Items tagged with law enforcement
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| Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can’t kick [27.11.2017] | The brazen drug scene of Cracolândia is unlike nearly anything in any city in the world – hundreds and sometimes thousands of addicts, congregating o ... |
| The drug industry’s triumph over the DEA [15.10.2017] | In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its ... |
| Philippine lawyers ask Supreme Court to halt 'illegal' war on drugs [11.10.2017] | Philippine lawyers filed an injunction with the Supreme Court to try to stop President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, calling it as an illega ... |
| More people were arrested last year over pot than for murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery — combined [26.09.2017] | In 2016 more people were arrested for marijuana possession than for all crimes the FBI classifies as violent, according to 2016 crime data. Marijuana ... |
| Jeff Sessions’s evidence-free crime strategy [20.09.2017] | Over the last thirty years researchers, law enforcement leaders and communities have pushed for smarter, better violence prevention — spurred in larg ... |
| “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 ... |
| A flagship law is on the brink of collapse as experts say the Tories have ‘blood on their hands’ [31.08.2017] | One of the Conservative government’s flagship laws has been left on the brink of collapse, as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced a “full r ... |
| How Anti-Mafia laws could bring down legal pot [28.08.2017] | Earlier this summer, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado decided that the "noxious odors" from a pot farm could be lowering nearby pro ... |
| 'Please stop!' Brutal killing of a student in Philippines drug war sparks nationwide anger [23.08.2017] | The killing of a 17-year-old student in the Philippines has sparked nationwide protest and multiple government investigations, moves which many hope ... |
| Government accused of 'squandering' £1.6bn a year on anti-drug policy [07.08.2017] | Ministers have been accused of "squandering" £1.6bn a year after an official analysis of the Government’s drug strategy concluded that illegal drugs ... |
| What LatAm cities can learn from the failures of Brazil's UPP policing model [01.08.2017] | Community policing has become the go-to security strategy in the Americas. But as the case of the Rio de Janeiro's "pacification" policing experiment ... |
| Philippine police 'dumping bodies' of drug war victims [28.07.2017] | Fishermen in the Philippines have revealed that they have been dumping bodies of drug suspects, killed as part of the country's so-called war on drug ... |
| Senators defy Jeff Sessions and vote to extend medical marijuana protections [27.07.2017] | A congressional committee voted to extend protections of state medical marijuana programs against federal interference, in defiance of a request from ... |
| Why João Doria’s war on drugs is doomed [12.07.2017] | When São Paulo Mayor João Doria set out to fulfil a campaign promise and rid the city of its cracolândia (crackland), an area that was home to a grou ... |
| Toronto marijuana arrests reveal ‘startling’ racial divide [06.07.2017] | Black people with no history of criminal convictions have been three times more likely to be arrested by Toronto police for possession of small amoun ... |
| What’s the deal with cannabis in Hong Kong? [01.07.2017] | The use or sale of cannabis is banned in Hong Kong under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, which came into effect in 1969. Any person who cultivates any ... |
| It's time to end SA's war on drugs [29.06.2017] | Bluetooth nyaope, dagga, dealers and associated rhetoric often dominate the headlines on the issue of drug use. The supply and consumption of drugs — ... |
| Albania grapples with cannabis, a hurdle to EU accession [21.06.2017] | As Albania gears up for elections, one huge challenge facing the Balkan country has been low on the campaign agendas: the scourge of its cannabis fie ... |
| Wrecking to ‘revitalise’: São Paulo expels drug users and razes buildings, claiming public safety [16.06.2017] | On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown neighbourhood where, since the late 1990s, hundreds to thousands of crack-cocaine ... |
| Jeff Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical marijuana providers [13.06.2017] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, acco ... |
| Support users, don't punish them: Ex-AFP boss' radical ideas to beat the drug trade [13.06.2017] | For over half a century governments in Australia have relied heavily on law enforcement to curb the drug trade and reduce drug use. But despite huge ... |
| Pot legislation does not fail Canada’s youth. A criminal record does [10.06.2017] | The Canadian Medical Association Journal released an editorial criticizing the government’s approach to the protection of youth in the proposed Canna ... |
| Police time and money go to pot [19.05.2017] | In 2015-2016, 259 165 people were arrested for drug-related crimes, according to the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) crime statistics. The poli ... |
| Why are abuse claims in Cambodia’s war on drugs being ignored? [17.05.2017] | On New Year’s Day, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen launched a six-month crackdown on the drug scourge that he said had become an increasing grievanc ... |
| Baltimore homicide detectives to begin investigating drug overdoses [02.05.2017] | Baltimore Police have begun investigating overdoses in an effort to trace drugs back to dealers, joining a wave of Maryland law enforcement agencies ... |
