Mexico Fires 3,200 Police Officers For Incompetence, Corruption After Latest Political Assassination -- New York Daily News
Mexico fired 3,200 police officers for incompetence or corruption Monday, a day after another border town mayor was assassinated - the second in two weeks.
Another 1,020 federal officers face discipline because they failed a test that aims to identify who might take a drug lord's bribe.
The dramatic firing of 10% of Mexico's cops came as the three-year-old border drug war escalated to bloody new levels of violence.
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