London has one of the stronger clearance records of any major city. New research shows why the cases left behind matter as much as the success rate. London’s Metropolitan Police solves roughly nine of every 10 homicides — a real measure of institutional performance, in a city where killings have been falling for years. But…
The government says digitizing traffic enforcement can reduce bribery and improve road safety. It also moves discretion from the roadside into cameras, databases and control rooms. Beginning in September, Ghana plans to fundamentally change what happens when a driver breaks a traffic law. Police officers will stop conducting routine roadside checks for more than 47…
The country wants to become Africa’s data-center hub. Its human-rights commission is asking a more basic question: what happens when the infrastructure powering AI competes for electricity, water and land that communities already struggle to access? South Africa has about 55 operating data centers and roughly 10 more planned, making it the continent’s largest concentration of…