped following me. Recommend guys buy a cheap pepper spray in the USA for around $6 to 9 bucks. Once the Rateros notice you have it, they back off fast. Keep it in your hand in your pocked in Ratero areas. If they jump you, you'll need it fast. If they speak good English, be on the alert, because they probably got deported for committing crimes in the USA.

[StRobert]

Article from "The San Diego Union Tribune".

"Meth and murder: A new kind of drug war has made Tijuana one of the deadliest cities on Earth" link https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...L6guOG0OQrt30g.

[Aviator400]

You should just expect it. Walking down the sidewalk. Walking down the street. In a cab. Just standing next to a Taco cart. It happens often, you just may have dodged the odds awhile. On a now defunct Tijuana forum there were a few who were certain the cab drivers in front of HK were in the fix with the policia and signaled them (lights off at night, flash Hi beams, etc) and would only hail cabs around the corner. I was searched 3 times in under 15 minutes and 1/4 mile of lawfully walking down the sidewalk (walked from Alley to Tijuana Ped bridge over Tijuana river).

Around Late Nov. Mid December its nearly 100% guarantee after 5 pm you will either be stopped or watch someone get stopped and searched, esp on Ped Bridge over River that leads to El Chapparral, aka PedWest. As stated, you need to train your muscle instinct to grab money first the moment you see a Tijuana police car approaching. Don't change your gait, just be ready. Money first, phone second, and then ID. Keep phone and money in front. Have your money consolidated if you want to keep all of it. Orphaned bills (money not in hand and with main stash) is likely to disappear. Remember your phone is money.

I've had an attempted mugging on sidewalk next to HK, stairwell of Ped Bridge over Tijuana river and on Coahulia / Revo sidewalk. The main takeaway from that video is this: all MAAM need to be 100% locked on your radar when within 20-30 feet. MAAM is military aged adult males. If they can throw a haymaker or pull a trigger accurately, they are a threat.

I usually handle by becoming the aggressor but this isn't everyones cup of tea. I have a preset notion of positioning and tactics I plan based on opportunity and number / size of threats. The best advice is to avoid. If I come off Coahulia onto Revo and its deserted, I watch for the emergence of a group of males. If seen, turn around and take Constitucion (west side, away from cuantos / drug dealers).

If you do decide to square up, "if the fight is fair, your tactics suck. " Control timing, space and fight dirty as hell. My #1 goal is to end it as fast and brutally as possible. I know its probably going to be read as posturing but I will firmly tell you from experience you can often guide a situation by becoming the aggressor. Just always position so a wall is behind you or keep an eye on your flanks.

Use your advantages. If you're 200+ you outweigh 95% of Most younger Mexican nationals. I had one mugger try to herd me and I took him backwards down stairs as I used my weight to pin him. The mugger with him (likely US deportee as his English had no accent) was my size so I punched him before he had a chance to close the gap and assault me first.

The Tijuana police will be useless and if they pseudo-arrest the guy, the ratero will be on the street again about the time you're are out of view.

Enjoyed reading this. Decent advice with a touch of humor.

Walked that route often, always on high alert and only in daylight.

After dark or if the hair on the back of my neck is standing up, I take a cab, which is not 100% preventing a stop or attack, as you have pointed out, but I have not had any issues when riding in a cab or the limo.

[Orlanr]

17 Murders this month. https://www.breitbart.com/border/201...kJE0DJKR1r8P1w.

[BearBare]

You should just expect it. Walking down the sidewalk. Walking down the street. In a cab. Just standing next to a Taco cart. It happens often, you just may have dodged the odds awhile. On a now defunct Tijuana forum there were a few who were certain the cab drivers in front of HK were in the fix with the policia and signaled them (lights off at night, flash Hi beams, etc) and would only hail cabs around the corner. I was searched 3 times in under 15 minutes and 1/4 mile of lawfully walking down the sidewalk (walked from Alley to Tijuana Ped bridge over Tijuana river).

Around Late Nov. Mid December its nearly 100% guarantee after 5 pm you will either be stopped or watch someone get stopped and searched, esp on Ped Bridge over River that leads to El Chapparral, aka PedWest. As stated, you need to train your muscle instinct to grab money first the moment you see a Tijuana police car approaching. Don't change your gait, just be ready. Money first, phone second, and then ID. Keep phone and money in front. Have your money consolidated if you want to keep all of it. Orphaned bills (money not in hand and with main stash) is likely to disappear. Remember your phone is money.

I've had an attempted mugging on sidewalk next to HK, stairwell of Ped Bridge over Tijuana river and on Coahulia / Revo sidewalk. The main takeaway from that video is this: all MAAM need to be 100% locked on your radar when within 20-30 feet. MAAM is military aged adult males. If they can throw a haymaker or pull a trigger accurately, they are a threat.

