In democratic Anglo-Saxon countries, militarized police units, embedded within a police force and lacking institutional autonomy, are a common instrument of policing crowds; all large police forces in those countries have such units.
With control of the Pakistani state comes, in theory, control over the nation's sanctioned instruments of violence: the police and the military.
For these responses, we planned to use the follow-up question about the role of a police officer in Addison to disambiguate whether the participant thought a police officer's primary role was as an instrument of social reform and prevention or an instrument of law enforcement and punishment.
Across the spectrum, there are concerns that Mr. Maliki's return would further strengthen the hold of his Dawa Party over the key instruments of the state — the police, the army and, perhaps most importantly, intelligence — and close off the possibility that there will ever be a peaceful transfer of power to a rival party.
Each of the men, who have a history of being arrested in the past, was charged with criminal mischief, making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments, the police said.
The existing laws and their enforcement through the policing instruments of the state, in addition to the Occupy movement's commitment to "non violence" meant that evictions at most major Occupy locations occurred without any serious violent confrontation.
What that means is that they have a pool of money that they can use to monopolize all the instruments of coercion -- the army, police and intelligence services.
Even though the conservatives still controlled all the effective instruments of state power the judiciary, the police, the army, the broadcast media it was fair to hope they would feel obliged to pay heed to the strength of the people's voice.
Remember, one of the first things Egyptians did was attack their own police stations — the instruments of regime injustice.
The Iraqi police, themselves former instruments of the government, seem paralyzed by the sudden burst of revenge killings.