| It’s time to kick our addiction to the war on drugs [25.04.2017] | As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie takes the lead in crafting the Trump administration’s response to the opioid crisis, he and his colleagues need ... |
| Tough marijuana position from national prosecutors could influence Trump policy [25.04.2017] | A federal group of prosecutors in the United States has criticized efforts at the US state level to legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational ... |
| Canada and eight US states have done it. Why can't NSW legalise cannabis? [24.04.2017] | In Australia the long arm of the law still has a long reach, waging a war on drugs. Last year, there were more than 26,000 criminal incidents of cann ... |
| Charge Rodrigo Duterte with mass murder, lawyer tells The Hague [24.04.2017] | Filipino lawyer Jude Josue Sabio asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague to charge President Rodrigo Duterte and 11 other Philippine offi ... |
| Officers rue the return of US 'war on drugs' [18.04.2017] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions likes to reminisce about the aggressive law enforcement of the 80s and 90s and recently labelled cannabis "only slight ... |
| Police describe kill rewards, staged crime scenes in Duterte's drug war [18.04.2017] | The Philippine police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings ... |
| Legalization plan doesn’t include amnesty for past marijuana-convictions: Liberals [17.04.2017] | The federal plan to legalize recreational marijuana does not include the general amnesty for past pot convictions some would like to see, says Public ... |
| Some Arab governments are rethinking harsh cannabis laws [12.04.2017] | The Moroccan authorities look at the issue from the other direction. Though the government bans the production of cannabis, its growth is tolerated i ... |
| The DEA chief will ‘have to check’ whether DEA lets drugs into communities on purpose. (It does) [11.04.2017] | Federal law allows informants, like those employed by the DEA, to engage in “otherwise illegal activity” as part of an investigation. Those activitie ... |
| How Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the war on drugs [08.04.2017] | When the Obama administration reduced harsh prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, rave reviews came from across the political spectrum. Civ ... |
| Toronto pot shop raids: Huge success or costly attack? [07.04.2017] | Shut down, Mayor John Tory told marijuana shop owners, or face “whatever enforcement mechanisms” the city can muster to extinguish the “wildfire” spr ... |
| Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war [02.04.2017] | “Throw them in the ocean or the quarry. Make it clean. Make sure there are no traces of the bodies.” The words are shocking. That they allegedly came ... |
| Why SA should follow Portugal and decriminalise drug use [17.03.2017] | The war on drugs in South Africa, as in the US, has in no way reduced the supply or the demand of drugs. And without a doubt it’s led to an increase ... |
| How British weed growers are avoiding prosecution [15.03.2017] | The United Kingdom Cannabis Social Clubs (UKCSC) have recently launched a system that, in theory, would help you battle a court case if your grow was ... |
| Morocco and Cannabis [10.03.2017] | This policy briefing discusses whether or not the aim of reducing cannabis cultivation is realistic or beneficial for Morocco, what it would actually ... |
| Durham police will give addicts heroin to inject in 'shooting galleries' [05.03.2017] | Heroin addicts will be given supplies to inject in specially designated “shooting galleries” under radical plans to tackle drug-related crime in Durh ... |
| Philippines police plant evidence to justify killings in drug war, says report [02.03.2017] | Human Rights Watch has accused Philippines police of falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in the government’s war on drugs that has cause ... |
| Advocacy group calls for reform of Burma’s drug laws and policies [17.02.2017] | The Drug Policy Advocacy Group (DPAG) has called for a reform of Burma’s drug laws, demanding new policies focusing on the rehabilitation of drug use ... |
| A rare survivor of a Philippine drug raid takes the police to court [10.02.2017] | As the only known survivor of a so-called buy-bust operation, Mr. Morillo has provided a chilling first-person account that challenges the government ... |
| In Duterte’s footsteps, Hun Sen launches a drug war [09.02.2017] | Cambodia’s newly launched war on drugs is in full swing, with nearly 3,000 people arrested in the campaign’s first month of crime-busting. Authoritie ... |
| Drug control policy fuels social unrest in northern Morocco [08.02.2017] | For the past three months, the Rif region in northern Morocco has been experiencing widespread protests and social unrest following the death of Mouh ... |
| Marijuana legalization must include justice reform [31.01.2017] | Across the US, we routinely take a pledge that ends in “with liberty and justice for all.” Yet that fundamental promise has been broken in six of the ... |
| Boulder DA Stan Garnett named to group that will advise Trump administration on pot [30.01.2017] | The National District Attorney's Association created a policy group featuring 14 district attorneys from across the country who will issue advisement ... |
| Families of slain Filipinos file Supreme Court challenge to Rodrigo Duterte’s drugs war [26.01.2017] | Families of alleged drugs suspects killed by Philippine police petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to force police to disclose evidence linking ... |
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