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

“There’s something about the way in which folks are policing where the humanity of these people have been removed,” he said.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 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 Vandercook, Margaret