Amid Protests and Rampant Crime, Mexico Struggles to Get Police Forces Under Control Nathaniel Parish Flannery - Fox News Latino
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During December Mexicoâs Federal Police sent additional patrols to Acapulco, Mexicoâs most famous Pacific Coast resort city. (Nathaniel Parish Flannery/Fox News Latino)

ACAPULCO –  Far from the well-patrolled tourist area of beachfront hotels, high in the densely-populated shanty towns above the beaches, residents face the ever-present threat of violent crime.

More than three dozen people have been killed in Acapulco during the month of December, four murdered on Christmas day alone. On Dec. 28, the body of an 18-year-old man was found in the trunk of a car. He had been beaten and strangled.

...In early December, Mexico sent 1,600 Federal Police officers to secure Acapulco’s tourist districts and to prevent violent crime in the city’s shanty towns during the holiday season, a critical time of the year for Acapulco’s tourist trade.

Mexico’s Federal Police Chief, Enrique Galindo, spoke to Fox News Latino while he visited Acapulco as part of an operation in early December.

“Crime is an issue of perception,” he said. “Two or three years ago Acapulco had a security crisis. Now it’s not like that. We’ve taken apart the two major organized crime groups that were here. Now it’s low-impact crime.”

Acapulco is the largest city in the troubled state of Guerrero, where 43 students disappeared in late September after they were detained by municipal police in the town of Iguala, about two hours from this beach resort.

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