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I'm pretty sure the threat would be implicit to the act of asserting governing power over those vampires; it's pretty much implicit in the act of asserting governance over any people, so why would vampires be any different? The only real difference is the difference in the amount of force needed to cow them, which prevents non-lethal captures without their cooperation.
As for burrowing, there are likely solutions for that as well; a sufficiently hard surface treatment would be able to resist scratching by the vampire, while still possessing the lion's share of the ductility of the under-layer. Said surface layer could well also have the property of corrosion resistance, if that's needed to resist vampire venom, as well.
A vampire doesn't need to risk as much collateral damage to fight/contain/kill another vampire. If you've got a vamp running around in Times Square thumbing its nose at the cops, and you are a human who wants to threaten it, you have to be willing to level a few city blocks if it doesn't do what you say. Not so if you are a vampire.
This is true, which is why I'd expect that the government would probably want some of its trusted employees turned, so that they'd be capable of dealing with vampires without needing enough firepower to level the block said vampire happens to be living in.
Volunteers, of course; the process of turning is probably too painful to force someone to do it legally.
You haven't slept for a long time now. Have you made a decision? This can't go on. You have to decide.
LOL. I doubt that the US Government would use "enhanced interrogation" on its own people; it's stupid, and it's not like they would likely be lacking volunteers, what with all the fringe benefits of joining the new Vampire Crime Unit. Being sexy, living forever, getting superhuman powers, government-paid travel, the prestige of being a field agent...
I don't, not for a second. I only hope for their sake that they don't do it on anyone they are about to transform into a deadly superhuman who could obliterate their entire agency in a fit of pique. Or a vampire for that matter. ;)