What is the social function of Public Security in Mexico and its effects on society?
Introduction
In this writing it is intended that the reader understands the origin, the functionality of our public security system, as well as the impacts they cause on society and above all to provide a critical analysis of our current public security.
It is considered a relevant issue, since there are many populations that are currently going through a social crisis, where chaos, violence, insecurity is the news of the day, know, make a sketch of the objectives and principles that organize our Public security can give us the guideline as a society to guide the course, to start with new methods, ways of organizing ourselves, with the sole purpose of preserving peace and harmony between one and the other.
What is the functionality of Public Security in Mexico and its effects on society?
Without a doubt, we could find many answers to this question, however, we all know that everything that operates in a state system is governed by norms, parameters, regulations or laws that have already been established; but let's define for the best benefit of this reading some relevant concepts that we will use very often.
A definition of Public Security (Gonzáles: 126) »Public security is defined as the set of coherent and articulated policies and actions that tend to guarantee public peace through the prosecution of crimes and offenses against public order, through the criminal control system and the administrative police system.
Public safety is an essential part of the well-being of a society. A rule of law generates the conditions that allow the individual to carry out their daily activities with the confidence that their life, their assets and other legal assets are free from all danger.
Background
Now, let us remember that since the origins of human history, it has always sought to maintain survival, control, and harmony between groups with the sole purpose of preserving the species; It is then that the need to establish laws that govern human behavior arises.
Speaking of public safety at its best is extensive, however it is necessary to mention its origin.
The Public Security is born from a federal decentralized organ, where the set of governments, the Honorable Congress of the Union, the Governing Board, among others, emanate; All based on the Official Gazette of the Federation and our Political Constitution. (United, December, 2014)
Among its primary objectives we find the following according to (González: 128) emphasizing that each objective must be linked and organized in the three levels of government and with other areas that are related to the promotion of a stable society.
The first objective of our public safety is to guarantee or safeguard the life and integrity of the person, based on the fact that life is the supreme value of a person and based on the individual guarantees of our constitution, in the same way we find that it seeks to maintain public order and peace, these with the intention that the same state subsists, and that social cohesion be maintained without affecting the right of one or another individual.
Development
As far as the Procurement of justice is concerned, public security operates through the federation, states and municipalities that are coordinated and based on article 21 of our constitution and on the official newspaper of the federation so as not to fall into arbitrariness, impunity or corruption. It covers four areas that include prevention and surveillance, to attack criminal, violent or antisocial behaviors that occur, or also to enforce the laws that regulate our society.
It is also responsible to attack crime not only with criminal penalties, but also with the method of prevention, stimulating and strengthening social values, through cultural and sports programs, and / or brigades.
There is also the administration of justice and administration of justice, which is responsible for enforcing the laws, applying the sanction to those who violate the law and above all enforcing the rights of others, this is done through the Attorney General's Offices., public ministries; Finally, there is Social Reintegration, which is the part where not only criminal action is exercised but it is intended that the offender or criminal individual finds that social rehabilitation in order to be a stable human being.
From all of the above we can make a deep analysis of the current situation of our Public Safety, since if the objectives, basic principles and laws on which it is based were followed, the statistics would be seen in positive numbers, and the reflection of society Mexicana in general would have a 365 ° turn, from how we observe it on a daily basis.
Statistical data show that crime is on the rise, growing by leaps and bounds, without limits and without control (Evaluate: 120), the increase in extortion, organized crime, kidnapping, robbery, cases of impunity, and many more criminal acts.
But the question is, What does Public Security lack to combat crime? An opinion of the author of this writing is that it is not the structure of the system, the resources, but the same corruption that emerges from the organization itself. Today society is afraid of both the criminal and Public Security itself, since in social networks, newscasts and wherever there is a way to report, society finds out about cases and criminal actions committed by the police, judicial and federal bodies.
Cases that cannot be hidden leave and reveal the corruption of our authorities, an example of the most recent case is Ayotzinapa, not to mention others.
conclusion
We need more than an organism and public security bodies as a society, progress and progress, social, economic and moral, does not depend on a structure, a functionality, but on returning to the being that we are, to the human who is more human every day, and it is there where the rules, laws, systems will help a society.
You must start from small to global, with solid foundations; And this is speaking both of the daily life of each individual, as well as of the security forces, in my opinion the decentralization of public security is beneficial, to work from the interior, the town, the city, which it monitors and safeguard.
On the other hand, it must also become aware that problems and conflicts are not going to be solved by the security forces individually, it is the same citizens that must cooperate, collaborate and take action to not allow cases of injustice, starting from our own closest environments.
We win justice more quickly, if we do justice to the opposing party. Mahatma Gandhi.
References
- Center for Analysis of Public Policies, Indicators to understand public security in Mexico, Political Constitution of the United Mexican States published 07/07/14http: //www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/htm/1.htmG. Fernández, José Antonio, Public Safety in Mexico, 1995.
