In response to the recent killing of 16-year-old honor student Derrion Albert, Chicago school officials will implement a program to identify and treat the students that are most likely to engage in violence.

A 20-year-old horrorcore rapper from California has been arrested in connection to four "horrifying" murders in Virginia.

Over 40 people have been killed in the last three days in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, bringing the city's murder tally to nearly 1,300 since the start of the year. New Orleans, the American city with the highest murder rate in the country, has tallied 80 killings this year.

Nearly 80 Mexican municipal police have been arrested for corruption and ties to drug traffickers in the last two weeks during raids carried out by the Mexican army and federal police. (via Foreign Policy)

Peru's government has suspended two land laws that sparked violent protests and left over 50 people dead in the South American country.

An Acapulco resident describes a weekend gun battle between a drug cartel and the Mexican military that left 18 dead: “It was like something out of Rambo.”

A $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a serial cat killer in Miami.
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Drug-related killings in the Juarez, México have dropped due to the increased military presence in the border city. Tony Payan of the University of Texas at El Paso: "The bad news is: What is going to happen when the army returns to the barracks?"

The Department of Homeland Security has warned that the number of "right-wing extremists" may grow due to the recession, the election of the first black president as well as opposition to abortion and immigration. (via Foreign Policy)

One day after Attorney General Eric Holder announced the arrest of 50 members of the Sinaloa cartel in the U.S., Mexico's Attorney General estimates at least 1,000 people have killed in drug-related violence this year.