CrimLaw

Meanwhile in the U.K.:

(1) One of the most important protections of citizens' rights, double jeopardy, ain't no more.

(2) 1/4th of all teenagers have committed a crime in the last 12 months.

(3) People are committing suicide by cop.

(4) Bouncers are rising to the top of the criminal world.

(5) Despite strict gun control laws, "[f]igures released by the Home Office last month showed gun crime in Britain has doubled in the last five years."

(6) "[M]inisters revealed 60,000 criminals are to escape community service and get fines instead.
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Home Secretary David Blunkett . . . also revealed 13,000 fewer criminals will be jailed over the next five years."

(7) British teenagers are facing the prospect of wearing electronic tagging devices while on parole.

(8) Britain's first black chief constable has taken office.

(9) There are arguments being made against the arming of police officers:

“International experience shows that routine arming of all police officers leads to additional police deaths from ‘blue-on-blue’ accidents, suicides by officers using their readily available firearms, and officers’ guns being used against them by criminals during struggles.”