Sentences with phrase «aggressive police policies»

Garner's death was captured on a video that went viral and prompted demonstrations against NYPD tactics and aggressive police policies, including Commissioner Bill Bratton's vaunted «Broken Windows» policy of targeting minor criminal offenses to curtail serious crimes.

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And like the mayor, he said that he will fight against Trump's pledge to institute more aggressive stop - and - frisk policing throughout the country as a federal policy.

Bratton's earlier record on community relations as NYPD commissioner in the 1990s under then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani was mixed, as critics cited his embrace of the broken windows theory and the implemenation of an aggressive zero - tolerance policy as an opening for police brutality.

The Bratton - led department ushered in novel changes in tactics and policies as well as raising the level of aggressive policing in the rank and file.

On the other hand, if reasonableness is chosen instead of correctness, the court may be less able to police executive decision - makers where they are mistaken in their views or are following their own self - interested view of the right policy (as opposed to that of the legislature), litigants who lose in front of a decision - maker will be less likely to challenge the decision and decision - makers may make more aggressive interpretations that do not accord with legislative goals.

Increases in female arrest rates for violent offenses may therefore be due, at least in part, to net - widening policies, such as more aggressive policing of low - level crimes, and the increasingly common reclassification of simple assaults as aggravated assaults.