Policing the cops: crime and punishment

Article Abstract:

Revelations about evidence planting, false testimony, and other improprieties committed by officers of the Philadelphia Police Dept have caused more than 100 convictions to be overturned since Fall 1995. The Department claims that the corruption problem is restricted to a handful of officers.

Investigations, Police corruption, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Nice cops, nasty cops

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A community policing project in the Pavao-Cantagalo shanty town in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been successful but is threatened by political pressures. Those who organize the scheme have been accused of being soft on drug traffickers in the shanty towns.

Laws, regulations and rules, Brazil, Law enforcement, Squatter settlements

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Killer cops

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Reasons for high levels of deaths caused by police in Jamaica, and efforts to tackle the problem, are examined in detail.

Jamaica

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Subjects list: Law enforcement officers, Police misconduct
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