Critical Aspects of the National Public Security System

Abstract

This article analyzes four aspects of public security in Mexico: the system for coordinating public resources and the limitations it imposes; the judiciary’s absence from the National Public Security System and its impact; the lack of investigative police personnel in prosecutorial offices; and the straitjacket that the new adversarial and oral justice system imposes on preventive police forces. These are four issues that today limit the possibility of the national public security strategy being successful and allowing it to recover the peace that Mexico once enjoyed.