August192010
Mexico Contemplates Ending the Drug War »
“Mr Calderón became the first incumbent president to call for open discussion of the merits of legalising a trade he has opposed with such determination….It has brought into the open an argument that appears to be gaining currency in Mexico.”
Tags: /Crime
May242010
Crime Rates Down for Third Year »
“It was the third straight year of declines, and this year’s drops were even steeper than those of 2007 and 2008, despite the recession”
Tags: /United States /crime
August282009
Serener Streets »
“The most recent report from the FBI is that during 2008 violent crime dropped 2.5% compared with 2007. Individual cities have also put out their statistics for the first half of 2009: most of America’s ten largest cities have posted drops in violent crime compared with the same period last year… . [T]he 2009 numbers are clearly part of an ongoing story: after the dramatic drops of the 1990s, major crime has stayed relatively low in America’s biggest cities and has even declined a bit further here and there.”
