{"id":30113,"date":"2010-10-31T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/drugs-winning-the-war-on-drugs\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:22:07","slug":"drugs-winning-the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/drugs-winning-the-war-on-drugs.php","title":{"rendered":"Drugs Winning the War on Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs are absolutely pwning the war on drugs. Recently, Mexico had a 20 year old woman become police chief of a border town because nobody else wanted the job, and now we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/2010\/10\/27\/2010-10-27_entire_police_force_in_los_ramones_mexico_quits_after_gunmen_attack_headquarters.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>The entire police force in a small Mexican town abruptly resigned Tuesday after its new headquarters was viciously attacked by suspected drug cartel gunmen.<\/p><p>All 14 police officers in Los Ramones, a rural town in northern Mexico, fled the force in terror after gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets and flung six grenades at their headquarters on Monday night.<\/p><p>No one was injured in the attack. Mayor Santos Salinas Garza told local media that the officers resigned because of the incident.<\/p><p>The gunmen&rsquo;s 20-minute shooting spree destroyed six police vehicles and left the white and orange police station pocked with bullet holes, the Financial Times reported.<\/p><p>The station had been inaugurated just three days earlier.<\/p><p>The attack was the second in less than a week against police forces in Nuevo Leon. Last week, thugs threw two grenades at police in Sabinas Hidalgo, according to newspaper Noroeste.<\/p><p>Los Ramones is in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, which has been a war zone of turf violence between two of the country&rsquo;s fiercest drug gangs, the Zetas and the Gulf cartel.<\/p><p>Police have blamed members of both cartels for attacks on several police stations throughout the area. Several mayors in the region have been assassinated.<\/p><p>Mexico&rsquo;s municipal police forces often quit out of fear after being attacked by cartels.<\/p><p>About 90% of forces have less than 100 officers, and 61% of cops earn less than $322 a month, according to the Finanical Times.<\/p><p>Mexico&rsquo;s intelligence chief said this summer that nearly 30,000 people have died in drug related crimes since 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/38516_18934603-5495813274511383868?l=radicallibertarians.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs are absolutely pwning the war on drugs. Recently, Mexico had a 20 year old woman become police chief of a border town because nobody else wanted the job, and now we have this:The entire police force in a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/drugs-winning-the-war-on-drugs.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}