Sentences with phrase «about police surveillance»

Kristin Iversen, Questions About Police Surveillance?

«New Yorkers brush aside the gripes about police surveillance of the Muslim community,» said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Not exact matches

In between all the stories about drug use, police surveillance, and city councillors getting tackled by the mayor, there have been a few reports of otherwise innocent businesses getting swept up in the Ford scandal.

The controversy stems from a series of news reports that raised questions about the nature of a Central Intelligence Agency partnership with the New York Police Department, pointing to the alleged surveillance of Muslims living in New York.

Top NYPD officials are expected to strongly oppose a City Council bill requiring the police department to publicly release information about its high - tech surveillance tools during a hearing on the legislation today.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Potential candidates for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office are taking stands on the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim students, ranging from cautious support to a warning about curtailing civil liberties.

State Sen. Cathy Young, the bill sponsor, told the Times Union last week that the family, which included an 11 - year - old boy and 14 - year - old daughter, called the police about the surveillance, but authorities couldn't do anything about it under the law at that time.

The NYCLU released a report that details how far New York police departments go to keep information from the public on the use of force, stops and detentions, complaints about misconduct, racial profiling and the use of surveillance equipment.

Top NYPD officials are expected to strongly oppose a City Council bill requiring the police department to publicly release information about its high - tech surveillance tools during a hearing on the legislation Wednesday.

No amount of surveillance and rehearsal could have prepared Philippe and his team for what they were about to attempt, and yet despite numerous close calls and an injured foot, Philippe emerged at the top of the South Tower on the morning of August 7th, with no harness and 1,368 feet in the air, and proceeded to put on a show for the next 45 minutes, crossing the gap eight times (in addition to some other tricks) before surrendering to the police.

Taut Korean thriller about a high - tech police surveillance team who attempt to take down a gang of ruthless bank robbers.

For all that the film bills itself as a character study (and a star vehicle), it is at least as much about the dynamics of a whole society under police surveillance.

Through this ongoing project, Miner engenders many complex questions about sport versus subsistence hunting, Indigenous sovereignties, systems of surveillance, and settler - colonial policing.

For another video in the show, Kline worked with David Meadvin, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama and Harry Reid, on an imagined Obama speech about a variety of topics including police brutality and surveillance — the kind of rallying cry the public would have expected from the Obama of 2008 that has since been muted by so much politics.

Given the fact that he hasn't shown any substantial amount of work in the States for about two decades — aside from a few group shows, art fairs, and his inclusion in the famously identity - politics - focused 1993 Whitney Biennial, where he showed a series of weapon - like wall sculptures (dealing with notions of surveillance, the police state, militarization) that were pieced together with vintage gun parts, carved branches, and coyote bone among other sundry items — «At the Center of the World» was a rare treat for countless artists, curators, and critics who could only follow Durham from afar while his work continually appeared abroad at august venues like the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and galleries and museums across Europe and Latin America.

In the criminal justice space, new surveillance technologies offer endless challenges to ideas about expectations of privacy, police power, and associational freedoms.

The police fortunately had the other parties under surveillance, including over 80,000 interceptions, and there was no dispute about their involvement with the plot.