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...China's increasing freedoms: the incidence of violent crime has risen 73% over the past five years. "Society now has blind spots that have become a heaven for killers," says Ren Jiantao, head of the School of Government at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, who warns that serial killing in Shenzhen, China's migration capital, is "just a few years ahead of everywhere else [on the mainland...
...Shenzhen, the first stop for most new arrivals is a local labor bazaar. Hopefuls put on their best clothes, pay a dollar for admission and enter a hall packed with hundreds of brokers offering jobs and better lives. On May 26, Zhang Ping, a long-haired, 19-year-old woman freshly arrived from Hubei province, left the Senxin Labor Market with such a broker. "I shouted after her to leave her mobile phone on," says Zhang's father, who had accompanied her there...
...Zhang never answered that phone again. By late September, 11 other young women had vanished in the same Shenzhen district, Buji. A month later residents noticed a strange smell along Buji's river. "We thought it was dead rats," says a man named Hu who drives an illegal motorcycle taxi. "But then police pulled out body parts." Around the same time, police circulated a list of missing women to Shenzhen's labor markets. After months without progress, they caught a break when, according to a manager at one market, an unregistered broker, Ma Yong, was found to have bribed...
...before a check was run on his name. Urban police forces can also tap into the registries of upscale hotels. Four forensics labs in major cities now run ballistics tests and check the DNA of suspects and victims, and one such lab reportedly identified the decomposed bodies of the Shenzhen women. Closer to street level, the Ministry of Public Security is instituting "community policing" to move cops out of big precinct houses and into smaller, neighborhood stations...
...yard without attracting attention; he was caught only when one boy escaped. Police have so far resisted one obvious measure to fight crime: better public relations. They curtailed newspaper reporting on the growing number of missing boys until the killer had been apprehended, and they have ordered newspapers in Shenzhen to stop covering the murders there. Police like announcing cracked cases but fear coverage of unsolved ones will make them look incompetent. The result, unfortunately, is an unenlightened public at increasing risk from China's serial killers...