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...Hood” is, as its title suggests, the brutality and absurdity of police life outside the walls of the Police Academy. Moskos depicts the inner-city police districts of East Baltimore as completely overrun by the local drug market, where dealers hawk cocaine and heroin stored in perfume vials to eager addicts at all hours of the day. Given the impossibility of arresting thousands of users and dealers (often children or teenagers without any other means of income), the situation Moskos paints is bleak: the police, handicapped by unnecessary regulations, are ultimately performing a futile exercise...
...became a journalist in 1955, Robert Greene was relentless about uncovering corruption. As a reporter and an editor for Newsday, based on Long Island, N.Y., he was a formidable opponent of crooked businessmen and politicians and ultimately earned two Pulitzer prizes for his reporting on property scandals and heroin-trafficking. He later taught journalism and established a nonprofit group, Investigative Reporters and Editors, but it is his fieldwork that will continue to set the bar for tenacious and effective reporting. "He was not only respected," a former Suffolk County police commissioner told Newsday, "he was feared...
...presence of foreign troops and the supply of billions of dollars in aid, the insurgency has grown stronger since the Taliban were first pushed from power in 2001. Corruption is fueling that growth: for example, the insurgency is funded by the cultivation of poppy and the smuggling of heroin, which many police and officials ignore. Last year Transparency International ranked Afghanistan 172 out of 180 countries surveyed for its Corruption Perceptions Index. "Corruption is the tree," says Parliamentarian Hossein Balkhi. "Terrorism, destabilization, smuggling and poppy are its branches; if you cut down corruption, the rest will...
...shocked. What’s shocking is the extent to which both Jay and Andelman must have tricked themselves into thinking that this kind of association is in the least bit novel. It’s been just over 30 years since Lou Reed first sang, “Heroin, / its my wife and it’s my life,” and all Jay’s been able to come up with is, “Just for one night, baby, take me in vein”? Really? Perhaps as a function of how tired the song?...
...mailed the letter but didn't hold out much hope. After all, Mati Sae-Ang was just a noodle-soup vendor, with a heroin addict for a son. Still, after watching her boy stick needles in his arms for a decade, what harm could there be in sending then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra a note identifying her son's dealer in the northern Thai town of Chiang Rai? A billionaire tycoon turned politician, Thaksin had just launched a war on drugs. The campaign would be assailed by human-rights activists for claiming more than 2,000 lives in just three...