Sentence examples for zero-tolerance strategy from inspiring English sources

Police at the time defended the practice as part of a zero-tolerance strategy to reduce crime in predominantly black neighbourhoods.

A zero-tolerance strategy was the only way to stop wildlife trafficking, Clinton said.

His "zero-tolerance" strategy has been credited with helping achieve among the largest reductions in violent crime in the nation.

And they defended misdemeanor arrests as an integral part of the zero-tolerance strategy that the Giuliani administration has devised to successfully fight crime.

Using a zero-tolerance strategy during his term as police commissioner of New York city, William Bratton reduced crime by 37% in three years.

The leader of Britain's A&E doctors is urging the police to adopt a "zero-tolerance" strategy towards binge drinking that would see troublesome drunks arrested, charged and given a criminal record.

Under the orders of the then mayor Martin O'Malley (who now seems likely to run for president), the police adopted a "zero tolerance" strategy.

Confronting a decade of 300 or more homicides annually, O'Malley adopted the zero-tolerance policing strategy of New York City.

As he toured the city, O'Malley (D) was heckled over the zero-tolerance police strategy he imposed when he was Baltimore's mayor.

In Baltimore, that strategy morphed into zero-tolerance policing, fueling hundreds of thousands of arrests and a combative mind-set among officers that continued even after the concept was officially abandoned.

The tensions date back at least to 1980, when the N.A.A.C.P. called for a federal investigation into police brutality, and continued into the past decade with a crime-fighting strategy known as "zero-tolerance policing" that led to mass arrests.