Sentences with phrase «allows police abuses»
«Our goal has always been to constructively work with the speaker to pass the Right to Know Act — she has a clear choice: support sound policy that a majority of her members, 18 families of New Yorkers killed by the NYPD and hundreds of community groups from across the city endorse, or chart a path that is increasingly antithetical to democracy and allows police abuses to continue.»
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County Legislator Lynne Dixon, County Legislators, the Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Hamburg Police Department and community supporters announce the passage of a local law that makes adults responsible for allowing minors to consume alcohol on their property in hopes of curbing the careless approach many adults take concerning underage drinking.
«It's disappointing and perplexing that the city budget will increase the NYPD headcount when systemic problems with police accountability and culture that allow New Yorkers to be abused and killed have yet to be fixed - and while major needs in our communities are under - resourced,» she added.
The New York junior senator says she's supporting laws that would allow police and state governments to take guns away from people found guilty of domestic abuse.
«It's disappointing and perplexing that the city budget will increase the NYPD headcount when systemic problems with police accountability and culture that allow New Yorkers to be abused and killed have yet to be fixed, and while major needs in our communities are under - resourced.»
Yes, we have many important policing priorities and the volume of abuse is inconceivably huge, but that does not excuse the harm we are allowing.
Of course, the North Carolina legislation allowed for exceptions to the waiting period and counseling requirement in cases of physical abuse, but that assumes the victim was one of those who actually called and reported it to police.