Essay from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,5, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: In fictive works about the border femicides the police work in two countries (the United States andMexico) is described differently. In Stella Pope Duarte's book If I Die in Juárez and in MeredithStiehm's and Elwood Reid's Pilot of the series The Bridge-America (2013/14 FX/Netflix) the nationalpolice departments of the USA and Mexico are confronted with a femicide¹. In her book Duarteintegrates a great knowledge of the real situation regarding the femicides in Juárez, after she hadinterviewed some of the victim's families. The protagonists of the book are 14-year-old Evita, a poor girlwho was forced to prostitution and to live on the streets, her 19-year-old beautiful cousin Petra whobecomes a maquiladora worker and Mayela, a young Tarahumara Indian girl who is gifted with anoutstanding talent in art. The three girls meet under fateful circumstances to investigate the femicidesoccurring in Juárez: they reveal the intrigue of a group of criminals until one of them is tortured andkilled in an inevitably sadistic way too. The Pilot episode of The Bridge-America is about theinvestigation of a corpse: On the bridge connecting El Paso with Ciudad Juárez, a bisected, mutilatedbody is found. The two detectives, Mexican Marco Ruiz and American Sonya Cross decide to cooperateto solve the case. After further investigation Cross discovers that the two body parts belong to differentpersons: Judge Gates and Christina Fuentes, a young Mexican girl and maquiladora worker. ChristinaFuentes is one of the world-famous femicides of Juárez and therefore one of uncountable inexplicablecorpses. Cross suspects a serial killer behind all the cases, but learns that the Mexican police refuses toinvestigate further and benefits from bribery instead. The US-American and the Mexican cooperation onthe Juárez femicides collapses because of the different development of the police departments, thecorruption of the Mexican police and the increasing number of victims.