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Presidential hopeful Scioli sends another 10.000 police on the beat in Buenos Aires province
Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli has reinforced his 2015 electoral platform promoting law-and-order and tackling crime after inspecting the 10,000 police cadets that graduated from the Juan Vucetich academy. The police officers will be joining the Buenos Aires provincial police and will be soon patrolling Greater Buenos Aires, rural areas and will be part of communal police forces. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCrist, crime must be rife in BA if they need 10,000 police officers, is that one for every street corner or just concentrated near VILLA 31?
Dec 01st, 2014 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Some areas around Buenos Aires, known as “conurbano bonaerense”, resemble an african war zone, where hordes of criminals, squatters, illegal immigrants and narcos run on the loose stealing and killing.
Dec 01st, 2014 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0That´s the peronist party backbone. It is from there where they purchase its main flow of voters, by exchanging votes for social welfare.
And let´s not forget narcos, who pay for presidential rallies (remember, Cristina Kirchner?).
LEO are unprepared, barely equipped, and if they dare to shoot a criminal (even an armed one) they end up jailed.
Under that scenario, does anyone actually and reasonably believe that a change is possible?
Short answer: NO
They need that poor-factory working 24/7 (elections next year), they need the dirty money that comes from crime, they need to maintain such status in order to retain power.
Peronism at its best.
...and then they pretend the folks from the FI to love Argentina and decide to be part of it. If given the option, Argentina should belong to the FI ASAP if we still have any hope to survive and get back on our own feet. Or, we can keep doing as we have done so far, and soon enough we will be like Cuba, Venezuela or 80´s Colombia.
Poor Argentina, poor poor Argentina. It didn´t look it was gonna end up like that :´(
25% of the Bonaerense officers have charges against them. Vucetich doesn't have the capacity to just graduate 10 k policemen even if with 6 months you can become a cop.Ohhh forgot its election times next year...
Dec 01st, 2014 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Its all about having guys that bearly know how to write dressed up as cops and have them wandering around the conurbano for people to see them.
No quality, just numbers that in future are going to be more of the problem than a solution
just over 5k will be on the beach ? they are not expecting the Falkland islanders to invade are they
Dec 01st, 2014 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The police is where the corruption begins.
Dec 01st, 2014 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The first thing someone told me is never let the police see how much money you have.
Another useful tip is always have a reasonably high peso note in your driving license, I am going back many years now.
Dec 01st, 2014 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6
Dec 03rd, 2014 - 01:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0ha. This is the usual in Venezuela currently. Although they much, much prefer USD than BSF...
Honestly, I have had very annoyed policia/guardia-nacional because I 'only' put BSF, (not US$), in my Passport/driving Licence when handing over to them.
Cheeky bastards!
@5
Dec 05th, 2014 - 05:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0I do not doubt you here!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-05/protests-spread-to-u-s-cities-as-thousands-take-to-nyc-streets.html
Burn baby burn
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