Sentence examples for enforcement overreach from inspiring English sources

Nearly everyone agrees that through racially discriminatory law enforcement overreach and a particularly American zest for punishment we have "too many people behind bars who don't belong there," as the chiefs put it.

The purpose of the investigation, of course, may just have been to discourage activism, but in this case it had the opposite effect: People were inspired by the activists' refusal to testify against one another in the face of what even four years ago looked to be a clear instance of a law enforcement agency overreaching.

Perhaps because of this perfect scenario in which the strategy employed denies a defense, there has been very little thought given to making law enforcement accountable for overreaching.

The overreaching enforcement has dramatic and harmful effects on women's health providers -- and the women they serve -- across the globe.

The states are thrilled to let the IRS absorb the public relations heat for overreaching tax enforcement while collecting their share of the loot.

Ultimately, protecting innocent property owners from overreaching law enforcement requires the abolition of civil forfeiture altogether.

The story of Stewart and his club was taken up by bloggers outraged at what they saw as federal overreach and disproportionate enforcement.

It is a shield that protects ordinary people against intimidation, bullying, and overreach by law enforcement".

Civil liberties advocates savored what they felt was an overdue triumph against the overreach of law enforcement during the preceding decade.

But when you look at the fine print, you see that in most cases, these prohibitions of federal overreach contain no enforcement mechanisms, only vague, aspirational statements encouraging the Secretary to limit his own powers.

But Wall Street is fighting back against the new approach, casting the agency's enforcement unit as overzealous and overreaching.