police
noun
an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
are policing
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present progressiveof police.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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You want to make you are policing yourself before you are looking at everyone else.’”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
And sometimes they do find, maybe through the use of an expert like yourself, that the police are policing in an unconstitutional way.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2020
In the context of policing, discretion means that officers are given some leeway on which they can rely as they make choices that impact the people they are policing.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Sep. 19, 2018
No, what we’re seeing more and more of now are the minority voices within minorities who are policing communities and culture to the point of ridicule.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2016
I think you need have no uneasiness, the Kaiser will never be saved from the consequences of his acts while the allied armies are policing the Rhine.
From The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook
