The Alternative World Drug report

the negative impact of  a law-enforcement based strategy

2013 UNODC World Drug Report

Report can be downloaded.

With the Met, if you are innocent you have everything to worry about

Michael Mansfield, famous human rights lawyer, demonstrates that the innocent have plenty to worry about, especially if they get caught up in a police investigation that has been incompetently handled and they are trying to cover up.

16 people arrested over alleged £1m scam targeting pensioners

Is there nothing that organised crime won't do?

US spreads blowback nightmare

the article is a documenting of the spread of terrorism in Africa in recent years. The point to note is that as it has spread, so too has drug-trafficking and probably many other forms of organised crime not as yet noticed. The military is brilliant at opening the door to illicit business....discuss

Five myths about the National Security Agency

James Bamford nails 5 myths the NSA would like you to believe about the legal framework in which it operates when exercising surveillance over the world.

The other hacking scandal: Suppressed report reveals that law firms, telecoms giants and insurance companies routinely hire criminals to steal rivals' information

The words chosen in the headline are the independent's. If the state snooping doesnt worry you, and you can brush off the idea that journalists are poking around in your life, then how do you feel about insurance companies, law firms and even possibly celebrities snooping around you. "You have nothing to fear if you're innocent."...You certainly do if someone's out to get you!

Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant

The legal basis for NSA data surveillance.There will be some law text books that will need rewriting on the evidence of these documents. Do they apply to "organised crime" as well??

West Africa piracy overtakes Somali ship attacks

There are links to other articles from this one, trying to explain a fall in the number of piracy incidents connected to Somalia

Liverpool-to-Plymouth £1m heroin and cocaine gang sentenced

Meanwhile, down in the South-West, Liverpudlians go on holiday...