Mexican Drug War became the starting point of the war between the government and the drug cartels. Calderón escalated his anti-drug campaign, in which there are now about 45,000 troops involved in addition to state and federal police forces. In 2010 Calderón said that the cartels seek "to replace the government" and "are trying to impose a monopoly by force of arms, and are even trying to impose their own laws." As of 2011, Mexico's military captured 11,544 people who were believed to have been involved with the cartels and organized crime. In the year prior, 28,000 individuals were arrested on drug-related charges.
42nd Precinct / Town Hall Police Station and a wick was used to ignite it. The explosive damaged the car and shattered 20 to 30 windows in a neighboring building at 742 Addison Street. The attack was thought to be in retaliation against police officer Richard Nuccio, who had shot a 19 year old Ronald Nelson a year earlier. The explosion happened at 12:20am. There were no injuries and no suspects were ever apprehended. 42nd Precinct / Town Hall Police Station The 42nd Precinct/Town Hall Police Station, located in Chicago's Lake View community area, is one of the oldest and most architecturally significant extant historic police station