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The quality or state of being unfit or unable to do something.

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  • Their purpose is short-term incapacitation only to affect an arrest.
  • The next step up brings us to incapacitation, which is also non-lasting.
  • COG even envisions the enactment of such authority for reasons of "incapacitation" (whatever that is) even if no emergency exists.
  • Here’s the threat: AB 1539 defines permanent incapacitation, which is the logical first step in compassionate release procedure.
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