The locust effect
by Gary A. Haugen · first published 2013
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A plague of everyday violence lies beneath the surface of the world's poorest communities. Common violence-- like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, police abuse and other brutality-- has become routine and relentless. Basic public justice systems in the developing world have descended into a state of utter collapse. Haugen and Boutros offer a searing account of how we got here-- and what it will take to end the plague.
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For anyone interested in global poverty and prerequisites for fighting that, I thought "The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence" was also insightful. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199937877
on “Do Foreign-Aid Donations Make Things Worse?” ↗…is a key determinant of a nation’s prosperity, then you should be worried about this. Stop-and-seize should be stopped." A good book that talks about this is "The Locus Effect" http://www.amazon.com/Locust-Effect-Poverty-Requires-Violenc...
on “Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs” ↗…which is hard to get political support for. I'm not sure that it's true that "most other countries" police work the way you're saying. There's a good book on the problems of policing world-wide, " The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence by Gary A. Haugen,Victor Boutros". https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1733234333
on “Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve” ↗