With the many mentions of police intelligence above, perhaps it's worth a note that the Mexican national police force descended on the town of Tijuana recently, and confiscated all the guns from the local police force pending an investigation of "police cooperation" with local drug gangs.

When the police complained loudly about being deprived of their weapons, 60 local police officers were issued "replacement weapons" - - -

- - - - a slingshot and bag of ball bearings to each.

John