Counterinsurgency Plan To Fight Gangs
The birthplace of author John Steinbeck, and home to sprawling fields of vegetables, now faces one of the worst per capita gang problems in America. Police say the 24 homicides in Salinas, Calif. this year --all gang-related-- make the city twice as deadly as Los Angeles. Frustrated city officials are now turning to the military for help, collaborating with combat vets and faculty at the Naval Postgraduate ... read more


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Maggie Lineback
September 22, 2009 10:11 PM
Debate over Legalizing Drugs
A debate is raging in El Paso that might soon pick up steam in other areas around the country. El Paso, across the border from Juarez, Mexico which is ground zero for a lot of the drug cartel violence, hosted a conference on the War on Drugs. Critics called it, the War on the War on Drugs Conference, since many of the conference speakers advocate legalization or at least ... read more