Officials say Mexican state police killed four alleged gunmen near the border with Guatemala, then pursued more suspects into ...

What is behind the violence? Mexico suffers from a chronic police shortage, with 116,000 positions unfilled around the country. The Government Security Agency says Mexico only has around half of ...

Two police officers were shot to death ... Guanajuato has the highest number of homicides of any state in Mexico, largely due to drug cartel violence. For years, the Santa Rosa cartel has fought ...

An official who asked not to be identified said the dead were members of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel​.

These are not isolated events; they happen because state officials in Mexico protect organized crime—not occasionally but ...

In Mexico, police have long had a reputation of corruption and extrajudicial violence. Surveys show police are among the least trusted of government employees. The fact that police frequently ...

especially in being more systematic about their approaches and thinking about how to get lethal violence down in very pragmatic ways.” But Mexico City’s police force is one of just a few law ...

The Mexican army has seized the weapons of local police in the cartel-dominated city of Culiacan in the country’s northwest Sinaloa state as violence and gunfights have ravaged the city in ...

Authorities are investigating the shooting of a man killed by police at his northwestern New Mexico home after they ... a call reporting a domestic violence incident around 11:30 p.m. and went ...