We have had some of the boys from El Barro (the community where Faith Home is located) climbing over the fence at night to talk with some of our girls. So David (one of our teammates) and Javier (one of the house parents) went to the police station to talk with the police about the situation. It was the same old stuff: they don't have enough police, they don't have enough vehicles, and the always available excuse "we don't have any money for gasoline for our trucks".
Funny how they seem to have enough money for gas to come to Faith Home several times a month to ask us to give them money. Ok, that's a different problem. Back to the story. After hearing all these excuses as to why they can't patrol more in our area or come when we call Javier has had enough. He is the house dad (Tio - Uncle in Spanish) in a house full of young girls. He tells the police "I have a house of young girls to protect and if they come around my house I'm going to go after them with a machete." (well, of course, this was all said in Spanish). The police respond by basically saying "We have no problem with that." Interesting.
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