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Charlotte Creative Loafing, 09 Oct 2002 - HBO's The Wire Goes Against Stereotype Sergeant Joe Friday would probably flip in his fictional grave at the sight of HBO's new cop show, which just concluded its first season last month. The Wire looks at the war on drugs as it is waged in the inner cities of Baltimore by an inter-agency team of federal agents and local police officers. The cop genre has come a long way from the strait-laced corn served up on Dragnet, the mother of all TV police dramas, but The Wire may be pioneering a sub-genre of its own. Created by David Simon, a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, and co-written by ex-police officer Ed Burns, The Wire challenges some of the core assumptions that underlie the typical cop show. Murray, BobbiCharlotte Creative LoafingTraffic2002-10-09US: Web: The Drug War Goes Prime Time
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AlterNet, 07 Oct 2002 - Sergeant Joe Friday would probably flip in his fictional grave at the sight of HBO's new cop show, which just concluded its first season last month. The Wire looks at the war on drugs as it is waged in the inner cities of Baltimore by an inter-agency team of federal agents and local police officers. The cop genre has come a long way from the strait-laced corn served up on Dragnet, the mother of all TV police dramas, but The Wire may pioneering a sub-genre of its own. Created by David Simon, a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, and co-written by ex-police officer Ed Burns, The Wire challenges some of the core assumptions that underlie the typical cop show. Murray, BobbiAlterNetTraffic2002-10-07Latin America: Dolphins Slaughtered As Cocaine Smugglers Take To Tuna Fishing
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Sunday Telegraph, 31 Mar 2002 - TENS of thousands of dolphins are being slaughtered by Latin American gangs using the fishing industry as cover for smuggling cocaine into the United States and on to other countries, including Britain. US anti-narcotics officers acknowledge that crime syndicates in Colombia and Mexico have bought up tuna fleets and canneries in South and Central America. Russell, JonathanSunday TelegraphTraffic2002-03-31Mexico: Mexican Commandos Arrest Head Of Drug Cartel
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Independent, 11 Mar 2002 - Mexico's most vicious drug trafficking gang, the Tijuana cartel, is being forced to regroup after army commandos captured its mastermind, Benjamin Arellano Felix, without firing a single shot. The Mexican soldiers, who swooped early on Saturday, also discovered that the gang's sadistic co-leader, Arellano Felix's brother Ramon, was already dead. McGirk, JanIndependentTraffic2002-03-11Mexico: World's Biggest Drug Baron Killed In Mexico
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The Observer, 10 Mar 2002 - At first it seemed like just another incident on the increasingly violent streets of Mexico. Three men, brandishing guns and driving a battered Volkswagen through the Mexican port city of Mazatlán, a Pacific coast beach resort popular with Americans, failed to stop at a routine police checkpoint. A chase and shoot-out in front of a hotel left two of the three dead. Four weeks later, police have learned that the incident struck the single biggest blow against the world narcotics trade since the death of Pablo Escobar. One of the dead men turned out to be none other than Ramon Arellano-Felix - the world's most powerful drugs baron and a leading fugitive on the FBI's most wanted list. Thompson, TonyThe ObserverTraffic2002-03-10More Headlines
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