Saul Pena. who was to be named one of the five police chiefs in Ciudad Juarez on the border with Texas. was shot dead earlier this month. making him the 20th police official to be killed in Juarez this year. Just yesterday. a new Juarez police chief quit his post after receiving death threats. And more than 100 of the citys 1.700member police force have quit their jobs since January. Several Mexican police commanders have crossed into the United States and are seeking asylum. saying they are unprotected and fear for their lives. And who can blame them? According to the Associated Press. "Police who take on the cartels feel isolated and vulnerable when they become targets. as did 22 commanders in Ciudad Juarez when drug traffickers named them on a handwritten death list.
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