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  • What can Britain learn from El Salvador about policing the riots?

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    El Salvador’s president has transformed his country’s fortunes and won an electoral landslide with his zero-tolerance approach to gangs. We should take a similar approach to the hardened criminals involved in the riots, says James Price Mercy, justice, grace. Heavy themes for a Wednesday morning, more often dealt with from the pulpit than the pages [...]

    An officer in riot gear stands on patrol inside a cell at CECOT in Tecoluca on February 6, 2024 in San Vicente, El Salvador. On February of 2023 El Salvador inaugurated Latin America's largest prison as part of President Nayib Bukele's plan to fight gangs. Since then, the UN and NGOs have raised concern about the treatment of inmates, minors being held and suspects incarcerated as gang members without sufficient proof. Meanwhile, Bukele claims El Salvador's murder rate has fallen from the world's highest to the lowest in the Western Hemisphere. (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images)

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