The phrase has come to be associated with government and private employer policies that mandate predetermined consequences or punishments for specific offenses. However, the phrase first became associated with U.S. drug interdiction during the 1980s...

The term "zero tolerance" refers to government and private employer policies that require specific consequences or punishments for certain offenses. Most public schools now have zero-tolerance policies for firearms, weapons other than...

An approach to law enforcement in which the police attempt to arrest all lawbreakers, even those who have committed what are traditionally viewed as petty or nuisance...

Zero tolerance is the concept of giving carte blanche to the police for the inflexible repression of minor offences, homeless people and the disorders associated with them.[1][2][3] Under a system of zero tolerance, persons in positions of authority –...

In Decatur, Ill., a federal court has rejected the suit of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Operation PUSH on behalf of six black students expelled for a football-game brawl. The case has intensified national discussion concerning zero tolerance school discipline. The pervasive fear...

Schools should have zero tolerance for any policy that treats all students the same, according to Mr. Curwin and Mr. Mendler, who propose a better approach. ZERO TOLERANCE is another example of the road to hell paved with good intentions. What was...

Fifth-graders in California who adorned their mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers this week to support troops in Iraq were forced to cut off their miniature weapons. A Utah boy was suspended for giving his cousin a cold pill prescribed to both students. In Rhode...

In response to Don Imus' hateful remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, we have had to listen to one guardian of public civility after another lecture us on subject of the common decency. However, most of them seem disingenuous to me. For one...