The country's 31 governors and the mayor of Mexico City are leading an eight-day offensive aimed at lower-grade offenses that most irk ordinary Mexicans, like car thefts and muggings.
The high-profile crackdown, which began Monday, is being touted as an unprecedented bid by state authorities across Mexico to join hands, if temporarily, against the nation's crime epidemic. The drive, named after the acronym of the governors' association, is called CONAGO 1, sounding more like a deep-space probe than a splashy hunt for bad guys. ...
That may sound like welcome news. But although many Mexicans long for safer streets — especially amid a bloody drug war that has killed nearly 40,000 people — the governors' vaunted rollout has been met with skepticism.
After all, many residents wondered aloud, isn't fighting crime what cops are supposed to do?"
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