I usually handle by becoming the aggressor but this isn't everyones cup of tea. I have a preset notion of positioning and tactics I plan based on opportunity and number / size of threats. The best advice is to avoid. If I come off Coahulia onto Revo and its deserted, I watch for the emergence of a group of males. If seen, turn around and take Constitucion (west side, away from cuantos / drug dealers).

If you do decide to square up, "if the fight is fair, your tactics suck. " Control timing, space and fight dirty as hell. My #1 goal is to end it as fast and brutally as possible. I know its probably going to be read as posturing but I will firmly tell you from experience you can often guide a situation by becoming the aggressor. Just always position so a wall is behind you or keep an eye on your flanks.

Use your advantages. If you're 200+ you outweigh 95% of Most younger Mexican nationals. I had one mugger try to herd me and I took him backwards down stairs as I used my weight to pin him. The mugger with him (likely US deportee as his English had no accent) was my size so I punched him before he had a chance to close the gap and assault me first.

The Tijuana police will be useless and if they pseudo-arrest the guy, the ratero will be on the street again about the time you're are out of view.

[Travv]

Excellent Youtube to watch before visiting Mexico or other areas with lots of muggers. Video shows actual muggings and beatings on video and shows how to identify muggers spotting you and "Interviewing" you for an attack. May save your life, so I recommend watching this repeatedly until you can quickly recognize danger signs that you are about to be attacked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPbCw9pV90c

[Travv]

There are Zona Nortes in every American city where men pay for sex. They are called divorce courts and the lawyers and ex-wives will decide how much you will pay. In the American Zona Nortes, men pay alimony, sometimes for life. As I tell divorced guys, the difference between divorce lawyers and Zona Norte chicas is not very much. They both will screw you for money, but you will enjoy it a lot more in Tijuana!

This is not normal behavior to gringos in the rest of Mexico. I watch many gringo you tubers living in Mexico and not having this stuff done. The whole zona Norte has attracted everyone's attention, the policia, federales, it's green light to bother gringos, I doubt North America has another two small street area as populated with so many machine guns and bullet proof vests. USA needs to just have its own zona Norte already.

[ScottHall]

Yikes, I've never been pulled out of a cab before. It sounds like these guys are getting desperate, just fishing without a pole. Anything American is gong to get hassled.

[Long Don Silva]

Saturday night, shortly before midnight in the cab on the way from the border to the ZN, the police flagged me down at a checkpoint. They asked the driver where he's going and he told them La Coahuila. When the police looked at me, I spoke loud and clearly, "Hola, señor. " Asked me where I was going, "La Coahuila. " I wanted to make it clear to them that I'm not any ol' pinche guero and they'd be able to have a productive communication with me in their own language.

Told me to step out the car, asked me for ID and what I do for work. Answered, they took my passport and told me to put my hands on the trunk. Fortunately, from all the reading I've done on this forum, I already had all my cash in my left hand and just put both hands face down on the trunk with my left hand on top of my cash. One of the police asked me what is that and I told him it's my money. The other asked me all the same questions the first guy asked. He proceeded to hand me my passport and tell me that we're all set.

[Captain Solo]

Wednesday night 10 PM on Coahuila across from Adelita, a policia patrol car stopped a brand new $100 K black Maserati Quattroporte with Mexico's plate. It was the first time I saw an exotic car with Mexico plate in Tijuana; most are hand-me-down, worn out old clunkers. We were walking in front of Adelita on the way to check out Chicago. 2 Policia guys had the young Mexican driver out of the car talking, checking papers. My wingman said he wanted to see how the scene work out.

We went to Chicago then walked back to HK. 15 minutes later Policia was still taking their time talking to the Mexican driver. They asked him to pop the trunk for search. The guy looked extremely nervous, shuffling quickly back to the cockpit to release the trunk. Unless the guy is Garlos Sim's son, what kinds of work does he do in La Zona Norte to afford a brand-new $100 K Maserati? Looked like policia either busted a couple kilos contraband in the trunk or took a huge mordida to let the guy go. In the past, policias were afraid of taking bribes in that area due to mulitple security cameras filming. We kept walking to avoid risks of shoot outs ect. Did not know how it turned out.

On the way back on Sentri lane, the young and pretty CBP spinner with her pony tail asked us to pop the trunk and what we were doing in Mexico; the answer was, " Visiting friends. " She asked us again sarcastically, " Visiting again this week?" She could see in her computer our crew had crossed into Mexico frequently, sometimes twice a week. We said we just love our Mexican friends, hehe. Perhaps she was jealous that she was working for Mr. Trump without pay, while we were having good times in Mexico?

Is it against the laws to ask your pretty CBP agents for dates?

