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This was accompanied by an increase in armed violence against the police, the military, and journalists, as well as by incursions into politics and diversification of criminal income through kidnappings, extortion, piracy, and human trafficking.
In Chihuahua, candidates for office claimed to have received threats, and some asked for police protection.
Instead, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger conceived a policy whereby Iran and Saudi Arabia, backed by unlimited US military hardware, would police the Gulf.
Though he has not announced his candidacy, Mohammad Baquer Qalibaf, now Mayor of Tehran and formerly the country’s chief of police, has a relatively moderate track record and an image of someone who can get things done.
Saddam's numerous secret police contain many clerks, executioners, and torturers, but not many trained soldiers.
France, for example, has already announced plans to reestablish the so-called “proximity police,” in charge of community-level surveillance.
Such policing can be a tool of both information and deterrence, and can thus serve as an effective component of a broader strategy, including measures ranging from beefing up border police and intelligence services to military intervention in the Middle East or Africa.
While national-level action, such as Spain’s anti-terror cooperation with Morocco, is necessary, it can work only in the context of broader European action, including intelligence-sharing, migrant policy, and collaboration among police and security forces.
Yet Muslim women are now being targeted for wearing burkinis, with police imposing fines and, as in a recent case in Nice, forcing women to remove layers on the beach.
In the first case, Dmitri Borodin, the minister counselor at the Russian embassy in The Hague, was arrested late one night in October of last year, after neighbors alerted the Dutch police that Borodin, allegedly in a drunken state, was beating his two small children.
He was handcuffed in his own home and taken to the police station.
The Dutch foreign minister duly apologized to Russia for the conduct of his country’s police, and Borodin was recalled to Moscow.
Then, in December, the New York City police arrested an Indian consular official, Devyani Khobragade, for paying a domestic worker less than the minimum wage in the United States and for falsifying the worker’s visa application.
Because consular officials do not enjoy the same degree of immunity as higher-ranking diplomats, the police were acting within their authority, even if their methods – strip-searching Khobragade, for example – might be considered excessive.
The behavior of the New York City police played into their deepest fears.
But heavy-handed police repression launched a massive civic movement that has spread to the entire country.
London's Mayor and police chief have jointly warned that terrorist attacks in the city are "inevitable."
She notes that government and police officials recently insisted that most rapists cannot be prosecuted in India, because, as one official put it, they are known to the women attacked.
Instead, women who go to the police are urged not to file a complaint.
For a recent example of this, consider how Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner , accused those protesting against Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court of hindering “the orderly functioning of public institutions.”
One can only imagine the endemic nepotism and corruption that have traditionally characterized Libya’s police forces, but they will need to be made adequately operational quickly, probably via a new loyalty oath and some crash training.
The cast will be huge: presidents and prime ministers at center stage, supported by thousands of extras, including protesters, riot police, and busloads of media.
They travel at night, when neither border police nor rescue operations can see them.
For example, the European Union’s border police do not have clear search-and-rescue guidelines for migrant ships in distress.
A more confident left used to understand that our humanism compelled us to stop the xenophobes from getting their hands on the levers of state power, particularly the police and security forces.
Recently, it was revealed that China has been conducting wide-ranging influence operations in Australia, using official campus organizations to monitor Chinese college students, business associations to tout Chinese interests, and diplomats to police local Chinese-language media.
In 2003, his elderly father-in-law was beaten by police agents and forced into internal exile.
On February 19, the Bulgarian police arrested Hadjiev with the intention of sending him back to face a similar fate.
The police arrested Hadjiev again in 2002, in response to a Turkmen extradition request.
As a result, the country with the world’s most extensive system of price controls also has the highest inflation – as well as an ever-expanding police effort that jails retail managers for holding inventories and even closes the borders to prevent smuggling.
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