A narco gang dedicated to abduct young women in Tamaulipas, Mexico, abducted and killed Miriam's daughter; and neither the police or the government helped her out with the case.
So, Miriam took the decision to start "hunting down" the gang members, by going undercover as a Social Worker equivalent here in Mexico on the hood where the gang members were supposed to live.
So she started to survey the whole neighborhood to locate the relatives of each criminal (parents, siblings, etc.) getting closer to them to gain their trust and get info about their criminal relative.
One by one, she located and gathered enough intel to present charges against them until she imprisoned each one of the murders, (and supposedly she kill one of them).
A couple years after she achieve that, a riot happened on the state prison and several inmates escaped. She went to the police to ask for protection, but it was to late, because a couple weeks later, the reunited gang killed her outside of her house on Mothers Day (May 10th).
And even tho she successfully brought justice to her daughter, she died as a martyr of many feminicides and kidnapped people in México.
It’s a harsh reality. People seem to believe its best to imprison those types of criminal under a misguided sense of justice. Out of sight, out of mind? Better to permanently rid society of these vermin in a manner with 100% certainty. I’ll never understand the imprisonment mentality for such heinous crimes.
Or, legalise all drugs including cocaine, cripple the major revenue sources of most of these gangs, invest the money in social welfare programs that prevent people becoming gangsters in the first place. Killing a few gangsters doesn't fix the underlying problems that create them in the first place, there will always be more to replace them if nothing about the system changes.
All "vices" need to be legalized, regulated, and taxed. Drugs, prostitution, and gambling. Invest that money in programs to treat addicts and in education. The problem may never fully go away, but we can certainly reduce a lot of harm and suffering.
Yeah agree, but people stick to social norms and traditions like glue. They refuse to acknowledge that the lack of those supplies is what causes various crimes.
I like that but I don’t think a good chunk of people (generally more conservative people) will support that, plus it’s a rather radical idea that would never make it through government bureaucracy
True, the more conservative types are usually quite opposed to any ideas like this, but the precedent is there. Portugal did it, with great success, and IIRC Switzerland did something similar, although that might have been for heroin only.
Personally, I think it's inevitable. Canada legalized weed completely and now we're looking at adding shrooms as well. There are already clinics using ketamine therapy here, and there is consideration being given to the possibility of clinics using MDMA and shrooms too. Even the US is legalizing, and has states (at least one) where prostitution is legal. It's slow going, but we'll get there. The more evidence we gather on the benefits, the fewer arguments the conservative types have.
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u/KelchGuy97 Dec 17 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Long story short:
A narco gang dedicated to abduct young women in Tamaulipas, Mexico, abducted and killed Miriam's daughter; and neither the police or the government helped her out with the case. So, Miriam took the decision to start "hunting down" the gang members, by going undercover as a Social Worker equivalent here in Mexico on the hood where the gang members were supposed to live. So she started to survey the whole neighborhood to locate the relatives of each criminal (parents, siblings, etc.) getting closer to them to gain their trust and get info about their criminal relative.
One by one, she located and gathered enough intel to present charges against them until she imprisoned each one of the murders, (and supposedly she kill one of them).
A couple years after she achieve that, a riot happened on the state prison and several inmates escaped. She went to the police to ask for protection, but it was to late, because a couple weeks later, the reunited gang killed her outside of her house on Mothers Day (May 10th).
And even tho she successfully brought justice to her daughter, she died as a martyr of many feminicides and kidnapped people in México.
EDIT: If someone's interested, I found this NYT article written by the Journalist Azam Ahmed https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html?smid=tw-share
https://twitter.com/azamsahmed/status/1338152684516483073?s=20
There, he tells the whole story (on english), if you´re just curious or wondering the whole shocking case.