Officers pay a 'franchise fee' to corrupt commanders, then team up with crime rings.
It's a story as old as the nation itself, but it's taken a gruesome new turn. Never before has the story of police corruption in Mexico unfolded as dramatically as with the discovery of four possible clandestine graveyards scattered throughout the Chihuahua desert holding as many as 100 bodies of Mexican and American victims of the drug cartel. Authorities believe the dead are victims of drug violence, some killed by Mexican officers on the payroll of drug lords.