Greater demands were being placed onthe police by growing violence and left and right-wing extremism.
不断增加的暴行和左翼右翼极端主义使得需要更多警力。
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Such, then, is the way things stand: ontheleft angry critics, ontheright stupid supporters, and in the middle, as usual, the majority of earnest people trying to get on in life.