Strategy of crime fighting in the Russian Federation
The article studies consequences of law-enforcement activity militarization in Russia. The realization of crime fighting «intensification» concept, its most dangerous manifestations «violent suppression», «revenge» in practice leads to quite the opposite results, i.e. mass human rights and freedoms violation, expansion of informal violent practices in Police activity and official crimes impunity. The author especially mentions tortures, illegal detention, unjustified long detention, unjustified restrictions and prohibitions (including procedural restrictions, inadequate use of force when law-enforcement and detention of suspects - that are used generally in order to threaten or avenge the complainants, their families and fellows. In particular, the tortures are used in order to get the confession, avenge the disobeyance, refusal to cooperate and also in terms of extortion. Basing on the statistics and special reports on legality situation in Russian special service activity, the author comes to conclusion that the abovementioned measures, being actually approved by control and regulatory authorities, are aimed at peoples terrorization by public authorities. The author also mentions this practice application expansion trend in Russia in 1st decades of XXI Century, which represents the real introduction of crime prevention emergency elements in nonlegal form.