Giuliani Firm's Mexican Report Expected

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Eliminating corruption, streamlining police forces and prosecuting minor violations are among crime-fighting recommendations expected this week from former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's consulting firm.

Mexico City police officials said they would release the recommendations Thursday.

The former mayor's company, Giuliani Partners, was hired last year by a group of private businessmen who forked over $4.3 million to help the Mexican capital match the Big Apple's success in cutting crime. Kidnappings, murders and robberies are common in Mexico City, as is police corruption.

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But Giuliani's recommendations are likely to include familiar suggestions that will be impossible to implement in Mexico City, according to Rafael Ruiz, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Morelia.

``If we don't attend to the causes that create these types of people, while sources of permanent and well-paid employment do not grow ... we are still going to have people on the corners washing windshields,'' he said.

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