Items tagged with denmark and law enforcement
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After 50 years, a Danish commune is shaken from Its utopian dream [05.12.2023] | Founded in 1971 by squatters on an abandoned military base, Christiania was devised as a post-’60s anarchistic utopia, where people could live outsid ... |
Christiania plan could push drug crime into other parts of Copenhagen: MP [07.09.2023] | A government plan to shut down the Christiania ‘Pusher Street’ cannabis market and double drug penalties in the zone risks pushing crime into other p ... |
Christiania hash sellers could get prison as ‘permanent closure’ announced for Pusher Street market [06.09.2023] | The new law will target a specially designated zone in which fines for possession will be doubled even for a first offence. Any subsequent offence wi ... |
State and city reach agreement to close down Pusher Street [27.06.2023] | Pusher Street is no ordinary thoroughfare. For decades, it has housed numerous stalls selling cannabis to the public in open view. During that time, ... |
Mayor looking to shut down Pusher Street permanently [04.05.2023] | Mayor Sophie Hæstorp Andersen is indicating that she wants to completely shut down Pusher Street due to the violence associated with the illegal cann ... |
Christiania residence ban an abuse of power, contends Danish Institute for Human Rights [31.03.2021] | Christoffer Badse, the head of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, has accused the government of abusing its power with the continuance of its res ... |
Danish law enforcement increasing pressure on Christiania cannabis trade [23.01.2019] | Illicit trade of cannabis at the Pusher Street market in Copenhagen’s Christiania is being put under pressure by an intensive effort from law enforce ... |
Sweden's zero-tolerance drug policy should be reviewed: narcotics officer [14.06.2018] | Sweden's current policy is based on the goal of a "drug-free society" and makes no distinction between "hard" and "soft" drugs. Those found guilty of ... |
Danish police in new Christiania clampdown as hash market pulled down [28.05.2018] | Police in Copenhagen tore down cannabis stands in the Pusher Street market area in Christiania for the third consecutive day. But sellers in the alte ... |
Denmark’s Christiania closes off 'Pusher Street' cannabis market [22.05.2018] | Residents in Denmark’s alternative enclave Christiania fenced off an area known as Pusher Street, from where cannabis is usually sold. All entrances ... |
Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model? [17.05.2018] | Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's ... |
Danish police arrest 13 in tense Christiania raid [24.01.2018] | Police seized a large amount of narcotics and items in a raid in the alternative enclave of Christiania in Copenhagen.Ten kilograms of hash and vario ... |
Danish police use drone in operation against Christiania cannabis trade [30.11.2017] | A special unit of the Copenhagen police force has been operating in and around the ‘free city’ of Christiania and on its notorious Pusher Street in a ... |
“Despite the rise of gang crime, youth crime has been falling” [18.09.2017] | As Justice Minister between 1996 and 2001, Frank Jensen opposed legalising cannabis. But after becoming Lord Mayor of Copenhagen in 2010, he changed ... |
End the gang war by setting cannabis free [14.09.2017] | Until the early 2000s, Copenhagen’s cannabis trade was centred in Christiania, an autonomous enclave of the city featuring around two dozen stalls wh ... |
Pusher Street: Christiania’s problem child [07.11.2016] | Christiania’s Pusher Street has been through a rough summer. During June and July police carried out a series of raids, removing booths and arresting ... |
Paradise lost: does Copenhagen’s Christiania commune still have a future? [22.09.2016] | In recent years the cannabis in Christiania trade has evolved. Once led by small-time dealers, it is now controlled by large, multinational organisat ... |
Christiania residents shut down Pusher Street [01.09.2016] | After a meeting that stretched across several hours, residents of the largely self-governing commune of Christiania said they would try to shut down ... |
Violent Christiania police action caught on video [28.04.2016] | Two videos posted online by the Christiania-based documentary group Cadok show large-scale police action targeting the Copenhagen district’s cannabis ... |
Let the gangs wither and the state turn a profit [04.11.2013] | As a law enforcement professional, I was waiting impatiently for the government’s recommendations for fighting gang crime. I’ve been especially impat ... |
Police targeting cannabis users [24.09.2013] | Police in Copenhagen have cannabis users in their crosshairs as they struggle to close the illegal drug trade in Copenhagen commune Christiania. Task ... |
Online activists take on police in Christiania [01.08.2013] | In response to the increased police presence in and around Christiania, a number of citizens are fighting back online. Fans of Christiania have long ... |
Christiania task force netting arrests but locals call it harassment [11.02.2013] | Copenhagen Police said that the number of people being charged with possession of cannabis is up 23 percent since the creation of Task Force Pusher S ... |
Mayor and police at odds over cannabis approach [10.09.2012] | While Copenhagen's mayor, Frank Jensen, continues to be a vocal advocate for legalising cannabis in the city, arguing that a "paradigm shift" is in o ... |
Police to crack down on Pusher Street [20.08.2012] | Starting September 1, the police will be stepping up efforts to cull Pusher Street’s estimated one billion kroner organised cannabis trade through th ... |
Christiania's resurgent cannabis trade marred by violence and intimidation [06.06.2012] | Almost a decade after extensive police raids in 2004 that were intended to clear out the drug dealers in Christiania, police estimate that the trade ... |
Jury still out on government’s hash crackdown [18.03.2010] | It was exactly six years ago this week that police conducted their first full-scale raid on Pusher Street, the famed road in the city’s Christiania a ... |
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