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In El Salvador’s gang crackdown, quotas drive “arbitrary” arrests of innocents

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San Salvador, El Salvador Reuters Dozens of innocent people have been apprehended in El Salvador in recent months amid President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs,” after superiors forced officers to meet daily arrest quotas during a state of emergency, five officials told Reuters.  In March, El Salvador registered 62 murders in a single day, the […]