Forceful law-and-order strategies that focus on raiding brothels and rescuing those inside, along with anti-trafficking legislation focused on shutting down the sex trade, come under particularly heated criticism.
Or might they act differently if it were made clear to them that such activity is considered an "armed attack"' against the United States and that they are in jeopardy of being on the receiving end of a forceful, law-of-war response by the most powerful military on the planet?
In your opinion, what steps should the federal government take to ensure that neither inaction and neglect nor unnecessarily forceful martial law takes the place of effective safety and security measures?
She pushed through a forceful wildlife law that had been "a work in progress for 20 years", she said, bogged down in wrangles between the government and conservationists with differing approaches.
But this autumn Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, is trying to stop the leaks by passing a forceful new secrecy law, even as he seeks to pass economic reforms as part of his programme of measures known as "Abenomics".
The 54-year-old prosecutor, a pioneer in using DNA evidence to identify sex offenders and a forceful advocate of laws to prosecute date rape and drug-related rapes and to spare victims from having their sexual histories examined in court, said she would step down on Feb. 1 to write, lecture and serve as a consultant on sex crimes to the police and prosecutors in New York and elsewhere.
She pledged forceful enforcement of current law and said "thoughtful reform of our regulatory structures" would be her top priority.
But those changes risk alienating conservatives who are under intense pressure from voters and outside groups to demand a more forceful repeal of the law known as Obamacare.
It also calls for more forceful eradication, interdiction and law enforcement efforts, and closer coordination of counternarcotics and counterinsurgency efforts, which until now have been pursued separately.
But the revelations in The New York Times that Wal-Mart Stores squelched an investigation into bribery at its Mexican subsidiary may impel prosecutors to be even more forceful in applying the law and put legislative efforts to change it on the back burner.
To many around the world, the events of the past week ��� the arrival of 2,000 troops from Saudi Arabia and other neighbors, the declaration of martial law, the forceful clearing out of Pearl Square, the military takeover of the main hospital and then the spiteful tearing down of the Pearl monument itself — seem like the brutal work of a desperate autocracy.
