The Nogales–Nogales corridor became in 2024 the most visible laboratory for local cooperation against cross-border crime. While the DEA has documented that the Sinaloa Cartel channels its shipments near Arizona’s crossings — with Nogales as a key point — municipal police forces, supported by state and federal agencies, have moved from reactive coordination to operations based on shared intelligence and joint targets. Three gears sustain that cooperation. First, binational c
