• SHOOTOUT: A shootout at an upscale business area in the Guadalajara metro area of western Mexico early this week -that left one dead and three others injured- has opened questions about the effectiveness of police response and the city’s expensive surveillance system.
• QUESTIONS: With no arrests yet, the shootout between unidentified armed men at a restaurant in the Zapopan municipality has left residents question why a rapid response squadron from the metro police never arrived and what is the value of a surveillance system that costed over US $42.2 million.
• ABSENCE: “I always saw here (police) surveillance all the time. And (on Monday) there was nothing from early in the day. All the time (there police is here). And on (Monday) there was none”, a nearby business worker who witnessed the shooting told MURAL newspaper. He asked no to be named.
• INCIDENTS: According to a timeline detailed in local media, the Jalisco state police were the first to arrive on site 15 minutes after the shootout started. The police chief in Zapopan, Juan Pablo Hernández, argued Thursday that his officers arrived much earlier but decided not to intervene because they were on foot.
