The Mexican army has seized the firearms of local police in the Sinaloa city of Culiacan as cartel violence has escalated, dozens have been killed in the streets and distrust in the police grows.

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

MEXICO CITY — A police convoy was passing through a small town in western Mexico on Monday morning when bullets began to fly. It was an ambush by one of Mexico’s most violent criminal groups ...

Violent protests in Mexico City erupted over gentrification and tourism, with locals decrying rising rents and displacement.

Organized crime is affecting hospitals in some Mexican states, even taking over operating rooms and emergency rooms and ...

JUAN ALDAMA, Mexico — This time, the assassins came early. It was 8:30 a.m. when they surrounded the police station in this rural town. The pop-pop-pop of bullets echoed for blocks. By the time ...

The police on patrol in Mexico. Since Mexico reformed its judiciary, government officials have been spooked by seeing the prison population go down even as violence went up.

Cartel violence is nothing new to Mexico, ... Despite disbanding a corrupt Federal Police and replacing it with a 130,000-strong National Guard and focusing on social ills driving cartel ...

On May 23, 1980, around 1,000 people, representing some 200 organizations from every border state, Colorado, Chicago, and ...

Mexico police discovered 381 abandoned corpses in a private crematorium. REUTERS. Questioning kin of the deceased were given “other material” in lieu of ashes, Garcia said.