Brazil
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | November 7th, 2001 | Trackback
Rio de Janeiro is experiencing an increase in carjackings, and police have devised a unique way to reduce them: allow drivers to run red lights at night. It’s a common sense move to help people avoid becoming victims, but it’ll make driving the streets at night more treacherous than it already is. Red light laws will no longer be enforced between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
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Brazil
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | November 1st, 2001 | Trackback
Some 1,100 juvenile delinquents recently escaped from two notoriously violent detention centers in Sao Paulo, and as of Sept. 26 only 500 had been recaptured. The jailbreak has led to a crime spree around the city, and the delinquents’ rage is attributed to deplorable jail conditions that include overcrowding and torture.
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