as in peaceful
not involving violence or force
nonviolent protests
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Breslin ran on a platform focused on reducing violent crime and reducing incarceration for nonviolent offenders with substance abuse and mental health issues.
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Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
The claim about prisoners mischaracterizes an argument made by attorneys for her California Attorney General’s office about the need for nonviolent offenders to help fight wildfires.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
The impressive reduction in Los Angeles jails, where such homicides fell by 58 percent from one seven-year period to the next, hints strongly that jail management, and not the law excluding certain nonviolent offenders from prison sentences, is to blame.
—Peter Fox, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2024
The episode is not unlike those nonviolent 1960s lunch counter civil rights sit-ins where participants endured heckling and harassment but did not retaliate.
—Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
The claim about prisoners mischaracterizes an argument made by attorneys for her California Attorney General’s office about the need for nonviolent offenders to help fight wildfires.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
The impressive reduction in Los Angeles jails, where such homicides fell by 58 percent from one seven-year period to the next, hints strongly that jail management, and not the law excluding certain nonviolent offenders from prison sentences, is to blame.
—Peter Fox, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2024
The episode is not unlike those nonviolent 1960s lunch counter civil rights sit-ins where participants endured heckling and harassment but did not retaliate.
—Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Nonviolent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonviolent. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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