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...Such violent confrontations are increasingly common in China, where decades of frantic growth have generated an equally frantic desire to cash in by developers, often aided or partnered by corrupt local government officials. But the Zhuhai case is different in one critical respect: after their claims were twice denied by the courts, the villagers issued a proclamation rejecting the land seizures as illegal and asserting their rights over ancestral plots for them and succeeding generations - rights they said they were prepared to "defend to the death." (Officials of Yicheng, the county seat with jurisdiction over Zhuhai, did not respond...
...hold the exhibit at Hillel, some members say they are fundamentally opposed to the message and the aims of the exhibit. But Greenvald says that the exhibit raises awareness about conditions of military experience.“I want them to understand that if you put someone in a violent position, they will become violent,” says Greenvald. “It’s the bully, it’s the geek, it’s you and me. This is what it means to be an occupier...
...exchanges between Hillary and Barack, would have been surprised by the Spanish presidential debate on Tuesday night between the incumbent Socialist president of the government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and his Popular Party (PP) rival, Mariano Rajoy. As in any close race, there were plenty of violent accusations flying around; yet the Spanish leaders were not afraid to cite hard statistics and read past quotations to each others’ face. Instead of telling compelling stories about single mothers, displaced workers, and war veterans, they brought graphs of economic performance to the televised debate. And ratings...
...drug war has ravaged law enforcement too. In cities where police agencies commit the most resources to arresting their way out of their drug problems, the arrest rates for violent crime - murder, rape, aggravated assault - have declined. In Baltimore, where we set The Wire, drug arrests have skyrocketed over the past three decades, yet in that same span, arrest rates for murder have gone from 80% and 90% to half that. Lost in an unwinnable drug war, a new generation of law officers is no longer capable of investigating crime properly, having learned only to make court pay by grabbing...
...crime rates, comparison with other industrialized nations reveals the fallacy of their argument. High rates of imprisonment have had little effect on the homicide rate in the United States, which remains four times higher than in Western Europe, where preventative measures such as gun control have more effectively reduced violent crime. Rates of other crimes of victimization in the United States are in the mid range of similarly developed nations. What, then, could explain such a large prison population? Approximately 31 percent of state prison sentences are for simple possession or trafficking of drugs. This is far too many. While...