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  • adjective Not policed; not subject to effective regulation

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un- +‎ policed

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Examples

  • But returning the system to its previous state — where high leverage, predatory products, opaque markets, lax credit standards and risk-taking go unpoliced — can't be a solution.

    The Republican Eraser David Weidner 2011

  • "When the custodial banks are left unpoliced to execute those trades . . . economic incentives take over and the markups are massive," said Galanek, whose firm is hired by pension funds and others to monitor such trades.

    Cuccinelli intervenes in suit alleging pension fraud Rosalind S. Helderman 2011

  • Venezuela, which shares a long, largely unpoliced border with Colombia, has become a transshipment point for Colombian cocaine on its way to consumer nations in Africa and Europe.

    U.S. accuses Venezuela officials of drug ties Reuters 2011

  • The riots themselves were completely unpoliced, though the authorities rounded up members of the opposition Kurdish Islamic Union and razed its Dohuk headquarters, despite no evidence of KIU culpability.

    The desperate plight of Iraq's Assyrians and other minorities | Mardean Isaac 2011

  • "When the custodial banks are left unpoliced to execute those trades . . . economic incentives take over and the markups are massive," said Galanek, whose firm is hired by pension funds and others to monitor such trades.

    Cuccinelli intervenes in suit alleging pension fraud Rosalind S. Helderman 2011

  • "When the custodial banks are left unpoliced to execute those trades . . . economic incentives take over and the markups are massive," said Galanek, whose firm is hired by pension funds and others to monitor such trades.

    Cuccinelli intervenes in suit alleging pension fraud Rosalind S. Helderman 2011

  • Venezuela, which shares a long, largely unpoliced border with Colombia, has become a transshipment point for Colombian cocaine on its way to consumer nations in Africa and Europe.

    U.S. accuses Venezuela officials of drug ties Reuters 2011

  • Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “Vast amounts of police time are spent filling in forms while our streets go unpoliced and criminals get away with it.”

    Anyone Seen The Sun Today? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • There can be no doubt that two decades of an unwarranted, unpoliced credit boom was one of the chief causes of the poor recovery.

    The coalition's strategy is courting disaster | Observer editorial 2011

  • The probe into the "flash crash" has yet to report the cause, but whatever it is will provide another example that the system is dangerously unpoliced and that manipulative, or otherwise errant, behavior is unchecked.

    Diane Francis: Market Monkeys Guarding Bananas Again 2010

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