Marisol Valles García Marisol Valles García Marisol Valles García (born 1989, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico) is the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero located in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua near the cities of Ciudad Juárez and Guadalupe. She was the only person to apply for this job. In March 2011, she was dismissed from her post after failing to show up for work. Valles and her family fled to the United States where they are currently seeking asylum. Since Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared war on drug cartels in 2006, the country's death toll related to drug crime has been
American Society of Criminology American Society of Criminology The American Society of Criminology (ASC) is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency. The organization has it roots in a series of informal discussion groups that sprang up in the early 1930s under the loose direction of former Berkeley, California police chief and then University of California-Berkeley professor, August Vollmer. The Society was formally organized as the National Association of College Police Training Officials in August Vollmer's home in Berkeley in late December 1941. The organization was renamed