Until last year, the town of Guadalupe was fully in the grip of one of the most ruthless criminal gangs in Mexico.<br /><br />More than 200 homicides were reported last year in a city of 700,000.<br /><br />But crime rates have dropped by more than 40 per cent in the past year following the appointment of a new police captain.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Rachel Levine reports from Guadalupe.
