11.   At the United Nations, Israel sought to defend itself from accusations of having started the clashes and having used excessive force.

12.   Benny assured me that I was instrumental in kidnapping Bill, subduing him with excessive force and hanging him by his feet with a rope from a tree limb.

13.   Bernard George has a separate action pending, accusing the police of excessive force.

14.   Black residents have long accused the police of racial profiling, harassment and routine use of excessive force.

15.   -- Excessive force and the need for the department to evaluate current brutality problems and to develop policies and practices for reducing brutality.

16.   -- Transferring authority for investigating all citizen complaints of excessive force from police stations to the Internal Affairs Division.

17.   A grand jury cleared Brosnan of any criminal wrongdoing, but the Civilian Complaint Review Board ruled that he had used excessive force.

18.   A jury last month ruled in favor of two Greensboro policemen, charged in a civil lawsuit of using excessive force when they shot Howerton.

19.   A third of whites say the police use excessive force, compared to three-quarters of blacks, and two-thirds of Hispanic people.

20.   Agents had not intentionally used excessive force, the memorandum said.