[Captain Solo]

I got pulled over so many times on I5 and I805. The confluence of I805 merging into I5 is heavily monitored by CHP. Don't know how CHP monitor high speed or reckless cars, may be with radars, speed cameras or drivers on freeways.

A few times CHP would let me go with warnings, probably due to the flight jacket I was wearing. A few times I could see CHP patrol cars scurrying to catch up with me, so I just let off the accelerator to slow down to legal limit without braking. The officers would catch up and look me over with disgust but could do nothing hehe. Once a motorcycle CHP followed me on I5 North at my 5 o'clock blind spot for 10 miles, waiting for me to make a mistake to bust me, but I sensed danger and was careful to stuck to all traffic rules. Man, It was scary but exciting, like flying a fighter jet in combat, looking out for enemies to crawl up behind and ram a big heat-seeking missile up your asses hehe.

Twice a San Diego attorney, Elizabeth Aronson, got the tickets dismissed. She only charges $50 to fight speeding and $100 for reckless driving. Look her up.

But CHP keeps records. The last 2 times Liz could not dismiss or reduce the charges. The Ticket Clinic in LOS Angeles is a bunch of useless crooks. Local governments are going all out to raise revenues with traffic tickets. I was in court when I guy was ticketed by Garden Grove PD for discharging flaming materials in public. He flicked cigarette ash out of his window and got nailed for over $500 in fines and fees, WTF?

I kept telling my new wingman to slow down below 85 on I5/805 or he will get a reckless driving ticket. One night he passed right in between 2 big rig trucks doing 3-digit speed. The car could have been sucked in and crushed under the big rigs' wheels. This guy has not seen some horrific accidents so he has no fear. I want to stay alive and unbroken to vist my pretty chicas every week hehe.

I rarely if ever see CHP pulling cars over at night in the south bay at night. Now perhaps that's because I take I-5 back to Pt Loma.

[Muncher8888]

CHP also targets cars coming back from Mexico for drunk driving. I had to do a walking alcohol test once and passed, but was still nailed for speed.

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[BearBare]

I rarely if ever see CHP pulling cars over at night in the south bay at night. Now perhaps that's because I take I-5 back to Pt Loma.

I lived in Point Loma for about 3 years of Zona Norte travels and never saw them on 5 either. Now I live inland and take 805. Still none. Only time I've ever seen LEO really after anyone in last 4-5 years was a table set up at PedEast that was asking anyone under 25 in appearance to show their ID before going to the carousels and into Mexico.

[Hargow20]

I rarely if ever see CHP pulling cars over at night in the south bay at night. Now perhaps that's because I take I-5 back to Pt Loma.

Of course different policias target different cars suspected of illegal activities, or just fancy, exotic cars which mean drivers have money. The Coahuila stretch has very disproportionately high patrols by Army, Marinas, Polcicias Estatale, Policias Municipal in cars and on motorbikes, not to mention the foot patrols and undercovered agents. Outside of Coahuila, policia patrols are rarely seen, if ever. WTF?

Due to a large population of Mexican driving California cars with expired registrations to avoid paying taxes, in the day time I see Tijuana policias pull over a lot of older sedans with Mexican-looking drivers. They will impound unregistered vehicles. So make sure yours have current registrations.

At night the policia assholes would target mongers leaving La Zona Norte for shakedowns. They know mongers have money and would demand to search pockets and wallets to steal cash. Hold your wallet, cash and all valuables in hands while they rifle through your pockets and they won't be able to steal anything. Their jobs are to search cars and individuals for evidence of crimes, like drugs or guns. If the bros have not done anything illegal, there is nothing for them to fear. Just hold your valuables so they can't steal.

A few times a month on Friday nights at midnight, Policias would set up alcohol check points on Benito Juarez, corner of Negrete, the choke point before the street splinters 3 ways back to the US and Tecate. They would talk to you to see any slurring in speech. Of course I told them I never drink beer or liquor. I went through it 4 or 5 times, only had to do the breath test oncce and passed.

CHP also targets cars coming back from Mexico for drunk driving. I had to do a walking alcohol test once and passed, but was still nailed for speed.

I have been driving into Tijuana for the past 6,7 years, also in Cancun, Cabos and PV on tours. I feel safe enough. The bros should not worry too much about policias or accidents driving in Tijuana. Not any worse than downtown LA.

Did the car look expensive or have bumper stickers or something else that stuck out? When I notice Americans getting pulled over, it is usually due to driving a flashy car like a white SUV that some Tijuana Cop probably covets and wants a closer look at his "dream car". On my last pullover by a Tijuana cop, he was asking questions like, how much did you pay for this jeep, is it gas or diesel, etc. , so I was pretty sure about why I got pulled over. Mexicans in general like "cuatramotos", so driving a nice 4 x 4 alone might be enough for a "speeding ticket". To be fair, CHP I believe does the same thing, but they probably target Ferraris just because they look "fast".