Although the Brazilian Amazon has seen a large number
of police operations in recent years against illegal logging, very little action has been taken to tackle deleterious agricultural practices.
The inspector in
charge of the police operation at Hillsborough's attempts to «manipulate and manage» the public outcry last autumn should have cost him his job, the police watchdog has found.
Yesterday, the Governor of Missouri gave
control of the police operations in the city to State Highway Patrol Captain Ronald S. Johnson, an African American who grew up in Ferguson.
The Metropolitan Police Service estimates that the total
cost of the policing operation, between 29 December 2008 and 24 January 2009, is # 2.7 million.
A mutually beneficial pattern is described, when the NotW gets a crime scoop, makes a show of handing the details to the police, and then writes up a fawning
account of the police operation the following week.
While in France, I was taking
video of a police operation (they were evicting some squatters in caravans from a field, about 50 of them).