Filipino Drug Dealers Being Killed-On-Site on the orders of the New President...
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Like with many tourist places, cops generally don't give a fukk unless you are super blatant about it. Cops here are pretty chill and only really wanna stop gangs and stuff. Tourists doing drugs isn't a priority tbh. You can sniff blow and get blunted no problems as long as you basically don't disturb the peace.
:holystankmayne:at staying in Chungking Mansions
I mean it's an experience, but it's not a good experience
I only really go there to get my Indian/Pakistani/Nigerian/Congolese/Turkish food. They make it so piff
But yeah you really gotta be high profile to get caught. Plus Chungking has been cleaned up proper. It used to be a legit hive of fukkery, but now it's kinda tamed.
Chungking Mansions was terrible.
I haven't been since 2010. I couldn't walk down Nathan Rd without losing my mind. Every fifth step, it was copy watch, copy suit, copy watch, copy suit. shyt drove me nuts.
But I miss HK. I loved it.
One time I went with my sister and told her there's rarely much crime here, but always be on guard against pickpockets. She had $700 cash with her. She literally got off the plane, got onto the subway to get to our hotel and got that shyt stolen.
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yeah if you're a tourist you get BOMBED with bullshytChungking Mansions was terrible.
I haven't been since 2010. I couldn't walk down Nathan Rd without losing my mind. Every fifth step, it was copy watch, copy suit, copy watch, copy suit. shyt drove me nuts.
But I miss HK. I loved it.
One time I went with my sister and told her there's rarely much crime here, but always be on guard against pickpockets. She had $700 cash with her. She literally got off the plane, got onto the subway to get to our hotel and got that shyt stolen.
you should've copped a cheap suit though, it can be done in like a day
700USD?? or HKD??
HKD isn't so bad but damn if it's USD she must've flashed it somehow. Nobody would've known unless she pulled it out or made it known. Either way that's a shame
tell your sis thank for the cash
yeah if you're a tourist you get BOMBED with bullshyt
you should've copped a cheap suit though, it can be done in like a day
700USD?? or HKD??
HKD isn't so bad but damn if it's USD she must've flashed it somehow. Nobody would've known unless she pulled it out or made it known. Either way that's a shame
tell your sis thank for the cash
USD
She had like 3 bags with her on the train and a Louis purse, so someone just guessed right. She was too sidetracked.
Gotta grow the economy somehow.
they ain't playing around over there
Killings of Drug Suspects Rise to 525 in the Philippines
The Associated Press
Filipino student activists shout slogans as they call for justice for victims of extrajudicial killings during a rally at the University of the Philippines in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Thursday Aug. 11, 2016. The group protested the hundreds of mostly poor victims of the extrajudicial killings around the country in the wake of the "War on Drugs" campaign by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)more +
The number of suspected drug dealers killed in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown has risen to more than 500 in just over a month, police said Thursday, in an alarming campaign that sparked protests and plans for a Senate investigation.
Since July 1, 525 drug suspects have been killed in clashes with police while more than 7,600 suspects have been arrested in more than 5,400 antinarcotics assaults, the national police's Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management said in a report. More than half a million have surrendered to authorities, according to police.
Some local news agencies have reported considerably higher death tolls, some as high as nearly 1,000, in counts that included drug suspects killed by unidentified attackers since Duterte emerged as the president-elect following the May 9 elections.
Police officials say those killed had put up a fight, although critics argue that circumstances indicate many of the suspects were illegally killed or died because police did not follow established procedures in dealing with crime suspects.
Left-wing activists protested at several schools against the killings and Duterte's threat to place the country under martial law if the Supreme Court attempted to block his fight against crime, specifically illegal drugs which he said has worsened into a pandemic.
"Human rights have been sacrificed in the conduct of the anti-drug drive, with those holding the gun assuming the roles of both accusers and executioners," left-wing protest leader Vencer Crisostomo said. "It is impossible to ascertain innocence or guilt if the accused are simply shot on the spot."
"The Duterte regime's war on drugs is bound to fail if it continues to rely on extrajudicial killings led by a corrupt and abusive police and military hierarchy, Crisostomo said, adding that the illegal drug trade is a symptom of deeper social problems, like rising poverty, joblessness and hunger, "which cannot be wiped out by bullets alone."
The crackdown involves testing policemen nationwide if they have used illegal drugs and the report said 116 of 75,848 policemen have tested positive and were being investigated and would face possible charges and dismissal from the force.
Sen. Leila de Lima said the Senate's committee on justice and human rights, which she heads, would start an investigation into the killings on Aug. 22. Duterte's political allies in Congress have tried to block the planned investigation.
