Fighting Crime: Mexico’s Lessons for Russia

... following the scandalous exposure of senior police officers as implicated in drug trafficking. Little has changed since the 2009 General law on the national system of security requiring that security officers are appraised every four years. In 2010, Mexico registered a record high level of corruption, which since 2007 grew 18.5 percent, while bribes totaled 32 million peso (U.S.$ 2.75 bln). That year, Mexico dropped from 56th place to 98th (between Egypt and the Dominican Republic) in Transparency International's Corruption Perception ...