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Cartels attack Costco in Jalisco, Mexico
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US cops are only bold when they outnumber AND outgun their adversary.
2 cops vs 20 protestors, those cops will run. 200 cops vs 20k protestors, again, the cops will run or lose everything.
The strategy used by the cartel is to create an asymmetric warfare environment by creating so many individual crises that the cops can't respond to them all en-force, and by disrupting and degrading movement, communications, logistics, and intelligence.
The fires are very visible yes, but it wouldn't surprise me if the cartels were also targeting telecom infrastructure, attempting to jam radio, targeting police infra, electrical infra, and airspace.
When you're outgunned by the adversary, your best bet is to disperse them thin, so you can pick and choose where you concentrate your force.
The thing is the police have unlimited backup, and better gear than any criminal group. They can call to state police, neighnoring departments. They have militarized gear, literally military surplus, and they can call for national guard backup, that has masses of armoured vehicles, machine guns, all sorts of heavier equipment. More helicopters with machine guns on them, all sorts of stuff. Drones. Then if the police needed help they could ask for militia help, even deputize some of them.
The security services are not lacking for firepower, it would be the worst mistake a cartel ever did if it tried this in the US, political leaders would crusade against them.