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Just an hour and a half from downtown Mexico City is a community of 4,000 that takes care of its own problems without police or armed forces. The self-sustaining and self-managing Acapatzingo Housing Community's model has been replicated in eight other communities within Mexico City. Committees handle community projects by need, and brigades of 20-25 people patrol and respond to conflicts. Unresolved conflicts move up to the Monitoring Commission and, ultimately, the General Assembly. The Acapatzingo Surveillance Commission deals with about 60 cases of crime or conflict annually, compared with thousands of cases of robbery, murder and rape in the neighboring area of Itzapalapa.
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