Duterte built a name as a crimebusting mayor of southern Davao city. During the presidential campaign and after taking office, he has openly threatened drug dealers and other criminals with death and has called for restoring the death penalty — by hanging because he says he didn't want to waste electricity on outlaws.
Duterte has encouraged law enforcers to go hard on criminals and has assured them he would back them up and pardon them if they are convicted of committing human rights violations while battling criminals.
Killings of Drug Suspects Rise to 525 in the Philippines
Killings of Drug Suspects Rise to 525 in the Philippines
- By JIM GOMEZ, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filipino student activists shout slogans as they call for justice for victims of extrajudicial killings during a rally at the University of the Philippines in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Thursday Aug. 11, 2016. The group protested the hundreds of mostly poor victims of the extrajudicial killings around the country in the wake of the "War on Drugs" campaign by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)more +
The number of suspected drug dealers killed in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown has risen to more than 500 in just over a month, police said Thursday, in an alarming campaign that sparked protests and plans for a Senate investigation.
Since July 1, 525 drug suspects have been killed in clashes with police while more than 7,600 suspects have been arrested in more than 5,400 antinarcotics assaults, the national police's Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management said in a report. More than half a million have surrendered to authorities, according to police.
Some local news agencies have reported considerably higher death tolls, some as high as nearly 1,000, in counts that included drug suspects killed by unidentified attackers since Duterte emerged as the president-elect following the May 9 elections.
Police officials say those killed had put up a fight, although critics argue that circumstances indicate many of the suspects were illegally killed or died because police did not follow established procedures in dealing with crime suspects.
Left-wing activists protested at several schools against the killings and Duterte's threat to place the country under martial law if the Supreme Court attempted to block his fight against crime, specifically illegal drugs which he said has worsened into a pandemic.
"Human rights have been sacrificed in the conduct of the anti-drug drive, with those holding the gun assuming the roles of both accusers and executioners," left-wing protest leader Vencer Crisostomo said. "It is impossible to ascertain innocence or guilt if the accused are simply shot on the spot."
"The Duterte regime's war on drugs is bound to fail if it continues to rely on extrajudicial killings led by a corrupt and abusive police and military hierarchy, Crisostomo said, adding that the illegal drug trade is a symptom of deeper social problems, like rising poverty, joblessness and hunger, "which cannot be wiped out by bullets alone."
The crackdown involves testing policemen nationwide if they have used illegal drugs and the report said 116 of 75,848 policemen have tested positive and were being investigated and would face possible charges and dismissal from the force.
Sen. Leila de Lima said the Senate's committee on justice and human rights, which she heads, would start an investigation into the killings on Aug. 22. Duterte's political allies in Congress have tried to block the planned investigation.
Duterte built a name as a crimebusting mayor of southern Davao city. During the presidential campaign and after taking office, he has openly threatened drug dealers and other criminals with death and has called for restoring the death penalty — by hanging because he says he didn't want to waste electricity on outlaws.
Duterte has encouraged law enforcers to go hard on criminals and has assured them he would back them up and pardon them if they are convicted of committing human rights violations while battling criminals.
Killings of Drug Suspects Rise to 525 in the Philippines
It's like Westside Gunn vs Bobby Shmurda in here
rarely met a drug dealer that gave a shyt about their community and were just hell bent on destroying. say what you want about white collar scumbags, they don't fukk up their community.
nope
US heroin overdoses shifting to young, white, Midwestern
US Heroin Overdoses Shifting to Young, White, Midwestern
NEW YORK — Mar 4, 2015, 12:02 AM ET
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
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Young, white and living in the Midwest: Report reveals the people most likely to die from heroin-related overdoses in the U.S.
- Older blacks were previously those most likely to fall victim to the drug
- Official figures reveal sharp rise in overdose deaths since 2010
- That corresponds with a crackdown on synthetic opioid painkillers
Published: 17:38 EST, 3 March 2015 | Updated: 05:54 EST, 4 March 2015
Shooting up: Young whites from the Midwest have emerged as the group most likely to die from a heroin overdose. (Picture posed by model)
Young whites from the Midwest are the Americans most likly to die from a heroin overdose, figures show.
The number of fatal heroin overdoses in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled since 2000, according to the most recent data, with a major demographic shift in the kinds of victims.
Fifteen years ago the death rate was highest among older blacks and the West and Northeast had the biggest heroin problems.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, based on death certificates from 2013, tallied drug overdose deaths across the U.S. in which heroin was a contributing factor.
