Thermal-imaging devices have been used to watch the second suspect in this week’s Boston Marathon bombings as he was holed up in his last hiding place, the boat. Authorities said a helicopter equipped with a thermal imager (FLIR — a forward-looking infrared device —) spotted the heat signature of a person inside a tarp-covered boat, sitting [...]
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Recent surveys reflect public safety has not been the priority of the current Brazilian government. The surveys are talkinf about little investment public safety, high rates of crime and homicide, low percentage of homicides cleared by the justice system, increased sense of insecurity of the population, according to an article published by 180graus.com The article [...]
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The United States Department of Homeland Security DHS launched the Blue Campaign in 2010 to more effectively combat human trafficking through four strategies: 1) enhanced public awareness, 2) improve victim assistance, 3) strengthen law enforcement investigations 3) increasing prosecution. With an estimated 20.9 million victims (source ILO), every year, men, women, and children are enslaved [...]
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After 24 years on the run, one of the US marshals service’s most-wanted fugitives has been captured by Mexican police in the resort city of Cancun. Suspect Vincent Legrend Walters is wanted in San Diego, California, on murder charges in the 1988 killing of a woman kidnapped as part of a drug deal. He also [...]
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After six years into a drug war, none of the top candidates in next Sunday’s presidential election in Mexico has offered a significant new strategy to win a conflict that has claimed more than 50,000 lives and terrorized Mexican society. In fact, the future of the “war on drugs” is a political mystery. However, when [...]
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The former police general who served as Colombian ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief from 2002 to 2006 betrayed international counternarcotics operations for almost a decade while on the payroll of drug traffickers and rightwing paramilitaries, according to a newly unsealed U.S. indictment. Ex-Gen. Mauricio Santoyo Velasco is charged with conspiracy to export cocaine to the United States [...]
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Mexico’s congress approved a law Monday to recognize and protect the rights of crime victims, a longstanding demand in a country where more than 47,500 people have died in 5½ years of drug-related violence, and thousands more have disappeared. The law covers the dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing whether they are ordinary civilians or are [...]
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Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) rebels on Monday abducted dozens of oil and gas workers in southern Peru but later released most while the Army sought to encircle their leader, sources in that nation’s Armed Forces have revealed. After several hours in the hands of leftist rebels, a group of workers from the Swedish firm Skanska was released leaving behind eight [...]
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A Colombian army attack against a FARC camp has left 33 guerrillas dead in an oil region bordering Venezuela, the sharpest blow struck by security forces against the rebel group in the last year, that government said Wednesday. The offensive against a column of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) took place in the northeast department of Arauca, the same [...]
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Colombia on Friday extradited another guerrilla to the United States, on charges of holding three kidnapped Americans in the jungle for over 5 years until they were rescued in 2008. Alexander Beltrán Herrera, known as ”Pirinolo”, is the latest rebel from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) extradited to the U.S., that nation’s main ally in the fight against drug [...]
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