pre-arrest

So to pre-arrest oneself: you become a buddhist for a while.

We Listen – Your comments 2/17/10 2010

Chief Kerlikowske himself has been advocating some diversion programs, pre-arrest strategies, that are quite progressive.

David Goldstein: Obama Signals New direction with Drug Czar Nominee 2009

One is he's given so many pre-arrest statements that if he takes the stand, the prosecution will be able to meticulously go through those statements and even the smallest inconsistency they'll be able to get him on.

CNN Transcript May 8, 2009 2009

Applications which rely on screening, profiling and speculative intelligence will be used to generate new 'pre-arrest' warrants and could become common practice.

The UK Minority Report: Has 'Precrime' Finally Arrived? 2009

Can anyone really look at boxed-in, suicidally deranged Saddam Hussein (pre-arrest) and see a threat to anybody in Texarkana (assuming the Texarkanan didn't go to Iraq and wave an Israeli flag made out of "Huck Fussein" bumper stickers while singing that goofy "America We Stand As One" thing)?

Davis Sweet: Stop the Presses! A Right-Winger Lies! 2008

She also said she was almost hit by the mother of her assistant, though it wasn ` t clear if she was referring to the reported pre-arrest car chase.

CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2007 2007

When the pre-arrest forms had to be filled out, each potential jailbird had to produce an identity card.

Season Of Protest 2007

The protesters had even filled in "pre-arrest forms," so that their processing could be speeded up.

Season Of Protest 2007

Even more significantly, to the extent that U.S. law enforcement agents attempted to assist in the pre-arrest surveillance of these terrorists, they were able to eavesdrop on the conversations of scores of individuals inside the U.S. by obtaining the approval of the FISA court, just as the law requires:

Legal surveillance, not illegal eavesdropping, stopped the U.K. terrorist attacks Glenn Greenwald 2006

Even more significantly, to the extent that U.S. law enforcement agents attempted to assist in the pre-arrest surveillance of these terrorists, they were able to eavesdrop on the conversations of scores of individuals inside the U.S. by obtaining the approval of the FISA court, just as the law requires:

Archive 2006-08-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006