There were 8,257 heroin-related deaths in 2013, compared to 5,925 the previous year. The rates have soared since 2010, when deaths numbered about 3,000.
Heroin-related deaths increased between 2000 and 2013 in both men and women, in all age groups, and in whites, blacks and Hispanics.
But the sharpest rise was among young 'non-Hispanic white persons'. In 2000, the highest death rate from heroin overdoses was in blacks ages 45 to 64. But in 2013, whites ages 18 to 44 had the highest rate.
Whites in that age group accounted for more than half of the heroin-related overdose deaths that year.
And the region with the largest heroin overdose problems shifted to the Midwest. The West and Northeast had the same highest rate in 2000. The report did not provide state breakdowns.
'The age-adjusted rate for drug-poisoning deaths involving heroin nearly quadrupled from 0.7 per 100,000 in 2000 to 2.7 per 100,000 in 2013,' the report said.
'During this 14-year period, the age-adjusted rate showed an average increase of 6 per cent per year from 2000 through 2010, followed by a larger average increase of 37 per cent per year from 2010 through 2013.'
Overall, there were about 44,000 drug overdose deaths in 2013. More than 16,000 of them involved a type of powerful prescription painkillers, such as the opioid analgesics Vicodin and OxyContin.
Those deaths were nearly twice as high as the heroin-related deaths in 2013. However, painkiller-related deaths held steady for two years while those involving heroin climbed.
The report didn't explore why heroin deaths are increasing, but it follows reports that legalisation of cannabis in several U.S. states was leading drug farmers in Mexico sow fields of opium instead.
Other experts have said recent restrictions on prescribing painkillers may be reducing supplies at a time when the heroin supply has been increasing.
About one in six of the drug poisoning deaths involving heroin also involved opioid analgesics.
Age-adjusted rates for drug-poisoning deaths, by type of drug, 2000 - 2013: The graph shows a sharp increase in the number of heroin deaths starting in 2010, as deaths from opioid painkillers stabilized
Number of drug-poisoning deaths involving heroin, by sex, 2000 - 2013: The sharpest rise in heroin overdose deaths was among men from 2010 onwards, while women recorded a more gradual increase
Rates for drug-poisoning deaths involving heroin, by selected age and race and ethnicity groups: Rates of overdoses increased in all categories, but the sharpest rises were seen among 'non-Hispanic whites'
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) last year reported that users of synthetic opioid drugs were increasingly substituting their addiction for heroin, 'driven by the increased availability of heroin in parts of the United States, and lesser costs to regular users to maintain their dependency.'
'Further, the reformulation of one of the main prescription pharmaceuticals abused, OxyContin, now makes it more difficult to snort or inject it,' the report said.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse says one in 15 people who take a prescription painkiller for non-medical reasons will end up trying heroin within the next 10 years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...verdoses-shifting-young-white-Midwestern.html
Heroin epidemic spurs Gov. Cuomo to increase access to emergency overdose treatments
Heroin epidemic spurs Cuomo to increase access in overdose meds
Today’s heroin epidemic is worse than the crack crisis that tore through New York’s urban centers nearly 30 years ago, Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday.
“We’ve gone through heroin in the70s, we went through cocaine and crack in the 80s and the 90s, but I think this is worse than that,” Cuomo said at a “Heroin Task Force” at Staten Island’s CYO-MIV Community Center.
“The increase in the number of deaths is staggering. This is a drug that is increasing like fire through dry grass. There are a number of reasons why, but that doesn’t change the end result, that we have a public health crisis on or hands, and it’s only getting worse.”
Gov. Cuomo says this epidemic “is one of the most pervasive drug crises that we’ve had”.
(SUSAN WATTS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Cuomo, sounding the alarm to elected officials, health experts, community leaders and families impacted by addiction, said 84 Staten Island residents have died from overdoses already this year.
8 overdoses on Staten Island spurs police heroin probe
Police officials have said that the Bronx also has a big problem with the drug, but Cuomo noted that heroin has impacted many middle class communities, like Pleasant Plains, where he visited to deliver his dismal assessment.
Among the many overdose victims, 84 Staten Island residents are reported to have died from overdoses already this year.
(SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES)
Cuomo said he wants to increase access to emergency overdose antidotes, and has cracked down on “doctor shopping” for prescription painkillers, often a gateway to heroin use.
“We’re doing everything that we can do, and we have to do more.,” Cuomo said.
“It’s also a drug crisis that doesn’t discriminate. This is not an inner-city drug crisis. This is not a poor-person crisis, a young person crisis. It’s not a down-state crisis. It’s all across the state. It’s in rural areas, it’s in upstate areas, it’s in wealthy areas. It truly is all across the state in its impact, as it is nationwide. It is one of the most pervasive drug crises that we’ve had.”
