Standing across the street from a bombed-out shell of a police station in the La Dolorita slum, motorcycle taxi driver Nelson Villareal explains why his community burned it down early last month ...

Santa Marta, shown in the foreground, is one of Rio de Janeiro's most notorious slums. Officials are trying to stem crime and violence there through a community-based approach to policing.

While the BBC series "Peaky Blinders" portrays its tough British street gang in a certain way, the real-life organization was ...

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Two slums are targeted in an operation aimed at cleaning up crime before the World Cup. More than 2,000 police and troops push through the streets of two shantytowns ...

This isn't to romanticize poverty; it's tough, and crime is a problem in barrios and slums around the world. But crime isn't sweeping the cities of Europe, Japan, South Korea or Taiwan the way it ...

Crime in the slums | The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago ...

The U.S. homicide rate hit a 50-year low last year and violent crime hit a 40-year low in 2010, despite the terrible economy. Lead abatement may offer a substantial explanation—and a challenge ...

The NGO said in their report that Rio de Janeiro state police killed some 1,137 people in 2008, and that “impunity is the norm” for officers who commit crimes. This high level of corruption and ...

To curb crimes and drug trafficking in slums, the commissionerate police had launched a special enforcement drive, ‘Operation White Spider', in Aug 2021.