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An Iraqi police officer stands at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 31. (Karim Kadim/AP)

In Baghdad, police chief explains why it's tough to enforce the rule of law

Abu Abbas oversees one of Baghdad's overstretched police stations whose employees have increasingly been targeted by insurgents. He says Iraqi rule of law has been neglected.

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Santosh Thorat holds his child in a Mumbai slum. He was hired by police to keep protesters away from demolition bulldozers – then discovered to his horror that his own neighborhood was to be torn down next. Today he advocates using demolition funds to improve the lot of slum dwellers.

After seeing Mumbai's slums bulldozed, he now works to save and restore them

Police once bulldozed thousands of slum homes in Mumbai, a metropolitan region of about 16 million people in India. Santosh Thorat sees a better way: Help residents fix them up.

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