Heroin Epidemic Is Yielding to a Deadlier Cousin: Fentanyl
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE MARCH 25, 2016
Syringes scattered along the ground at a homeless encampment in Lawrence, Mass. Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times
LAWRENCE, Mass. — When Eddie Frasca was shooting up heroin, he occasionally sought out its more potent, lethal cousin, fentanyl.
“It was like playing Russian roulette, but I didn’t care,” said Mr. Frasca, 30, a carpenter and barber who said he had been clean for four months. When he heard that someone had overdosed or even died from fentanyl, he would hunt down that batch.
“I’d say to myself, ‘I’m going to spend the least amount of money and get the best kind of high I can,’ ” he said.
Fentanyl, which looks like heroin, is a powerful synthetic painkiller that has been laced into heroin but is increasingly being sold by itself — often without the user’s knowledge. It is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine. A tiny bit can be fatal.
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Eddie Frasca, 30, a carpenter and barber who occasionally used fentanyl but said he had been clean for four months. Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times In some areas in New England, fentanyl is now killing more people than heroin. In New Hampshire, fentanyl alone killed 158 people last year; heroin killed 32. (Fentanyl was a factor in an additional 120 deaths; heroin contributed to an additional 56.)
“It sort of snuck up on us,” said Detective Capt. Robert P. Pistone of the Haverhill Police Department in Massachusetts. He said that a jump in deaths in 2014 appeared to be caused by heroin, but that lab tests showed the culprit was fentanyl.
Fentanyl represents the latest wave of a rolling drug epidemic that has been fueled by prescription painkillers, as addicts continue to seek higher highs and cheaper fixes.
“It started out as an opioid epidemic, then heroin, but now it’s a fentanyl epidemic,” Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, said in an interview.
Fentanyl on a patch or in a lozenge has been used since the 1960s in medical settings to treat extreme pain. In recent decades, illicit fentanyl has seeped into the United States from Mexico.
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About 300 grams of fentanyl have been confiscated in Haverhill, Mass., within the past month. Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times “For the cartels, it’s their drug of choice,” Ms. Healey said. “They have figured out a way to make fentanyl more cheaply and easily than heroin and are manufacturing it at a record pace.”
Since New England noticed a drastic rise in drug overdose deaths in 2013, public health and law enforcement officials have begun to link more of the deaths to fentanyl.
“The severity of the situation did not become apparent until the public health community noticed the above-average number of overdoses,” a report by the National Drug Intelligence Center at the Justice Department warned in 2006. Special toxicological testing is needed to detect fentanyl, but most coroners and state crime labs did not run those tests unless they had a specific reason.
The police are also finding more and more fentanyl in drug seizures, though it is not clear how much of this reflects a new invasion of the drug or just more testing and reporting.
Nationally, the total number of fentanyl drug seizures reported in 2014 by forensic laboratories jumped to 4,585, from 618 in 2012. More than 80 percent of the seizures in 2014 were concentrated in 10 states: Ohio, followed by Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Kentucky, Virginia, Florida, New Hampshire and Indiana.
Fentanyl Facts
- Fentanyl is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Because it is so strong and fast-acting, it can often lead to overdose and deaths.
- Street names for fentanyl include Apache, China girl, China white, dance fever, friend, goodfella, jackpot, murder 8, TNT, as well as Tango and Cash, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
- Many state crime laboratories and coroner's offices do not track fentanyl-related deaths, so national statistics can be hard to come by.
- Most of the recent fentanyl-related deaths have occurred in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Appalachia, where it is sometimes mixed with another white powder, heroin. It is also starting to creep into the Midwest.
- In 2015, doctors wrote 6.64 million legal fentanyl prescriptions in the U.S. Most deaths are from illegally manufactured fentanyl, but some result from diverting medical sources.
In Massachusetts in 2013, the state police crime lab found pure fentanyl, not mixed with other drugs, in just six cases; in 2015, the lab found it in 425 cases.
It was only last March that the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a nationwide alertabout fentanyl, saying that overdoses were “occurring at an alarming rate throughout the United States and represent a significant threat to public health and safety.”
In Massachusetts, 336 people died from fentanyl-related overdoses from October 2014 to October 2015 — up from 219 deaths the previous year, an increase of 53 percent.
Vermont had 29 deaths from fentanyl in 2015, up from 18 in 2014 and 12 in 2013, a climb of 142 percent in two years.
