Drugs and youth crime blight city
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Glasgow is blighted by drug and alcohol abuse and has as many youth gangs as London, a think tank says.
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EL MIRADOR, Colombia -- The latest shift in Colombia's war on drugs is evident on a green hilltop in this town, as weather-beaten men in gray jumpsuits -- government-paid eradicators -- use hoes and muscle to rip out bushes of coca. Policemen carrying M-16 assault rifles and land-mine detectors...
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Young people are increasingly likely to be involved in drink-driving incidents, police tell the BBC.
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Four young people were arrested by the police on Friday afternoon following a drug find. According to the police, 40 packets of heroin were found in a truck, which the four young people were driving through Swieqi and St Julian&#39;s.
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"Do you want hash?" the young man   asks passers-by on Pusher Street, once a thriving open-air drug   market in the heart of Christiania and now an example of how   times are changing in this famous Danish "free town."
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More than four million people younger under age 21 drove under the influence of drugs or alcohol last year, according to a government report released Wednesday. That's one in five of all Americans aged 16 to 20.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa  - Crime-ridden,  snarled with traffic and studded with architectural eyesores,  Johannesburg is not a classic holiday spot.
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WASHINGTON A new survey of American teens shows it&#39;s not just a cliche -- sex and drugs often do go together.
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A teenage student has become the latest victim in Dallas to die from a powerful and highly addictive new street drug known as 'cheese'. The rise of the drug, a mixture of black tar heroin and powdered headache tablets, has been described as an epidemic.
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Anti-gang legislation and police crackdowns are failing so badly that they are strengthening the criminal organizations and making U.S. cities more dangerous, according to a report being released Wednesday.
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Community leaders admit that Irvington, N.J., is not dealing with a typical gang situation--it is dealing with groups of youths who operate outside that structure.
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When Connecticut's largest city was mired in the economic slump of the early 1990s, the homicide toll climbed to record levels and drug dealers and gang leaders ruled, charging tolls to cross their turf. Then, when economic relief came to Bridgeport in the late 1990s, violent crime fell, as it did in other big cities around the country.
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As street-corner slayings and drug turf drive-bys have melted away in New York City, police are collecting more data than ever on the remaining few hundred murders.
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to help them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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Marshaling hip hop's influence on young listeners, a city official and youth activist joined celebrities of the rap and mainstream entertainment worlds Wednesday in announcing a nationwide initiative to foster community service and curb gang violence.
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Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of what police say is a surge in guns and gang violence.
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Sharp drop is marred by a 4% rise in gun crime and a 21% rise in recorded drug offences, figures show