On September 8, Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown participated in a Center for International Policy and Washington Office on Latin America event, “Using Militaries as Police in Latin America: A Discussion on Citizen Security and the Way Forward.” Felbab-Brown argued that police reform across Latin America over the past two decades has often been at best deficient or has failed outright and that the lack of rule of law characterizes many countries in the region, including continually Mexico.