A gang-related shooting in Naples.
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Police and the courts have locked up some of Europe’s most notorious mob bosses – but the next generation of would-be kingpins are even worse.
Young people using the infamous ‘nyaope’ drug in Johannesburg.
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Portugal won the war on drugs by giving up. What lessons can South Africa learn from their approach?
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson (right) with protestor on Aug. 5, 2016.
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The DOJ has found excessive use of force in the Baltimore, Ferguson and Chicago police departments. Could a solution be found by seeing the police as victims of violence as well?
In Queensland, police can issue on-the-spot ten-day banning orders to patrons who engage in violent or anti-social behaviour in and around licensed venues.
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Banning orders can encourage personal responsibility and demonstrate that anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated.
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It is difficult not to see the film as a vanity project for Wahlberg.
‘Rapist, killer cops’: protesters march in Paris’s 18th arrondisement.
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Governments’ continual use of security forces to ‘keep order’ in low-income and minority neighborhoods masks their inability find solutions other than force.
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A review of international research shows that police may well be better off without weapons.
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The domestic deployment of the military is almost always a sign of growing state repression.
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But can they improve pupils’ behaviour?
People rally in New Brunswick, N.J. against President Trump’s ‘travel ban.’
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Our panel of experts examines whether immigration leads to more crime using data from across 200 metropolitan areas and 20 years of research.
Police across Victoria made it clear that family violence was considered to be ‘different’ to the primary investigative mandate of their work.
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Police remain critical in the effort to tackling family violence in all its forms. But more than just a commitment to extra police and training is needed to improve outcomes for victim-survivors.
Police pursuits are among the most challenging operational situations facing officers.
AAP/Joel Carrett
Any policy governing police pursuits must balance the need to apprehend offenders with the safety of the community.
Police outside the Orgreave Coking Plant near Rotherham during the miners’ disputes.
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South Yorkshire Police has recently been criticised for how well it protects people and prevents crime, and it isn’t the first time.
South African President Jacob Zuma just escaped a bid by some of his senior colleagues in the governing ANC to remove him.
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The South African economy stands to benefit if the country’s president steps aside because he has had a destructive economic impact.
University students use a mattress as a shield against rubber bullets.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Social justice is not just a phrase for protesting students. Instead it is something that defines them.
Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm is among those pushing for restrictions on the Adler shotgun to be lifted.
AAP/Mick Tsikas
The hyperbole about the Adler shotgun simply does not match with the facts. This is symptomatic of the generally poor quality of debate around firearm policy in Australia.
A woman enters the media workspace at the University of Las Vegas, site of the last 2016 U.S. presidential debate.
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Do you feel as if the moderators keep asking the same questions of the presidential candidates? Our panel has some fresh ideas.
Two Polish police officers on the beat in Harlow, Essex.
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The death of Polish resident Arkadiusz Jóźwik has raised tensions in Harlow.
Hidden clues.
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It could even help crack long-forgotten cold cases.
Heavily armed: no ordinary Bobby on the beat.
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Policing ‘by consent’ in changing times involves walking a knife edge.