A long article from Open Democracy on Venezuela's internal policing issues, which starts with:
Faced with soaring levels of crime and violence, Venezuela's government continues to militarize the police. The public disproves of the crime, but not the response. Why?
It ends with:
..unless there is a drastic change in the current government, which has a strong military faction and is plagued by rampant corruption, the military policing model is likely to stay.
Link:http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensec...zuelas-streets