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San Luis Acatlan, a small town in Guerrero, Mexico, has been the home of the CRAC-CP for almost 20 years, Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities Communitarian Police. The auxiliary police, as was initially called, was created a 26 of September by people of some villages in the area, tired of death, assaults and rape specially on roads, formed its own police. A police force formed by their people, by the best of each village, they say. The CP is supported, according to one of the Coordinators of the CRAC, by the same constitution of the United States of Mexico and by the Agreement 169 supported by the presidency before the OIT, which refers to the right of the native peoples to govern themselves. In general having the CRAC-PC implies, a police force on one side and a criminal justice system on the other. The communitarian police, armed and with t-shirts and caps reading the name of the institution, watch, arrest and attend minor cases. The coordinators and an accompanying body including advisors and local authorities are responsible for issuing warrants, investigate and condemn. The respect to our rights is justice, yelled the communitarians while clutching their rifles and firing a single shot. (Ana Karina Delgado Diaz)