Organized Crime In Mexico

Denzel was assigned a job in Mexico to watch after a child who came from a wealthy family. Children breeded from the 1 percent were being kidnapped to get money from those families to return their child. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Denzel decided to take the job and grew close to the child, Pita. Once she was kidnapped he vowed to get her back and kill anyone who is associated with her abduction. What I was unaware of in this film is the problem on criminality in the country itself. Emile Durkheim mentions that “Crime is present not only in the majority of societies but in all societies of all types”. I completely agree with this statement because children abductions

The organization of the group of people who abducted the child is an organized crime. This crime is inflicted for a high demand of money. They usually threaten to hurt the children in order to force control of the situation. They demand large sums of money in return for the children. Many types public officials are involved in this process to get paid as well. It is a known fact that an organized crime in Mexico is trafficking young women to work the sex trade in New York. This is corruption because it includes extortion, bribery and embezzlement. Corruption and organized crime is closely related and is committed by individuals from different ethnic groups. In this film’s case, hispanics. Mexico is a democracy meaning that the police must be accountable to the law rather than the government. These police officers are not fulfilling their function of deviance control because they are not enforcing the community and protecting its citizens. Asymmetrical warfare is prevalent in this film because the abduction was a surprise attack by an armed group of people with high-tech weaponry. Man on Fire portrays a transnational crime that is extends to several

Although I live in the United States the abductions rates are equally high as in Mexico. I could not imagine someone of that age getting kidnapped.

In Man on Fire it describes the horror of children being abducted and kidnapped in their host country. This film affected my thinking because it is very common for children to be kidnapped in Mexico. In this case her father made a business deal of 2.5 million dollars, and he would have his daughter back within the next day. I did not know that kidnapping has swept through foreign countries and kidnappers were abducting wealthier citizens children to extort them.

It affected my general thinking because so many respected political officials were involved with the crime. These highly authoritative figures are leaders in their countries yet they contribute to the crime rate. In the film, the president of La hermandad knew about the abduction because he was guaranteed 2.5 million from the deal. I connected my assumptions to reality by noticing that some elected officials do not have true intentions for their country. Their main focus is most related to money, greed and power rather than searching for Pita and other little girls that were