Being a police officer is Mexico is not looked at as a positive thing. Over 61 percent of the state police force makes less than 325 dollars a month. You immediately have a bulls-eye on your head from the drug cartels. And you have a negative stigma in society. They work an extremely dangerous job, make very little money and are not appreciated in society so why do it. That is what the police force of Los Ramores asked themselves as they all resigned on October 28th after their station was attacked by the local cartels.
On October 28th several armed gunmen drove up and attacked the new station shooting it over 1500 times while throwing grenades. While none of the police were hurt, six police vehicles were destroyed and one k-9 unit was killed by the gunfire and grenade blasts. Reacting out of fear for their lives all 14 police officers quit and even fled the town. This all happened just three days after the inauguration ceremony of the new station. The government has sent the local military to police the town until a new force is trained and hired. However there is speculation that finding a new force will be extremely difficult.
This area of Mexico was considered to be one of the more peaceful areas until recent attacks like this started happening on local police and several mayors have been killed. This happened among three separate massacres that have happened in the past two weeks.
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