Crime & Violence

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

A Vermont prosecutor is calling for "peace talks" in the war on drugs. It is time to debate alternative approaches, he says.

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.

Arnold Trebach, the dean of American drug reform, is at it again with the publication of his latest book, "Fatal Distraction: The War on Drugs in the Age of Islamic Terror."

A blue ribbon panel says to either legalize drugs or really crack down with the goal of wiping them out.

A poll released Thursday finds that nearly half of Americans support making cigarettes illegal.

Two veteran Mexican journalists take us on a tour of the murky world of the Mexican drug trade.

Brazilian President "Lula" da Silva signed into law a bill that will keep most drug users out of jail last week. Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Guatemalan authorities declared a form of martial law in San Marcos province this week in a bid to crack down on opium growing and drug trafficking.

The capture of cartel leader Javier Arellano-Felix made a lucky day for the US DEA. But even they don't think anything's really going to change from it.