Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market ~life Article 1583 words 11 votes
Copenhagen's mayor has urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city's Christiania neighborhood where a thirty-year-old man was shot and killed ~life Article 803 words 11 votes
Residents of the Danish neighbourhood of Christiania have asked authorities for help shutting down its Pusher Street after a slew of recent gang-related murders ~life Article 348 words 5 votes
Sweden seeks to stem deadly rise in youth crime – illegal guns are relatively accessible, with younger and younger children being drawn into serious crime ~life Article 1214 words 14 votes
Residents of Christiania in Denmark may vote to end open cannabis trade over fears of rising gang violence ~life Article 666 words 6 votes
UN mulls quick foreign troop deployment to ease Haiti crisis ~news haiti crime Article 992 words 5 votes
Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving eleven dead ~news mexico crime.organized Article 8 votes
Sweden has unveiled plans to combat gang violence by reducing sentences for those who cooperate with the police ~news sweden law politics crime.organized Article 254 words 6 votes
Swedish rapper Einar shot dead at 19, heightening outrage over gang-related violence that has afflicted the Nordic country in recent years ~music Article 8 votes
In the past five years, violent gangs from Sweden have increased their presence in Spain, drawn in by the warm weather and high quality of life ~life Article 954 words 9 votes
Award-winning Swedish rapper Yasin Mahamoud has been sentenced to ten months in jail for conspiring to kidnap rival artist Haval Khalil ~music Article 8 votes
Drug cartel now assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones ~tech Article 872 words, published Aug 28 2020 17 votes
"We are not lost causes": How youth in Rochester, New York, are working to save their neighborhood - and themselves - by forging pathways away from violent street crime ~life Article 13 076 words, published Mar 5 2020 3 votes
Nedim Yasar, a former gang leader who had turned his back on crime, was shot dead in Copenhagen just as a book about his life was published ~books Article 577 words 6 votes
Drug gang violence in Sweden linked to 60% increase in bomb blasts – last year 257 bomb attacks were reported to police, up from 162 in 2018 ~news sweden crime Article 473 words 4 votes
How the US helped create El Salvador’s bloody gang war ~humanities.history Article 3080 words 5 votes
Swedish rapper Yasin Mahamoud has been arrested in connection to the murder of a former friend ~music Article 335 words 4 votes
Mexico ambush: How a US Mormon family ended up dead ~life Article 1970 words, published Nov 8 2019 8 votes
Sweden bomb attacks reach unprecedented level as gangs feud – thirty blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year ~news sweden crime.organized Article 657 words 6 votes
Victorian Government calls royal commission into potentially tainted gangland convictions ~news australia.vic crime.organized Article 1192 words 4 votes
Danish ex-gangster shot dead on day his memoir on leaving criminal past was launched ~books Article 261 words 7 votes
The cartel next door: How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations ~life Article 8102 words, published Sep 21 2018 13 votes
Homicides in Guatemala. This project explores the challenges and lessons of disaggregating gang-related and drug trafficking-related murders ~science sociology Link 3 votes
US asylum: Domestic and gang violence cases 'no longer generally qualify' ~news usa crime.organized Article 725 words 5 votes
ICE claimed a Dreamer was “gang-affiliated” and tried to deport him. A Federal judge ruled that ICE was lying. ~news usa crime.organized Article 1126 words 6 votes