The Obama administration is considering funding many more police officers in public schools to secure campuses, a leading Democratic senator said, part of a broad gun violence agendathat is likely to include a ban on high-capacity ammunition clips and universal background checks. The school safety initiative, one of several under consideration, would make federal dollars [...]
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Oswaldo Payá, an Cuban activist who spent decades trying to build a movement the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) that would pressure the government of Fidel Castro to allow more freedom and human rights, died Sunday in a car crash in Bayamo, a city some 750 kilometers (460 miles) east of Havana. He was 60. Paya [...]
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Senior United Nations officials yesterday drew the world’s attention to threats posed by transnational organized crime and drug trafficking in Central America and called for concerted global efforts to combat the scourge, which they said was spreading to other regions. “Countries in Central America face a tide of violence, born of transnational organized crime and [...]
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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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In response to growing bilateral and multilateral dialogues on citizen security, Presidents Obama and Santos met today on the margins of the VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and agreed to deepen coordination of ongoing security cooperation activities throughout the hemisphere and West Africa. Both presidents agreed to formalize this coordination in [...]
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Forensic experts report that pedophiles are increasingly using gaming systems to prey upon children, while terrorists are now utilizing them for online communication. With this in mind, on April 5 the United States Naval Supply Systems Command contracted a San Francisco company called Obscure Technologies for the research and development of “hardware and software tools that can be used for extracting [...]
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A crusading federal prosecutor in Brazil this week opened his second 20 billion real ($10.9 billion) lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and driller Transocean, doubling the charges against both companies while drawing criticism from other Brazilians. The new lawsuit, the second filed by Eduardo Santos de Oliveira against the companies in less than five months, is related to an oil leak discovered [...]
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And defends 2013 budget requests From congressional testimony by William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2012 The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader [...]
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The following is stated in the investigation made by the Norwegian Narcotics Governmental Committee which members, more than 100 consultative bodies, has made a public statement in late February. The picture that emerges is the following: 1) the drug situation in Norway is improving, 2) law enforcement efforts should be reinforced, 3) amicable measures for [...]
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It’s not just in the airport anymore. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is working in collaboration with the United States Department of Defense to control illegal firearms by deploying technology to detect concealed weapons carried by people walking down the street. Using infrared rays, the system scans a “form of radiation emitted from [...]
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