In the midst of a scandal over the police shooting of a university president’s son, the government of Honduras launched an unprecedented effort last year to clean up a U.S.-backed police force widely seen as deeply brutal and corrupt.
One by one, hundreds of police officers were called to a hotel in the capital and subjected to polygraph tests administered by Colombian technicians funded by the U.S. government. “Have you received money from organized crime?” they were asked in a series of questions about wrongdoing. “Have you been involved in serious crimes?” SEE MORE…
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Today’s crime rates in Latin America make it the most violent region in the world. Deteriorating security conditions across the region and equally pervasive perceptions of insecurity have contributed to the widespread belief that governments are only taking blind stabs at the problem and that nothing attempted to date has shown results. The view is that the situation has only become more unmanageable.
