24 November 2010
Rio police launch major assaults on favelas
Police respond to attacks by the Red Commando drug gangs. Let's hope they have the personnel to succeed. There will be more on this in the coming days
How secure is your University City?
As my old fellow student Lucy Hodges points out, Universities in the UK are not compelled to collect statistics on or report crime against students or within Universities. They are in the USA.
Another one of the UK's dirty little secrets? University authorities don't want this studied because they don't want any negative publicity. But how can you make policy against it unless you have empirical data about what's going on?
Another one of the UK's dirty little secrets? University authorities don't want this studied because they don't want any negative publicity. But how can you make policy against it unless you have empirical data about what's going on?
22 November 2010
New Edition of Standing Group on Organised Crime Newsletter released!
4 articles and loads of news. Particularly note the information on the Third SGOC Summer School, this time in Macedonia
21 November 2010
Qaeda Branch aimed for broad damage at low cost
Article released in al Qaeda English language journal, Inspire. Cost of recent operation to place bombs in cargo planes: $4,200...Impact on security costs for shippers and courier services: priceless.
Labour got balance wrong on civil liberties, says Balls
90 day detention for "terrorist" suspects too long. Labour should back cutting back to 14 days. But still likes the DNA database and CCTV...Dont think he understands the concept of civil liberties at all. We should follow the police and security services. Ed. You still havent "got it". Civil liberties are absolute values, not relative ones, in a democracy. You're allying your self with the "terrorists" to undermine Western democracy [Discuss].
20 November 2010
Under fire, foreclosure king resigns
Apparently Mother Jones was exposing this guy a while ago. Rolling Stone late on the scene.
Courts helping Banks Screw over Homeowners
Big article in Rolling Stone alleging wholesale fraud in Florida in foreclosure actions against homeowners. Big banks named. Shocking. UK next? ....watch this space
The making of a dissident movement
The creation of an alliance between the experienced and disillusioned members of the Provisional IRA in Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland and the youth of the "sink estates" to recreate terrorism. read veterans of Afghanistan and Bosnia and their alliances with Muslim youth in various British sink estates and elsewhere, with no career prospects. and we're surprised we have a problem?
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