Zero Tolerance

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Apr 28 21:50:52 PDT 2000


Michael Perelman wrote:


> What about zero tolerance of police abuses?
>

It is impossible to implement any of the various zero tolerance programs without exempting law enforcement officials from responsibility for any of their actions. Zero Tolerance is simply a euphemism for uncontrolled police brutality, since such a policy can only be carried out directly, not through the courts, even corrupt courts.

Carrol



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