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...other side of Auckland, Detective Sergeant James Watson has been won over by Key. In a year in which violent crime has risen by 12%, the would-be P.M. has played the tough guy to good effect, winning broad public approval for proposals including boot camp for young offenders and the scrapping of parole for hard-core criminals. "I'm not having, on my watch, people on the streets who've committed heinous crimes," Key told a national television audience. He's also made familiar right-of-center noises on education, foreshadowing national standards for literacy and numeracy, and plain...
...Once people have completed their sentences, you can't go back and punish them for the same crime...
...much opium has disappeared from the world drug market, but Costa believes the missing opium is a potential time bomb, and many law-enforcement officials agree. That's because the Taliban is believed to be "stockpiling to control the prices," says a spokesman for Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency, who confirmed that NATO forces have uncovered Taliban stockpiles of opium. Despite the bumper opium harvests, the street price of heroin remains a costly $67 per g in European cities, and the price Afghan farmers charge for their opium has remained about $70 per kg (about...
...three defendants have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and in separate accounts have blamed the attack on robbers. They have also accused the police of mishandling evidence, including the victim's bra, which they say had the defendants' DNA on it because it had been left on the crime scene for days after the murder. But each defendant's legal team has insinuated in court that the fellow defendants may be responsible for the murder. Guede reportedly chose the fast-track procedure because he feared the other two defendants had a pact against...
...According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, between 6,000 and 8,000 tons of opium have vanished during the past three years somewhere between the poppy fields of Afghanistan - which produce about 93% of the world's opium - and the world market. That's enough to supply all the world's heroin addicts for nearly two years. The whereabouts of the missing opium is a mystery so far, but international drug- and law-enforcement agencies say they believe the Taliban has begun to stockpile large quantities of the drug, which is worth about...