Law Enforcement Officials Credit 'Operation Tijuana' for Drop in Crime

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published February 21, 2007 at 12:40 PM PST

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

Law enforcement officials in Tijuana say crime has gone down in the last month and a half, since Operation Tijuana began. They say that's good, but not good enough. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has the

Law Enforcement Officials Credit 'Operation Tijuana' for Drop in Crime

Law enforcement officials in Tijuana say crime has gone down in the last month and a half, since Operation Tijuana began. They say that's good, but not good enough. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has the story.

Law enforcement officials in Tijuana say crime in the city has dropped 31-percent in the first month-and-a-half of this year compared to the same time period last year. They credit Operation Tijuana, a massive effort to attack drug trafficking and organized crime launched by Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

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Alberto Capella is President of the Citizens Public Safety Council. He says it’s still too early to say if the Operation is a success.

Capella says there's no reference point...like the authorities have to arrest 2000 people. He says because of that, it's hard to say when they can call it a success. Federal troops will stay in Tijuana indefinitely. Amy Isackson, KPBS News.

Amy Isackson

Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.

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