“In late August 2013, Mexico’s first all-female volunteer vigilante police group was formed in Xaltianguis, Guerrero. The force is made up of roughly 100 women, mostly mothers and grandmothers. Many of these women have lost loved ones to drug war violence or were victims themselves. They have lived in fear for their families, and they’ve had enough. Over the past five years, people of the region started taking the law into their hands by forming vigilante police groups. Here, female citizen police head out on a patrol in Xaltianguis. It is not rare for the women to bring their children along on police duties.”