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  • State officials denied wrongdoing, but agreed to boost staffing, document and report violence and use-of-force by guards.

    Alabama Settles Inmate Lawsuit Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • If use-of-force decisions become private, what stops Coke from hiring a militia and taking out Pepsi?

    Privatizing Defense vs. Socializing Medicine, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Related news:An investigation by the Department of Justice of the Seattle police department that "found that an estimated 70 percent of use-of-force incidents by Seattle police involve people with mental illnesses or who are impaired by drugs or alcohol."

    DJ Jaffe: Survey: Law Enforcement Overburdened by Failure of Mental Health Departments DJ Jaffe 2011

  • Thick histories may well be written about how President Obama—a Democrat from the leftward wing of his party, a use-of-force skeptic who campaigned against Iraq as a war of choice—came to involve the U.S. in a third Mideastern war.

    Would Ike Have Gone to Libya? Peggy Noonan 2011

  • Attacks by inmates on correction officers also were up by 9%, according to the statistics, and the total number of officer-on-inmate use of force incidents and use-of-force allegations increased by 18%, from 694 to 816.

    City Jails Combat Rise in Inmate Attacks Sean Gardiner 2011

  • Home Secretary Theresa May earlier on Tuesday had defended the government's use-of-force policies, declaring that the way we police in Britain is not through use of water cannon.

    'The Police Did Nothing' Anne Jolis 2011

  • Furthermore, our political leaders have stated that "Gadhafi must go," but they altered their pronouncements upon recognizing that ousting Gadhafi might not be achievable under the use-of-force rules set by the United Nations Security Council resolution.

    Air Power Could Be Enough in Libya Charles A. Horner 2011

  • In what circumstances, if any, would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress?

    Robert Naiman: An Open Letter to Liberal Supporters of the Libya War Robert Naiman 2011

  • Home Secretary Theresa May earlier on Tuesday had defended the government's use-of-force policies, declaring that the way we police in Britain is not through use of water cannon.

    London Riots: 'The Police Did Nothing' Anne Jolis 2011

  • She said that use-of-force incidents involving mentally ill inmates had dropped by 25% in recent months.

    City Jails Combat Rise in Inmate Attacks Sean Gardiner 2011

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