In Maine, deaths attributed to fentanyl rose to 87 in 2015, up from 42 in 2014 and nine in 2013, an 867 percent increase in two years.
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Heather Sartori, 38, a former nurse who is on methadone after years of shooting heroin, in Lawrence, Mass. Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times Some of the biggest fentanyl busts have occurred in and around Lawrence, an old mill town 30 miles north of Boston, near New Hampshire; it has long served as a major drug hub.
“Massachusetts is the epicenter for the heroin/fentanyl trade,” Ms. Healey said. “From Lawrence, it’s being trafficked and sold all over the New England states.”
In one seizure last year, law enforcement officers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire confiscated 33 pounds of fentanyl and heroin with a street value of $2.2 million, most from a house in Lawrence. In January, the police seized 66 pounds of fentanyl-laced heroin, worth millions, in nearby Tewksbury.
Two Lawrence men were indicted in June in connection with an extensive fentanyl and heroin distribution operation involving more than $1 million in drugs.
Lawrence sits at the nexus of major highways, and the police say many drug deals occur at fast-food restaurants off the exits for nearby towns. And those deals are highly lucrative.
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How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America
Drug deaths have surged in nearly every U.S. county, reaching a new peak in 2014.
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One middleman would meet his dealer from Lawrence weekly off an exit in Haverhill, and would buy 100 “fingers” (10 grams each) of fentanyl for $400 apiece, Captain Pistone said. He would sell each finger for $750 in New Hampshire and Maine, making $35,000 a week.
“It’s just everywhere,” Heather Sartori, 38, a former nurse who is on methadone after years of shooting up heroin, said as she sat at a busy McDonald’s here. “It would be really hard to navigate through this city without being touched by it.”
She said she had lost several friends to fentanyl and called Lawrence’s drug-infested landscape “the treacherous terrain where the ghosts of the fallen linger.”
“It’s cheaper, and the high is better, so more addicts will go to a dealer to get that quality and grade,” she said, even if it means they could die.
“That is the phenomenon of the addicted mind,” she said. “It’s beyond the scope of a rational thinker to understand.”
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An addict at a homeless encampment in Lawrence. Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times Fentanyl is abundant, too, in the tent cities of homeless people here under the bridges over the Merrimack River. “It’s all there is out there right now,” said a 24-year-old who lives under one of the bridges and goes by G. “I couldn’t find real heroin if I tried.”
Its chief characteristic is that it is fast acting.
“You can’t move,” said a 46-year-old woman, who kept nodding off during an interview at the Haverhill police station. She agreed to talk about fentanyl on the condition that she not be identified.
“When you inject it, it hits before you’re even done giving the shot,” she said. “That’s why so many people get caught with the needle still hanging out of their arm. It’s bam! To your brain.”
Joanne Peterson, executive director of Learn to Cope, a statewide support network for families involved with addiction, said fentanyl works so quickly that there is often little time to administer naloxone, which reverses the effects of an overdose.
“At least with heroin, there is a chance that if someone relapses, they can get back into recovery,” she said. But with fentanyl, she said, it is only a matter of moments before an addict can be dead.
A version of this article appears in print on March 26, 2016, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Heroin Yields Ground to Fentanyl, Its More Potent Killer Cousin.Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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@Scientific Playa because i don't want to quote all of your posts i'll just @ you. i said white collar criminals, i didn't say white criminals. the vast majority of drug dealers i've encountered live in in the same hood they're destroying.
who do you think imports the poison into the country and handles the billions?
Freeway Rick Ross broke it down.
and ....
London is now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade, says crime expert
this money laundering game goes back centuries to the opium wars with china and The East India Company. i also recently read that that former nyc...
Thread by: Scientific Playa, Jul 8, 2015, 1 replies, in forum: Higher Learning
Something similar happened to me in HK. On the airport express bus, somebody took my carry on luggage that had my Louis sneakers.USD
She had like 3 bags with her on the train and a Louis purse, so someone just guessed right. She was too sidetracked.
Gotta grow the economy somehow.
I walked around Chungking for a min trying to find some trees lol. Had no luck.
what does this have to do with the drug dealer in XYZ ghetto destroying their communities. so if i give you a gun are you obligated to shoot someone you care about (or should care about)? that freeway story is no different than the one about some dude in chicago that was posted here and it told about how guns would be in a box in the alley. and? ever thought about destroying it? or it's just easier to say "well they put it here so i felt obliged to do something with it."
so basically in america the govt supports drug dealing and the destruction of communities by the dealers and in the philippines the govt now supports the destruction of the drug dealers?
have a bliss day.
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