‘Bwa Kale’ Vigilante Movement Challenging Haiti’s Gangs
Anti-gang vigilantism is spreading and gaining public support amid escalating insecurity in Haiti, raising the possibility that such movements could…
Haiti’s Anti-Gang Vigilantes May Pose Future Criminal Threat
Anti-gang vigilantism is spreading and gaining public support amid escalating insecurity in Haiti, raising the possibility that such movements could…
Chile Hands New Powers to Police as Security Deteriorates
Chile has given police greater leeway to use force against criminal suspects, but this hasty response to a wave of…
The political theatre behind Philippines police cleansing
Authors: Steffen Jensen, Aalborg University and Karl Hapal, University of the Philippines Diliman In January 2023, the Philippines’ Secretary of…
Brazil Case Illustrates Struggle With Corrupt Police
Dozens of police officers and over 100 alleged drug traffickers have been arrested over six years in northeast Brazil, spreading…
Is Nayib Bukele’s ‘Iron Fist’ in El Salvador Working?
After the influential and well-sourced publication El Faro declared that El Salvador’s controversial President Nayib Bukele had “disarticulate(d)” the country’s…
Haiti Gangs Embrace Political and Police Chaos
Haiti’s Acting Prime Minister landed in the capital after a foreign trip to be greeted by police rioting, diminishing political…
Venezuela’s Police Reform Unlikely to Halt Corrupt Ties to Organized Crime
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a police reform plan that, on the surface, could appear to be a blueprint…