The Federal District s Public Security - 3523 Words

At the end of 2000, Andrà ©s Manuel Là ³pez Obrador was elected as mayor of Mexico City. During this period, a massive crime rate was wide spreading in the city. The national capital’s general crime rate from 1995 to1998 had almost tripled. Là ³pez Obrador was aware that getting back the streets from lawbreakers would need a new methodology; therefore, he brought in Marcelo Ebrard Casaubà ³n, a proficient political leader, to lead the Federal District’s Public Security. Jointly they established new techniques that could record, map, and examine crime and bring about better preventive policing plans and more-effective allocation of police resources. Additionally, Ebrard appointed a panel to build a neighborhood police program, which will†¦show more content†¦The trend deteriorated from 1995 to 1998, in which the overall crime rate almost tripled. Later in the decades, the citizens were experiencing highest insecurity levels in the country. In December 2000, the Mexico’s residents voted for Andrà ©s Manuel Là ³pez Obrador as the new mayor. He managed to take control of the Mexican Police and embarking upon crime urgencies for his administration. Là ³pez Obrador publicly admitted that the city’s declining public security would lower the government’s control of Mexico City itself and that managing the situation was vital to the future of his minority party. According to Colegio and Arturo, â€Å"Là ³pez Obrador caught on to the idea that in order to have greater political control of the city as well as to have a political future, he needed to really engage on security issues† (Wayne 87). However, the initial advancement on security reforms deteriorated; when Leonel Godoy Rangel, a Public Security Secretariat head, stepped down to join the Michoacà ¡n’s state government. In 2002, Là ³pez Obrador set his reform plan back on track when he selected Marcelo Ebrard Casaubà ³n, an esteemed former poli tical opponent, to be in charge of the district’s public security secretariat. According to Ebrard, â€Å"Là ³pez Obrador needed someone with political leadership and skills,† (Rogers 2013). After Ebrard appointment as public security secretary. Dealing with the rising crime