In a post about world developments in the illegal drug trade, I found this item especially disturbing:

Last year in Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, more than 1,600 people were killed in drug-related violence, often assassinations carried out in daylight. 250 people were killed in February of 2009 in drug-related murders including at least six policemen kidnapped from their police post, their heads showing up a few days later dropped off at the police station. The city boasts a modern $15 million morgue and crime lab. Plans are under way to double the morgue's size next year. It also is expected this week that the Mexican government will have the military take over the city's policing functions.

Approximately 1.5 million people live in metropolitan Ciudad Juárez. Most cities of that size in the United States wouldn't even have 250 homicides in a year, let alone in a month. Incredible.