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243: 222: 253: 356: 335: 446: 191: 366: 528:? "People follow an "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" philosophy where they expect to receive certain benefits in return for bribes or favors." is unsourced, subjective, and lacks specificity as to which "people" are referred to. "Many Mexican citizens do not feel safe" - which citizens? Who says so? What about the ones who do feel safe, rightly or wrongly? "The Mexican police are notorious... " among whom? Says who? 597:
I'm an expat in Mexico. I've been here over 5 years and have some very good friends that are born and raised here. The truth is that while the system has a lot of negatives there are also positives. The people here would much rather pay a few pesos and be on their way instead of having to deal with
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phrases, and is written from a subjective viewpoint that many people of Mexican descent might consider offensive even if they agreed with the fundamental premise. For instance, the "Historical" explanation of sources of corruption refers back to the preceding para which is entirely unsourced.
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the court system, especially if its just a speeding ticket or something. Most of these cops are this way because its part of the culture, but another reason is because they are paid insanely low wages. I feel like this side of the story at least deserves to be presented in this article.
524:"where the Mexican society organized itself into a pyramid-like hierarchy with the rich and powerful at the top" - what's the basis for this statement, which appears to ignore everything that's happened since the rise to power of the 153: 450: 317: 147: 592: 439: 615: 474: 283: 279: 607: 44: 275: 634: 307: 548: 422: 639: 629: 562: 168: 265: 135: 79: 587: 462: 531:
I could go on and on. I'm not suggesting that there's not a problem - the point is that this article lacks the characteristics of
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I wanted to post a link to the student's work in case anyone wanted to merge or use any of this content in the live article:
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I agree with Fiachra, and wills strike all subjective parts of the article - 2 years is far too long for nothing to be done.
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I noticed that you added several cleanup tags to this article, but I don't see any explanation about them. How is the
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https://www.copblock.org/9835/mexican-police-vs-u-s-police/
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Most of the article lacks sources, is littered with
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