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...doubt in my mind that crime is increasing," says Major Loy Majeed, the assistant chief of the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad. "Now we get reports of five, six, seven killings in a night, and all we can do is write it down." Police officers complain that patrol cars have been stolen in broad daylight and that their small-caliber pistols are no match for the heavy weapons toted by criminals. The city coroner in Baghdad says he has seen 15 to 25 corpses a day since April, most from gunshot wounds. (Last week three schoolgirls were killed...
...decrepit, filthy office so badly looted after the war that if local residents want to file a crime report, they have to write it down on their own paper. The dozen or so policemen there complain about their pay ($20 for the past month), their lack of firepower and patrol cars, even the look of the new uniforms. "It's like we're schoolboys," says 2nd Lieut. Khalil Kamar Rashid. The U.S. and the residents of Baghdad need them to grow up in a hurry. --By Romesh Ratnesar/Baghdad
...course, somebody misplaced identification on the way home. Luckily, the U.S. Border Patrol allowed us to scrounge around the car and explain instead of shooting first and asking questions later...
...city virtually without civil authority since Saddam Hussein's fall, many districts have organized vigilante night patrols to scare off looters and shooters. But these victims received no help: no phones work; no police patrol the beat. None of the gawkers even lent a hand as we tried to lift the wounded man into our Daewoo sedan. It took several universally understood expletives to elicit help...
...mist-filled forests south of Dili, villagers accuse the shadowy group Colimau 2000, composed of ex-guerrillas and disaffected East Timorese villagers, of extorting money from them. In Hatolia town, locals tell of being robbed at night by a gang led by a disgruntled Falintil veteran. Australian peacekeepers now patrol the area. "We are scared," says Antonio Salsinha, a resident from the nearby town of Ermera, "because we hear (Colimau 2000) rejects the authority of the government...