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Police Reform in Mexico’s Municipalities Daniel Sabet Georgetown University September 17, 2009

Police Reform in Mexico’s Municipalities Daniel Sabet Georgetown University September 17, 2009. The need for local police reform. The military is a limited tool Human rights abuses Too blunt an instrument Cannot be effective if its efforts are undermined by corrupt police .

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Police Reform in Mexico’s Municipalities Daniel Sabet Georgetown University September 17, 2009

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  1. Police Reform in Mexico’s Municipalities Daniel Sabet Georgetown University September 17, 2009

  2. The need for local police reform The military is a limited tool • Human rights abuses • Too blunt an instrument • Cannot be effective if its efforts are undermined by corrupt police

  3. Current reform and police professionalization efforts • SUBSEMUN (over US$ 300 million, 2009) • Vetting (over 100,000 tests, 2008-9) • Police civil service • Standardization and information sharing • Legal reforms • National agreement • CALEA • Judicial reforms

  4. Source: Survey of municipal police departments. Non-representative sample

  5. Source: Survey of municipal police departments. Non-representative sample

  6. Many accountability mechanisms but little accountability • Vetting • Human rights commissions • Compstat • Citizen services • Internal affairs departments • Reactive investigation of individual incidents based on complaints • Few cases of corruption • No complaints from fellow officers • Does not address collusion with organized crime • Focused on rotten apple rather than the rotten barrel

  7. Continued weaknesses • Uneven advances between rural and urban areas • Accountability mechanisms • Merit based promotions • Transparency and civil society oversight

  8. Why don’t good policies work? • Problems of design • Accountability mechanisms • Problems of implementation • Education • Merit based promotion • Vetting • Problems of institutionalization • Procedures • Selection criteria • Training • Equipment • In-service training • Citizen outreach

  9. Procedures in Mexicali

  10. The importance of a long term approach in Chihuahua

  11. The key questions • Can civil society oversight overcome the continuity problem? • And if it can, is civil society prepared to play this role? • Given the empirical inability to develop effective anti-corruption efforts in the current environment, is it reasonable to presume that accountability is the last step in a sequence of police reforms?

  12. Gracias! Daniel M. Sabet Georgetown University dms76@georgetown.edu http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/dms76/home.html

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