Policing

A new anti-drug department in New Jersey's largest city will bring everything the mayor and police chief say they don't want.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of soldiers and federal police into Tijuana in a bid to stamp out the drug trade in the border city where more than 300 died in prohibition-related violence last year.

Will Democratic control of the Congress mean significant drug reform progress next year? Drug reformers certainly hope so, but the prospects are uncertain.

While he was Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra unleashed a drug war in which more than 2,500 were killed. Now that he has been deposed, the new government is promising to investigate the murders.

An administrative measure last week doubled the amount of marijuana people can possess without facing criminal charges.

Locked in a tight race, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is making methamphetamine a campaign issue.

A pair of crooked prison guards and an emerging scandal in Baltimore make the radar this week.

Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Frank Melton has been playing drug warrior since day one. Now he finds himself on the other side of the law.

An encore performance by an Alabama judge with a serious bad habit, some Chicago cops copping pleas for robbing drug dealers, a pair of US air marshals being sentenced for acting as drug couriers, and a small-town Texas police chief looking for work after there were too many questions about where some drug money went.

Another police officer has been killed fighting the war on drugs.