'We're easy victims:' Inside the country so dangerous to police that officers are fleeing

[rangerrebew]

 'We're easy victims:' Inside the country so dangerous to police that officers are fleeing
4 Mar, 2019 2:20pm
 
By: Kevin Sieff

They were given one of the most dangerous orders in policing: Take down MS-13.

They were bankrolled by the United States and trained by FBI agents.

But members of the Salvadoran police have been killed by the dozens in each of the past three years, most in attacks that investigators and experts blame on MS-13, an international street gang. At least nine officers were killed in the first month of this year.

Now, a number of El Salvador's police officers are fleeing the gang they were tasked with eliminating.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12209317

[rangerrebew]

MS-13 is the group Nazi Pelosi believes are choir boys and don't deserve to be called thugs.

[rustynail]

Shining examples of the machismo culture?

[Sanguine]

Shining examples of the machismo culture?

Machismo is not the issue.  It is an example of the thug culture.

[Fishrrman]

When the police are fleeing for their lives, you know it's too late.

Groups of criminals like this will only be cleaned out by the military using Duterte-style tactics...