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Before Jing could be executed, however, fortune handed him a reprieve. Lanzhou police arrested a dealer who admitted that he had helped officers set Jing up for a drug rap. Jing won a second trial?and the real story came out. The arresting officers had planted the heroin. They had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police Under fire | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Not for nothing is China called a police state. Unhindered by constitutional or judicial restraints, mainland cops have long operated with virtual impunity, earning a reputation with citizens as unprincipled thugs more concerned about hitting arrest quotas and fleecing the masses than protecting and serving. But after several highly publicized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police Under fire | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

The task of restoring confidence falls to China's top cop, Public Security Minister Zhou. A prot?g? of former President Jiang Zemin, who remains head of China's army and controls the country's security apparatus, Zhou took office in December and set out to clean up China's dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police Under fire | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Some of the greatest pressure for change comes not from angry victims of police abuse but from rank-and-file officers, many of whom carry out their duties faithfully under difficult circumstances. A recent year-long internal police study conducted in Shandong province showed that beat cops work an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police Under fire | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

The police had been tipped off by suspicious parents, but even so they weren't entirely prepared for what awaited them in a hotel room in the quiet spa town of Leamington, 160 km northwest of London. As they raided one day in August, stepping over the rubber stockings, condoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye to All Chat | 9/28/2003 | See Source »

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