This doesn't make the work any less wicked, but distinguishes it from ordinary crime.
Colombia's National Police has world-class surveillance technology and a huge helicopter fleet to fight drugs, but is less good at dealing with ordinary crime.
Even without public testimony from the victims' relatives, it should be possible to eliminate cases in which there is credible evidence that ordinary crime or local feuds were to blame.
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Many people are not familiar with the concept of hate crime - the idea that the targeting of people because of the colour of their skin, their religious belief, or their sexual orientation is different to ordinary crime.
And so it is just as likely that local police will find out about these through community policing, their relationships with the community, through ordinary criminal investigations which may bring them - as we had a case in California -into contact with something that turned out to be more than ordinary crime, or through dedicated intelligence activity.
Now, based on my research and experience producing my white-collar crime documentary, Crossing the Line: Ordinary People Committing Extraordinary Crimes the time period between being convicted and sentencing can span over a years time.
Whatever the true figures are, most ordinary citizens probably believe they are experiencing a rise in crime.
Then when we needed someone to push the cause of inner city children struggling to avoid a life of crime, or to bring the benefits of high technology to ordinary Americans, or to clean the environment in a way that created new jobs, or to give small businesses a better chance to make it, John Kerry said: Send me.
They have diverse views on economics, crime and Europe, but share a commitment to stronger local government and more control for ordinary people over public services.
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