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The use of the word 'violence' felt odd and inciting and disingenuous and very loaded in these contexts. I think the word the author is actually describing is 'force'. Police have the legal capacity to use force, not violence. That's why we have a legal concept of deadly force, but not one for deadly violence.

Putting someone in handcuffs is not necessarily violent, but it involves using force to impose the will of the state on an individual.

>>hooray+(OP)
Would you consider the threat of violence to be violent? I agree that you can handcuff someone without hurting them, but I would argue that 'force' is only possible due to the implication that non-compliance will lead to violence.