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produced the substance for only $ 400 per kilo or so. Thus, Pereira publicly lamented, criminals could even lose a full 90% of their supply through anti-drug efforts and still receive significant returns; for instance, a mobster cleaned out of all but 100 of his initial 1,000 kilos could still manage
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of the mid-2010s has challenged the territory's civil society and resulted in hundreds of thousands of residents becoming unemployed. A subsequent wave of migration to the mainland from the island took place as well. A U.S. federal oversight board agreed to supervise the local government's financial
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During a weekend in December 2018, there were seven killings. The extent to which such violence will cycle as the rebuilding takes place remains uncertain. Police Superintendent Hector Pesquera remarked in 2017 that Puerto Rico's crime problem had been mostly "out of sight, out of mind" to mainland
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murdered Keishla RodrĂ­guez Ortiz, his pregnant lover, on April 30, 2021. The 27-year-old was punched, injected with drugs, tied to heavy stones, thrown over a bridge into a river and then shot at. The other murder victim, Andrea C. Ruiz Costas, had requested a restraining order against her violent
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he future for law enforcement on the island is bleak. The department has lost about 4,000 officers in the past five years and, because of the island's economic crisis, cannot count on fresh recruits anytime soon. Hundreds of U.S. Army soldiers, outside law-enforcement officers and private security
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in its organization. Specific strategies included longer sentences for criminals, increased funding for officer equipment, and the construction of new prisons. From 1992 to 1998, the island's budget for policing approximately doubled. Yet progress remained mostly elusive. Public opinion viewed the
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and other arms to directly fight back against law enforcement became a particular problem as well. From 1993 to 1996, the government confiscated a total of 10,017 illegal firearms during their efforts. As well, the total number of murders in Puerto Rico nearly doubled from 1987 to 1994— increasing
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paid to regular officers. Then Police Association President Jose Rodriguez reported in 2007 that Puerto Ricans patrolling the streets made about twenty-six thousand dollars a year. Rodriguez additionally pointed out how local sergeants supervised thirty to thirty-five officers— in contrast to the
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Puerto Rico's murder rate dropped somewhat from the 1990s into the 2000s, yet violent crime remained significantly higher not just at a regional but also on an international scale. In the mid-2000s, the territory's troubles ranked it sixth worldwide in murders per capita. In 2006, a total of 736
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said in 2007, "We have had officers using police cars to escort drug dealers, and we have arrested officers selling weapons to undercover agents". He stressed that many officers did their best even while some had chosen to "violate their oath". The previous year, the violent death of trafficking
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stated in a report that the arrested "took advantage of the authority of their uniforms". Between 1993 and 2000, the PRPD kicked out a full one thousand officers due to a variety of criminal charges. Between 2003 and 2007, a hundred officers had been under investigation, with seventy-five others
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summed up government efforts by remarking, "They have asked for war, and war they shall have. Let every criminal know: Our patience has ended". However, even after adopting the multiple anti-crime measures, violent crime stayed too high. In 2006, for instance, the island reported 736 murders.
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into the Puerto Rican police concluded that the department was "broken in a number of critical and fundamental respects". While stating that many "hard working and dedicated" officers "serve the public with distinction under often challenging conditions", the investigators declared that the
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reporting on it. The culmination of a two-year FBI investigation into law enforcement corruption in the territory, the operation came to a head on October 6, 2010, with a series of pre-dawn raids. These led to over a hundred arrests, with those taken in including members of the PRPD, the
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was uncommon in Puerto Rico in the 1950s, it markedly increased in the 1960s. By the following decade, said increase in usage, particularly among those under the age of 25, became a major concern in Puerto Rican society. Estimates found that up to seventy thousand islanders were
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However, Puerto Rican efforts generally proved inadequate in stopping widespread drug trafficking in the latter part of the 20th century. The government had not just expanded employment levels and general funding for jailing and policing but also undergone a kind of
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Perceptions about widespread crime triggered political turmoil and sustained pressure for the authorities to change their approaches, often involving a doubling-down of anti-drug crackdowns. In the early 1990s, notably, law enforcement began specifically targeting
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kingpin Jose "Coquito" Lopez Rosario had spawned an investigation into the upper levels of the territory's government. The late kingpin's ties to three local senators extended to the point that one of the officials had brought him along during prison inspections.
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facilitated drug related crimes; it resulted in the arrest of over thirty Puerto Rico law enforcement agents. It came at a time when Puerto Rico ranked sixth worldwide in murders per capita. To counteract, federal law enforcement agencies, including the
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A major focus on crime and, specifically, drug-related problems arose in Puerto Rican politics out of those events. A 1975 survey found that 87% of respondents believed that violence had recently increased to a serious extent. Beside mentioning
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declared a state of emergency after several women were murdered. The epidemic of violence against women in Puerto Rico reached a high when in two unrelated cases women were murdered at the end of April, 2021. According to the
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is a violent gang that operates in Aguas Buenas, Cidra, Juncos, Cayey, San Lorenzo and other municipalities. That gang's members kill and dismember victims after assassination and are led by Nelson Torres Delgado, (aka:
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violations "uncovered are pervasive and plague all levels of" the department. At the conclusion of that year, Puerto Rico's experienced a spike in violent crime, with over a thousand people having been killed.
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approved $ 7 million in funding after initially rejecting this amount. The money was approved so that the Puerto Rico police can address the epidemic of gender violence. On August 27, 2021, governor
