Now, this kind of pharmaceutical vigilantism is set to become the order of the day.
The police force, especially, needs a boost if it is to rein in vigilantism and ethnic violence.
While supporters say the measure has empowered potential victims, opponents say it has opened the way to vigilantism.
The president of the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association, Roy Felber, said it sounds like a call to vigilantism.
But when it goes after less unpopular targets, some cry vigilantism.
Golden Dawn is not only stepping up its vigilantism and attacks against immigrants.
If police skills are not improved the study warns of increased 'vigilantism' as the public sector and individuals take the law into their own hands.
Although vigilantism may to some conjure up visions of mob violence and lynching, few would likely dispute that under extreme circumstances, it still has a place.
But opponents of such changes argue they will encourage vigilantism.
Publicising sex offenders' addresses makes them vulnerable to vigilantism.
The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal wrote a column called " Hey Reddit, Enough Boston Bombing Vigilantism, " and followed it up with a story on how the names of two innocent people got repeated in a viral loop on social media.
There have been other incidents of varying degrees of concern since the prototypic example of vigilantism, when on September 11, 2001, the passengers and crew of United Air Lines Flight 93 fought hijackers and caused the plane to crash in western Pennsylvania.
Missing the joke, ministers queued up to denounce Mr Morris and his programme, with all the vigour of the gutter-dwelling tabloids. (Oddly, the government was much quieter when, last year, a newspaper incited a wave of anti-paedophile vigilantism, resulting in attacks on, among others, a paediatrician.) Beverley Hughes, a Home Office minister, excoriated the programme before admitting, as tradition demands, that she had not seen it and did not want to.
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