Items tagged with law enforcement
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| Whither Rio de Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units? [18.11.2013] | Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Police Units (UPP) are celebrating their fifth year in 2013. They do so with generally positive approval ratings from t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Drugs as war economy and the peace process in Colombia: dilemmas and challenges [28.10.2013] | The fourth item on the agenda of talks “to end the conflict,” on the issue of drugs, seems to reflect rather a flat and simplistic view of the classi ... |
| Weed: Decriminalise to stabilise [26.10.2013] | Jamaica's current volatile security environment and its economic malaise are reasons enough to seriously consider joining their Latin American counte ... |
| Human rights and drug control: an irreconcilable contradiction? [15.10.2013] | This week both the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna and the UN General Assembly 3rd Committee in New York discuss new drug control res ... |
| Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man [02.10.2013] | Ten police in Rio de Janeiro have been charged with the torture and killing of a resident of the city's biggest favela in a case that has highlighted ... |
| War on illegal drugs failing, medical researchers warn [01.10.2013] | The global “war on drugs” has been such a failure that illegal substances are now cheaper and purer than at any period over the past two decades, war ... |
| 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 ... |
| Analysis: Colombia’s fight against the coca trade [05.09.2013] | EL TARRA, 28 August 2013 (IRIN) - The Colombian government believes people should just say no to growing coca: those that do not, risk aerial sprayin ... |
| Drug law enforcement and financial investigation strategies [31.08.2013] | Since the 1980s, there has been a major push in rhetoric and institution-building, emphasizing the centrality of attacking the financial lifeblood of ... |
| 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 ... |
| The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy [28.05.2013] | Law enforcement strategies have utterly failed to even maintain street prices of the key illicit substances. This figure shows that street drug price ... |
| Deficiencies in financial oversight enable money laundering [15.05.2013] | In July 1989, the leaders of the economic powers assembled at the G7 Paris summit decided to establish a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to counte ... |
| Green green grass of home: police crack down on cottage industry of cannabis [10.04.2013] | Across the UK, 7,865 cannabis farms were discovered in 2011-12, an increase of 15% on the previous year's figures and over double the number for 2007 ... |
| Is the war on drugs nearing an end? [07.04.2013] | For four decades, libertarians, civil rights activists and drug treatment experts have stood outside of the political mainstream in arguing that the ... |
| 'They stole our dreams': blogger reveals cost of reporting Mexico's drug wars [02.04.2013] | For three years it has chronicled Mexico's drug war with graphic images and shocking stories that few others dare show, drawing millions of readers, ... |
| UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [27.03.2013] | The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Guatemala's president: 'My country bears the scars from the war on drugs' [18.01.2013] | This is at the heart of the awakening in Latin America, a feeling that drugs prohibition has allowed rich and powerful cartels to rise to such promin ... |
| Federal government should allow states to sanction marijuana businesses [14.12.2012] | President Obama’s statement of tolerance toward legalized marijuana is welcome. The real question is not whether federal agents will go after users. ... |
| The Northern Triangle’s drugs-violence nexus [28.11.2012] | Mexico has occupied the limelight when it comes to media attention focusing on drug-related violence in Latin America. However, it is actually Centra ... |
| Mexico's drug war bright spot hides dark underbelly [27.11.2012] | For four years, Ciudad Juárez on the border with Texas was convulsed by daily slaughter, becoming the murder capital of the world and a shocking illu ... |
| Marijuana decriminalization law brings down juvenile arrests in California [25.11.2012] | Marijuana is one of the primary reasons why California experienced a stunning 20 percent drop in juvenile arrests in just one year, between 2010 and ... |
| "Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón [23.11.2012] | Ending the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. In an intervi ... |
| Britain's drug policies could be wasting billions [15.10.2012] | Despite the successes of recent years, there are still approximately 2,000 drug-related deaths in the UK every year. Nearly 400,000 people have serio ... |
| Study: Pot arrests cost state $300 million in past 25 years [10.10.2012] | A new crime-data analysis has found that 241,000 people in Washington were arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession over the last quarter-centur ... |
| How International Aid for Drug Enforcement Fuels Human Rights Abuses [02.10.2012] | It is increasingly clear that there is a fundamental lack of oversight of how international aid – provided by the US, Europe and the United Nations t ... |
| Fix to B.C.’s ‘drug problem’ is easy: legalize marijuana [20.09.2012] | With three western American states mulling legalized marijuana and the Union of B.C. Municipalities set to debate it, a new group wants the province ... |
| Q&A: “Pacification of favelas not a real public policy yet” [17.09.2012] | The "pacification" of the favelas in this Brazilian city, aimed at driving out armed groups and fighting drug trafficking, has not yet become a fully ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hard drugs just minutes away for Vancouver users, study finds [14.08.2012] | Illicit drugs are easily and quickly accessible to users in Vancouver despite decades of aggressive drug law enforcement efforts aimed at suppressing ... |
| Yammouneh rises: Hashish is our livelihood [04.08.2012] | Clashes erupted in the town of Yammouneh in the Bekaa valley between local hashish farmers and security forces. The farmers in the largely marginaliz ... |
| Oakland protests U.S. attorney's crackdown on large medical marijuana dispensary [13.07.2012] | A day after federal prosecutors moved to shutter the country's largest medical marijuana dispensary, city leaders and other officials came to the def ... |
| Lebanon: Hashish growers and the Government face off [13.07.2012] | It is hard to predict how this year’s planned destruction of the hashish crop in the Bekaa will play out. The farmers insist on confronting any such ... |
| The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS [24.06.2012] | The global war on drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consiste ... |
| After 33 years, I can no longer ignore the evidence on drugs [07.06.2012] | "As a 33-year police practitioner who was commissioner of the Australian Federal Police during the 'tough on drugs' period, I fully understand the co ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mérida: continued support for a failed strategy [21.05.2012] | Some five years ago, after Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón declared a War on Drugs followed by a firm military crackdown on drug trafficking organ ... |
| UK police find 20 cannabis farms a day [29.04.2012] | Police discovered more than 20 cannabis farms and factories in the UK every day last year, seizing drugs worth up to £100 million, according to a rep ... |
| Commanding general confidence? [11.03.2012] | This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control ... |
| The Human Rights Costs of the War on Drugs [28.02.2012] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), together with Transform Drug Policy Foundation, were among the NGOs launching the Count the Costs campaig ... |
| The great debate that no one's talking about [03.12.2011] | Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch th ... |
| ‘Pacification’ of favelas not just a media circus [16.11.2011] | The "take-over" of Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, by heavily armed police and military units was seen by some as a media spectacle ... |
| Breaking the Silence [01.10.2011] | This brief report outlines the links between cannabis prohibition in British Columbia (Canada) and the growth of organized crime and related violence ... |
| Tackling Violence in Mexico [10.09.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) translated the article La raíz de la violencia by Eduardo Guerrero Gutiérrez that was originally publis ... |
| From war on drugs to community policing in Rio [01.06.2011] | Four decades after Washington declared its "war on drugs" and began to spread the doctrine south of the U.S. border, the government of the Brazilian ... |
| Expert Workshop on Supply-Oriented Harm Reduction [10.05.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) invited a group of 20 experts for a round-table discussion at the ... |
| The War on Drugs - Count the Costs and Explore the Alternatives [23.03.2011] | The war on drugs creates massive costs, resulting from the enforcement-led approach that puts organised crime in control of the trade. It is time to ... |
| Police occupation hurts improved relations with favelas [30.11.2010] | Reports of human rights abuses committed during the police and military occupation of several favelas in this Brazilian city are jeopardising local r ... |
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