US Attourny Indicts Nine while England Explores New, "Hot Spot," Crime Fighting Techniques
The US Attourneys Oiffice of Maryland in Baltimroe Indicted Nine Individuals for millions in smuggeling ring, Manchester, England to imploy new new “Hot Spot technique,” seen in The Wire as well as the Baltimore and New York Police forces.
Federal spokespeople for the authorities appeared in Baltimore this morning and announced the arrests of nine people in an alleged multi-million smuggling ring that authorities say imported through the Port of Baltimore counterfeit Coach, Nike, Gucci and Cartier merchandise.
Among those arrested were two Malaysian citizens, four Chinese citizens and three naturalized citizens of the United States, on charges arising from a conspiracy to smuggle into the United States counterfeit shoes, handbags and wrist watches manufactured in Malaysia and China.
“Intellectual property crimes are among the Justice Department’s top white collar enforcement priorities,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. “This case demonstrates the impact that we can make with coordinated law enforcement operations that involve our domestic and international partners.”
Furthermore, Manchester England Police are announcing how they are going to implore new techniques of increaseing police hours in specific hight violent crime rate areas at specific times.
We have seen this many times before when it was introduced in Baltiomroe and New York back in the 1980’s. It was also seen on the new hit series in London, that has already been famous in the US is Baltimore’s The Wire and thought to be a good way to decrease crime in some of the worst areas in East and north Manchester.
Professor Lawrence Sherman, Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge in England and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, pioneered the technique of policing crime hotspots in the the US in the late 1980s.
Professor Sherman says that this will be the first time any research or experiments have been done to see if this type of policing can reveloutionize not only their crime problems, but others around the world. He states, “This will be the first controlled experiment in history which allows us to assess not only whether this patrol design will reduce crimes in those areas, but also whether it it just encourages offenders to go elsewhere.”
And for more about the Hot Spot police tatics visit Cambridge University Video
For More info on the federal case visit the Baltimore Crime Blog