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soldiers. The corrupt individuals had gone beyond providing security for drug traffickers to actively taking part in the deals. Officials charged a total of 133 individuals in the operation.
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partner but had been denied. These murders attracted large media and public attention which increased demands from women seeking assistance in cases of gender based violence. On May 5 the
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One of the biggest law enforcement corruption busts in U.S. history took place in 2001 on the island. Twenty-nine police officers were caught on videotape drug trafficking thanks to an
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island's law enforcement situation in critical terms. In 1997, a major national poll found that a 68% majority believed that crime had gotten "much worse" over the previous five years.
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drug users. A government chief of staff remarked that the police had witnessed "housewives who go to these spots with their children in the car" and vowed to send a strong message.
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from their squad cars, the bust additionally aimed to stop the illicit protection provided to certain cocaine dealers who shipped their contraband throughout the island. Known as
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guards are helping— temporarily— but robberies, murders and drug dealing have resumed at levels that would seem outrageous in mainland states but are tragically normal here.
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was criminalized in Puerto Rico under Law 54 of 1989. The law includes a rehabilitation program as an alternative to prison for convicted offenders but according to the
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In response to pervasive crime, local law enforcement attempted to integrate their efforts with U.S. federal agencies, especially with fighting trafficking in mind. The
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has combated the illegal drug trade and the resulting crime since the mid-1970s, with increasing law enforcement efforts over multiple decades contributing to a
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summed up government efforts by remarking, "They have incited a war, and they'll get it: let criminals know that our patience is gone" (
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As well, four Puerto Rican officers were arrested in 2008 by the FBI, including the director of the island's Extradition Division, for
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between criminals and law enforcement remained a severe challenge as conditions on the island evolved. A 2011 report by the
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Commentators that have questioned the effectiveness of government anti-crime policy altogether include Gary Gutierrez, a
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journalist Ivan Roman stated that the bust "stunned a department already reeling from a series of" previous scandals.
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From 2009 to 2021 at least 196 women on the island were killed in acts of gender-based violence according to the
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Nonetheless, individuals such as former Police Superintendent Miguel Pereira have observed that the large
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The operation began at 3 a.m. as sixty-five tactical groups spread across the territory, with
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adopted a broad anti-crime policy referred to locally as "mano dura contra el crimen" (or simply
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and transfemicides into separate categories of crimes. The new law designated these crimes as
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have frequently complicated matters as different groups attempt to work with each other. The
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was a notorious 1950s Puerto Rican criminal. On January 25, 1950, he murdered two people in
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Nos han pedido guerra y guerra tendrán. Que lo sepa el criminal: nuestra paciencia se acabó.
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article from 2017 stated that the crisis has left Puerto Rican "institutions in shambles".
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The broad, strict approach of the island's government has been known as the "iron fist" (
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from 509 to 995, respectively. These trends received massive interest in the island's
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and as a result raised the punishment for committing them to a maximum of 99 years.
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generated international media coverage, with publications such as the American
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in which both demand and supply of illegal substances remain considerable.
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FBI - Uniform Crime Reporting - Crime in the United States 2011 (Table 5)
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approves 7 million for emergency funds against gender violence].
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administration in 2016, with some $ 74 billion of debt on the line. A
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The $ 10,000 Correa Cotto bounty reward in the May 3, 1952, issue of "
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Drugs and democracy in Latin America: The impact of U.S. policy
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approves the $ 7 million for attending gender violence].
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on Puerto Rican streets while wholesale producer in areas of
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Crime in Puerto Rico is featured in a film and accompanying
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remarked publicly that "in general terms we have failed" (
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attracted notice as causes of Puerto Rican crime as well.
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United States Attorney's Office - District of Puerto Rico
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to the mainland United States, and has been a magnet for
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Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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Causes of police corruption include the relatively low
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The massive bust on Puerto Rican soil as a result of
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to become a millionaire from those leftovers alone.
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Index

Homicide
Rape
Robbery
Aggravated assault
Burglary
Larceny-theft
Motor vehicle theft
FBI - Uniform Crime Reporting - Crime in the United States 2011 (Table 5)
violent
crime
Puerto Rico
the Puerto Rican government
Pedro RossellĂł
police corruption
U.S. Coast Guard
Drug Enforcement Administration
Puerto Rico Police Department
militarization of the police

El Imparcial
Antonio Correa Cotto
Machuelo Abajo
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Government of Puerto Rico
cycle of violence
recreational drug use
substance abusers
cocaine
organized crime
vice

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