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Notes from Italy (2)

By Jonathan Simor

By Alessandro De Giorgi, Professor of Justice Studies, San Jose State UniversitySpecial Correspondent to GTCAnother significant step toward a reduction of rights and liberties has been taken in Italy last week. In fact, following the ?security package? approved by the Berlusconi III government, among other unconstitutional measures to be used in the ongoing war against ?illegal? immigrants and their supposed dangerousness, a new directive has been issued by the Ministry of Interior (08/05/2008), providing city mayors with increased discretionary powers in matters of public safety and urban safety. In Italy, public order has always been a prerogative of the Polizia (the civilian police controlled by the Ministry of Interior), and the Carabinieri (the military police controlled by the Ministry of Defense)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).