The Community Police

Abstract

The community police movement was born at a meeting on September 17, 1995 in San Luis Acatlán in response to the continued violence, vigilantism, insecurity, and corporate mining in Guerrero. Government authorities and representatives of community police had a contradictory relationship. Over nineteen years, the government has vacillated between tolerating and then persecuting community police. The Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC) was a key player in this period. This community policing helped indigenous, mestizo, and Afro-descendent communities begin reclaiming their rights and identity.