Of course the title to this article is naïve. The corrupt Mexican police force that is on the take from drug cartels needs a lot more than an online drug class to curb cartel power and violence.
Raids
Mexican President Felipe Calderon's office did not respond for requests for comments on the CNDH findings, but it says his strategy is showing results with the capture of major gang leaders and a drop in homicides in violent cities like Ciudad Juarez, where murders fell to 1,550 so far this year from 3,622 killings in 2010.
Still, the overall number of drug-related murders is still rising and improved security in some places has not cured a deep mistrust of the police.
Forty-six percent of Mexicans surveyed said they have little or no confidence in federal police and local police fared even worse at 60% in a survey last month on security perceptions by the national statistics agency.
Denting public support is a big jump in unauthorized raids by security forces, which have more than tripled from 2005, including one on the home of a well-known, elderly poet in August.
Even more raids go unreported. Do you know why?
In one case last month, a convoy of two dozen federal police burst into the home of "Amelia" in a lower middle class neighborhood in Mexico City in search of her nephew, who has suspected links to organized crime.
Guided by two bound suspects in the back of their trucks, and no search warrant, federal agents entered her family's small compound hunting for the 21-year-old, forcing her husband and son to kneel at gunpoint.
"They had (my nephew's) wife on the ground splayed out like Christ pointing a machine gun at her head ... His brother was sleeping with his baby and they dragged him out, hitting him with their pistols on his head and back," said Amelia.
When it was all over, the law enforcers left with no arrests but not empty-handed - nearly $450, an iPad, a leather jacket and several cell phones were missing, she said.
Nice, the police are both corrupt (on the cartel payroll) and thieves! Perhaps a good online drug class or online stop theft class might start the ball rolling in the right direction. I appreciate your thoughts on curbing police corruption and cartel power.