Taking over the unwieldy and friction-ridden forces of a newly united Germany, he managed to boost morale and forge a more flexible structure while taking budget cuts and slashing the number of troops.
Today's LAPD is a far cry from the racist, corrupt and scandal-ridden force of the 1990s.
However, for the demoralised and disease-ridden English forces, the arrival of the French headed by the boy-king Charles VI was decisive.
Lucy Kirkwood's moving, funny Housekeeping sees a debt-ridden family forced to sell their grandmother, a woman who has seen both the Jarrow March and the Putney Debates.
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department and the United States Department of Justice announced a far-reaching agreement on Tuesday to overhaul the city's scandal-ridden police force and improve safety in a city that has had little of it.
Privacy and civil liberties aside, what an insane waste of taxpayers' money in a city that is debt-ridden and forced to raise taxes!
Feuds in that faction-ridden party, however, forced him to step down after nine months.
By that time, however, the regular government forces were too ridden with corruption to be of any use.
Prisoners were reportedly ridden like animals, repeatedly groped and forced to renounce their religion.
They credit the thousands of additional American troops and Afghan forces deployed to insurgency-ridden districts who have cleared out most of the Taliban and are keeping them at bay.
And there was footage of the aftermath of a recent massacre by government and Liberian forces — the hacked and bullet-ridden bodies of peasants lying in houses and on roads just south of Man — with Jeanette conducting breathless interviews.
