Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Is It Cultural?

The Associated Press reports on the USA Today website that the FBI is arresting Puerto Rico police and corrections officers on grounds of corruption. This is an interesting echo of the arrests and firings of corrupt police throughout Mexico.

All of this raises the question, is this an Hispanic cultural artifact or a result of the narcotics plague and the huge amounts of money associated therewith? Certainly the narcotics money explanation is the politically correct response.

If narco-dollars are the primary cause, shouldn't we be seeing similar arrests among police and prison guards in the mainland U.S.? I'm just saying....