The state attorney general, Bill Lockyer, publicly rebuked the police chief's stand, saying, "The current posture of the Los Angeles Police Department, in refusing to provide investigatory material to the district attorney is unfortunate, counterproductive, and without legal authority".
Prosecuting users is misguided and counterproductive; prosecuting dealers without tackling demand or their profits does not work.
Yet she rarely plays StarCraft more than three or four hours in a day, both because she suffers from painful tendinitis in her right wrist and because she finds the Korean tradition of relentless practice unnecessary, and even counterproductive: rote but without mindfulness.
It is also a rather windy exercise, because even if we can come up with a list of "powerful interests" we distrust, the hard part is deciding what to do about them without being counterproductive.
We can win without being counterproductive.
Each of them had star quality, each could make the difference, and each knew that skill without effort was counterproductive.
No less remarkable since then has been the ANC's relentless campaign to alleviate the poverty and degradation of the victims of apartheid without resorting to counterproductive populism.
It goes without saying this is counterproductive.
Cameron suggested that the use of torture – and the incarceration of suspects in the Guantánamo Bay detention centre without trial – could be counterproductive, by encouraging support for terrorists.
