European soccer's ruling panel warned today that England might face expulsion from Euro 2000, the Continent's soccer championships, if its fans persist in violence.
A11 Europe Warns Britain on Soccer European soccer's governing body warned that England might face expulsion from Euro 2000, the continent's soccer championships, if its fans persist in violence.
However, in an editorial this week in the New York Daily News, NYPD Commissioner Bratton voiced support for the "Cure Violence" model, arguing that it "combines the pledge of intensive enforcement for crews who persist in violence with a genuine offer of assistance to those who change their ways".
After the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 , 2001 President Musharraf repudiated these historical policies and pledged to destroy any Islamist groups in Pakistan that persisted in violence.
Perhaps countries that are unable to quell egregious racist violence and major sponsors of events where patterns of violence persist should be reminded that they, too, are accountable to the world.
But pockets of violence persist.
Corporal punishment and physical violence persist in Egyptian homes and schools and, most notoriously, in police custody.
Curfews and daily violence persist in Kaduna and other cities far from Boko Haram's heartland in north-eastern Nigeria.President Goodluck Jonathan claimed in March that the menace would be dealt with by June.
Drinking is down overall, but a minority is drinking harder; most types of crime are down, but certain types of violence persist; total drug use has fallen, but some of the most harmful drugs are getting more popular.
Now that the officer accused of firing the fatal shot, Johannes Mehserle, has been arrested, will the needless violence persist?
