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How To Put An End To Gang Violence
In cities all across the United States of America, police departments are outmanned and outgunned by the various gangs spread throughout the country. Police have added gang units, tactical units, and narcotic units to their staff, yet that has not...
Tags: gang violence, end, fight, kill, drug war, police, tactical, narcotic, chicago, phoenix, arizona, illinois, violence, crossfire, criminals, allnews, Joliet, Gangs in the United States, Gang, Social Issues, Law Crime, gangs violence
Well Maybe The Weed Provider Could Deliver Swine Flu Vaccine
New Smoke Trails May Be More Important This Year At Ski Resorts Than Snowriding Trails By Robert Weller For years I wrote a national ski preview, telling snowriders about new trails, great deals, cheap flights, safety rules and the...
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A Day without Murder
Some noteworthy news as we approach the Day of the Dead commemoration (November 2): According to a Juarez, Mexico newspaper report, October 29, 2009 was the first day in the year 2009 to register ZERO homicides. The last previous day on...
Tags: drug war, war on drugs, drug cartel violence, homicides, most dangerous city, Juarez, femicides
Violent Death Hitting Closer to Home
I did not know the mayor of Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico, although I spend a fair amount of time in that small border town (a town too small to be listed in the Allvoices database). News of his abduction and murder this week came as a shock,...
Tags: Palomas, Estanislao Garcia, mayor, murder, kidnapping, drug war, undocumented immigration, border town
DEA official says don't end drug war
El Paso :: TX :: USA | 2 months ago
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A top U.S. narcotics official told a conference on the border drug war that aggressive law enforcement must remain part of strategy to curb drug trafficking. Anthony Placido, head of intelligence for the DEA, said drugs by nature were "mind-altering substances...
Juarez, Mexico, passes own homicide record
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 months ago
Credibility Last year's record of 1,607 homicides in Juarez, Mexico, has already been surpassed with more than 1,620 slayings so far this year, officials say. Chihuahua State Police said more than 150 homicides were committed in the border city in August, pushing...
Tags: Mexico, Ciudad Juarez, rehabilitation center, drug war, treatment center, drug rehabilitation, bordering city, Chihuahua State Police, drug treatment, Mexico City
Police: Mexico drug wars stoke B.C. crime
Guadalajara :: Mexico | 2 months ago
Credibility Canadian authorities say drug-related violence has spiked in British Columbia this year in an apparent ripple effect from Mexico's drug wars. The National Post said Monday that police are seeing more shootings among the approximately 120 gangs involved...
Tags: drug war, Mexico, Guadalajara
Mexico removes drug war chief
Mexico City :: Mexico | 2 months ago
Credibility Mexico's president has removed Eduardo Medina-Mora, the attorney general, and replaced him with a little-known former law enforcement official. Felipe Calderon told reporters on Monday that Arturo Chavez, a lawyer and former official in the attorney general's...
Tags: Mexico City, attorney general, Felipe Calderón, president felipe, Eduardo Medina Mora, drug war, drug cartels, point man, Eduardo Medina-Mora, mexico removed
What Does the War on Drugs Mean? Ask the Drug Czar!
"Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske said it himself this spring and repeated it in El Paso this week at the 6th Annual Border Security Conference: the phrase "War on Drugs" is inaccurate. He told El Paso independent media The Newspaper Tree that there...
Tags: Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, medical marijuana, 6th Annual Border Security Conference, El Paso, The Newspaper Tree, drug legalization, cocaine, marijuana, Drug War, War on Drugs, public health, prevention specialists, attorney general, Prohibition
Support Slipping for Mexico's Drug War
Support for Mexican President Calderon's military-led (and US-backed) drug war is waning. Both ordinary citizens and Mexican government leaders are questioning the effort, according to an article in today's Washington Post (linked below). It reports:...
Tags: Felipe Calderón, Drug War, Carlos Heredia, William Booth and Steve Fainaru, Washington Post, Ciudad Juarez, Ramon Galindo, Anthony Placido, US Drug Enforcement Administration, Carlos Flores, Center for Investigations and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Mexico City, Monte Alejandro Rubido, National Security Council
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