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...Mexican citizens?? situation is tragic. Although Mexico is far from a failed state as some suggest—at least not on the same lines as Pakistan—and drug violence is not new, there is no doubt that the country now finds itself in its most dire conflict since revolution disrupted the nation...
...Supreme Court has taken a dangerous decision by allowing evidence obtained illegally to be used in a trial. For a democracy to flourish, no one can be above the law. We would rather have police procedures follow strict and clear rules in order to ensure citizens?? rights and privacy than catch the occasional extra criminal...
...civil penalty of one hundred dollars and forfeiture of the marihuana, but not to any other form of criminal or civil punishment or disqualification.” In Massachusetts that is, small-scale possession became the legal equivalent of a bad traffic ticket. Law enforcement officers, however, worry that citizens?? first impression may prove all too close to correct—that the “marijuana ticket” will prove impossible to enforce and is thus a de facto legalization of weed. In the short run, officers should try to enforce the law as best they...
...should not be considered a crime. While it is understandable that the Massachusetts Sheriff’s Union and the Massachusetts’ Chiefs of Police Association opposed Question 2 (due of the enforcement challenges that it presents), these very organizations could make their own—and citizens??—lives much easier by supporting movements such as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), which seek to remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act Schedule I list. This list, which claims to include and does include drugs (1) with a high...
...Grogan of the Boston Foundation should, with university and community partners, convene a series of forums to launch a two pronged attack on the rising homicide rates among Black youth: studying the implications of this fact for local public policy and neighborhood action, second, launching a non-partisan citizens?? commission, modeled on the Chicago Crime Commission, to serve civil rights check on the secret data generated by the Boston Regional Intelligence Council which compiles “intelligence” data on alleged high-impact players involved in violent gang activity. This is important because of the potential...