Residents have criticised officers for their “laxity and unprofessionalism” in dealing with the crime.

Yet even that laxity proved too constraining for Saret, who chafed at being hemmed in, often to the point of self-sabotage.

Conservative politicians still fear reforming the break will foster fiscal laxity at home and indirectly elsewhere in Europe.

As it turned out, of course, Lee’s stabbing death seems to have had nothing to do with street crime or prosecutorial laxity or coddled criminals or “repeat violent offenders.”

For some reason — perhaps nostalgia, perhaps finances, perhaps troubling laxity — the Hoyas brought Ewing back after they lost all 19 of their Big East games last season.