Sentences with phrase «arresting a person based»

And the law states that state and local law enforcement agencies «may not stop, question, investigate or arrest a person based on perceived immigration status or suspected violation of federal immigration law.»

Walsh has said, though, that he plans to keep in place policies enacted by former Mayor Stephanie Miner, though, that do not require police to arrest people based on immigration status — a policy frequently implemented by sanctuary cities.

Walsh, an independent who swept into office this past year by promising a nonpartisan approach to politics, has said he plans to keep in place policies enacted by former Mayor Stephanie Miner, though, that do not require police to arrest people based on immigration status — a policy frequently implemented by sanctuary cities.

Not exact matches

Your chances of surviving cardiac arrest — which can strike in healthy people, and kills more Americans each year than Alzheimer's, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes, HIV, car crashes, prostate cancer, and suicides combined — vary immensely based on your zip code.

About two weeks ago, Siamak Namazi, the head of strategic planning at Crescent Petroleum Co., was arrested as he was visiting relatives in Tehran from his home base in Dubai, according to people briefed on the situation.

Alternative sentences such as house arrest, electronic surveillance, and community - based work programs keep minor offenders tied closely to the very things that motivate most people to straighten out: their families, jobs, and communities.

The latter is apt to be rather more aware of himself as primarily a person being professionally trained to fulfill a key - office, as an administrator, executive and leader in a vast and important department of the community life of the American people, than as a man on whom God has laid an arresting hand calling him out of that life in the first instance in order to be sent back into it on that basis to a ministerial and prophetic task.

In addition, the databases that are based on mug shots will have a disproportionate number of black people in their database, potentially perpetuating the pattern of disproportionate arrests.

Nine people have been arrested in a Nyack - based cocaine ring that operated throughout Rockland County, officials said.

«And they were concerned that this directive would compromise all the efforts that they had been making in that regard... I told them we would decline to prosecute any of the cases, any of the arrests, based upon the fact that unless there were injuries to police officers or damages to property, then the people should be allowed to exercise their First Amendment right.»

And while his base may want more, Mr. de Blasio can point to several police reforms in his first year: a dramatic drop in the number of people stopped by police; a staggering decline in marijuana arrests thanks to a policy change; a plan to roll out body cameras in accordance with a federal lawsuit.

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested two operators of two travel and tour agencies based in Abuja...

One bill would have required officers to identify themselves by name, rank and command after encounters that do not result in arrest or summons; another would have required that officers, before requesting consent for a search in the absence of any legal basis, to inform the person of his or her right to refuse the search.

«We organised an operation around that area and we got some 23 people and based on the details, we were able to arrest one person who admitted he took part and mentioned some names.

«The NYPD does not target people based on race or other demographics,» O'Neill said, adding that officer observations and local complaints are among the reasons for arrests.

«Some of our police officers are making race - based discretionary decisions on who they're going to arrest for low - level marijuana possession,» said Leroy Gadsden, the president of a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jamaica, Queens, and the chairman of the criminal justice committee for the statewide N.A.A.C.P. «Therefore, of course, if you're a young, black male, even a female, you're going to feel that you're being targeted when you notice that your white counterparts are not being arrested for the same thing.»

Openly, their subjection to the RPF» political maneuvers, in its complicity with the superpowers, through UNHCR, has rendered Rwandan refugees the scum of the earth — unwanted, vilest people — who do not deserve respect and concern, rather desire to be arrested on the basis of unjustified criminal allegations and thus returned to Rwanda.

I knew of the people arrested and certainly had an opinion not based on the story, but on what I knew of those involved.

But if the search in this case is allowed, then I foresee a mobile forensics lab that visits pawn shops and fires every gun matching based on caliber alone, arresting people who have a barrel match.

Consider crime statistics: the data on which a computer will base its predictions may reflect factors logically not connected with particular defendants: arrest patterns that match or do not match the characteristics of the accused person; the impact of poverty or race on conviction rates of people «comparable» to the accused; hard - to - quantify characteristics of accused or convicted people like educational achievement or religious practices.

Our criminal defense attorneys understand that many times, police make domestic violence arrests based on one person's story of what occurred.

It's clear, based on existing caselaw, that once a police officer has entered onto private property under an implied invitation and arrests a person, that officer can then remain on the property in order to complete the arrest even if the implied invitation is later withdrawn:

Similarly, «If the evidence, in a hypothetical case, showed that a person was arrested and they had a crack pipe in their pocket, and they had a residue amount in it, and it could be measured, and it could be seen, is there anyone who could not convict a person, based on that» (Atkins v. State, 951 S.W. 2d 787).

The arrest or restrain part is more important than the investigate part, although LEOs arrest power is distinguished from a citizen's arrest primarily because it can be made on the basis of an investigation rather than only on the basis of personal knowledge that the person committed the crime since it was observed.

Recent examples of our work in discrimination law include suing an immigration detention centre for racial discrimination, challenging the police for stopping and searching people based on race, challenging discriminatory bail conditions applied to people wrongly arrested during the London riots, failing to protect a homosexual prisoner from assault by homophobic inmates and persuading a school to apologise and train relevant staff after it excluded a pupil with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Being in possession of burglary tools does not directly harm anyone, but the government has an interest in preventing burglaries, so it can instead make it a crime to have such tools, and on that basis a person can be arrested.

Can the past arrests serve as a basis for reasonable suspicion to stop a person?

Activists have spoken of being followed based on information disclosed in WeChat conversations, and people have also been arrested based on chats.

Permits a person who is aggrieved by a decision denying kinship care payment based on arrest or conviction record to petition the Department of Children and Families for a hearing on that decision.