It is also home to the largest slum in Africa and faces high levels of street crime and of late even flying toilets!
Police initially said it was unclear whether she was a victim of street crime or a targeted killing.
Throughout England and Wales, incidents of violent crime and street robbery rose by as much as 21% between October 1999 and September 2000.
Bamako, sleepy but fairly well run, with little crime and plenty of sewers and street lighting, looks nothing like the capital of one of the world's most impoverished countries.
"There can be no reasonable expectation of privacy in a tweet sent around the world, " wrote the judge, who went on to compare information posted on a public network to an eyewitness's account of a crime on the street.
Then the police commissioner, Howard Safir, announced reforms to the Street Crime Unit, of which the four officers in the Diallo shooting were part.
Martin Hartshorn, of McCauley Street, Grimsby, is charged under the Serious Crime Act with encouraging or assisting the commission of violent disorder.
He was found guilty of six offences of fraud and and three under the Proceeds of Crime Act at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court.
He has also announced that the number of black and Latino officers in the Street Crime Unit will be increased.
It comes as New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims that the theft of Apple goods has contributed to rising street crime figures in the city.
In the last couple of months, when the London street-crime boom has been brought under control, the Met has shown that diverting officers to deal with it can make a difference.
Still Mr Duncan Smith made good with his next set of questions by comparing the rise in street crime unfavourably to that in New York, whose former mayor Rudolph Giuliani was in the public gallery.
The city defends the tactic, which allows officers to stop, question and sometimes frisk people on the street when there is reasonable suspicion of a crime, as a successful crime-fighting tool.
His announcement of a sudden new target matches his approach to street crime last year.
The ratio of arrests to searches is some measure of this: over the past two years, the Street Crime Unit's records show that its officers searched 45, 000 people and arrested 9, 500.
He added there had been a record number of officers on the street and a 32% reduction in crime, as well as record clear-up rates for crime and said : "For most people the measurement you make in terms of the effectiveness of the police service is the visibility of a police presence in our streets".
And sometimes we're so divided between rural and urban, and folks whose hunting is part of their lives and folks whose only experience with guns is street crime.
On the surface this looks like another roundup of the usual Wall Street suspects involved in a white-collar crime, except for one thing, Ross Mandell is no usual suspect and he is not backing down from this fight.
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The theft comes as the desirability of Apple goods among street criminals is being blamed for a rise in crime figures in New York.
Witness Confident cites official crime statistics for England and Wales in 2010-2011 that suggest more than half of street robberies and assaults are not reported to police.
Consider that the Great Depression and the debacle of 2008 both had their origins in Wall Street and their partners in crime, the large banks, especially including the Fed.
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The use of automated closed-circuit surveillance cameras is proving effective in deterring urban street crime.
Liberals got into trouble during the law and order years because their views on crime seemed an abstraction, elegantly argued but oblivious to the lives of innocent people on the street.
Your chances of being prosecuted for a tax crime are about the same as for being murdered on the street, 17 in a million.
The police have assembled a case against the accused men based on 80 witnesses, information gleaned from confessions of some of the accused, and DNA evidence linking all of the alleged perpetrators to the crime, according to a police document reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
While cartels are rarely directly linked to crime in the city, the DEA agent said drug trafficking is an underlying cause of territorial battles between street gangs that are blamed for rising homicide rates.
Today, the group is "a hodgepodge of smaller organizations that seeks alliances with street gangs to keep control of their territory and businesses, " according to an InSight Crime profile of the group.
When most people think of Singapore, if they do at all, they think of an order-obsessed Asian version of Wall Street or London's Canary Wharf, only with implausibly clean, sterile streets and no crime.
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