Mexican police fleeing drug cartel assassins.
The escalating violence by Mexico's various drug cartels has taken a heavy toll on Mexico's police forces in recent months, with the month of May proving especially brutal. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down in May, along with many other police and soldiers. "Drug cartels are...

Aboriginal police services need adequate funding.
MISHKEEGOGAMANG The young female police officer doesn't get it. "I graduated from OPC (Ontario Police College) right beside those OPP officers," she says. "I have the exact same training, I do the exact same job, why can I not have the exact same...

Security and international relations in the 21st Century: United States' continuum of counterinsurgency: anti-communism to anti-terrorism.
Abstract This article describes the perspective, context and meaning of the global war on terrorism though an examination of prior counterinsurgency efforts by the United States. To do so, this manuscript surveys the foundations of such efforts, deeply rooted in the traditions of United States foreign policy....

What Ahmadi-Nejad & His Critics Said.
On March 3, Ahmadi-Nejad wrapped up his visit with a call on US-led foreign forces to withdraw from Iraq, saying: "People have not seen anything from the foreign presence in this region but more destruction and division. Without the presence of foreign troops, the region will live in peace...

Drug related crime up Canadian police forces report.
TORONTO -- Canadian Police Forces have reported that drug-related crime has increased by about 42 per cent since the early 1990's, and now stands at a 20-year high with three in four drug-related incidents in 2002 involving cannabis. Of the cannabis related offences, 72 per cent were...

New Zealand Police: from drug enforcement to peacekeeping: Hamish McCardle outlines the evolving New Zealand police role in international relations.
The evolving role of the New Zealand Police in international relations would not have been a topic for consideration even ten years ago. There may still be some who view the current interest in using 'blue shirts' on the international stage as merely a passing fad. This article does...

US-Trained Afghan Police Force Is Failing.
Five years after the fall of the Taliban, a joint report by the Pentagon and the US State Department has found that the American-trained police force in Afghanistan is incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work. The report has also concluded that managers of the $1.1 billion training...

Ecological analysis of crime rates and police discretion with young persons: a replication.
Previous research published in this journal used 1991 data to conduct an ecological analysis of the police use of formal social control (see Schulenberg 2003). This note replicates the analysis using 2001 data on municipal crime rates and police discretion with apprehended youth in Canada. We also extend the...

The diversity rationale for affirmative action in employment after Grutter: the case for containment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. NARROW RANGE OF INTERESTS THAT JUSTIFIED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION UNDER EQUAL PROTECTION BEFORE GRUTTER A. National Security B. Diversity of Viewpoints in Public Higher Education C. Remediation of Identifiable Past Discrimination II. EXCLUSIVE NARROW REMEDIAL EXCEPTION TO TITLE VII BEFORE GRUTTER A. Narrow Remedial Exception...

The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes: new border politics?
The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in Stockwell Station, South London, on 22 July 2005, was described as a "tragic mistake" by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair. This framing of the killing has come to dominate responses to it in the mainstream media. However, such a framing...