World The Lead · Investigation Preview · Forthcoming
Inside the Port of Santos enforcement playbook, and how a single 2024 customs-protocol shift moved an estimated 18% of transatlantic cocaine flow through smaller ports in northern Europe — principally Antwerp and Hamburg. Twelve months of customs filings, eight interviews with logistics analysts, and a corridor-level map.
Nigeria · Scams Investigation Preview
Eight months, 1,200 reported cases, $3.4M in mapped flow. The "boys" running front-end catfishing are the visible layer; a roughly 20-person router network handles the money — and that's where enforcement almost never lands.
Global Trends Preview
Customs filings across 31 ports, 2024 vs. 2025: West-African transit volume rose roughly 41% as Mediterranean entry-points tightened. The shift is missing from last year's UN World Drug Report.
U.S. Policy Preview
A 2018 federal rule closed the most-cited gap in private-sale background checks. Nineteen states never adopted matching state-level rules — the resulting two-tier system is largely invisible in federal stats.
U.K. Policing Preview
Met Police stop-and-search fell from ~24,000 to ~14,500 per month between January 2024 and June 2025. Two operational guidance changes — Section 60 thresholds and intelligence-tier coding — explain almost all of it.
Data Investigation · Brazil Preview
Over twelve months, Black drivers accounted for 78% of stops in five São Paulo districts — versus flat across the rest of the city. The cause traces to a 2022 internal policy directive on patrol corridors.
Europe · Drug Trade Preview
At Rotterdam-Maasvlakte, seizures of fentanyl precursors rose roughly six-fold between 2022 and 2025, even as overall drug seizures fell. A single transhipment lane explains most of the shift.
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