The Obama administration thinks the Department of Education division responsible for overseeing colleges, managing the student debt crisis and policing loan contractors has done such a good job that it secretly reappointed its chief to a new five-year term.
She transformed the division from a purely complaint-driven enforcement office to one that aggressively targets labor law violators, leveraging news events like the 1995 raid on an El Monte sweatshop--where dozens of Thai immigrants worked in near slavery--as a means of embarrassing major retailers like Disney, JCPenney and Bloomingdale's into policing their contractors.
State corrections departments find themselves having to police contractors who perform functions once the province of government, from psychiatric care to discipline.
Even if the bill becomes law, Congress would have to conduct vigilant oversight to ensure the Pentagon and the Justice Department — which have been reluctant to police contractors' misdeeds in Iraq — enforce it on the battlefield in Iraq.
It reminds us that despite the rituals and formalities that can arise between demonstrators, police, contractors and legal authorities in long-running campaigns of nonviolent civil disobedience, life at the point of collision can still be risky and as scary as hell.
Private security contractors have to be hired by State to escort the private police contractors hired by State.
Reading between the lines of Thames's mea culpa, the company outsourced an essential job in a hurry and did not police its contractors thoroughly.
Completing the boiler replacement program ahead of schedule would be a significant achievement for the construction authority, which has been criticized for its sometimes-chaotic planning process and for failing to police inept contractors.
Most common crimes committed outside the United States are beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts, and the burgeoning local law enforcement systems in war-torn regions such as Bosnia are often insufficient or unwilling to police U.S. contractors.
