On Drug Lord's Mexican Turf, Lines Blur Among Cops, Politicians and Crooks Tim Johnson - McClatchyDC
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At a police command center in Culiacan, Mexico, staffers monitor live closed circuit television images from around the city. (Tim Johnson/MCT)

CULIACAN, MEXICO — Walk into the command center of Culiacan’s municipal police department, and you see a huge bank of monitors showing closed-circuit images of street corners, captured by 190 or so all-seeing cameras that rotate and zoom.

Yet in this city of a million or so inhabitants, home turf of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the recently captured crime boss of the Sinaloa Cartel, the cameras and the 1,460 or so transit and street cops seem to miss a lot.

Despite multiple sightings of Guzman and other cartel bosses, police never could spot him. Some residents deem it willful blindness, a sign that lines blur easily among organized crime, police and politicians.

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