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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...